Larkin121's Cake Central Gallery

Larkin121's Cake Central Gallery

Nautical Baby Shower

Nautical Baby Shower

For a friend's baby shower. Little guy has a nautical themed room.

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Dancing Hippo Cake

Dancing Hippo Cake

Birthday cake for my mama.

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Castle Cupcake

Castle Cupcake

Inspired by some much fancier castle cupcakes on Flickr (by Treasures and Tiaras). I just had some left over stuff from another project and wanted to try something cute.

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Valentine's Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Valentine's Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Direct copy of the cute cupcakes by Nefgaby. Finally had a reason to do them - for my son's preschool class.

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Black And White Cupcakes

Black And White Cupcakes

Practice cupcakes inspired by several designs on Flickr. I really love the contrast.

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Waterfall Baby Shower Cake

Waterfall Baby Shower Cake

Made for a girl who didn't want a baby-ish baby shower cake (??) and wanted it to have something to do with a forest, a river, and dogs. This is what I came up with. She was very happy with it. If I had more time (and if I'd been getting paid) I would have added more details, plants around the pond, etc. Oh, and these were my first dog figures, and that was the most fun part of this cake!

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1St Birthday Cake

1St Birthday Cake

Made this for my daughter's 1st birthday party. Her decorations had butterflies and flowers. I lost my brand new butterfly mold and had to improvise at the last minute. But I was pretty happy with it overall. Most importantly, my baby girl enjoyed devouring it and getting it all over her face. :)

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Poinsettia Cake

Poinsettia Cake

My first attempt at a gumpaste poinsettia, first attempt at using my new lace molds, and first time using my new clay gun for the border. Cake is "Turtle" flavored: chocolate cake layers with milk chocolate ganache, caramel and pecan filling.

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Hot Chocolate Mug

Hot Chocolate Mug

My attempt to recreate the many mug cakes on here. Thanks to all of you for the inspiration! Red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese filling.

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Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies

My first decorated Christmas cookies.

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Topsy Turvy Tea Party Cake

Topsy Turvy Tea Party Cake

First ever attempt at a carved cake + topsy turvy design. For my sister's "Mad Tea Party" birthday party. MFF fondant that failed me this time - made it on a hot day, used it on a cold rainy day, and the texture was awful - kept breaking and stretching and cracking!! Did my best with it anyway, 'cause I didn't have time or money to start over. The ribbon roses have hot pink disco dust on them. My sister loved it... I was just happy it didn't fall over in the car!

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Practice Cake

Practice Cake

I wanted to practice with SMBC and try a gumpaste rose... I made this for a friend's anniversary. I used a stencil on the side, but found it harder to do on buttercream than on fondant! I'm pretty happy with my first rose, though.

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My first wedding cake attempt, for my brother's wedding. Bride chose design, and I warned her I had no experience with square cakes or with stencils! I had trouble all around - my scratch white cake would not bake tall enough, and I had to add foam core under the bottom layer to be tall enough for the stencil. The royal icing got too thin when adding black coloring, but would get too gray if I added more sugar, so it was too thin to do accurate stenciling, hence the slightly messy look. It was 90 degrees in my kitchen both days I worked on it, so everything was just a bit harder to work with. In the end, it came out decent, and the bride loved it, and the guests all complimented me on the flavor, so that's good. Oh, the bride's mother placed 3 random pink roses right on top after I set up the cake....they didn't go with the design at all in my opinion!

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Zebra striped cupcakes with red flowers, made for a neighbor who wanted something black, white and red but didnt' care what, for a bachelorette party. Pina coloda flavored. I love how these turned out, but I learned that zebra striping takes a lonnnnngggg time on cupcakes!

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Twinkle Little Star Cake

Twinkle Little Star Cake

Baby shower cake for my best friend. Raspberry Lemonade cake: alternating layers of raspberry and lemon cakes, filled with fresh lemon curd and whipped raspberry cheesecake filling, iced in vanilla SMBC, raspberry MFF. Thanks so much to HollyPJ - I saved her photo months ago just hoping I could do it justice here! My best friend absolutely loved it... I think this was my favorite cake so far!

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Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Strawberries and Champagne cupcakes, half with homemade cupcake wrappers, half with patterned fondant and glittery roses.

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"Customer" wanted primary colors (green was ok though) with some sort of flower or flowers. This is what I came up with. Covered with MFF and decorations are all MFF. This batch didn't work out as well, it got pock marks and was too stretchy. I also ran out of time to make a full bow on top so I improvised. But the mom adored it, so I guess mission accomplished!

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Flip Flop Cake

Flip Flop Cake

Friend ordered a flip flop/summery cake for her friend's birthday. Just wanted a small chocolate cake. Flip flops are fondant and gumpaste, cake is covered in MMF (which had terrible pock marks, which is why I moved on to MFF as seen in the sports cake I made). I did a bad job of making the fondant smooth, you can see the cake or frosting bulges. Plumerias are gumpaste and were totally trial and error...watched an online tutorial and tried my best. Threw a lot of them away! But this cake was really fun to play with and she adored it when I delivered it.

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Sports Birthday

Sports Birthday

This cake almost caused a panic attack. Double Chocolate Layer cake, filled with fresh fudge filling, covered in MFF. MMF and gumpaste decorations. The cake was so tasty but extremely moist and fell apart in places as I was torting... I had to refrigerate it before working more, and got great advice here on CC for how to make this recipe work next time. Inspired by a cake by tineypics on Flickr.

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Bugs And Bees

Bugs And Bees

For my son's preschool "Bug Day." Fondant bees, daisies and ladybugs, inspired by many different pics on CC. WBH buttercream.... very tasty but hard to work with, in my opinion.

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White cake with fresh lemond curd and Vanilla SMBC icing. Needed a thicker icing coat, but I ran out. RI petunias. My friend wanted something simple and elegant for her mom's birthday. Her mom loved the cake.

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Course 3 Final Cake

Course 3 Final Cake

Inspired by a photo on Flicky, but I can't remember who it was. I didn't like the designs in the course book, so I made my own. The big roses were just me messing around - I had no clue how to make true gumpaste roses. :) I'm taking a course on that today, actually.

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Present Cake

Present Cake

My version of the present cake for Wilton 3.

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Course 2 Final Cake

Course 2 Final Cake

Same as everyone else's!

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