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Dairy-free owl cake for a 1 year old boy.
Ballerina cake for my grandmother's 80th birthday. She used to own a studio and danced and taught ballet for years. The ballerina herself is piping gel.
Batman cake for a little boy's birthday.
Detroit Red Wings jersey cake for my husband's 35th birthday. Carrot cake and cream cheese buttercream, covered in fondant. Logo is hand painted.
Cream cheese-caramel buttercream on top and in between layers of chocolate cake, outside frosted with chocolate buttercream. Fondant leaves, pumpkins, and acorns. My first cake with modeled accents. Done for fun.
Hand-painted Thomas image for my cousin's little boy's 3rd birthday party.
The mom of a 5 year old girl asked me to make a tree stump cake with butterflies and flowers, for her daughter's party theme of a fairy tea party. This is a scratch strawberry cake with cream cheese buttercream, covered in fondant. Flowers, mushrooms, and butterflies are all gumpaste. I'm pretty happy with it, and so were the celebrants.
For my husband's birthday. Carrot cake with cream cheese BC. Vintage Detroit logo, stripe, and octopus all MMF. Red stripe was tinted but also painted with gel paste and vodka for intense color.
Two 9 x 13 chocolate stout cakes, plus the sleeves. Iced and decorated in BC. I had a nice FBCT originally. I didn't freeze it long enough and the waxed paper would not release, so I had to scrap it and decorate by hand, which I'm not happy about. For my cousin's wedding. To add insult to injury, my uncle handed me $40 to pay for this, since we had not talked about money at all and apparently he has no clue what a cake is worth.
Oklahoma State University's Pistol Pete mascot in FBCT for my sister's and her friend's birthdays.
SpongeBob and Patrick cake for fun. FBCT.
My first time doing roses. All BC.
Vintage Oklahoma State logo for my brother's groom's cake- two 9 x 13 sheets together, all BC. Logo done in FBCT.
I made MMF for the first time, and covered a cake with it for the first time. I'm incredibly happy with how it came out.
Polka dot cake for a family birthday celebration. Italian cream cake, pineapple filling, cream cheese icing, RBC dots and balls. First time using RBC, which came out shinier/greasier than I would have liked, but whatever. I'd never had Italian cream with pineapple filling before, but I thought it sounded good and it was DELICIOUS! :)
A last minute cake for our 6th wedding anniversary. The pattern is based on the "Small Dot" design by Charles and Ray Eames, mid century modern designers that my husband loves. BC over white cake.
Strawberry scratch cake, strawberry BC filling, vanilla BC outside.
Strawberry cake with strawberry BC filling, vanilla BC on outside, painted fondant decorations. My first two-tier cake, and my first time using fondant for anything. I'm SO HAPPY with this cake. It's for my uncle's 50th birthday - he works at a casino.
My late stepmother's 1992 Wilton pan, yellow cake, BC. My first time decorating a shaped-pan cake. Not 100% how I imagined it, but OK. Learned some lessons the hard way with this one- Baker's Joy spray SUCKS, and don't overfill. There was a ton of cake on the bottom of my oven, and the bunny's whole face stuck to the pan. Que será, será.
For my soon-to-be SIL's shower. All scratch. Yellow cake with vanilla pastry cream and fresh strawberries between layers. Vanilla BC. Thanks to serious_cakes for her YouTube videos demonstrating this Gerbera daisy-like technique!
Last minute chocolate cake for our niece and nephew's birthdays.
Bear cut freehand out of chocolate cake, decorations freehanded also. I like how this came out. My husband says it looks like a South Park character. LOL
BC over yellow cake. Drop flowers for the first time. The person who requested this cake (my BIL) STOOD THERE WATCHING ME write "Happy Birthday" and told me *after* I was done that "Brenda" was supposed to be "Brynda," so the Y looks wonky. *sigh*
My brothers have a clothing company, GreenHouse Clothing. They had a party on St. Pat's Day to celebrate the launching of their website. This is the cake I made for them. Yellow cake with FBCT, my first time doing bag striping. I used the rolled Saran Wrap technique and it took a little practice, but I'm pleased with how well it came out.
My first successful attempt at making daisy-like flowers (the girl specifically asked for a design similar to this- not realistic). PSBC over yellow cake. Thanks to serious_cakes for her YouTube video on Gerbera daisies, which showed me the technique I used here. I will practice for a more Gerbera-like design later on, but this first attempt makes me happy.
A German chocolate cake for my dad's birthday. I'm still working on borders and smoothing sides, so I was pretty pleased with how this came out. TFL!
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