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Marsha And Rick In Blue And Brown
Three tiers of almost amaretto pound cake fillied with traditional buttercream and one layer of fudge. Frosted in traditional buttercream and fudge bands. The detail work is hand piped royal icing and then painted silver. The monograms are a combination of royal icing and gumpaste/fondant mix on wire and then painted.
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A Dog, A Cat And A Chuppah!
Representing the bride and groom by their animals under their wedding chuppah this cake was based on the same colors as their wedding cake. The cake was chocolate filled with a cherry syrup, cream cheese frosting and cherries, and then frosted in cream cheese and the borders are chocolate covered cherries. The figures are gumpaste, modeled and painted by hand. The chuppah is a fondant/gumpaste mix to dry hard and fast, painted and built from popcicle stickes.
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Hats Off To Mothers
Themed event for Mothers/Daughters by two local churches. Almost entirely cake and edible, the exceptions are the shoes, lipstick and roses (gumpaste) and real black ribbon. Yellow cake and chocolate buttercream frosting, marshmallow fondant in black and white. A big brimmed Sunday hat, a tall white hat, a hat box and a quilted clutch purse were all cake. Sugar roses, shoes and lipstick as asseccories.
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Cup-Of-Coffee House Warming Cake
My first cake like this. Once the cake was shaped, filled and frosted it was wrapped in modeling chocolate. The base and handle are rice crispies. Then I painted the cup to match the existing crockery the couple owned. I added a small gumpaste mail box with their house number and a "welcome" mat. I'm told that it was a big hit.
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Cinderella Quinceanera
In total we have two large 3 tiered cakes, one medium 2 tiered cake and two smaller 2 tiered cakes, approximately 6 dozen sugar roses in pink and blue, one custom sugar topper, white cake, strawberries and Italian Meringue buttercream. My first Quinceanera and it was for 200. Simple in design but beautiful when complete.
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Spirit (Disney Inspired)
A friend's daughter loves this movie but wanted a cookie for her birthday cake. I baked a 12x18 chocolate chip cookie and used classic buttercream to paint the picture. The sky is airbrushed. The background landscape is painted using a piant brush and frosting. The grass is piped used 3 dfferent shades of green. The horses were made with thinly rolled fondant that I painted in using thinned paste colors in a water-color technique.
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Hat, Purse, Shoes - Shopping
So she wanted her 50th birthday cake to reflect her favorite pass time and this was the layout she chose! Both hat and purse are yellow cake with vanilaa frosting. Bow, shoes, roses are all gumpaste. Purse has stitching on all seams. Hat band and polka dots are fondant. All fondant is fresh marshmallow fondant. There were 40 mini-cakes to supplement the hat and purse.
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Superman Birthday
Anna is big fan so we layered angel food cake filled with fresh strawberry buttercream and frosted with vanilla buttercream and then covered the entire cake in colored marshmallow fondant. Since the "S" is separate the negative spaces were carved to leave the letter slightly raised. The two colors were then added for a nice extra dimensional effect. The board is also covered in colored fondant.
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Star Trek Next Generation Birthday Cake
For Matt's 30th his wife asked for a cake to resemble his favorite show. The board is covered in colored fondant to respresnt the uniform while the cake is a replica of the communicator pin they wear on their chest. Chocolate cake filled and frosted with peanut butter frosting and covered in marshmallow fondant and painted in edible gold paint.
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Halloween Wedding Cake
While it resembles a topsy turvy cake this cake was actually sculpted to design made specifically for the bide and groom. With the cake as the center piece, the only adornments were sugar bats made of royal icing, painted and dusted, that hung from wire and a thin band of blac fondant around each tier. The fondant was then hand panted with gold scroll desgin from the invitation. Fresh flowers from the brides bouquet were added as well. The is an orange mocha cake with espresso ganache filling. The top tier (column) measured about 7" tall and the over all cake was just under 24".
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My First Nascar Cake
The brother of the client is a huge Jeff Gordon fan. I sculpted a yellow cake with buttercream frosting. I used marshmallow fondant to cover the cake. I made the Pepsi logo and GMAC out of gumpaste and then painted them. I piped all the lettering, the flames and remaining logos. The tires were also supposed to be carved and then sugar but an unforeseen event cut short prep time and so they were painted in. The client and her brother were still extremely happy.
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Caterpillars To Butterflies
This is the end result from the Santapillar cake at Christmas. My son's end of year party and the caterpillars have turned to butterflies. Two layer chocolate and white with buttercream frosting. All desks, flower petal chairs, and name tags are gumpasted and edible paste color. The butterflies were made using gem cutters and a fondant/gumpaste mix and then hand painted and placed on each chair.