mieyo's Cake Central Gallery

mieyo's Cake Central Gallery

You Know How To Fix It...

You Know How To Fix It...

This is actually over a year old, but I didn't like that the only place I had it uploaded was on my Facebook. This was my final project in my last baking class in culinary school, in which me and a partner were to create a themed dessert buffet. Obviously, we chose NASCAR. Anyway, we split up the tasks, and since cake decorating was more my thing, I did the bulk of the cakework. The hat's gumpaste, as are all the veggies in the stew. The knobs for the burner, as well as the eye itself is gumpaste with wire for support. The handle on the hammered copper pot is gumpaste with a wooden dowel. Flames are isomalt, the stew base is piping gel, and Remy is hand-sculpted RKT piped with buttercream with wire/gumpaste accents. His mushroom is a real bluefoot. The cake itself is a dummy.

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Surprise!

Surprise!

I was asked for "an Elmo cake." I only ever had one client that was specific with her orders, and this was not one of them. Elmo is RKT piped with buttercream with fondant accents. The birthday girl was so jazzed.

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Promotion Cake

Promotion Cake

A family friend was being promoted to Lt. Colonel, and asked me to make this for the party at which I was told a lot of influential people would be present. I love these guys so much; they always tried to help me out via word of mouth advertising, and they were just the sweetest people. They'd just asked for a sheet cake with the silver leaf, and I asked for creative license. I think we both wound up happier.

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Dora Cake With Cupcake Posse

Dora Cake With Cupcake Posse

Nothing especially pretty. I was trying something new by being afraid of copyright infringements, so I did this while in my, "I can't sell you a cake with licensed characters on it, but you can put a toy that you buy on it" phase.

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Fondant And Gumpaste Final Project

Fondant And Gumpaste Final Project

It's a honey cake. Get it? I liked the little fat bees so much. Why are gumpaste bees so much cuter than real bees? Also, I didn't know if I should put this in the Animals or the Butterflies section. Sorry if I guessed wrong.

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Dots And Daisies

Dots And Daisies

Old - A request I got for a baby shower cake. Nothing special, but momma seemed happy. I like playing with fondant.

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23 Years Of Playing With My Food

23 Years Of Playing With My Food

My in-laws were absolutely appalled that I made my own birthday cake, but it's what I want to do for a living. Y'know? It's like letting someone else make your wedding gown if you're a fashion designer. He could've come out a lot smoother if I'd done him in fondant, but I've yet to find a fondant I can tolerate the taste of save for marshmallow cream, which in my experience, is too heavy to cover spherical cakes with, so all buttercream, save for the hat, and Kirby's facial features. I love Kirby.

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The Empty Tomb

The Empty Tomb

This did not come out nearly as nicely as I had planned. With the size of the figures (all painstakingly hand-modeled, which I did as small as I possibly could) , it would have worked much better on a larger cake, but I was trying to not end up with a ton of left-overs. All BC, except the fondant figures. The bolder is RKT covered in BC, and the sheep is fondant with BC "wool."

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He Who Sows Generously...

He Who Sows Generously...

Made for the Sunday school volunteers' appreciation luncheon. There was so much more I wanted to do with it, but I ran out of time. My cakes always have a nasty problem with bulging, and I always thought it was because I didn't let them settle long enough, but I let this one sit for 36 hours before a dot of icing touched its surface, and it STILL bulged. Also, I suck at covering in fondant, and I realized too late I had no silver luster dust, but I think it came out okay anyway. Any tips for next time?

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Nativity Cake

Nativity Cake

Made this for the children's church's Birthday Party for Jesus. The idea was borrowed from Eight, so I take no credit for the design. The humans, stars and cow are all fondant, and the cakes are all iced in chocolate and vanilla BC. The dirt path is crushed Nilla wafers, the stable and manger are made from pretzel sticks with fondant boards, the straw is dyed coconut shavings, and the sheep are fondant bases with BC "wool." Aine2's hands tutorial was INVALUABLE in making this. Seriously.

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Scarface The Holiday Romantic

Scarface The Holiday Romantic

I completely forgot to post why he's called Scarface in the last picture, but while trying to set the roses, the sharp edges of the dried petals left several deep gashes in his cheek that I couldn't smooth out, so I started calling him Scarface. This is a picture of his wrinkly little tail feathers.

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Scarface The Holiday Romantic

Scarface The Holiday Romantic

This was my final project for the Wilton Course III Fondant and Tiered Cakes class. I've worked on this every single night for four nights straight, and it was both the biggest disaster and hugest success I've yet to have. Heidi (my instructor) was awesome helpful in figuring out how to get the bouquet in place when I'd given up on it. Being my first tiered cake, I didn't know the dowels were supposed to go THROUGH the cake board, but now I know. First carved cake, too!

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Wilton Course 2 Finale Detail

Wilton Course 2 Finale Detail

Close-up of the different flowers: primrose, pansy, daisy, daffodil, victorian rose, chrysanthemum, violet, and apple blossoms.

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Wilton Course 2 Finale

Wilton Course 2 Finale

Final project for Wilton Course 2, just finished a couple of weeks ago. This was my first experience with marshmallow fondant (basket handle, and "wood grain" mounting strips underneath the bows), and though things could have been worse, it made things difficult. Firstly, it was too heavy for the 20 gauge floral wire to hold up, and I wound up having to secure it with toothpicks. I accidentally used meringue powder instead of color flow mix for the ribbons, and my basket weave was rushed and sloppy.

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Fmil's Birthday

Fmil's Birthday

My future mother-in-law's birthday is less than a week apart from my FFIL's, and I felt so bad, because her cake came out so much nicer. She loves purple, and she adored this cake. Simple yellow cake (my favorite) covered in swirl flowers. This could've come out so much nicer if I'd done it after taking Course 2, since I actually learned more flowers. Oh, well. Next year.

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Ffil Birthday

Ffil Birthday

Terrible cake I made for my future father-in-law's birthday. I tried doing this before course two, so I didn't know how to do rosettes (and quite apparently failed), and for whatever reason, whenever I tried to combing the sides, my icing comes off, instead of, y'know, getting pretty.

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Wilton Course 1 Finale Detail

Wilton Course 1 Finale Detail

A close-up of the roses that inspired my cabbage heads later on.

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Wilton Course 1 Finale

Wilton Course 1 Finale

I really wish I'd done a better job with this, but I had to rush it, so the colors are off, the cornelli lace is ugly and fat, and my icing consistency was, for lack of a better term, whack, and so my ribbons came out very jagged. Also, I didn't get around to taking the pictures until DAYS after completion, so the burgundy icing was well on its way to bleeding into the ivory accents by then. Additionally, the roses came out lamentably dark, though they weren't really black like they look in the pictures.

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Jungle Love Detail

Jungle Love Detail

Close-up of the monkeys.

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Jungle Love

Jungle Love

My second cake in the first course of the Wilton cake decorating classes. We were supposed to figure pipe clowns, but I don't much care for clowns. The could have come out so much better if I'd just used a yellow Runt for the banana, and round chocolate truffles for the heads. Oh well, lesson learned.

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Strawberries Full

Strawberries Full

Full view of the cake.

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Strawberries

Strawberries

This was my first cake done in the first course of the Wilton cake decorating classes, wherein we demonstrated our ability to utilize piping gel image transfers and the basic star fill.

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Cabbage Patch Detail 4

Cabbage Patch Detail 4

Close-up of the sign, which I did the wood grain pattern for by hand, and the focal baby.

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Cabbage Patch Detail 3

Cabbage Patch Detail 3

Close-up of the paint bucket and a neighboring baby. EDIT: Uploaded the non-blurry picture.

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Cabbage Patch Detail 2

Cabbage Patch Detail 2

A closer shot of the entire garden.

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Cabbage Patch Detail 1

Cabbage Patch Detail 1

Close-up of the babies and the sign.

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