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3 Birthday Girls
3 cakes - for three birthday girls each cake was 2 cake mixes - buttercream icing and fondant girls. The color of trim and dresses matched the girls kindergarten dresses they wore alike for Kindergarten graduation 2 years ago. Only had a little trouble with fondant. It was too soft and first tried to have them standing up but was just barely able to get them sitting and even then they slouched over.
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Grad 2009
Grad cake for 13 girls. Suggested something "girly-er" but they came up with this. Turned out nice and was fairly easy to do. Making black and purple fondant was the most time-consuming. 10,8,6 (I think?) inch round, three layer. White buttercream icing. Purple and black fondant to match colors. White fondant banner.
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Kindergarten Grad
6 individual Grad cakes for 6 graduating Kindergarteners. 3 boys and 3 girls. Thought the cupcake cake idea was be great idea. Shooting stars was the theme. Each cake fit into the Wilton cake carrier tray. Used 6-7 med/large cupcakes and over a dozen small cupcakes (Can't remember exaxt number sorry - depends on size of template). I had some gold foiled liners to use for tips.
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Swimming Pool
11X15 - 2 cake mixes. Water is Wilton Sparkle gel - looks great but tastes - not so great. Even had it sloped for deep end w/ Candy necklace White is buttercram. Figures are all fondant. I put it together day before and fondant softened up because it was touching gel and buttercream. If possible - wait til last minute to add fondant items. Still turned out good and kids loved it. I made enough stuff so that all kids would get something and my birthday girl (5yrs) and my 7 year old son helped too.
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Mad Hatter Cake
Two layer topsy-turvy cake for a friend's wedding. Bottom layer is 10 in round on top of 9 1/2 in round and top layer is 8-8- and 8 1/2 for the top. All brown buttercreme icing and all the pink is fondant. This was actually cake No. 2. First lesson don't tort tilted cake with pudding. Lesson No. 2 don't leave it on counter in evening sun. Lesson No. 3. don't trim an 8 in to be a 7 in and assume it'll support an 8in cake. Second time was a charm. I was really happy with how it turned out.
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Wedding Cake
Bottom Two layers are Dummys. Top layer is a rum fruit cake. Buttercream icing. Was an easy cake to do for the design but the cornelli lace and spirals were tedious and hard on the hands. And it was the first time I've decorated a dummy cake with buttercream. Think I prefer decorating the real thing.
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Grade Twelve Graduation
Theme was Memories Good as Gold and backdrop had shooting gold stars . used five cake mixes and torted cakes with pudding and cool whip. Gold stars are gold fondant sprayed with gold lustre dust. Black icing was tricky but started with Stiff consistency and the added black and some piping gel.