ShirleyW's Cake Central Gallery

Concrete Fondant Cake

A cake dummy covered in a concrete texture with fondant impression mat honeycomb. Rock sugar candy and gumpaste bees.

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Sugar Sheet Cake

Styrofoam dummy because I just wanted to try this technique. Just a simple mixture of granulated sugar, glucose and food color. Topper is made of rice paper sails, wafer paper shards and candy melt spheres.

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Octopus Cake

My donated Octopus cake for a crabfeed fundraiser. Happy it raised $350.00 for the center.

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Gumpaste Bow Cake

My latest completed Craftsy Project from Alexandria. Pellegrino. The black gumpaste bows are red on the inside.

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Gumpaste Hand Topper

Gumpaste hand painted with edible gold. Blown sugar crystal ball with birthdate inside.

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Honeycomb Cake

3 layer 8" round cake . White chocolate honeycomb wrap done with bubble wrap. Gumpaste bee and Isomalt honey drips. For my daughters birthday tomorrow. Her name is Melissa which means Honeybee in Greek.

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Cinnamon Roll Layer Cake

8" three layers, each layer brushed with cinnamon and sugar glaze, then homemade caramel sauce swirled over the glaze. Filled and iced with caramel Italian meringue buttercream. White chocolate sails painted with edible gold. A few white chocolate truffles and cinnamon sticks as topper. Homemade caramel sauce drips. Here is the recipe if you are interested. I made one extra layer for myself to sample, Delicious! https://www.365daysofbakingandmore.com/cinnamon-roll-layer-cake/

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Baroque Keyhole Cake

My completed project from a Craftsy class of Alexandria Pellegrino.

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Christmas Cakes

Bacardi rum Bundt cakes and a chocolate sponge Buche de Noel. Gumpaste Poinsettias, chocolate molded pinecones and floral tape pine needles dipped in sanding sugar

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Drag Queen Brunch Cake

A donated cake for a live auction at a drag queen brunch this weekend. The host works forMAC cosmetics so I used that as the theme. All of the cosmetics and the flirty eyes are hand modeled in fondant

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Painted Poppy Cake

Just a styrofoam display cake for the gumpaste Poppies I made a few weeks ago for a cake club round robin. A bit of hand painting with petal dust and alcohol.

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Gumpaste Poppies

Working on some gumpaste Poppies today

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Cream Tart Cake

Shirley Utterback-Wilson Just now A nice light letter shaped cake for my friend Lilian's birthday today. 2 layers of sponge cake brushed with strained apricot jam and filled with whipped cream and sliced berries. The flowers are tucked into teas straws so not touching the cake. French Macarons with almond buttercream filling.

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Succulent Flower Pot Cake

Grandson grows succulents so this is his birthday cake for this year. Fondant covered flower pot cake, airbrushed. Gumpaste succulents and trowel. Fondant wood planking covered cake board with Oreo cookie crumbs for soil.

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Gumpaste Cacti And Succulents

Gumpaste Cacti and Succulents for an upcoming cake

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Rock Candy Geode

Gumpaste based Geode with rock candy crystals and edged in gold leaf.

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Columbine Birthday Cake

Gumpaste Columbine and Hydrangea. Edible cake lace mesh.

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Piped Buttercream Rosette Wedding Cake

Piped rosette wedding cake for a "Beauty And The Beast" themed wedding.

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St. Patrick's Day Cake

A friend ordered this cake as his donation to the live auction tomorrow evening for his charity fundraiser. Gumpaste topper and horseshoe, the sharocks on the sides are fondant.

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Gumpaste Shamrock Cake Topper

Gumpaste Shamrock's and Hydrangea for a St. Patricks cake topper.

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10Th Anniversary

For my friends David and Mike on the tenth anniversary of the day they met. Italian meringue buttercream, edible gold luster dust veining. Fantasy gumpaste Peony

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Gumpaste Columbine And Hydrangea

Wreath of gumpaste Columbine and Hydrangea. The second picture is of a real Columbine in nature

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Nautical Cake For Crab Feed

Original design was by Sanrascakes.com but I added my own touches here and there.

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Magnolia Birthday Cake

For my daughters 55th birthday. Chocolate cake, raspberry coulis filling, raspberry Italian meringue buttercream iced in chocolate fudge and wrapped in chocolate with fresh berries on top and a gumpaste Magnolia.

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Electrician's Cake

For my son's 45th birthday, he is an electrician so the theme for the cake. The cable reel is 2 cake drums covered in fondant and brushed with airbrush color. In between is a 10" styrofoam cake dummy. Everything is gumpaste except the light bulb which is blown sugar (Isomalt) with a small LED light inside. The cable wire was done with an extruder, took forever!

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Orchid Pillow Cake

A Thailand themed wedding cake with gumpaste orchids and edible lace and a Canadian Maple tree with leaf

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