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This is a close-up of the bunny made to look like a Herend figurine. It's made from gum paste and hand-painted with lusted dust.
My first attempt at a "whimsical cake". The bunny on top is made out of gum paste and is my interpretation of a Herend figurine. The dolphins are an inside joke. This cake makes no sense. It's really not supposed to!
This cake was done for my daughter's 11th birthday "Karaoke Dance Party". The cake is "M&M Cake" with vanilla buttercream covered in fondant. The disco ball is made from rice krispy treats and then covered with fondant squares hand painted with silver luster dust. The "Singer" is made from Satin Ice Gum Paste. This is my first "human" figure done out of gumpaste. The records are fondant/gumpaste mix. Each record has a title of one of my 11 year old daughter's favorite songs.
Caked done for my eight year old daughter's soccer team party. They were UNDEFEATED this season! Bottom cake is yellow with chocolate buttercream. "Trophy" part is kahlua heath bar cake with chocolate buttercream. Decorations are MMF/gumpaste mix. Unfortunately, I got a late start on this cake and the stars did not have enough time to completely dry before I assembled the cake.
This is a bit of a take-off on all of the pumpkin cakes. I wanted to make the pumpkin look like those "plastic pumpkins" that little kids use for Trick or Treating. I filled the hollow center with candy and have some pouring over the top. The kitty is MMF/gumpaste mix.
Three 8' rounds stacked. Barrel is MMF/gumpaste mix. Apples are cupcakes covered in MMF. I wanted to try and make green apples, in retrospect I think I should have made them red. Oh, well. This cake is one of two that I made for the Halloween Carnival at my kids' school.
This is a close-up of the animals on my Animal Friends Baby Shower cake. Animals are MMF mixed with gum tex powder and painted in luster dust.
This cake was made for a 2nd grade teacher's "surprise" classroom baby shower. I was told I could do anything I wanted and that the expectant mom did not know if she was having a boy or a girl. So, this is what I came up with. The animals are made from MMF mixed with some gum tex powder. The animals and polka dots are painted with luster dust.
This cake was made for my friend's son's 5th birthday. The birthday boy specifically requested "a green monster with five horns, four eyes and two teeth, not sharp and not fangs...fangs tooooooooo SCARY!" This is what I eventually came up with after several "monstrous mishaps"!
This cake was made for the "Teachers Pre-view Party" opening our annual Scholastic Bookfair. The theme this year was "Bookfair Blizzard" hence the polar bears and penguins reading books. I was inspired by many of the winter themed cakes found on this site.
My daughter wanted a "pretty cake with PANDAS on it" for her 8th birthday... so this is what I came up with it. 8", 6" and 4" vanilla cake with strawberry filling covered in MMF. I had a little trouble with the bottom layer "buckling" and by the time of the party the cake was leaning a bit and looked more like a "whimsical cake" than a tiered one... but the kids loved it!
My daughter's class had a little baby shower for their second grade teacher. The cake is 8", 6" and 4" rounds of "Darn Good Chocolate" cake with chocolate buttercream and covered in MMF, This was the first time I 've made a fondant loop bow.
Here's a close-up view of one of the monkeys.
This cake is for my daughter's 10th birthday. She's having a pasta making party at a local cooking school and has an inexplicable obsession with monkeys. Cake is white chocolate raspberry, "serving plate" is RKT covered in MMF, "spaghetti" is buttercream, "sauce" is thinned out raspberry jam and the "meatballs" are Ferrero Rocher candies. The monkeys are made from fondant. This is my first time making fondant figures.
This cake was done for my 7 year old daughter's soccer team party. She wanted a cake that looked like her "Purple Panther" jersey. The cake is carved (my first!) from an 11x15 sheet, double layer vanilla caramel cake with caramel filling and covered in buttercream. I had a lot of trouble with getting the buttercream to hold the purple color. This is the first time I used the "new Crisco". I'm wondering if that was the problem.
These are a few of the "Mini Ghosts" I made from a min-bundt pan. I stuck a marshmallow in the top and covered with MMF and painted with pearl dust. These were made to be sold at a school Halloween Carnival.
This was made for my daughters' school Halloween Carnival. 10" 'Darn Good Chocolate Cake' covered with MMF. Ghosts are made from MMF & gumpaste, painted with pearl dust. Pumpkins are MMF. Vines and leaves are buttercream.
This was done for my daugters' school Halloween Carnival. 8" double layer Vanilla Caramel cake with Chocolate Buttercream frosting and filling. Pumpkin and leaves are made from MMF and painted with gel color and pearl dust.
This cake was done for my daughter's soccer team, "The Purple Panthers". Panther is a Stand-up Bear pan, soccer ball is a 12" round. I drew the soccer pattern free-hand and filled in with a star tip.
This was done for my daughter's 7th Birthday last January. (Finally, figured out how to size pictures small enough to post!) Stand-up Bear covered in chocolate butter-cream on top of 10-inch round covered in fondant.
40th Birthday cake for my friend's husband. First cake I've done for something other than my kids' birthdays in a really looooong time! 12" and double layer 8" stacked, chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream, gumpast and fondant guitars, saxophones and letters. First time working with gumpaste.
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