Gone Fishin
For an 85 yr. old man who just loves to go fishing. He loved his cake. 8" vanilla cake, buttercream with fondant decorations. SO, stupid me, when I was putting the cake in the car to deliver it, I banged the side of the cake with a car seat! Had to take it back in the house to repair and couldn't so I made a "waterfall"!! Worked I guess :) I colored piping gel blue and put it over blue fondant to look like water.
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My First Wedding Cake
I did this cake for my oldest Grandaughter who eloped! We had a small reception at my home for her. Bottom tier is a 12" white cake with buttercream filling, next is a 10" butter cake with raspberry filling and the final two tiers are yellow glutten free cakes for her. All accents are fondant. Gold glitter for the centers of the flowers and bow, and pearl dust on the stripes. This is also my first 4 tier cake!
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70Th Birthday Cake
My first attempt at a book cake - so I call it a pop up cake! There are so many of this couple's interests on the cake, so it means nothing to anyone except to this couple. They both turned 70 within two weeks of each other and asked me to do a cake for them. Dark chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream filling and buttercream iced. All fondant details. She is from Bemidji, MN, and they met as children there, so I started with Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, and he's from St. Louis, So I connected those two cities with the Mississippi River. Then my husband informs me the river isn't blue but brown - oh well :)
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Strawberry Shortcake
I did a version of several cakes I saw here on Cake Central.Thanks for the inspiration everyone. This is a strawberry cake on the bottom tier with buttercream filling, and lemon cake on top tier with raspberry buttercream filling. All decorations are fondant. The mailbox has two letters in it for the birthday girl. (my Grandaughter) :) She loved it and was so fun to do.
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Minnie Mouse And Golf Retirement Cake
Done for a lady retiring from our golf pro shop, and she always dressed up as Minnie Mouse for different occasions. So the party had a Minnie Mouse theme. Everyone loved it and was so much fun to do! This is a full sheet cake, buttercream frosting and all fondant decorations, except for the lollipop sticks on the golf cart. I put cats on the cake because she also rescues cats. Fantasy poppy flower. (I need to work on my handwriting :(
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Pink And White Baby Shower Cake
So fun! This cake was done for a couple who have had multiple miscarriages, and now they are having a baby! 8" and 6" cakes - lemon botton cake and yellow top cake, buttercream and fondant accents. Very detailed pieces, but what a joy to do for this couple. I took most of my pictures before I added the ribbon around the bottom, and put it on the correct cake stand. So I didn't get very many good ones of those, but I included one in the other pictures. :)
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Tool Cake
My husband is a builder and I wanted to do something with tools. I searched CC and found one by zeek71 and loved it, and used it for my inspiration. I hope you don't mind :) Loved the saw blade idea with "sawdust" made out of cookie crumbs. Hubbie always puts his initials on his tools, so I did that too. Grandkids were calling out nails, tools, etc. to eat!! It was fun. 10" butter cake, buttercream, and all fondant decorations with gumtex added.
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Valentine's Day Cake
I saved a picture of a cake that had a bow similar to this, but have no idea who to give credit to since I saved it a few years ago. Bottom tier is an 8" red velvet cake, top tier is a 6" strawberry cake with all buttercream frosting. All fondant accents. My sister-in-law and neice worked on this one together and it was so fun!
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Southwestern Cake
I did this cake for my friend who is from Texas and loves all things Southwestern. It is SO MUCH FUN TO decorate a cake when they are so appreciative and their expressions are priceless! Bottom tier is 8" chocolate with pudding, sour cream, and flavored with a little orange and it was really good. Top tier is 6" vanilla with pudding, and sour cream. All decorations are fondant. The horse and rider are a replica of a statue she has and it's called "The end of the Trail". Oh, and when I delivered her cake she had the PERFECT cake stand to put the cake on. See additional photos below. Thanks for looking :)
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Baby Zoo Animals
This was for my 1 year old Grandson. I designed it after the party decorations. Turned our really cute and he loved it! Bottom tier is a doctored dark chocolate mix, pudding, mini chocolate chips and vanilla added, top tier is a funfetti cake, all buttercream, with all fondant decorations. The wire in balloon was dipped in chocolate. Thanks for looking!