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Cake iced with buttercream, fondant burgundy border, fondant pearls painted with gold shimmerdust. Flowersaand leaves made with fondant.
fondant with fondant accents
Cake covered in fondant with fondant accents.
Cake covered in fondant with fondant accents. Graham cracker crumbs used for the sand traps. Lollipop stick for the flag.
Cake covered in fondant with fondant animals and gumpaste flowers. Zebra stripes painted on with icing color. Got the great idea of using a garlic press for the lion's mane from a clay modeling book! Thanks to CC'ers for inspiration on the animals!
Replicated a friend's DEA badge for his birthday in buttercream with some minor changes.
Cake covered in buttercream with royal icing flowers around bottom, and gumpaste flowers and "10" on top.
All buttercream including little personal smash cake.
All buttercream, used a lollipop stick painted w/ black food coloring for whammy (sp?) bar. Cake was for an 11 yea old boy's birthday.
Buttercream with fondant accents
All buttercream except the ears on the brown dog are gumpaste with buttercream piped onto the back. I used a fork and paintbrush to get some of the effects for the dogs' hair and faces, as well as a toothpick for the details. I started with the stand up lamb pan from Wilton and did some carving.
Buttercream with fondant accents. The pic on top is buttercream piped onto fondant and I used toothpicks for the detailed areas. The young woman's mother emailed me her photo and I did the best I could. Thanks for looking
All buttercream with Wilton sprinkles and cookies iced in buttercream.
All buttercream for a friend having twin boys, inspired by party napkin
All buttercream except I did the princesses in royal icing and placed them on the cake after they dried. then used bc to do leaves and flowers. Aside from one small crack in Belle's face, I think it turned out ok.
Cake covered in fondant with fondant butterflies, and baby, gumpaste flowers. Used pearl dust mixed with vodka to paint on fondant.
Covered entirely in fondant, used gold pearl dust on the purple flower centers and dipped the stamens in yellow powder. Used gel food color as paint to dot centers of sunflowers and color edges of purple flowers.
This is all done in chocolate buttercream. It was my friend's birthday so we all chose words that we thought described her in different fonts all around the cake. I got the idea from a Wilton wedding cake. She LOVED it b/c it was so personal.
Fondant covered tiers, piping is all royal icing. Inspired by Martha Stewart Wedding Cakes book.
All fondant except for buttercream writing and Celtics and Redsox logos. This was a birthday cake for a big poker fan. It was presented to him at a 20 person poker tournament he was hosting. No one would cut it. Thanks to CCer for pedestal table legs idea!
Used Wilton Ariel pan on top of a 14" round. All buttercream except for her skin is fondant. Thanks to a CCer for that idea. Shells and white, pink and brown chocolate. Little ocean animals - turtles, starfish, and seahorses are fondant. Sand is graham cracker crumbs. This was a really fun cake to make.
All fondant except bottom border is chocolate bc. Gentleman's favorite soccer team colors on scarf.
Three tiers (each a 2 inch layer torted and filled) with half fondant/half gumpaste combined to make draped blanket. All flowers are fondant w/ buttercream dot centers. Booties are made with half fondant/half gumpaste mix also (thanks to CCer for pattern!). Teddybear and duck are fondant pressed into candy molds. Used buttercream for beaded border.
Almost all buttercream, this was my first attempt at a buttercream transfer. I am pretty happy with the result. The cake was hazelnut so I used toasted hazelnuts to decorate the sides and on the top representing pebbles. The little character is the logo of the gentleman's local running club.
This was actually a birthday cake during the holiday season, my 1st attempt at a Christmas tree. It's all buttercream icing except for the fondant star on top. It's hard to see in the pic but there's some edible shimmery flakes on the cake to make the snow look, well, shimmery.
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