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Wine Picnic Basket
3, 10" round layers of Chocolate cake with cookies & cream filling, carved down to a basket shape. Buttercream basketweave, gumpaste wine bottle, flowers, and napkin, with cakes scraps under it. I made a gumpaste handle for the basket, but the cake wasn't stable enough and the handle never made it on the basket. For the bottle, I used ideas from here on CC- greased a wine bottle, formed the gumpaste around it, let it dry for 24 hours, then took it off thebottle to let the inside dry.
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Housewarming
Five layers of 9x13 cake with one styrofoam dummy at the bottom. The front piece with the arches is also styrofoam. The roof is Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant spanish tile. It's all fondant, except for the balcony railing and flower boxes which are chocolate- I wanted something to look edible. :-) The was for a housewarming- I call it my "Salvadore Dali" version of their house, since the fondant did not cooperate and parts were buckling and sagging.
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Gardenias And Circles
Top tier was 3, 9"x2" rounds. Base tier was 4, 14"x2" rounds, torted into 8 layers, with a cake board in the middle and dowels supporting it all. Buttercream with fondant accents and gumpaste gardenias (thanks to ShirleyW for her help). BC cracked all the way around the middle board, drooped, and accents fell off in the car- had to re-ice and decorate at the reception. So, it's not perfect, but I'm proud I was able to pull it together despite the problems!
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First Wedding Cake
THANKS to all at CC who helped and inspired me to do this for my sister!! 16, 12, 8 and 5" cakes. Bottom tier was white with strawberry cream filling, others were chocolate with whipped ganache filling. Buttercream frosting smoothed with Melvira method, fondant details and pearls with pearl dust, gumpaste roses and forget-me-nots. Fashioned after our dresses. Not as perfect as I'd like, but I was Matron of Honor with many other tasks- and my sister loved it. Yay!
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Bon Voyage 40Th Birthday
Inspired by many cakes here on CC, but the purse & shoe are a copy of Ksue's. Suitcase & purse are lemon raspberry cake. Shoe is gumpaste. Chocolate fondant on the suitcase sagged a bit, but the regular fondant on the purse came out nicely. Used edible markers on the tags, and old gold luster dust on the accents. My hubby did the eagle on the passport. :-)
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Chocolate Tiki-Turvy
For a friend who loved my other tiki cake, but wanted LOTS of chocolate and topsy-turvy. I fell in love with modeling chocolate! Used it for the tiki gods. Then used candy melts to pipe the face details. Pirouette cookies around the base, lots of chocolate buttercream and whipped ganache. Gumpaste hibiscus on top. A little gold luster dust on the tikis & plaque.
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Memorial Day Doll Cake
This was supposed to be a pink princess, but the birthday girl won't make it to today's picnic, so it turned into "Liberty Girl" overnight! All fondant & buttercream. The dress is chocolate cake and the base is butter cake, both with raspberry cream filling. Thanks to gladds for her help!