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Dora Cupcake Stand
Happy 2nd Birthday Ellie! 6" - 3 layer Red Velvet Dora the Explorer cake tops this cupcake stand with matching vanilla cupcakes. Purchased the candied Dora heads for the cupcakes, cupcakes topped with buttercream, everything else is SI fondant. Cupcake stand is Wilton's Sweet Server - styro foam and not very sturdy. Supposed to be able to reuse but we will see if it holds up. It was wiggling under the weight of the topper cake.
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A friends 2 year old's birthday. My first time carving the cake since last time I used rice crispies to make Elmo. Not as difficult as I feared. I scraped the lid this time cause It was not working and it was styrofoam, so not even edible. I think it's cute without it anyway. SI fondant, and piped elmo's "fur" with buttercream using star tip.
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Camrin Cake
This was a last minute request for a friend for a combined birthday party for her two kids, boy & girl. She wanted a Topsy Turvy whimsical cake 1/2 boyish & 1/2 girly. I decided just to have fun with it and wanted to do these funky "Sex in the City" flowers so I just went for it and made it up as I went and it's really different but I love it. I'm sure it if I had more time to plan ahead and order supplies it would have been much better, but it was good practice since I've only used gumpaste once before
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Green Tulip
Made this for my Mother in Law, her company is called 'Green Tulip'. 6" & 8" Chocolate cake covered in SI Dark Chocolate Fondant. Gumpaste Tulips (my first gumpaste anything!!!) RI piping. My 2 year old son thought he was helping me and poked a few holes in this cake unfortunately. But it still tasted great!
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Jessica
6", 8", 12" offset square tiers of red Velvet cake covered in SI fondant. My first loopy bow-fondant. Bride wanted loopy bow with only one trailing down ribbon - I thought it would dumb but I like how it turned out. Black fondant ribbon around bottom tier topped with fondant pearls. Fondant pearls trim top two tiers as well. Thanks for looking!
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Couture Disaster
The Couture Disaster! I was so excited and almost everything went wrong. the cake slumped all to the back. the bow was a nightmare I redid 3 times. the fondant cracked and wrinkled. SInce the cake slid to the back the dowel was sticking out the top. But you know what... live and learn. This was my first purse cake so it can only get better from here ( I hope!). Logo made with a homemade stencil, & royal icing. Cake covered with SI fondant. Bow was part fondant and part gumpaste w/Super Pearl Pearl Dust
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Pink & Brown Wedding Cake
Inspired by franjmc's beautiful cake. Was so excited when the bride said her colors were pink & brown! 10", 8", 6" rounds covered in all Satin Ice fondant. 8" is in dark chocolate Satin Ice. Pink is Wilton Pink. Bow is fondant with Tylose mixed in with Super Pearl - Pearl dust. Pearls are fondant covered in Super Pearl - Pearl Dust. Cake board covered in pink fondant and trimmed with ribbon. Was a fun cake to make! Got a little rained on while unloading from my car, but overall turned out well!