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This is a half-funfetti, half-chocolate book cake with vanilla buttercream icing and filling. All fondant accessories. The shadows and light of the photo make it hard to see, but the white fondant has lines carved in it to look like pages. I made the cake much thicker than the actual book since a 1/2" cake wouldn't really feed very many people!
For my young niece's birthday - a budding baker - all cakes are iced in buttercream. All fondant accessories. The bottom cake is a strawberry/red velvet checkerboard cake. The "slice" cake is one layer butter cake/one layer fudge marble. The "bowl" is banana cake.
For my daughter's 8th birthday, which was a sock hop, soda shop, root beer float kind of party. The cake is a half confetti/half strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream icing under pink bubblegum-flavoured fondant. All fondant accessories.
A 9th birthday cake for my niece. It's one layer strawberry cake and one layer red velvet. Vanilla buttercream filling. Pink bubblegum-flavoured fondant. She's a "girly girl" and totally into all things shiny and flashy. Thus, the jewelry box cake. The cake board is covered in purple fondant although I think it looks blue here - ?
For my daughter's 7th birthday - bottom cake is chocolate fudge and top one is vanilla/confetti cake. All fondant accessories. TFL
A make-up bag cake for my niece. My request was "something girly" and my niece likes make up and such. The cake is a strawberry-orange-strawberry layering of cakes with buttercream icing and filling covered in fondant. All fondant accessories.
An slpine ski race cake for my nephew who is a ski racer. This is two 3" cakes - one chocolate, one vanilla - stacked, torted, and carved down into a slope. All accessories are fondant except the chairlift posts, which are wooden dowels, and the chairs on the lift, which are floral wire since they did not touch the cake. I had made ski race wickets with actual banners on them, but I made them well in advance of the cake in order for them to harden and didn't have the correct cake scale at that time. Turns out that the wickets I made were too big, so I had to go with coloured toothpicks instead - not my preference, but oh well. Of course, the joke is with the skier balled up in snow at the bottom of the race course.
My daughter wanted an Ariel doll cake, and I didn't want to do another "doll in dress" cake, so this is what I came up with. It's a half-choc/half-vanilla cake with raspberry-buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream under fondant. All fondant accessories except for a de-legged Ariel doll. I made some chocolate accessories too, but they just didn't look right on the cake, so they didn't make the final cut (they went into loot bags instead!) ... TFL
Peas are chocolate cake with raspberry filling. All accessories are fondant. the cupcakes in the final add-on picture were take home gifts for the guests.
The bottom book is Swiss chocolate, the middle book is red velvet, and the top book is vanilla cake. All fondant accessories. Barb is retiring after almost 33 years of teaching. The initials carved into the board are hers (maiden name) and her husband's. She is a math teacher - and this is the limit of my math skills!
For my neice - she is into Monster High stuff, and the skull is the logo. It's a vanilla confetti cake under fondant. I decided on a heavy chain for the purse because all the pink and purple made it look very "girly," and Monster High is fairly "goth" in its look. This took WAY longer than I expected, so I didn't get to finish the argyle - I wanted to do a fine white cross hatch effect on it, but we were late for the party - ran out of time. Sorry for the dark pic, but I had to finish assembling at the party and had to hide the cake from the bday girl in a darker back bedroom. It was the only place I could get a finished pic. The next 2 pics show the cake in my brighter kitchen but it's not assembled all the way.
For my FIL. A raisin spice cake, vanilla BC, all fondant covering/accessories. We gave him an e-reader for his bday, and he is currently reading this book series, thus the book theme. My first wood grain board. I knew I couldn't replicate the thin/fine lettering on the actual book, so I tried to address the large/small letter contrast as best I could with what I had. TFL
A birthday cake for my MIL who loves Julio, Cliff Richard, and Michael Buble. It's a strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream under fondant. All fondant accessories. She celebrates at the same time as two of my nephews, thus Gran and the Boys, and she was born in 1945 with my youngest nephew borm in 2008. Didn't get a good pic of the woodgrain on the record player though :(
Made for my DD's SK class. After seeing so many penguin/igloo cakes on here, I had to try one. The bottom cake is a red velvet with raspberry filling, iced in vanilla buttercream, covered in fondant. The igloo is a French vanilla cake (dyed green) covered in fondant. All accessories are fondant.
Made for my DD's daycare. These are French vanilla cupcakes (with the batter coloured festive green), filled with strawberry puree, and iced in pale blue vanilla buttercream. The snowflakes are fondant. They have a light dusting of edible glitter to give a "frosty" look. Hope the kids like them!
Made this for my daughter's 5th birthday. Cake is half butter cake/half butter pecan cake with chocolate buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream under purple fondant. All accessories are fondant. The tiara is silver painted gumpaste.
Made for my DD's 5th birthday. A strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream under fondant. All fondant accessories and fondant cake board. TFL
Made this for my daughter's JK graduation. It's a confetti cake covered in fondant and all fondant decorations. The school colours are yellow and blue, and the school mascot is the lion's head. The bookmark has the school initials on it. I am not a great photographer, and a dark kitchen, late at night, with me in the way of the light made this pic turn out not like I'd hoped, but I think the idea is there. TFL
My neice wanted a Littlest Pet Shop cake, so I decided on something simple. Borrowed the snail idea, and added the gerbera daisy, etc. This is a strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream filling and icing under fondant. All fondant accessories.
Thanks to Cake Journal for the wonderful idea! I am making a cake for my niece coming up, and she loves Littlest Pet Shop. I made this snail out of fondant/gumpaste to accessorize the cake although I haven't yet decided how to decorate the rest of the cake! I have to add some eyelashes and maybe a couple more tweaks here and there before I put it on the cake, but the hardest part is done!
This was a simple cake, designed by my 4 year old daughter, for her daycare. Because it's for small children, simple is best - allergies, etc. The cake is half plain vanilla/half vanilla sprinkles with chocolate buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream under fondant. All accents are fondant.
Made this for my DD's junior kindergarten class - so it had to be simple (allergies and such). My daughter did all of the decorating - I put it on, but she decided what to put on it, in what colours, and where it all went. Half of this cake is plain vanilla and half is vanilla sprinkles. Chocolate buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream icing under fondant. All accessories are fondant.
This was for my FIL - who is Scottish and a big Glasgow Rangers fan, thus the Rangers tartan on the bag. It is a raisin-spice cake with vanilla buttercream icing for filling and under fondant - all fondant accessories.
For my nephew's 3rd b-day, but we have three family birthdays close together - thus the three names on the cake. The top cake is white with buttercream filling. The bottom cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling. All accessories are fondant. I was inspired by many similar cakes here on CC - so thank you to all of you! My nephew loved it!
This is for my daughter's JK class at school. It's a confetti cake with buttercream filling (pink!) and buttercream icing. Oreo cookie straws and Smarties to decorate. Have to keep it simple for the kids because of allergies and such.
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