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Since I didn't get a real wedding cake, I made my own anniversary cake- I wanted it to look like a top layer so I wanted to go simple. My FAVORITE part, by far, are the bride & groom flamingos- I love pink flamingos, I wanted to get married at The Flamingo in Vegas, and mostly, I piped these by hand with Royal Icing. Yeah me!
A small gingerbread house I did for my Aunt & Uncle- a general replica of their house. The lights are actually battery powered rice lights for bouquets... I had two strings that flashed alternately...
I made this for a luncheon at work- it's a gingerbread replica of our county courthouse- complete with butterscotch windows, and a battery powered tea light inside.
3 layers of Cinnamon Banana cake with Banana mousse filling. The icing is cool whip with extra vanilla and powdered sugar whipped to make it workable... I think it tastes really good, too! :D
I made this for a friend's birthday- chocolate cake, chocolate hazelnut buttercream filling and milk chocolate ganache. This is my first try at ganace, I think I need to practice- had to put on two "coats" but it's pretty at least. I also made the gold piping gel- first time- need to practice that more, too, but I think the colors worked out pretty well together...
Baby shower cake for my cousin- thank goodness it was a gift and nobody had to pay for this ugly thing! Ok, it's not that bad, but I had incidents with crumbs and a bit of sliding during transport. Bottom tier is chocolate with cookies-n-cream mousse, top tier is a white almond cake with french vanilla mousse. (I couldn't think of anything else) Pink butter cream with chocolate butter cream accents... helpful hints will be appreciated! P.S. The stickers for the bottoms of the kisses turned out really cute!
This is "Durable Cake for 3D and Wedding Cakes" from the recipe section, MMF made with chocolate marshmallows from MNFlowerGirl. I also painted the initials with luster dust and vodka- I need to work on my penmenship! This is my second attempt at fondant on a square cake- not too bad, not too good either, but I'll keep trying. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions, please!
I made this for my sister's birthday-she's an absolute horse FANATIC! This was done to look like her new show horse. Butter recipe golden box mix with Wilton recipe Buttercream-mane, tail, and hooves had cocoa powder and black food color added for better color...
I made these with cast sugar and RI for friends in the office-each one has a picture of their kids/grandkids inside and a Christmas music box underneath. Everyone loved them- I especially like the glitter of the sugar-it reminds me of real snowballs, and I think the RI piping turned out pretty darn good, too...
This is a replica of my house done up for Halloween. I especially love my graveyard- and yes, that is my mother and I in front by the cauldron... It's all sugar cookies and Royal Icing-except the wires to keep the little bats flying...and the posts to hold the front porch up-lollipop sticks, but the railing is all Royal Icing-I'm especially proud of those.
I'm so excited! I made a replica of my house-in sugar cookie! The windows are butterscotch and cinnamon disks crushed and melted, RI for decorations, including the railings, and MMF for the green roof... I'm going to clean it up some, but I'm so excited, I had to share this pic!
I used a DH banana mix, chocolate buttercream, and very purple MMF (thanks to FlowergirlMN), RI scrolls, painted with NuSilver Luster Dust & vodka. It was my first attempt at a carved cake, it was supposed to be more "angley" but I chickened out and went with a less dramatic angle, unfortunately, that made it just look a little lop sided. Thankfully, the birthday girl didn't even notice! I also thought the cake wasn't quite "enough", so I created a sugar globe topper...
A 2" sugar ornament I made. I piped the turkies on foil first, then when they were dry, I assembled the neck to the body and put it in the ornament.
This is a before & after pic I took of one of my halloween sugar ornaments. The first is a pic of the interior all piped with RI, the second is of the ornament after the two halves were put together and the border added.
these are mini houses I made with a spice cake/cookie recipe. It was after Christmas, but I was so excited about learning how to do a Gingerbread house, I wanted to do more, these were an attempt for other holidays...
This is my where it all began, circa 2006. I had just figured out how to do RI correctly and it's taken on a life of its own from there! From there it went to mini houses, to panoramic eggs to sugar ornaments!
I made this for my brother-in-law for Easter last year. He's not the flowery/frilly Easter Egg type, so I made this featuring his beloved dogs and John Deere.
A close-up of my first wedding cake. Devils food with strawberry creme. The center tier didn't do so well during transport, but the fondant and decorations turned out really well for a first time, I think!
I got to make these for my cousin's wedding. She had a Nightmare Before Christmas theme, hence the topper, so I tried to be as unconventional as I could be. I used a boxed devils food mix with a strawberry puree & Dream Whip filling... There were some "issues" with the transportation/set up of the cake and the middle tier slid off! But we fixed it and I think it turned out not too bad for a first try. It was a learning experience: don't get funny about filling or BAD things can happen!
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