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This was my first stacked cake, and the last cake for my advanced decorating class. I'm pretty happy with it!
Not happy at all with the way the buttercream turned out, but I was completely out of time. I was working on this one until the minute we walked out the door to deliver. It was for my brother and his 4 friends, who have been in the theater program together throughout high school. I made two half sheets and 144 mini cupcakes. For those of you who talked me through the planning of these, thank you so much! You helped me get my head on straight about what goes into all the mini cuppies, and we were all more on target with the amount that would have been needed, but I just made what my mom wanted. We were out of cake halfway through the party! Anyway, one cake has their colleges and names, and the other one has symbols or costumes from their favorite shows and characters. TFL!
This is pretty plainly decorated, but I used it more for trying techniques than anything else. I baked it with a flower nail, and I'm not sure there was much of a difference from the way cakes have baked in the past. I also tried out the upside down icing for the first time. It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted, but turned out with a better top edge than I have ever gotten before, so I will definitely use that technique again.
Made for a friend of a friend, a book cake for her 70th birthday
I made this for my brother for his graduation in 2006. He is a hockey player (the one thing he was truly passionate about throughout school, so I put his jersey and number down in the corner.
I've seen many other versions of these butterfly cupcakes on CC, but here's our version. My friend was having a party for her daughter's first birthday, so another friend and I helped her make these cupcakes. I thought they turned out so cute, and the three of us spent the whole party explaining to people how we made them. : )
My friend and I worked together to make this cake and cupcakes for her son's 3rd birthday party.
Steve was leaving my boyfriend's company for another job, so I was asked to make this cake for him. All buttercream, I think that's the smoothest I've gotten the top of a cake, ever! : )
I made this for my dad when he retired after 31 years at IBM, and went back into teaching high school math. I free-handed the IBM logo, and the cake is covered in cream cheese fondant, which we loved the taste of, but was very hard to work with because of how soft it is. I would definitely use it again, though, just because the flavor was so much better than some other fondant recipes I've used.
This is, so far, my first and only experiment with MMF. I liked it a lot, although my family calls this the "Lucky Charms" cake, because of the flavor of the MMF. Also, I had a hard time with it drying out and cracking a lot.
I made this for a swim club in our area. I used piping gel for the "water" effect of the letters and the waves, and white chocolate dolphin molds. The swim club's swim team is the "Dunsinane Dolphins"
Made this for a friend's son in 2004, for his high school graduation. (School colors are black and gold)
I made this cake back in 2004 for my cousin, I believe it was in the yearbook from that year.
This was my first ever attempt at a basketweave, and I was so proud of it!
I made this in my first cake class several years ago, and when I put it in my cake carrier (a very small one was all I had at the time), the clowns got smashed down. : (
I used these as a fundraiser at work. Didn't raise a lot of money, but I did get a lot of compliments on the cupcakes!
This was my first attempt at a transfer. It was just the outline transfer, not a FBCT, but I thought it turned out okay for a first try!
This was the fastest decorating I have ever done. My dad was very happy with it, but I think it would have turned out a lot better if I had the time I needed to get all the details right. Also, my family doesn't really eat much cake, so I only made a 9 x 13, but I know this could have been better if I had done it on a half sheet, where I would have the room to do what I wanted.
Living in Ohio and being a Michigan fan is a very difficult thing, and I really hated to even mix these colors for this cake, but it turned out fine and Michele was happy with it!
This was an idea out of one of the yearbooks, and I was really happy with the silhouette itself, not quite as happy with how rough the buttercream turned out. But I know the bride loved it!
No one in my family really loves to eat cake (unfortunate for me, given my choice of hobby), so this is a cheesecake with a sour cream topping, which gave me a nice, flat surface. So I used the spray food colors and a stencil to "decorate" the best way I could on a cheesecake.
I made this for my brother's 13th birthday. He's a hockey player, and was obsessed with hockey, so this was perfect for him. It's covered with fondant, and the players and goals are gumpaste. The "Happy Birthday" is supposed to be the boards of the rink.
This is what happens when you have store bought frosting, store bought gel decorating icing, and 20 minutes to slap a cake together.
I hated this cake - it's one of my least favorite I've ever done. The only part I was happy with was the baby, it's a white chocolate mold. This is what happens when you're short on time, and buy frosting from a local cake shop that has whipped frosting, and you are not used to working with it. Oh, well, my cousin appreciated the fact that I brought a cake for her baby shower from 4 hours away!
This was one of the first cakes I ever made, for a friend's baby shower in 2004.
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