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Puppy Birthday Cake

Puppy Birthday Cake

The base cake was a one layer 10 inch cake iced in buttercream and airbrushed witht the colors from the birthday plates and tablecloth. The puppy body is is carved from frozen cake on a small board. I iced with a crumb coat of buttercream, then covered with fondant and added "fur" marks with a clay tool. After placing supports in the bottom cake, I placed the dog body on the cake. I then skewered through the center of the dog, through the board to the bottom cake board to keep the dog from sliding. I smoothed the fondant where the skewer went through. I made the legs out of modeling chocolate covered with fondant and placed them on the dog, smoothing the fondant at the attachment point on the dog. I added the "fur" marks and the toe marks. The tail is fondant. I made the head separate on it's own board. I compressed the cake with my hands and got the general shape of the head and snout. I lightly iced with buttercream and placed in freezer for 20 minutes. I used modeling clay to add features to the face and skull of the dog. I then covered with fondant, pressing into the crevices made by the modeling clay. I also made deep sockets for the eyes. I made the eyeballs out of brown balls of fondant and placed them in the sockets. I then made small rounds of black fondant and centered them in the eyes. I made "eyelids" out of fondant; then added "fur" marks to all the added fondant pieces. I attached the head to the body using a little icing and skewered the head in place, again smoothing the fondant where the skewer went through. I then added the fondant ears, nose, and tongue. I added "light" marks to the eyes with white airbrush color on a small brush. I lightly airbrushed the dog with brown color for dimension and shadowing.

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Summertime Birthday

Summertime Birthday

Yellow cake baked in a 13" x 9" pan;I made a template for the flip flops by using a new, un-used pair of flip flops. I outlined the flip flops onto a cake cardboard and cut them out. With gumpaste, I cut and shaped the straps copying the real flip flop straps. I left them to dry on the real straps with a narow strip of amuminum wraped around them to hold them in place. I made these the night before so they would have plenty of time to dry. I made the gerbera daisies and the sunglasses also out of gumpaste the night before . I made the seashells out of a fondant/gumpaste mixture, then airbrushed them and handpainted some details with paste color mixed with lemon extract. Using the templates, I cut out the flip flop cakes; iced with buttercream crumbcoat, and chilled. I took the left-over cake pieces and mashed them onto foiled cake board and formed a slight up-hill shape, tapering down in the front. I iced this with a crumcoat and chilled. While the cakes were chilling, I ran vanilla wafers through the food processor until very fine, like sand. I iced all cakes with final buttercream; on the base cake I pressed a good layer of vanilla wafers until it looked like a sandy beach. On the flip flop cakes, I covered with marbeled , white chocolate fondant. I placed 2 plastic dowels into the base cake, then put the flip flops on it, side by side. I sharpened 2 wooden dowels and pounded them through all layers at the point where the toe straps enter the flip flops, I piped a thin zig-zag around the bottom of the flip flops; made slits in the fondant where the straps enter the flip flops; "glued" the daisies to the toe area of the flip flops with buttercream; Added the sunglasses and seashells and starfish.

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