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9" square, 8" round, 5" square - top and bottom are french vanilla; middle is chocolate, all with cookies and cream filling.
The shower theme was "He's as cute as can "bee"!" The cake is WASC with vanilla buttercream, covered with fondant. Gumpaste flowers and bees.
Gumpaste bee made for a baby shower cake on request. She was looking for a "whimsical-looking bee".
This is a banana cake with mango curd filling, mango buttercream frosting and chocolate fondant. Flowers are a fondant/gumpaste mix. It looked not too bad before I wrote on it. (Note to self: do not drink 3 cups of coffee and then write on cakes! LOL!)
This is similar to a cake in the 2008 Wilton Yearbook. Bottom layer is "Butterfly Cake" (recipe here) and the top layer is Lemon. All covered and filled with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing and then covered with fondant. Eggs are fondant with candy sprinkles. Base is fondant with sugar sparkles (unfortunately still a bit wet when I took the picture).
This cake was made for my daughter's conference at university. The name of the conference was Repetition & Return. This cake was made to resemble their logo which depicts the Myth of Sisyphus (he was destined to roll a rock uphill and watch it roll back and repeat the process throughout Eternity. This is a 12, 10, 8 and sports ball pan, carved. WASC on the bottom two layers, chocolate on top. (Special thanks to Doug who was very helpful with design ideas - I decided to go with rounds in the end to match their logo.)
Chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream, MMF covering and fondant decorations.
This is my final cake from the Wilton Fondant & Gumpaste class. I love working with fondant - so much fun!
I made this for my daughter-in-law's birthday - she's a big Leafs fan and had requested this months ago. The bottom is a 10" square Butter Cake with Chocolate Kahlua Filling and buttercream icing. The 'leaf' was butter cake as well, carved from an 8" round and iced with buttercream. The letters are fondant/gumpaste cutouts.
Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese Icing.
French Vanilla with chocolate filling. All buttercream icing with cake sparkles on the snow.
I made this for my husband's birthday This is the first (and last) time I will use the fondant/gumpaste letter mould. I didn't like the look at all. The bottom layer of this cake is chocolate kahlua with a similar filling. The top is vanilla (for the kids). I had never worked with fondant before. Lots of fun. I also hadn't used this icing recipe before either and found that it crusted really fast, hence the Viva method didn't work all that well by time I started to do it. Lots of firsts - learned a lot!
This is the cake I made in the Wilton Level Two final class. I wasn't fond of making all the little RI flowers for the past few weeks, but it pays off when you can decorate a cake so quickly.
I used the 12", 9" and 6" petal pans (never again). I did one layer of each, (torted) in the WASC. The bottom layer had raspberry butter cream filling, the middle had Grand Marnier buttercream and the top, Kahlua. The buttercream icing didn't crust up very well, so it's not exactly the result I was hoping for. I also used a pearl lustre dust on the roses and on the apple blossoms along the bottom. Roses are BC, apple blossoms and drop flowers are RI. I sure hope they like it.
This was for Wilton Course 1, Cake 2. We were supposed to pipe clowns, but I find clowns kind of freaky, so I piped pumpkins, as it was close to Halloween. Much work needed on the piping!
This was for our granddaughter's 1st birthday. The balloons are made from the Sports Ball pan.
Yet another rainbow cake courtesy of Wilton Level One. The buttercream needed more work, but I ran out of time. The flecks obviously mean my colour is too gummy or something - time to replace it. I am learning a lot though.
Second attempt at cake decorating, again for my grandson's first birthday, using the grass tip for the 'fur'.
This was my first attempt at cake decorating - my grandson's first birthday.
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