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Square cakes, set askew, with flowers cascading down the sides. There are edible pearls on 3 of the tiers as small accents. Tiers are white and chocolate, iced in all BC. This is similar to a number of other cakes I've done, but it's a very popular design with my brides. Photo credit goes to my 14-year old!
This is a styrofoam cake iced in BC with silver dragees on the border; real black ribbon cascading down the front, like a carpet for the couple to walk on. The topper is between the pillars instead of on the top tier. I wanted a sample cake on display to show a "black/silver" color theme.
2-layer white cake, torted and filled with choc fudge, white BC, and red raspberry filling. Iced in BC. Since the birthday was close to St. Patrick's Day, I made the roses green with yellow leaves, w/ a few white rosebuds thrown in. (I thought the big roses looked like heads of lettuce! hahaha!)
Posting this as a good example of what NOT to do with choc ganache! Made this one for my family. 2-layer white cake, torted and filled with raspberry filling, iced in BC then covered with choc ganache. Melted white chocolate is drizzled over the top. All future ganache cakes will be on a plate/cardboard the same size as the cake so the choc doesn't pool up on the plate like this one. Oh well! My family ate it up!
Posting these just to share how I do a sampling with my brides. This is one 6" single layer square cakes that have been cut in half. Both are torted and filled with a different filling (usually white BC and red raspberry). I use the star tip to put a zig-zag design on them. After they have thawed, it takes me less than 10 minutes to prep these cakes for the bride's sampling appointment. Any leftovers go home with the bride.
5 tier square with basketweave design. 100% buttercream with real rose petals. (I pulled the rose heads off and tucked those petals in one by one!) I've used this cake as the photo on my business card. I just LUV basketweave!!
A close up of the 5-tier basketweave. Photo by professional photographer.
Square cakes....all buttercream icing with red BC rosebuds. Gold foil leaves and gold ribbon. Bride wanted a red and gold theme but not "christmasy". She was very pleased with this effect.
All BC. Real florals provided by bride.
All BC with red ribbon around the base. Red florals and aluminum initials provided by bride. (Mints in bottom right corner also made by me). not happy with the icing job on the cake on the far left. It did some 'cracking' during set up. This cake is set up on the acrylic stands. Bride wanted the larger cakes elevated and the smaller cakes on a lower level. The taller stand wobbled "just a bit" when setting up the cake, but once it was on there, it remained pretty steady.
80th birthday party for a bridge player. See other pic for photo of plate of cookies on a playing card plate. All of her fellow bridge players loved these!
80th birthday party for a bridge player. See cookie plate in bottom right corner .... I had found this plate via ebay. It has playing cards on the edge. All of her fellow bridge players loved the cookies and the plate!
3-tier, all buttercream, pink ribbon at base, scrolls on sides, real florals provided by bride. Groom's cake (left) has mini snowmobiles on it as groom was a snowmobile buff.
For the office monthly birthdays. 12x18 all BC. I'm not happy with the 2nd pumpkin (which I made 1st) so I left the pumpkin lines off on the other one .... I like that one better. The corn stalk is just a lot of lines made with a big star tip.
12x18 monthly birthday cake for the office birthdays. Sand is graham cracker crumbs with sparkly sanding sugar mixed in. I LUV doing beach and water cakes because you don't have to worry about smoothing the icing!
simple 3 tiered with yellow BC roses and rosebuds cascading over edges for an older couple.
Outdoor wedding in a state park. All BC. This is the only cake that made me a little nervous due to the height. I was glad there was no breeze that day! Fountain is sitting on top of a 16" cake, topped by a 14 / 10 / 8.
All BC .... outdoor wedding. I wasn't sure about this cake when the bride brought me the pic, but after it was all done, it did look like a burgundy lace covering on the cake edges.
A close up of the burgundy dots.
The birthday boy was the Controller at our office. His dept copied his ID photo and we put it in the center of the cake. It was a very last minute cake!
This was a small wedding but she wanted the fountain and stairs effect. The fountain wouldn't fit inside the small "stand" so we used florals and a paper doily background. It was a rainbow wedding so we clipped pieces of curling ribbons and stuck them in the BC flower clusters. There were 2 small satellite cakes at the bottom of the stairs.
This was my sister's wedding cake (obviously from some years ago!). All BC. Rainbow colors. It took up an entire 8ft table.
not good photo quality. The 16" cake was under the fountain. Fountain then topped with a 12 / 10 / 8. All BC. Artificial florals around fountain and bride provided the floral topper.
All white BC with silver foil leaves.
The photo quality isn't great but the bride saw this cake in the Wilton book and said, "That's the one!" Her groomsmen wore brown and the bridesmaids wore pink, so it fit her theme perfectly! All BC.
3 tier with blue ribbon border. All buttercream.
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