Sea Turtle Birthday Cake

Sea Turtle, buttercream icing with dark chocolate fondant plates, 10inch round on an 8 inch round, 6 inch round for head, 6inch round for back flippers, heart pan for front flippers. Toasted pecans and buttercream filling.

Cactus Cake

I copied Collete Peters cake but got too tired before I put on all those needles. Chocolate cake leftovers from the pig cake, chocolate pastry cream filling and crusting cream cheese buttercream icing. I couldn't find the dark chocolate wafer cookies that are so famous - so I used shortbreads for the soil.

Birthday Pig

a birthday cake for two prize winning BBQ guys. Chocolate cake, chocolate pastry cream filling and fondant icing. All real just cake and fondant icing

Westie Birthday Cake 2008

Base cake strawberry, dog is amaretto pound cake, buttercream icing and fondant accents. VERY VERY hot day -- dog was about to start shedding. Basketweave on the base cake had already started to slump.

Ws Turkey Pans

Turkey cake from WS pan. Funny thing, you can't see my spackling of the seams in real life. One cake was the WS pecan spice from the package and the other was Lindy Smith's Medeira cake recipe using 8 eggs. I had to put a cookie sheet in to catch the drips from the Madeira but the WS hadn't filled the molds completely, so I was compensating. Turkey Bundt pan by Nordicware

Tiger Cub

not my best work but my first time painting fondant. It looked better without color but everyone has to start somewhere. Inspired by Lindy Smith's cat cake

Lily Cake

I was trying to be accommodating and agreed to have the cake ready the day before the date originally agreed. That was a big mistake! I would have been able to fix the bulges, etc and probably wouldn't haven't even had them if I had not tried to rush. Next time I will stick to the first date. This is a copy of a Lindy Smith cake from Cakes to Inspire and Desire. I was not thrilled with her instructions and the lack of size data.

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My friend wanted to make a birthday cake for her husband who is an usher at the baseball park. I baked the cakes and helped her stack and decorate them. A sports ball pan on top of a torted 9" round. Buttercream clay and grass and a fondant covered baseball. Damson plum filling between the layers - yum! I used the big grass tip, not 233 but 300 something.

Bicycles

Friends don't let friends drive drunk, but it is hard to keep them out of the icing bottles. I made them eat the really bad ones.

Motorcycles

Large Chili Cookie

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My first attempt at a doll cake. I was rushed and it was hot, Maybe next time I'll plan further ahead and have an idea how I want it to look.

Yorkshire Dale Sheep Cookies

This was my first foray into decorated cookies. Where do the cookie mavens find the time or the energy for this. I lost momentum early on. They were first decorated with MM fondant and then royal icing. Now on to the other breeds... I used NFSC recipe for the cookies, MMF for the fondant and wilton royal icing with Americolor black liquid color and powdered black food coloring.

Lindy Smith Fish Cake

This is a cake from one of Lindy Smith's books. It was my first MMF fondant cake (so now I know what I did wrong). I am not completely happy with the color scheme, but it was a practice cake and I had fun doing it. I rolled the fondant too thin and it was way too hot and humid in the kitchen at the time, but I refused to turn on the AC yet. I am giving it to my neighbor who helped me cut the tree limbs off my roof.

First Dog Cake

The trick was delivering this. I hadn't originally planned to deliver it any further than across the street and then they changed the venue for the party. I used a small heart pan for the hind legs, A soccer ball pan and wonder pan for the body and small sports ball pan for the head. The muzzle and tail are cake too - NO rice crispie treats here

Ugly Cake Candidate

I made this and got too tired by the time I got to the decorating. I wanted to try a gumpaste shoe and this is where it ended up. It has a lot of warts but I now know what I did wrong and could do to improve. This is the view with the most issues.

My First Gumpaste Highheel Shoe

I did this as a learning experience and now know some of the pitfalls and mistakes I made. For more info this thread has a better critique http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-1587731.html#1587731

Georgann's Cat

A portrait of a friends cat in cake for her birthday.