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This was for my club's Christmas party. I started out with two 3" tall 8" rounds of butter cake. It's all buttercream except for the cabled scarf, teddy bear and halibut.
This is my favorite groom's cake ever. The cake is ganached and surrounded by dozens of chocolate strawberries. The fire chief's car on top is a Franklin Mint collectible. The main part is the dalmatian puppy in front of the cake! It's made of chocolate cake and is all buttercream. See other views of this cake, and the bride's cake that went with it, at http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/Matt_and_Angie.html
This is a buttercream cake that I used to make a tutorial on how to do the texturing on the side. You can see the tutorial at http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/BasketWeave.html Thanks!
This horse is a mixture of modeling chocolate and ChocoPan over a wire armature. I took him to the Austin '09 cake show where he got a first place medal as a Special Technique in the professional division.
Pound cake sculpture covered entirely in buttercream... This one got First Place in the Professional division at the '09 Austin cake show. This photo was taken before I added a few shamrocks to his hat.
This cake was done for a painting-themed art party. The palette is covered in buttercream with buttercream paint splotches. The paintbrushes are fondant.
This cake was done to match party invitations, and to incorporate the elements of a make-and-bake themed party. The guests were making their own calzones and decorating cupcakes while the calzones baked. The hat is covered in buttercream with fondant dots, and the calzone is fondant-covered cake with fondant pepperoni. The cupcake is, well, it's a cupcake and the fork is a regular plastic one. Fondant placemat.
Chocolate cake covered in chocolate fondant. The bottle and truck are plastic, the rabbit is a stuffed animal and is not actually touching the cake. The instructions for this cake are on my website at http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/Welcoming_William.html
Buttercream baseball and buttercream baseball glove. The webbing and lacing on the glove are fondant.
This was made to look similar to a stacking toy the mom was using as a theme for the party. It has alligator, tiger and zebra prints piped onto the buttercream, and the giraffe is fondant.
Basic Chocolate Fudge Pound Cake, chocolate icing and covered in modeling chocolate. The pink flowers and banana are fondant. For in-progress pictures and other views, please go to http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/Monkey_see.html Thanks!
A surprise cake for my friend's daughter, covered in buttercream. This is one of my all-time favorite dog cakes.
Sorry for the dark picture... Lemon cake bluebirds are sculpted and covered in buttercream. Tree stump is also buttercream. Royal icing flowers.
Red velvet cake covered in buttercream with fondant pearls. Silk flowers and ribbon.
Royal icing floodwork with fondant tutu.
Plain white cake with white buttercream; edible "geode" instructions can be found at http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/rock.html
Customer purchased Happy Feet figures to put on the cake. Rock candy for ice, cake sparkles for a little shine, and airbrushing on the buttercream.
This was supposed to look like a vintage plastic doll. I had a few issues with it, but you can't win 'em all, LOL! Chai Tea Cake recipe from here (yum), fondant, modeling chocolate, and buttercream. The head is a styro ball covered in modeling chocolate and the eyes are plastic, so from the chin upwards is not edible. The rest is. If you want to see in-progress photos, they're at my alter-ego website, www.cakedalaska.com but please come back here to leave comments!
This is a tribute to our Irish heritage. Celtic knotwork done on fondant. The cake itself is a mashed potato cake (another nod to Ireland) from a recipe on the Taste of Home website.
Buttercream transfer made from an invitation supplied by the customer.
Pound cake rabbit covered in buttercream, served about 10.
These were made to match a baby shower invitation that had jungle animals on it. I used off-the-shelf metal cookie cutters but had to squish them a little to get the right shapes. Roll-out cookies with royal icing decorations.
For more detailed directions on how I made this cake, please see the thread "TooMuchCake's 3D Dragon Cake." He's pound cake and buttercream.
Champagne cake, beveled top tier, buttercream icing, fondant butterflies.
Garden gnome made of stacked and carved 6" rounds of pound cake. He's covered in all buttercream.
This was an experiment to see how different icing recipes held up under the exact same circumstances... The pink side was one recipe, the white was another. The experiment was a success with both. The topper is a vintage set of kissing angels.
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