Tea Party

One of my 2 entries for a cake competition yesterday themed "You Are Invited". This one won 2nd place in the advanced division/category. All dummy cakes covered with fondant. Used gumpaste, fondant and buttercream. Petit fours were solid white chocolate. Thanks to "awoisch" for the tutorial on Duff's Roses!

Christmas Tree Cake

Yellow cake filled and iced with buttercream. Royal icing christmas trees. Used leaf tip #352 for trees. Fondant lettering.

Christmas Cake

Just playing around with my new comma pans. Lemon cake iced and filled with buttercream. Gumpaste poinsettia's. Fondant lettering.

Cheese Slice

Chocolate cake with buttercream icing and filling. Buttercream grapes, leaves and grapevines. My sincere thanks to SugarShack for her buttercream icing recipe and to Helipops for helping me with this cake.

Golf-Themed B'day Cake

Yellow cake with fondant golf "green", golf balls and flag. Picture doesn't quite show the green was sculpted from a smaller oval cake angled down to small end. "Sand pits" are light brown sugar mixed with fine grain white sugar. Iced with buttercream. Birthday boy was "22" and a golf fanatic.

Breast Cancer Walk Cake

One of three cakes I donated to the local Breast Cancer Awareness Walk for raffling. Red Velvet cake torted twice and filled with cream cheese filling. White FondX fondant. Gumpaste rosebuds. Buttercream leaves and edible pearls.

The Earll's

2nd cake for anniversary celebration. 8" x 3" white cake with raspberry filling and iced with buttercream with coconut on sides. Buttercream roses/rosebuds. FMM letter cutters used.

60Th Anniversary

10" x 3" chocolate cake torted twice and filled with raspberry filling & buttercream. Iced with buttercream and decorated with royal icing flowers. FMM letter cutters used. Very special couple - parent's of fellow CC'r.

Ivory Rosebuds

4" and 6" square yellow cakes iced with buttercream and covered with white fondant. Gumpaste rosebuds dusted with ivory petal dust. Buttercream leaves and edible pearls. Ivory satin ribbon.

Reenie's Cake

Birthday cake made for a friend here on CC - "reenie". 8" yellow cake iced with buttercream with strawberry filling. Covered with ivory FondX fondant. Fondant flowers made with silicone molds. Happy Birthday Reenie!

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Ivory Fondant Wedding Cake

My sincere appreciation goes to miriel and JenniferMI for they're help with this project! This was my very first wedding cake and their help made it all possible. 6", 8", 10" and 14" cake layers divided by using covered foam boards. All covered with ivory FondX fondant. Roses were provided by bride's Mother. Ivory satin ribbon used.

Luau Cake

10" x 3" yellow cake and a small 4" x 2" for the birthday girl (1-year old). Sand bucket, shovel and flip flops are fondant/gumpaste. Hibiscus are gumpaste. Seashells are chocolate made from molds. Made palm trees with tips # 4 and 352. First time trying flip flops and palm trees.

Wisteria & Basketweave

Yellow cake with raspberry filling. Had a senior moment - shell border on basketweave...... was more than half finished before noticing. Guess it looks ok. Used tip #59 for flowers - two different colors of violet. Clay pot purchased at Michael's. All buttercream. (sorry for the poor quality photo)

White Leaves & Roses (Front View)

Small oval yellow cake covered with FondX fondant - first time using. Gumpaste roses, edible pearls and buttercream leaves. Just playing around with the FondX.

Pink And Brown Birthday Cake

6" x 3" and 4" x 3" yellow cake iced with pink buttercream. Bow and polka dots are chocolate SatinIce fondant. Made for a friend's 9 year old's birthday.

Pink Doll Cake (Back View)

(just wanted to share a back view)

Pink Doll Cake (Front View)

Red Velvet cake made with the WonderMold by Wilton. Fondant covered with fondant swags. Clay flowers and buttercream leaves. Second one I've done now. Thanks for looking.

Bonnet Cake (Back View)

6" x 2" and half of the sports ball pan covered with Pettinice fondant. Hat brim is gumpaste. I used an embossed roller for the imprints. (front view shows this a bit better) Had trouble with bow - ChocoPan fondant. Thanks for looking!

Jody's Cake

6" x 3" and a 5" x 2" yellow cakes covered with ChocoPan fondant. First time using it. Roses, rosebuds and irises are gumpaste as well as the little filler flowers. Leaves are buttercream.

Sand Bucket Cake

Made this for some friends that just move here from Georgia. Had some cake sinking issues.... 6" x 3" and 5" x 2" chocolate cakes filled with raspberry filling and covered with rolled white chocolate fondant. Shells made from chocolate molds. Shovel made from gumpaste/fondant. Hibiscus are gumpaste. "Sand" is light brown sugar mixed with regular granulated sugar.

Benny's Cake

Made this one for my ex-supervisor/dear friend for his 58th. Used a chocolate mold for the teeth. The denture cup and Efferdent tablets are fondant. The cake is a 7" square yellow cake iced (very thinly - he doesn't really like sweets) with buttercream.

Doll Cake (Back View)

(wanted to show the back of the doll cake)

Doll Cake

Doll cake made with the Wonder Mold and covered with fondant. Bottom cake is an 11" x 3" yellow cake with raspberry filling iced with buttercream. All buttercream flowers/leaves decorations. Fondant detail work. All I was told was the little girl loved purple, was going to be "8" and was very 'prissy'.

Clara's Cake

6" x 3" pound cake iced and filled with chocolate buttercream. Clay flowers (bought at Michael's) with buttercream leaves. Needed to surprise a dear friend that has just lost her Mother last week. This has been her nickname since 1979.

Blue Scroll Cake

3" and 5" pound cakes iced with buttercream and covered with SatinIce fondant. Playing around with a new "celshape" mold (scrolls). Gumpaste decorations including the rose. Rose leaves buttercream. Edible pearls.