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Navy Chief Birthday

I was asked to do this cake to mark the birthday of the "Chief Petty Officer" It's a 12x36 -the anchors are hand cut fondant. Painted in gold luster dust. The USN and stars are painted in silver luster dust. Thanks for looking!

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Wrestling

WWE cake for my neighbor. I used chocolate dipped pretzel rods for the posts. I wish I had pre-measured them and cut them down a little but I think the cake still came out nice. The mat is fondant and the lettering is brushed on with buttercream. Thanks for peeking :-)

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High School Musical 2

This cake is for a family friend. She wanted High School Musical...2 (not 1 but 2) and she wanted Troy somewhere on the cake. This is a WASC (minus the almond but more Vanilla) with 1/3 toffee almond coffee creamer. Everybody who has done this is right, it's the best tasting cake I've ever had! Buttercream dream frosting. The lettering is fondant painted in gold luster dust. The cake is sprinkled with blue sugar crystals. Everybody enjoyed the cake very much!

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Ethan's 9Th Birthday Football Cake

I've been wanting to make a football field cake so I was happy to do this for a friend. This is a white chocolate sour cream cake with buttercream frosting. Birthday boy's team is the Wranglers - and his colors are red, white, and navy blue. The whole process of this cake went great. I think it was the least mess I've ever made in the kitchen :-) I guess I'm getting better at this whole cake decorating thing. Thanks for looking!

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Jenny's Garden Ladybug Cake

This cake was very fun to make. Done for the little neighbor girl's second, 2nd birthday party (*see butterfly cake done earlier this week). I attempted to use candy molds/melts for the first time. I bought one with ladybugs, butterflies, & frogs -the butterflies were the only ones that came out decent. So I piped the ladybugs and they came out cute I think. The cake was a bottom chocolate layer, strawberry filled, vanilla/lemon top layer, with buttercream dream frosting. Thanks for checking out my cake!

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Butterflies For Jenny

Hi all! This is a strawberry cake filled with fresh strawberries and buttercream dream icing. The antennae on the butterflies are purchased flower stamen for icing flowers - gave it a nice touch I thought. A few candy sprinkle flowers finished the job. Done for my daughter's friend from her playgroup - our gift to her. It was "finger licking" good according to the b-day girl :-) Thanks for looking!

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Strawberry Cake

This is a two layer strawberry cake. Buttercream dream iced and filled. With a few fresh strawberries on top. I made this for my friend Jen - just because :-) I got the recipe off Allrecipes.com. I was looking for a scratch strawberry cake to try for an upcoming birthday - this is the closest I could find. It still has a box of strawberry Jello in it though.... **If you have any good, from scratch, Strawberry cake recipes or know where to find one, please PM me! :-) Thanks in advance!

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Tropical Carrot Cake

Holy Cannoli this cake is so good it'll make you wanna smack a grizzly bear in the face! Tropical Carrot Cake with coconut cream cheese icing courtesy of Epicurious.com. This was just a simple cake for my family to celebrate my new Kitchen Aid mixer. Whoo hooo!

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Spongebob Squarecake

This cake was done for a family friend's son. This is a triple layer, yellow cake, custard filled, buttercream icing and decorations. My first time making custard and that was a yummy experience! As I went to move the cake, the cake board buckled a bit and the icing cracked :-( I guess I wasn't thinking about the fact that a triple layer is heavier. She's gonna be here in an hour to pick it up. I hope she still likes the cake!

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Hmcs Brown's Retirement From Naval Service

Two 12x18's - side by side, french vanilla cake, buttercream dream -filled and frosted. The anchor is fondant, painted with old gold and nusilver luster dust. This was my first big sheet cake and my first time working with luster dust. Thanks to: CC members for constant inspiration and instruction, and: www.allinonebakeshop.com (Austin, TX) for the super quick shipping on my luster dust. I will be doing business with them again. I need work with my handwriting but the cake was good!

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Volleyball League

These are the other two sheet cakes with 3D volleyball cake. Sheet cakes are 12X18 - one chocolate, one yellow. Buttercream frosting and design - with MMF volleyball accents in each corner. Enjoy!

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3D Volleyball Cake

This cake, and two others, were done for an end-of-year Volleyball league award ceremony.

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Smash Cake

My baby girl's first birthday smash cake. 6", chocolate cake with buttercream dream icing. She LOVED it!

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Elmo

This was my sweet little baby girl's first birthday cake, She LOVES Elmo and she was pretty excited when she saw this cake. Instead of doing stars I pulled the icing out so he was furry like Elmo really is. I thought he came out cute :-)

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Naruto

This is an 11x15 sheet cake for my neighbor's son. He wanted something Naruto - thank goodness for Google because I had no idea who or what Naruto was! This was a yellow cake, chocolate filling, with a buttercream transfer. He was very pleased!

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April's Birthday Cake

This is a 9", white cake, with buttercream icing and decorations. The birthday girl wanted pink and flowers. This was the 9th cake I did that week and I was exhausted. I thought it came out ok but....I think if I weren't so burned out it would have been fabulous. Thanks for looking :-)

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This Is The First Of The 3 Retirement Cakes

Here is the first of the retirement cakes. I did three cakes to celebrate his 30 years in the Navy and his future plans for life on his ranch. He was a radioman when he got in the Navy - which is now IT. 6" chocolate cake, strawberry filling, all buttercream.

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Top View...

top view of retirement cake...

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Retired Command Master Chief

Here is the cake that celebrates the end of his 30 year career. He is retiring as a Command Master Chief. His name wraps around the front with "Fair Winds and Following Seas" across the back. This is a 8", white cake, strawberry filled, with buttercream icing.

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Retirement

I did three cakes for this retirement party. He is going to spend his retirement on his ranch so this cake is for the future. The "G's" in the writing are made to look like his brand. This is a 10', yellow cake, custard filled. Buttercream icing and decorations.

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Close Up Of Coconut Cake

better view...

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Hibiscus Birthday Cakes

This was my first time working with royal icing. I made these Hibiscus flowers from knowledge I acquired here on CC - Thanks everybody! I LOVED the coconut cake!! SUPER CUTE!! The birthday girl was pleased and her mom was pretty happy too. Thanks for looking!

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Curious George Fbct

This is my first FBCT. What a crazy learning experience! This is a yellow cake with buttercream dream icing. This was also my first time trying the buttercream dream recipe that I got here in FABULOUS Cake Central -so thank you for that! It was definately yummy and I will be using it from now on. This cake was for my hubby's boss. His son turned 1 today :-)

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14Th Anniversary Cake

My husband's best friend asked me to make a cake for his wife to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary. Since we just came in from out of town, I had less than a day to put something together. This is a butter pecan cake with buttercream icing. I wasn't over the moon with this cake because I didn't have alot of time but they loved it and that's all that matters :-)

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Roses

This is a cake my neighbor asked me to do for her work. It's a two layer french vanilla with buttercream icing and roses. It's my first time trying a rope border. It came out pretty nice I think. I haven't done roses in a while so some were kinda sloppy but practice makes perfect they say. Thanks for looking! :-)

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A Gift...

This cake is for a potluck lunch at my hubby's work today. A very simple, white cake with lemon buttercream frosting-my first time making lemon and it tastes and smells incredible! Also the first time using my new 11X15 sheet pan :-) Thanks for taking the time to see my cake! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Holidays to everybody!

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