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My granddaughter, Ashley wanted a Minnie Mouse cake for her birthday. Saw pics on Pinterest and decided to make this one for her. Cake is a carved chocolate cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling. Covered with chocolate ganache and then fondant. Decorations, accessories and flowers are gumpaste. Minnie is a toy. Ashley was so excited when she saw her cake and the smiles and the hugs made my day.
My grandson Ryan wanted an Angry Bird cake for his 9th birthday and I found the perfect one on CC made by Jenn from ittybittybakery. I contacted her and she gave me permission to copy her design and was gracious enough to give me wonderful helpful hints. The cake was a two layer chocolate cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling and covered with ganache. Cake was then covered with fondant. Sticks and pigs are gum paste and Angry Bird is RKT covered with fondant. Angry Bird was a hit at the birthday party and Angry Bird did not end up in the trash as he is sitting on my son's desk at work (Ryan's dad). Thanks again to Jenn for everything.
Made this cake for my grand-daughter's 4th birthday in June. Two tiers with a giant cupcake topper. Bottom tier is banana pound cake with butter cream filling, middle tier is chocolate with chocolate ganache filling and the cupcake is also chocolate. Covered with ganache and then all tiers are covered with fondant. The top of the cupcake is covered with butter cream sprinkles added. The borders around the tiers are candy and the star is gum paste. The middle tier has suckers/lollipops around it for decoration. The ice cream cones are real waffle cones that came in colors with a chocolate cupcake on top covered with butter cream icing and then a swirl of butter cream with sprinkles on top. Ashley just loved her cake but she thought the icing on the cupcakes was supposed to be ice cream not icing.
Made this cake for my daughter-in-law's birthday in June. Chocolate cake with ganache filling. Cake is covered with chocolate ganache, base is then covered with fondant. Top of cupcake is butter cream with gum paste flowers, leaves and butterflies. Bow is ribbon.
Made these for my grandchildren to enjoy when we celebrated Easter this year. Thanks to Sharon Zambito for the tutorial. Chocolate cupcakes (made regular size and jumbo) butter cream grass and fondant bunnies.
Finally made a cake for one of my best friends - she has waited a long time. Sheila raises Friesian horses and this was the perfect cake for her (inspiration from cakes on CC). Chocolate cake with creamy peanut butter filling, covered with chocolate ganache and then with fondant. Horses are toys of course - and they are Friesians, everything else is gum paste or fondant. She was so surprised and loved it - there were tears in her eyes and she took the top tier home to show her family. It was very hard to photograph and I was not happy with any of the pictures.
Birthday cake for my grandson. Bottom tier, banana pound torted with buttercream filling, middle tier is chocolate torted with Oero Cookie cream filling and top tier is peanut butter torted with peanut butter filling. All tiers are covered with chocolate ganache and then fondant. All decorations are gum paste or buttercream except the animals are toys. Rocks were purchased and are chocolate candy - and tasted great!!
Made this cake for my family for Christmas Day. Eight inch chocolate cake, torted and filled with peppermint flavored Bettercreme with Andes' candy pieces, covered with chocolate ganache and then fondant. Pinecones are chocolate (Jennifer Dontz's Pinecone Mold - Sugar Delites)) and edible. My little granddaughter Ashley ate three of the four and thought they were the best! Used wide rope border and snowflake cutters (also from Jen). Snowflakes are highlighted with pearl dust and border is sprinkled with Wilton's Sparkling White Sugar. Pine branch pieces and ribbon are real.
Three cakes for three special friends. Eight inch chocolate, torted, filled with peppermint flavored Bettercreme, with Ande's Candies pieces, tinted pale green. Covered with chocolate ganache and then covered with fondant. Gum paste poinsettias, fondant snowflakes and pearls, ribbon is real. They were so surprised and loved their gifts, one gal even cried and said that no one has ever given her such a beautiful cake.
Birthday cake for a friend from work. Both layers are chocolate (Darn Good Chocolate Cake), torted, filled with Oreo Cookies & Cream filling, covered with chocolate ganache and then fondant. All flowers and leaves are gum paste, orange ribbon around tiers is fondant. Thin satin ribbon is real. She was very surprised and loved her cake. It tasted great and received great reviews.
Birthday cake for my sweet granddaughter Ashley. Bottom tier Key-Lime, torted and filled with Key-Lime mousse and coconut flavored BC. Top tier was strawberry, torted and filled with my homemade strawberry cream filling, Covered with chocolate ganache and covered with fondant. All decorations (including Packpack) are gum paste. Dora is a toy.
Make this cake for a friend's birthday. Bottom tier - lemon cake, torted with lemon filling and middle layer was homemade raspberry filling. Top tier - white almond sour cream - torted with the same raspberry filling. Covered with chocolate ganache and then fondant. All decorations are gum paste or fondant.
Made this for my grandson's 7th birthday. He loved it and so did his dad! Bottom layers are Banana Pound, top layers are Darn Good Chocolate Cake. All layers have a thin layer of buttercream between them and then the helmet is covered in ganache and then fondant.
Last minute Snowman cake for son's 36th birthday on New Year's Eve. Wanted to do more detail but ran out of time. Darn Good Chocolate Cake (torted) with Bettercreme mint flavored chocolate filling. First time using Fondex and I really liked working with it, tasted very good.
This cake was made for my dear friend Pam's birthday. Birdhouse is RKT covered with white chocolate & then with fondant. Bird is gum paste - done free hand with this being my first attempt & thought it turned out pretty good for my first try. I knew that it would only go down here from here. Dusted with pale yellow pearl dust. Flowers are gum paste with centers and edges dusted with petal dust. Bottom tier is a ten inch chocolate cake with cookies & cream filling and top tier is an eight inch marble cake with caramel mousse filling. Iced with BC and covered with fondant. Special thanks to summerki for all of her help and inspiration....thanks summer...I'm glad I didn't give up and let the birdhouse win!
So disappointed in this cake I wanted to cry or throw it in the trash. Used Blue SI and had gut feeling I was going to have problems. Cake was a gift for a friend's 40th birthday. Did everything that I was supposed to do for SI, rolled out fairly well but as soon as I laid it on cake I was having problems with cracking & drying (no I did not use or add CS or PS). As soon as I was done with each layer I quilted but in places I really had to push to get the marks as it was drying too fast. The next morning I find that I must have pushed too hard as the BC wicked thru the fondant and left grease marks. Cakes are 10 & 7 inch chocolate with Cookies & Cream filling, covered with vanilla BC. Flowers are gum paste. My first & last time quilting on dark colored fondant and I have had it with Satin Ice! Thanks for looking at my disaster. Oh thanks to Lucycoo for inspiration for the cake as I loved her idea - her cake was beautiful!
Made this as a quick gift for my daughter-in-law's birthday. Eight inch round lemon cake, torted with two layers of lemon curd and one layer of raspberry filling in the middle, iced with vanilla BC, covered with fondant. Bow is gum paste, flowers, pearl border and ribbon are fondant.
Cake was for my granddaughter Ashley's 2nd birthday. Her mom picked the theme and it was tough for me as I am not a WTP fan. Bear is a stuffed toy of course as I was not about to attempt a gum paste one. The "Hunny" pot is gum paste, the beehive is RKT covered with fondant. The flowers, grass and fence are fondant. Each blade of grass was cut and glued on the cake. Bees are gum paste and I almost went blind making them. Square was 10" chocolate, torted with Cookies & Cream Filling (EXCELLENT - thanks Blakescakes). Round was 8" orange flavored, torted with chocolate hazelnut filling. Cake was iced with BC and covered with fondant. Ashley liked her cake as she picked all of the flowers off the sides and ate them one by one!
Made this cake for my grandson's 6th birthday - my first 3 tier cake! Top tier - Darn Good Chocolate Cake with homemade raspberry filling, middle tier - Rainbow/Tie Dye Cake with vanilla BC and bottom tier - Darn Good Chocolate Cake with homemade caramel filling which was delicious. Iced in vanilla BC and covered with fondant. Buildings and Batman Logo are dried fondant. Batman and cars are toys. Ryan loved his cake and it was the hit of the party.
Baby shower cake for friend from work. Darn Good Chocolate Cake, torted layers filled with my homemade strawberry mousse filling, iced with butter cream and covered with pink strawberry flavored fondant. Ribbon roses and leaves are fondant and shoes are gum paste. Krista was so surprised and everyone loved the cake and it tasted great with the homemade filling.
My 5 1/2 year old grandson (Ryan) loves my cakes and always wants to help me. So we decided to make a birthday cake for his dad who was celebrating his birthday on December 31st. Ryan's favorite color is green so naturally it had to be green. I assembled the cake and put on the fondant of course but he cut out the decorations and applied then as you can see. I thought he did an excellent job and he wanted to have "our cake put on with all of those other cakes on the computer". So here it is....of course I did the purple stars and they were left over from another project and he wanted to use them on his dad's cake. WASC with chocolate Bettercreme filling with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups chopped up, iced with vanilla buttercream and I used green Satin Ice fondant to cover the cake. Decorations are fondant.
Inspired by the many great penguin cakes on CC and wanted to try making one for my grandkids when they came for Christmas on the 27th. My first attempt at making figures and it took a long time to make those tiny things. It's their little family, my son Jason (red ear muffs), Michelle, Ryan (green) and little Ashley in pink and that's grandpa in the pond. Everyone loved it and the cake tasted great too. Dark chocolate fudge cake with mint flavored Bettercreme filling with Andie's Candies bits (tinted green) and iced in buttercream. Cake is covered with fondant. Snowballs, snowflakes, pond and border are fondant, figures and tree are gum paste (my first tree), dusted with pearl dust. They took the little penguins home and they are still sitting there on a plate on the counter - cause they are just to cute to throw away.
Made cakes for Christmas gifts for two friends who are big cake fans of mine - they were so surprised! Dark chocolate fudge cake, Bettercreme mint flavored filling (tinted mint green) with Andes Candies pieces, iced with white BC and covered with white chocolate fondant. Gum paste poinsettias, fondant snowflakes and pearl border are dusted with pearl dust, the ribbon is real.
These little cookies have been a CC for a long time and I have always wanted to make them and this year I finally did. Made 75 to take to work for Cookie Day tomorrow and then will make another 25 for Christmas for my family especially my grandchildren. My DH likes them so much that he wants me to make some for the guys he works with. I said, next year honey! And they taste darn good to and were fun to make. My hats off to cookie people - that's why I like cakes - it's one time!
Gum paste poinsettia's - made five of these. Took Jennifer Dontz's Sugar Flower Class this fall and the poinsettia was one of the flowers that we did in the class. Thanks Jen for being a "slave driver" as I am pleased with my first poinsettia's since I took the class. Plan to use the flowers on several Christmas cakes for friends and relatives this week.
My first square cake! WASC, torted and filled with my homemade version of strawberry mousse (picked strawberries this summer and froze), iced with BC and covered with fondant. All decorations are fondant except shoes (50/50 gum paste & fondant). Made this for a friend at work. The mom to be just loved her cake and was so surprised. The cake was a big hit with everyone and the filling received rave reviews. Idea is from a cake that I saw on CC.
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