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A duck cake for a rubber duckie-themed party. Used the 3D standup duck pan and a white chocolate melting wafer for the eye.
3-Tier chocolate cake with fudge frosting for my mom's birthday. (I only had a few hours and ran out of batter for the top layer, so half of it is styrofoam -- hence the taller top layer.) Flower topper was made by dipping a washed balloon in couverture. Butterflies were piped onto waxed paper in pieces and then assembled with more couverture. Flowers are just gumpaste from the Wilton cutter with edible pearl centers and brushed with food coloring. This was my first attempt at chocolate sculpture, and I had a lot of fun.
I made this hat for my son's 4th birthday at the fire station. The kids and the fire fighters loved it! It is two 8-inch chocolate layers and a 8-inch rounded layer baked in a mixing bowl with fudge filling and BC frosting. The brim is cardboard. The shield and yellow stripes on front are MMF, and I used edible markers to write the words. The "4" is a candle.
This is Wilton's design from their website. I made it for a friend's little boy who is turning one. It was a lot of fun to make, and I liked how easy it was. I didn't have the petal pan set, so I just carved a round cake, but it seemed to work ok. Thanks for looking!
This was just a fun dessert I threw together for Christmas dinner. Mini confetti cupcakes with buttercream frosting.
A Mickey Mouse cake for my son's third birthday (the family party). The bottom is an 8-inch chocolate cake with fudge filling and IMBC. The top is a half ball pan with chocolate fudge frosting and black sugar sprinkes. The ears are cardboard. The stars are MMF (the wired ones have lustre dust). I had fun with this one, although the IMBC was a bit soft when I was piping the border. Thanks for looking!
I made this for our second anniversary. We just had a quiet dinner at home, and my husband likes ice cream cakes. It's a chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream frosted in buttercream. I had never made one before, and I learned a couple things about ice cream cakes. Next time I would put the ice cream on top so any that melts would melt into the cake. Also, the expensive ice creams melt a lot faster than the cheap ones. :-)
These were fun cookies to do for a birthday party. I didn't like the only firetruck cookie cutter I could find, so I bought the semi truck and used pliers to reshape it into a fire truck. (Before and after are shown in the corner). The cookies were for the kids and the giant cookie was for the parents. This was my first attempt at a giant cookie cake, and thanks to the tips I received on CC, I found out they are really easy to do!
I made this for my son's first day of preschool. It was rushed, so it wasn't as good as I would have liked, but it was fun to experiment. White cake, but colored 4 different colors before baking, so it is very colorful inside. This was my first attempt at carving a cake and my first experience with IMBC. It went pretty well, although I picked too large of a tip for writing on the top. The crayons are MMF. Thanks for looking!
Bride and Groom cakes for SIL's bridal shower. I got the idea from the various bride and groom cakes here on CC. The bride cake is French Vanilla with strawberry filling and BC icing. (First attempt at cornelli lace, at 1:00 am no less.) :-) The groom cake is chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and fudge frosting. The pearls, bow, and tux collar are MMF. The roses are BC with bag striping. Thanks for looking! (Forgot to take my camera to the party, so all I have is the pic from the kitchen.)
I loved sally-diane's design, so I just wanted to try it. I was going to try a FBCT but then decided do the pinprick method instead. It was a lot of fun. The cake was half white and half chocolate (a first for me). I gave it to a friend for her son's first birthday.
I made this for a friend's little boy who was turning two. The dirt pile is a smash cupcake with crumbled chocolate graham crackers. The black stripes, road, cones, and sign are MMF. I was going to have a sand pit (crushed graham crackers ) with "rocks" (choc covered cookie bites), but then I found out the cookies were processed in a facility that does nuts, and the boy's family is allergic to peanuts. He really liked it anyway. (The stripes don't look even in this pic, but they really were -- honest!) :-)
This was my first wedding cake. French vanilla cake with strawberry filling. All BC except for fondant roses. (Similar to the taste test cake in my album.) I was glad to have practiced once because I learned that you have to make the dam icing REALLY stiff when using a filling. (It was squishing out a bit on my practice cake.) I'm glad I did because the cake table was in front of the window and the sun heated it for more than two hours before they cut the cake. Thankfully the icing didn't melt and slide off
I made this cake last minute for a friend. I used the Wilton book-shaped pans. It's french vanilla cake marbled with blue and iced in BC.The bookmark and rattle are MMF. The heart cakes are french vanilla cake marbled with pink and iced in BC.
This is the second time I've attempted rosebuds. The color striping was fun, but I still don't have the "rosebud touch." They look kinda like sweet peas, though. This was also my first attempt at combing the frosting. It took three tries. :-)
I used this cake to let a bride-to-be taste test. The top is French Vanilla cake filled with strawberry filling. It has buttercream icing and fondant roses. The bottom is the White Almond Sour Cream cake with MMF and fondant roses. (She preferred the french vanilla.) These are my first fondant roses. I didn't get them rolled quite thin enough, but she loved the cake, so I will have another chance to work on those roses. :-) The designs are adaptations from Wilton cakes.
Strawberry cake marbled with french vanilla. All BC frosting. My first attempt at embroidery on BC instead of fondant and my first Melvira method smoothed cake.
A 4-layer chocolate torte cake with fudge frosting and mint chocolate accents.
I made this in a pinch one day when I didn't have time to get very creative decorating a cake. I made a heart-shaped strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream frosting. I cut up some fresh strawberries and arranged them around the cake. The design might also work for Valentine's Day. I did, however, learn a little about strawberries and how they like to bleed. By the time we were ready for dessert, there were red streaks running down the side. I kept dabbing at it with my napkin throughout dinner.
I made this cake for a friend's daughter. (The waxed paper under the bow was just to protect the fabric bow from any staining before the party.) She wanted the cake to match her daughter's party dress, which was brown with pink and yellow polka dots. It was a white cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and fondant ribbon and polka dots.
I used the theme from my son's first birthday decorations to decorate this chocolate cake. I wrapped the cake board with the wrapping paper we used on his presents. I was still pretty new at decorating and wasn't sure how to get a while surface for the design, so I just smeared on some white buttercream on top of the chocolate. Thankfully it worked ok.
A 10-inch and 6-inch chocolate round cake with chocolate buttercream. This was my first attempt at using a ribbon. (I learned later that most ribbons aren't compatible with buttercream and soak up the grease, but at least it soaked in uniformly.) The roses are silk.
I trimmed down a 2-layer chocolate round cake and topped it with Crunch Bars melted together and frosted like a graduation hat. The stethoscope was just from a kid's doctor kit (which became a gag gift).
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