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Pastries!
Things we made in a pastry course given by a Puratos rep at a friend's store. The things that look like cupcakes are actually cubiletes, a Mexican pastry which has a pastry shell, fruit filling on the bottom, cake batter above that and fondant covering with a decorative rose. I colored-coded the tops to go with the fillings, which were raspberry, pineapple and raspberry with cream cheese.
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World Cup Cuppies
My granddaughter's entire elementary school watched the World Cup opening ceremonies and the match between Mexico and South Africa today. Everybody took sandwiches, snacks, drinks and whatnot, so of course grandma had to send the "team spirit" cupcakes (for some reason, my green edible marker photographed blue, but well...). I ended up removing the toothpicks and putting the ¡MEXICO! flags directly on the cupcakes.
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Mardi Gras!
I've always wanted to make a Mardi Gras cake and I finally did it this year. The cake was a lemon variation of the WASC cake with lemon buttercream filling. I decided to string the beads on dental floss so that they'd lie like necklaces and not like individually placed beads. Thanks for looking!
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Christmas Cake!
My Christmas dessert this year was a chocolate bag with almond pound cake and vanilla ice cream inside, drizzled with chocolate syrup and Nutella and decorated with a candy cane. The bag itself is very simple to make: just paint the inside of a paper bag with melted chocolate, turn it upside down to dry and peel off the paper. TFL!
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Victoria's First Birthday
This girly first birthday cake has a surprise inside: six thin rainbow-colored layers (thanks for the idea, starlight_fantasy) . It's fondant-covered almond pound cake (my go-to birthday cake recipe). The birthday girl had a pair of pink converses that she never took off. I got the .idea for the shy bunny from one posted here by mura. This was my first time making ruffles and using an impression mat
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Hula Girl
For a woman who teaches Hawaiian and Tahitian dancing and her students. She gave me a doll to model the topper on as well as the hibiscus flowers. I found out that if you add too much CMC to your fondant, it becomes rubbery and won't hold a shape, so the topper was really hard to make and not at all what I wanted. But I was very happy with the "palm trees" I made around the separators.
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Day Of The Dead Cake
This was a cake to celebrate all the November birthdays in the choir where I sing. The Nov. 2nd Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico is my favorite holiday and every year I have an altar full of candles, orange marigolds, sugar skulls and "pan de muertos", the special bread with "tears" running down the sides. I've tried to recapture the feel of one of these altars here. Hope you like it!
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Hannah Montana!
This was my granddaughter's seventh birthday cake. She's a total Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fan. It's an almond pound cake covered in fondant. The clapping hands and musical notes are also fondant. The logo, initials and images are frosting sheets that wouldn't peel, so I had to use them with the backing The guitar, CDs, bow and stars are all gumpaste. TFL!
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Woof!
I learned how to make cupcake cakes with this one. The secret is that you have to stagger the cupcakes so there are no holes in the design and then cut part of the dome off of each one so that there's a little bit of level surface to ice. This one is iced in whipped cream. The design was transferred on with piping gel. It's off center because there was supposed to be writing on the right-hand side. But since it was a workshop cake, the class ended and my friends and family began to devour it before I could get around to putting anything else on it! Oh, well, next time...
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Love You Guys!
This is a small cake I made for Teacher Appreciation Day - May 15 here in Mexico. It's for the teachers at a small school for the deaf where I do research in Mexico City. A dedicated and amazing group of people who deserve this and much, much more! I made a reverse copy of the school's logo and transferred it onto the fondant-covered cake with piping gel, then painted everything with gel colors diluted with grain alcohol (you can use vodka if you can't get grain alcohol).
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Tessera's Garden Of Flowers, Hearts And Stars
This is an end-of-school-year cake I made for the students and teachers at a school for the deaf where I teach and do research in Mexico City. The school's name is Tessera and the letters in the upper left- and right-hand corners spell out LSM (Lengua de Señas Mexicana - the Mexican equivalent of American Sign Language) and Logogenia (the method we use to help the students acquire Spanish, the spoken language in the community). I made enough stars, flowers, hearts and curlicues so that everybody that wanted one got one. TFL!
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Groundhog Birthday!
This is a dummy made in a decorating workshop, but I can't wait to make a real one for somebody. It's based on a Collette Peters cake that's a favorite of my cake teacher's, The little guy's fur, the tile outlines in the base and the grout in the flower pot are all RI. The rest is gumpaste plus a real little candle for the birthday cake. The dirt is crumbled Oreos.
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Suitcases
These are dummy cakes from a course I took. We al really went to town seeing who could make the best straps, locks, handles, hinges and objects in the make-up case. I didn't make the best suitcases, but I think I did come up with the most (and the most life-like) travel necessities - toothpaste, soap, towels, powder, perfume, jewelry, etc. I can't remember having more fun in a decorating course!