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Movie Birthday
one 10" cake for bottom reel, one 8" cake for top reel, three 6" layers for popcorn tub. Fondant reels used template found on cake central, let it harden for about five days. Clacker is foam core. Just wrapped photos (printed on paper) around outside of each cake layer/buttercream icing prior to party. Popcorn is mini marshmallows dusted with gold/yellow petal dust.
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Minion Cakes
Yellow minion: 3, 6 in. cakes + half ball cake. Purple minion: 4, 6 in. cakes + half ball cake. Buttercream with fondant accents (my kids don't like fondant). Made homemade cotton candy for the hair which was great (can't find pruple anywhere so made it). If you use be sure not to put it on until party time b/c the icing will cause it to soak up moisture and "melt" which is what I thought would happen. I also used bake strips to get even cake, but left cake super moist and mushy...evil minion started to sag, and the buttercream would not stick! UGH!
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Lego Ninjago
2 tier 10" vanilla cake decor with name, black belt (hard to see with black board), ninjago practice arena-like fondant pieces. 2 tier 6" plus half ball strawberry cake covered in green fondant for lego ninjago head. 1 tier 8" square for lego-like brick with fondant ninjago characters. Just noticed sesnei wu hat not all the way on in this picture. oops!
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Andy Griffith Show Cake
Dad is big Andy Griffith fan. So just printed some images of show from google images and placed them in my Wilton cake display. Simple buttercream (I practiced some piping because my dad wouldn't mind). Quotes from the show written with black food color marker on white fondant.
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Airport Cake
Sheet cake for 15 yr old son who loves to fly (simulators for now). I loved the idea of this cake, but making an iPhone cake for his twin the same night + no time + ran out of fondant = bad looking air control tower. Blah. Tower made from rkt, covered in only one layer of fondant. I wanted to wrap it in gray "brick" pattern (from fondant roller). But that's that. Rest is buttercream with fondant airstrip, plane.
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Iphone Cake
iPhone cake for my 15 yr old. He dictated the different apps for the cake. I really didn't want to do black icing. Maybe I should have tried ganache? Chocolate sheet cake with black buttercream icing with fondant accents. Yep, the white writing bled. I knew it would! Oh the things we do to satisfy our teens :)
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Circus Cake
Circus cake for my nephew. He dictated what he wanted on each tier. Vanilla, chocolate, and lemon cakes: 12, 10 and 8 inch. Very plain bottom borders due to travel & cake stand used (from now on I'll use smaller cakes for this one). Buttercream with fondant accents. Tent is rkt covered with fondant. Flags are scrapbook paper on popsicle sticks.
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Topsy Turvy Cake
My first topsy turvy cake! 10" bottom (3 layers) and 6" top (3 layers). Buttercream frosting with fondant accents; the family doesn't like fondant all over the cake. Didn't taper the sides of the cake as much as I probably should have, but I wimped out! Overall, very happy with it. Was tricky getting the top layer in and out of the bottom layer without getting buttercream all over my fingers/spatula. Will have to work on that next time!

















