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I made so many cakes during the Wilton classes that I can't remember which course this one is from - the end of course two, maybe? Anyway, these courses were very helpful and were a springboard from which to start doing my own things. I'm not at all sorry I took them and I had a pretty good time while I was at it.
What can I say? I finally made it to the end of Course three!
First fondant bow and curlicues from Wilton Course three.
Wilton Course 2 cake. I can't tell you how much I struggled with RI flowers before this course. Now I love to make them.
These are sample decorations from a course I took on how to make fondant look like fabric - something that has come in quite handy MANY times since I actually took the course. The hexagon and half-ball were also my first cake dummies! Unfortunately, the second part of the course, where you learn to make swags and other spectacular things hasn't come up yet, but I'll certainly be there when it is!
This cake was inspired by a similar (but much better) one on CC by mscrivener. I loved making these little mischief makers! The cakes are covered in fondant with fondant+CMC ribbons, bows and bears.
I got the inspiration for this from the Pastry Wiz site. When my granddaughter was born (the day after her mom's birthday), her dad gave her mom a huge stuffed cow with a little baby cow attached to her tummy with velcro. Well, the baby is now seven, so the two barely fit atop their common cake. Covered in fondant with fondant+CMC decorations.
Well, I've always wanted to make one of these, and now that I know how to do gumpaste and fondant plus stitching and buttons and labels (the sleeve, cuff, pocket and collar were a lot like cutting out a shirt to sew up), at least it was a little fancier than the standard one in the Wilton yearbooks. The cake was chocolate iced in teal-colored buttercream. The tie is fondant and the other details are gumpaste. The (unfortunately limp) green tissue paper is also fondant, which I didn't have time to let dry. Oh, well, I had a great time putting all together.
Cake topper with yellow royal icing flower done in paintbrush embroidery.
Cake topper with a "baby angel" for a baby shower, from a course I took recently. I thought the crimpers we used on the gown and the wings made for really interesting texture.
Chocolate cake covered in white fondant. The topper is an arrangement of gelatin flowers I learned to use recently. I figured out the dragonflies on my own, because I've been looking for some decent dragonflies for the better part of a year.
This is a two-layer pound cake frosted in buttercream mixed with whipped cream (not something I control very well yet) with a smaller layer on top to form the base for the gumpaste flower arrangement. I'm glad I took lots of pictures, because the cake hadn't aged enough and it broke apart before I got it to my garage, much less to my MIL's house. Fortunately, it didn't fall off the base, and everybody had seconds and even some thirds!
I made two of these, one for each of my daughter's families. The liquid is actually a tequila gelatin. This is a green and yellow version. The yellow version, with a different layout on the top, is in one of the additional photos.
Three angels ooh and ahh over the lovely Victoria in a cake full of gilding and gew gaws. The cake is covered in fondat, the flowers are gumpaste and all the rest is fondant, as well. Thanks to my friends on the Cake Central en Español forum for finding me a fondant recipe that works in a tropical climate and to aine2 for the 3-angel image on a Christmas cake that I saved to my favorites. I still had a tragedy with my fondant (someone put the cake in the fridge to get it out of the way, but my story is that the cracks and bulges go along with the gold luster dust to achieve an antique look.
My granddaughter thought I should make a cake with purple icing, so this is it. My daughter asked me to make a cake to take to her friends at work, so I sent them this little present.
This is a fondant plaque I copied from an image on my daughter's cell phone, because she told me it was her husband's favorite Dragon Ball Z image. It was great fun to paint and he liked it, he really liked it!!! The cake is a recipe of mine, an almond 1-2-3-4 cake.
I made this plaque in a class on fondant plaques. I love this technique and I plan to do a lot more of them. I liked it so much that I put it on a cake, made some more decorations from fondant (roses, grass, bees, ladybug, butterfly) and gave it to my sister-in-law, who's a true Winnie fan.
Fondant bunnies, chickies and eggs made as favors for an Easter egg hunt.
A 1-layer fondant-covered cake I made for afternoon tea one day. The cake is the Best Gold Cake found here on CC, which comes from the oven so compact that it almost seems like marzipan itself (and no, I didn't undercook it!)
Results of my "how to cover a cake in fondant" class, which took place a day before the birthday of a friend whom I had promised a cake decorated with tulips. WASC cake with lemon curd filling.
Well, I had a lot of greem fondant left over from another project and I needed to practice using metallic powders (still do, actually lol !). It looked too heavy with just the green and gold, so I made a few (dozen) flowers. Anybody give composition classes?
Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. Filling is Bettercreme mixed with berries. "¡Aguas!" is the Mexican equivalent of "Fore!", but it also means "Watch out!",
This is a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. There's a filling made with "mazapanes", a sweet found here in Mexico: I crumbled these little mazapán cakes, mixed them with egg whites and got something like almond paste, but made of ground peanuts. Mmmmm. I learned the roses from tonedna's six-part rose tutorial on YouTube - thank you Edna, I don't know what I would have done without you!
These are all birthday "cakes" for a diabetic friend. The rectangular one is layers of sliced 12-grain bread interspersed with beef, bacon, pecan and olive fillings. The round one is a vegetable terrine with layers of carrot, olive, pimento and asparagus. The cupcake is a cheeseball. All are iced in a mixture of cream cheese and sour cream, which when whipped increases in volume like buttercream.
Lemon cake with lemon curd and silky peanut butter fillings (both from here). Covered in Wilton's (recipe) fondant, with gumpaste figures. I wasn't looking for cute here, but disgusting, and I didn't quite manage it. The cake was supposed to be a sort of joke, and it went over very well.
My young neighbor turned 12 close to Valentine's Day, so I made him some seasonal cupcakes to celebrate. Half were chocolate and half yellow cake, with gumpaste accents.
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