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Thanks to joy5678 & aine2 for inspiration! Cake was wasc covered in buttercream with fondant accents.
This was what resulted after a toppled cake the morning it was due. I had such help from many on the forum that I got this done and it stayed in one piece!
Need help figuring out what I did wrong
For my son's 3rd bday party. Red Velvet cake with buttercream and Michele Foster's Fondant. My icing was too soft so it was really hard to keep the layers together. Plus, I had a really hard time with the fondant. (probably because it was 2am). The grey was from a previous project and I couldn't get smooth but had no time to make more so it looks really sloppy. Oh how I wish I had more time... I do like my little guy and hydrant/hose... :) Base was 14" round cake pan covered in fondant with cobblestone impression mat from Duff
Chocolate & Vanilla layers, colored buttercream icing. Was really difficult to get the brown color. Didn't use cocoa but it probably would have helped. Gumpaste extras
So much inspiration out there. Thanks to Planet cake and Pink Cake Box for their amazing cakes. Chocolate and regular WASC with buttercream and fondant with gumpaste characters. Sugar diamonds on royal icing border. (couple of shots are taken after the cake was cut since I didn't get the close up earlier.)
NFSC with royal icing. These were used for favors.
My parents were married in Sicily 45 years ago. I made a typical italian sponge cake (pan di spagna) and filled with italian pastry cream and iced with smbc. (Wish I had less bubbling in the icing...) It was very tasty! My mom loved the look too and understood how much time it took since she took the Wilton's cake decorating classes with me. It's always nice to feel appreciated! :D 8" bottom with 6" top
Anniversary cake for my BIL/SIL with new baby. Chocolate cake covered in ganache and fondant. All characters fondant/Tylose. Tough to keep ganache from spreading out at bottom. Lots of bubbles under fondant but had only a few minutes to finish. Good thing it was only for family!
Inside is chocolate, strawberry and white versions of WASC. Then buttercream to fill and cover, then MMF. Details in MMF and gumpaste. Inspiration by so many including aine2 for the sheep! 10" 3 layer on bottom, and 8" 3 layer on top.
Thanks to xpangxiong for the awesome inspiration. Actually, I tried to duplicate it with a little alteration to the characters on top. My accents are no where near the quality of the original but my sister-in-law loved it and that makes me so grateful that I had cakecentral for ideas. The baby blocks were made of cake and that made it difficult being they were only a couple inches square. I'm not happy with how sloppy they are. (10", 8", 6" cakes) Bottom tier was WASC and top tier was Amazing Chocolate WASC. Buttercream under MMF. Delicious!
Customer asked for a Butterfly Garden cake. She also showed me her daughter's dress and so I made the fairy for the top of the cake. Buttercream with fondant/gumpaste accents.
I uploaded shoes earlier, I finally got the shopping bag and shoe box to complete the job. All are made out of gumpaste.
Purse is a try at a Choo purse. White cake with buttercream and covered in fondant. Shoes and shopping bag are gumpaste.
A friend of mine asked if I wouldn't mind making a cake for her daughter's wedding. I like the design but it seems a bit sloppy to me. 8" white/10" chocolate. Buttercream icing and accents.
A client was unhappy with the sugar shoes she got from another designer in the area. I had never done them before but she was willing to let me redo them. Here's what I came up with! I would do some things differently if I ever do again, like make the insole thinner and cleaner, but I'm mostly happy with them. The shoes are less than 6" long. 50/50 gumpaste. The gems and buckle aren't edible.
My son's 2nd birthday cake. He doesn't have one particular favorite thing but he likes to call out 'car' and animals so I tried to incorporate both together. I think the duck is a little too large. Cow is inspired by aine2. I'm unhappy with the fence... I think it all kind of looks a little sloppy but it's only my 2nd of this type of cake. Buttercream with fondant covering and gumpaste animals, royal icing grass and road lines. Cars are plastic toy favors.
My son's second birthday (first with us though) so we did a personal cake for him. He's our little monkey! Buttercream with Gumpaste accents. Unfortunately, the monkey came out a little scary... not what I was really going for. :(
First time making people with fondant/gumpaste. Cakes are covered in SMBC and then fondant. Everything else is gumpaste/fondant. I wanted to add a border at the bottom but time ran out. Thanks to aine2, maggie0192 and shill for inspiration!
MMF with Buttercream accent and fondant roses
I can't believe I did this! cool!
Not the first fondant cake I made, but the first one that actually looks decent due to a fondant class!
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