Baby Shower Cake Disaster Prequel
Chocolate cake with mixed berries filling. Thanks LaSombra for your awesome choc. cake recipe! Lessons learned: 1stly, MAKE SURE CENTER DOWEL GOES INTO FOAMCORE BOARD! 2ndly, torting each layer wasn't smart/necessary! 3rdly (beyond my control) humidity kills the integrity of MMF! Never made it the 2-3 hour drive to my cousin's shower - heck, never made it to the end of my uphill driveway!!! Very delicious though!
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Get Well, Jimmy!
I used a sugar cookie recipe from Epicurious (tried something new and it worked well) and then I used Toba's Glace to decorate the cookies. Made these for my cousin's hubby . He just had open heart surgery to correct a newly discovered congenital heart defect at age 47! He is now a case study since less than 1% of heart defects are this type and the doctors can't explain how he's still alive! I wanted to make sure he got something unique and special as his get well gift.
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High School Graduation 2007
My second paying customer! This cake is for a young man who is allergic to milk, eggs and peanuts. It's a 12" round and an 8" square DH Deluxe Moist classic yellow cake with Ener-G egg substitute. The icing has Fleischmann's Unsalted margarine in place of butter. The mortarboard is made of gumpaste, the decorations are MMF as well as the book coverings. It scored high on looks with the client, waiting for feedback on taste. Serves 60 and I charged her $160 since I wasn't sure how well it would end up.
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My Daughter's 9Th Birthday Cake
Here's the gumpaste figure that I posted earlier. The cake is an 8" round 3" tall yellow cake that's torted twice and has the following fillings: chocolate fudge and whipped cream. The icing, is my daughter's request, pink and cherry flavored. Used Kool-Aid to meet her requirements. Everyone raved, kids and adults alike, but since I hate cherry flavoring I didn't care for it (at least the outer part).
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2007 End Of Little League Season
A 12"x18" WASC cake (used the white choc. raspberry Internat'l Delights coffee creamer) filled with homemade raspberry jam. The glove and ball are made using Earlene Moore's directions and a recipe from her website for Kahlua Fudge Cake. This cake was a big hit! It even got me an inquiry for an order which I'm in the process of working out.
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For A 91St Birthday
My second sold cake. Not too happy with this and got caught making too many at once. I will probably give her back the $30 I charged her. But it's a WASC with the Internat'l Delight White Choc. Raspberry and a raspberry filling. Covered in Decorator's BC and orange-flavored MMF. Started out as 8" square before cutting it down a bit.
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Pool Party Flip Flops
Thanks, Melysa for the idea for these. I loved yours and did a quick version of them for my daughter's Brownie Girl Scout Troop's end of the year pool party today. I sort of waited until the last minute so I didn't get to do the little details and I also wanted to add "grass" icing to the board, but we got there an hour late!
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End Of Year Pto Cake
The President of the Parent-Teacher Organization asked me to make a cake to feed about 40 people for the final meeting/party of the year. She asked if I could match the stationary she used. Here is the result. The bottom 10" tier is a basic golden cake from scratch with choc. mousse filling and a decorator's bc. The 6" top tier is Sour Cream Lemon Poppyseed with a lemon bc filling. They're covered in Rhonda's Ultimate MMF with bc piping.
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Pink Mini Cupcake Bouquet
A first for me. Made it today using WASC w/ International Delight Chocolate Caramel coffee creamer (very good). Frosting is White Chocolate Buttercream. Also very good, but a little overpowering for the cake. Next time I'll make buttercream and add in the Chocolate Caramel.
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Tiara On Pillow
The completed cake. Gumpaste tiara, sweet peas and daisies. Pillow is Italian Cream cake with chocolate cannoli filling. Base cake is Chocolate Italian cream cake with cannoli filling. Can't tell you how much was left over because the restaurant staff served the other cake and didn't want to cut mine because "it's too pretty". I finally had to cut and serve it! My cousin went home with more than half of it - less than a quarter of the cake went at the party!! But I did get many compliments.
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Another Pillow And Tiara Cake
I offered to make my friend's daughter's birthday cake and she said okay. So here's my version of ye old Princess cake. I had to make everything dairy-free as one of the other girls has allergies. The cake is chocolate with orange flavored choc. buttercream filling (dairy-free), a coating of Pillsbury Vanilla Supreme and then lemon flavored MMF. I thought this was funny - the birthday girl is (Princess)Carolyn, my daughter is Diana, and my name is Grace. It will definitely be a royal party! THANKS MISSYEK!
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Breakfast In Bed
A big first - first time using gumpaste, rice krispie treats and chocolate clay. Jewelry box and necklace are choc. clay. Bow, rose, card are gumpaste. Hot chocolate, cereal and dish are rice krispies. Wicker is choc. buttercream. Made for the contest, but I finished it a couple of hours too late.
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1St Pulled Sugar Flower
I was trying to make something out of sugar (got part of it and failed part of it) and with the extra sugar I decided to play around a little bit. This is what I wound up with. At least you can tell it's suppose to be a flower (I hope!). (It earned me my very first hot sugar induced blister).
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Popcorn And A Television Marathon
Made for my sister-in-law's birthday. Even though I dowled the cakes shifted (so my bucket is all ferklepmt (sp?)). Bottom 4 layers are chocolate DH cake with mock Devil Dog cream filling (yuk) and then a layer of strawberry mousse covers that and is followed by 4 layers of pink champagne cake with strawberry mousse between (yummy). I like the way the popcorn and paper came out though. I was inspired by cookie_brookie's popcorn. I made the popcorn out of mini marshmallows cut up and squished together.
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Craps Table
Awesome recipe from The Cake Book - Sour Cream Lemon Poppy Seed Cake - was the base of this cake and I frosted it with Lemon Buttercream and then topped it with coconut flavored MMF. I thought it was really good and my husband raved about it for days! It was a birthday cake for my father-in-law's 73rd. The center cake was surrounded by a DH chocolate cake, but it didn't show up in the photo.
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My Version Of Cupcake Ornaments
Well, this is the only real baking I got done for Christmas. The cupcakes are from a mix and the ornaments are hollow chocolate melts. The red are cinnamon flavored, the yellow peppermint, and the white are plain. My head cold and carpal tunnel really impeded my progress this year.