dandrus3's Cake Central Gallery

dandrus3's Cake Central Gallery

Holiday Cupcakes 2011

Holiday Cupcakes 2011

Holiday cupcakes with holly, snowflake, and candy cane decorations...the cake was coconut cream fudge w/ coconut creme icing!

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Dessert Auction 2010

Dessert Auction 2010

Chocolate Ganache with Chocolate-Raspberry filling

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Class Of 2011 Red/black Cake

Class Of 2011 Red/black Cake

Red fondant with white royal accents; silver pearls. This was a great cake for a graduating male!

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Foreign Fantasies

Foreign Fantasies

This cake was made for a client who loves foreign countries. Top tier is Egyptian and has rice paper heiroglyphs. The bottom tier is Indian with royal icing piping. Top tier = vanilla bean with orange buttercream; bottom tier = chocolate with choc ganache.

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Braves / Ole Miss Cake

Braves / Ole Miss Cake

This cake was commissioned for a friend's father. It's white cake with strawberry filling. All buttercream. The logos are color flow. I was completely tickled with how well the logos came out, especially the Braves!! Lots of detail work on that one!

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Black "forest" Cake

Black "forest" Cake

I made this cake for my funny, yet quite sarcastic, brother-in-law. He asked for a black forest cake. Had I just presented him with a chocolate cake with cherries on top, I'd have gotten a "nice cake" comment. This one should yield a smile, followed by a deep giggle, meaning he understands the trees! Sugar cone buttercream-piped trees, chocolate cake, cherry filling.

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Twins 2Nd Bday Cakes

Twins 2Nd Bday Cakes

My best friend has fraternal twins and wanted separate cakes for them. Fondant with gumpaste crowns. The blue one is lemon cake with lemon filling; the pink one is white cake with raspberry filling. I painted the crowns with gold luster dust and used silver luster dust for the front bow decorations and the "crown jewels."

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Brushed With Love

Brushed With Love

This is for my niece's 7th birthday. Fondant and royal icing, of course. This is my first time with extension work to prepare for a sugar art show I'm competing in this year. I was thrilled that it came out so well, being my first time and all. Cake is strawberry with straw-creme buttercream filling. *I'll be putting a pink bow around the cake base before presentation. ;)

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Sponge Bob Birthday

Sponge Bob Birthday

All decorations but starfish are buttercream. The starfish are fondant. Chocolate with raspberry filling.

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Skyline High Dessert Auction

Skyline High Dessert Auction

I made this cake as a donation to a dessert auction for a local high school. I'm still so infuriated over the bulges. I can't figure out how to lose them. I've dammed, smushed lightly, set for 1/2 hour....what else is there?? The daisies are lemon candies.

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Twins' 1St Cake

Twins' 1St Cake

I got this design from a fellow Cake Central member; please forgive my forgetting the name. However, as in usual fashion, I did do a couple of things differently to make it my own. I also want to dedicate this cake - it's the first one I've made since my husband died Feb. 14. He was my cake partner, and I missed his critiques immensely. "To you, Danny."

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Mother Nature

Mother Nature

This is a cake for my daughter's birthday. Mother Nature is guarding her "pets," ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, and bumblebees. All bugs are royal icing; M Nature is fondant/gumpaste

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49Er's Helmet

49Er's Helmet

This was a migraine!! My original facemask broke when trying to apply it to the cake, so I had to make an emergency mask...thank heavens for place kickers! Lightly dusted with gold; the logo is wafer paper; all else fondant. This cake takes A LOT of planning and practice, FYI.

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Ribbons Of Glory

Ribbons Of Glory

This is from my cake class. Fondant and royal icing. I learned ribbon insertion during this class and I have fallen in love with the technique!

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Steelers Rule

Steelers Rule

OK let me explain why there's all Steelers, but one Packer. This is my mom-in-law's birthday cake, but we're having her party on Super Bowl Sunday. My hubby and I are huge Steelers fans, so we HAD to do something on the cake that represented our team. Mom-in-law, though, is a Packers fan, so I surrounded their quarterback with some of the Steelers' finest! The steam is royal icing; all other decorations are fondant. Buttercream bead borders. Chocolate cake with Baily's Choc. Mint buttercream.

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Hearts And Roses

Hearts And Roses

This is from my advanced cake class that I'm taking from a local artist. Forgive the breaks in the buttercream....the cake went to cake class, back home, then to my work the next day. And we had 7" of snow to drive on! Aside from that, decorations are royal icing, and we're learning lattice and extension work. The cake is chocolate with chai buttercream...yummilicious!!

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Meringue Roses

Meringue Roses

This was my first time with Italian buttercream. While I enjoy how light the decorations are, it was a very moody medium to work with. I wouldn't want to use this too often. The roses are the only meringue items. Everything else is buttercream. This is my famous white cake with HBR filling (huckleberry-blackberry-raspberry). I just couldn't get a wonderful picture, so unfortunately you'll miss all the detail work on the sides. I angled the rose spray to go down the cake.

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U Of I Vandals Grad Cake

U Of I Vandals Grad Cake

Many thanks to dreamer61352 for giving me inspiration on this cake. My cake is devil's food torte with cream cheese frosting. All Satin Ice fondant decorations. Silver paint. It was quite a fun cake to make, especially the fondant roses.

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Baby Layette

Baby Layette

This is just a little something we made in my local Intermediate cake class. I wish my camera would behave so it could be more clear, but you get the point. Piping was royal icing; bed made of sugar mold.

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Go Diego Go

Go Diego Go

This cake seemed like it would be easy. But there is ALOT going on!! The plaque is chocolate...it's a new medium, so the colors were light. Everything else is fondant. Only the candle and palm trees aren't edible. It's a 2-layer white with strawberry filling. All Satin Ice.

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Royal Bouquet

Royal Bouquet

This would be a great Mother's Day cake, and it comes from the classes I'm taking locally. All buttercream, except the flowers are royal icing. It's been raining for a week, so the RI was impossible.

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Haunted House

Haunted House

This cake was inspired by all the great cake makers of this website. I looked at a whole lot of cakes (no pun intended), and this was the design I came up with. I didn't have enough time to really go elaborate on the house. The house is fondant; pumpkins are orange-flavored fondant; bottom layer buttercream.

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Clayton Trucking Semi Cake

Clayton Trucking Semi Cake

This cake was made for my father-in-law's 60th birthday. He worked for Clayton Trucking, and he loved his truck there so much. We took millions of pictures. So, when this birthday rolled around (no pun intended), everyone wanted me to try to duplicate his truck. I did, to the best of my abilities. I didn't have enough time to make separate wheels. Other than that, I'm very pleased with its turnout. Fondant and buttercream. Devil's food with devil's food buttercream underneath.

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Butterfly Landing

Butterfly Landing

This is a graduation cake from a local cake class. I continue to be impressed with what I'm learning there. This is all buttercream, except for the flowers and butterflies. They're royal icing. Basketweave on the side, zig zag/shell border on the bottom, rope on the top. Devil's food cake.

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For Chloe

For Chloe

First, props to melakurtz for her amazing cake, called Layette Baby. I took her idea, but spun a little of my own. Her cake still reigns supreme! As you can see, the buttercream slid quite considerably. This was done before I found out about Crisco's 0 trans fat influence on buttercream's stability. I was crushed! My fondant work was great, as usual, but I wanted to die with the buttercream catastrophe!

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Sugar Elephant

Sugar Elephant

Ain't he cute?! I still have a lot of work to do, getting accustomed to this medium, but it was fun anyway.

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