Seashell Birthday
This went with an "Under the Sea" request for a recent birthday. Can't thank everyone else enough for their already posted pictures that I got the idea from. This was a white cake with cookies 'n creme filling; added white chocolate candy mold shells & starfish brushed with luster dust.
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Square Wedding Cake With Ribbon & Leaves
This cake is actually more skin tone than chocolate looking-very low lighting at the reception-champagne luster dust added afterward. Hoping the votive candles, when lit, would show off the shimmer! Leaves are white chocolate candy mold & white chocolate painted onto mint leaves, then brushed with luster dust. Pink satin ribbon around each tier. Inside is chocolate cake w/chocolate mint filling. Hope they enjoyed it-it was very hard to walk away once it was all assembled!
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Usmc
This baby was one of my first "character cakes", so to speak. My blood pressure was sky high, I can tell you that much! Chocolate cake w/peanut butter cream filling-made for a friend of a friend home from active duty. Traced design & all letters w/a toothpick-had to narrow down from the emblem I was given-including the globe, anchor AND eagle would've put me 6 feet under, I think---was soo relieved to see this one go out the door to a very happy customer!
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2Nd Wedding Cake
This was a rum cake, one layer of chocolate filling, the other vanilla, with butter cream frosting-small backyard wedding-cake modeled after one seen in the brochure of the fancy-shmancy bakery I worked for-not quite as perfect as theirs but I was pleased. Bride had the topper done by her florist & I arranged the bottom layer of flowers by placing a small round board down first, then gobbing up a pile of BC & using it to anchor the stems.
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Golf Cart
Bit of a nail biter-second marriage for slightly older couple-they use a golf cart at their 2nd home to go nearly everywhere-butter cream frosted with some of the canned spray for the grass & cart. Fondant covered roof, wheels, steering wheel & seat cushions. Dowels used for roof supports, covered in aluminum foil, lollipop stick steering column. Cart itself carved from a Wilton 3D car pan-chocolate cake; chocolate sheet cake on the bottom filled with chocolate cream & seedless raspberry preserves.