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It's hard to get inspired to do clowns anymore. This is all buttercream and I cheated and airbrushed the green grass. Pretty easy but a big cake and with kids, big is always better (who am I kidding, with adults too!)
The cake is covered in buttercream with color flow animals and fondant leaves for the top. Branches are coated in royal icing and attached to the tall teir stand using candy melts. The river is made from piping gel. Outside of the fondant leaves, I tried to do an easy cake that Wilton students who have completed course one and two would be able to do.
It's a buttercream transfer and all butercream icing except for the oversize star sprinkles.
Happy 4th birthday Carolyn! So you get to see her cake even before my own daughter. This is a 14" buttercream cake with chocolate rocks, a rice krispie cave airbrushed black, bobbles and sea things out of gumpaste and hand painted with vodka and coloring gel, flowers made out of gumpaste and a yummy chocolate cake inside. The coral is made with BC and tip 16 and tip 12 and I took a bone tool dipped it in cornstarch/powdered sugar and did the dimples on the tube coral atter it dried. I think my favorite creature is Sebastian the crab but of course, my daughter will love Ariel. The sea weed is just Royal icing on tall lollipop sticks.
So I'm sure like many, I'm a big fan of Food Network's Cake Challenges and I saw Elisa Strauss do these ornaments on a Christmas cake and thought, sure let's try it. After several attempts, I learned to dust the balloons with confectioner's sugar first, then pipe RI and let dry. When dry, slowly deflat the balloon as it releases slowly from the RI. I quickly airbrushed them and put them on a cake as a topper just to use them.
I did a buttercream transfer for the top, Fondant covered board with decoratins, and then add large cake sparkles all over the sides to give the cake a great shimmer. She loved it!
A mix of burnt orange calla lillies, cabernet roses, leaves and berries formed this topper to fit the wedding cake idea a bride came up with. The entire bouquet is made out of a MMfondant/gumpaste blend.
This 5 teired cake was all butter rum with the layers alternating from a reese pieces filled chocolate iced layer to the strawberry layer. The bottom layer was 8 10" square cakes-giving it a 20" square bottom to put the cake into perspective. The burnt orange calla lillies and cabernet roses were all gumpaste. The entire cake was covered with sugar crystals (which were a pain to do but totally completed the look,
So many of my friends loved the 3d head on this cake, I've done it like 3 times since and finally no more . I used fruit roll ups for the glasses and candy melts for the eyes and graham crackers for the beak.
This was inspired by another design but still a bit different. The Children loved the icing ocen and the chocolate treasure chest filled with chocolate jewels. So cute!
Okay I love this one mainly because I cut off the ball on the Wilton party hat pan and added to the pot to give it a look of a strawberry pot and to top it off...cookies!
LOL...I forgot the nose....but still cute!
Very easy bouquet...nothing more than tracing the Wilton Halloween cutouts. Too easy actually but for some reason it was requested by a friend to do.
Thw whole reason I got started is right here. Three months after what started as my mom's night out taking the Wilton courses at Michaels....this what I created and she loved it!
Just a simple thanksgiving cookie and chocolate acorn bouquet.
This is among my first color flow pieces and I used a masking technique with basic Wilton Color mist to achieve the sky and clouds. The little girl who wanted her horse loved it...every bit of it.
All Buttercream on sugar cookies...yummo!
A 3 dozen cookie bouquet...boy was this fun to transport!
Just a bit of brush work.
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