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September wedding. Three different flavors. Gumpaste lilies, hand painted. Fondant quilted pattern.
This is a Susan Carberry design I made for my daughter-in-law last year. It was really fun to make and everyone loved it.
Dummy cake I made during a class taught by Nicolas Lodge
Made this for a baby shower. Used the invite for inspiration. I have also posted a picture of the invite I used. Top tier is 6" lemon with vanilla bc. Bottom tier is 9" WASC with almond bc. Chocolate fondant stripes on cake and bag handle. Gum paste tags and handle. Fondant "tissue". Everything else buttercream. TFL.
Made this for a 6 year old's party. Dad wanted a guitar cake with a Hannah Montana feel. This is what I came up with. Thanks to all the great cakes here at CC that gave me inspiration! Yellow cake with vanilla buttercream. Some fondant accents, mostly buttercream decorations. TFL.
Made this for an 80 year old's surprise birthday. All buttercream except for the two "pages" and the pencil, and they are fondant with handwritten puzzle and clues. Used edible markers. Lemon cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream. TFL.
Made this for a 5 year old's "Cars" party. Mom wanted a race track to put two matchbox cars on. Marble cake with vanilla buttercream. All buttercream except for flags and writing in center of track. Two horseshoe pans trimmed to make oval. TFL.
Made this to take to the lake this weekend. My in-laws just bought a place on Lake Gaston, complete with a trailer. This is two 1/2 sheet cakes, stacked and carved. Fondant covered with fondant decorations. The furniture is wood and from a kit I bought at a dollar store a while ago. Knew it would come in handy for something someday. :) TFL!
Made this for my son's birthday party this weekend. He used to be quite a skateboarder when he was younger. Made this with help from a video by Susan Carberry. It's a WASC in a half sheet cake cut long ways, carved and stacked. Wheels are fondant covered chocolate.Everything else is fondant accents. I think it turned out really well and can't wait to take it to the party and surprise him. TFL!
This was ordered by a man who wanted a Starbucks cake similar to the other one in my gallery, but said his wife's favorite drink was a "no whip, java chip frappachino with chocolate drizzle. This is a chocolate-chocolate chip cake with chocolate-vanilla bc with semi-sweet chocolate shavings mixed in. It's 3", 4" and 6" layers carved. Edible images for the logo. Fondant "napkin" and "straw wrapper". The straw is real. TFL!
Customer wanted a cake like the Spa cake on my website. Made a few small changes..."spilled nail polish", and "glass" in the compact. The "glass" is made from sugar and corn syrup. All the other pieces of "make-up" are fondant. 8" WASC cake with almond bc. The black "bag" is a 6" cake, cut in half and covered in fondant. The bottom cake is bc with fondant accents. All writing is hand painted. TFL!
Made this for a lady who wanted a Dora cake. She asked for the one "with the pan", so this is what I did. It's a chocolate fudge cake with vanilla buttercream. Took longer to outline everything than it did to pipe in all the colors. :) TFL.
Made this for my favorite teller at my bank. She asked me to do a small 6" round cake, but I decided to make it a little bigger. It's a Yellow Sour Cream cake with vanilla buttercream. 4" top and 6" bottom. Bow, plaque (message hand painted) and tiny hearts on cake are fondant. All painted with silver luster dust/vodka mix. Her anniversary is tomorrow. TFL.
Before this order, I didn't even know what Ben 10 was! :) Vanilla sour cream cake with vanilla bc. Dad wanted logo, rocks and slime, along with a picture of the characters. The logo and watch (or whatever it is) is fondant. The picture is an edible image. Slime is buttercream with lots of piping gel. Oh, rocks are fondant too. TFL!
I was given a picture of a cake that looked just like this one and told by the bride's bf that this was what she wanted. Thanks to whoever did the cake first! :) 6" chocolate fudge with raspberry filling and vanilla bc. 10" white vanilla with raspberry filling and vanilla bc. Roses are RI. TFL.
A good friend of mine asked me to make a tree trunk cake for her granddaughter's first birthday. She gave me the Pooh items for the cake. She also did the butterflies. 9" round and 2 8" rounds. Lemon cake with lemon pudding filling. Buttercream bark and grass. Daisies are fondant. Sign is fondant, hand painted. This was fun and I love how it turned out! TFL!
Customer ordered two graduation cakes. One I posted earlier, a simple round layer cake and, this one. The daughter saw this design in my wedding cake gallery on my web site and had to have it. Mom wanted a graduation cake, so we added the cap and scroll on top. Hand painted plaque. Fondant cap and scroll. 4" top is white w/cherry filling, 6" middle is chocolate w/ raspberry filling, 8" bottom is yellow w/ strawberry filling. TFL.
The bride and groom showed me a picture of a star cake that was blue with round layers and said they wanted the same cake only purple with square layers. 6", 8", 10". WASC with almond bc. Stars are gumpaste. TFL.
Customer asked for a round layer cake with a simple design for a small graduation party. Cake is WASC with almond bc. Scroll is gum paste hand painted with Aztec gold luster dust mixed with vodka. Roses are RI. Everything else is BC. TFL,
This is the cake I made for my son's wedding, which was yesterday. 5 tiers, 6", 8", 10", 12" and 14". In same order, Styrofoam, chocolate fudge w/ peanut butter filling, WASC w/ almond bc, carrot w/ orange bc and espresso w/ caramel filling. Cherry blossoms made from gum paste, each on it's own wire, then taped together to form branches. (After dusting each with pink and green petal dust). Cake was fondant covered and airbrushed pink. TFL.
Made this for my son to have tonight at the rehearsal dinner. His wife to be said a peanut butter cup cake would be perfect, so that's what I made. Chocolate fudge cake with peanut butter filling. Covered with chocolate fondant. TFL.
Made this for a client that wanted a simple sheet cake with a graduation cap and a stethoscope for someone graduating from nursing school. The cap, plaque and stethoscope are fondant. Everything else is almond bc. WASC full sheet cake. TFL.
This is for a baby shower, nursery is going to be nautical themed. 4" lemon cake with strawberry filling, 6" chocolate fudge with vanilla bc, 8" WASC with vanilla bc. Fondant covered, fondant boats and anchors. Shells are candy melts. TFL.
Made this for an 11 year old's birthday. Dad ordered a "Twilight" cake and this is what I came up with. It's a Red Velvet cake w/ Chocolate bc. Covered in fondant. Hand painted title and name of author. Hands are fondant dusted with black for shadows. Apple is RKT covered in fondant and then airbrushed. Ribbon made from fondant and hand painted with greeting. TFL.
Made this for my future daughter-in-law's bridal shower. It's a WASC cake with almond bc. The hearts are piped from RI. The dress is fondant. It was a 6" square and a 9" square. TFL.
Cake for a 9 year old boy's birthday. It's a Yellow vanilla SC cake with vanilla bc. Made the "toppings" out of candy melts (thought the kids would like that better than fondant), the "cheese" out of shredded white chocolate. I used my airbrush on the crust to give it some depth. It's buttercream, as is the "sauce". TFL!
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