Guards In The Castle
My 8-yr-old son and my husband make a cake each year for the Boy Scout father/son cake bake, and this was their creation this year. They used the directions Debbie Brown's "50 Easy Party Cakes" and did a pretty good job considering they have no experience! My son loves this event each year, so maybe before too long he'll be able to help me! The cake was marble with vanilla buttercream and vanilla fondant details.
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Rocket, Stars, And Planets Cake
The birthday boy loves outer space, so we planned for his cake to have a rocket, stars and the planets, but mom and I wanted the rocket and stars to stand out on top of the cake. The cake is chocolate cake with vanilla icing. The planets are fondant (I forgot to take a picture of all sides!) and the rocket and stars are sugar cookies with color flow icing. The birthday boy got the rocket and each birthday guest got a cookie star.
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Green And White 50Th Birthday
I wanted to try my hand at brush embroidery, but I was too l lazy to make royal icing, so the flowers are done with buttercream. The top tier is vanilla cake with vanilla icing, and the bottom cake is chocolate with chocolate icing, both covered in fondant. White stripes are fondant/gumpaste. I swear the greens matched in real life...the picture makes it look like a yellow cake with two different greens....eek!
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First Communion Cross With Chalice And Host
This cake is a yellow cake filled and iced in vanilla buttercream, then cut into the shape of the cross. All detail is buttercream except the blue disc, gold chalice and off-white host which were all colored white chocolate. This cake and the pink birthday cake were for the same event, but the family wanted to celebrate a birthday while everyone could be together for the First Communion. I did the same stripes on both cakes to help tie them together.
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The cake is one layer each of chocolate and vanilla filled and iced with vanilla buttercream. The red house dome is vanilla cake covered in vanilla buttercream and red fondant with the windows in fondant painted with gel color/alcohol. The slide is a fondant/gumpaste mix. The hand and foot are rice krispie treat covered in fondant. The fence is a fondant/gumpaste mix. The head and ears are fondant covering styrofoam balls. If anyone has any tips on how to get fondant smooth on a round ball, I'd love to hear from you!
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Volcano Cake
Layers of chocolate pound cake were stacked and shaped as a volcano. The volcano was iced in chocolate buttercream with buttercream accents and chunks of cake as rock cliffs and protrusions. The base is covered with blue and white marbled fondant which is filled with blue piping gel for the water. The volcano was built so we could make it erupt at the birthday party.
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White Chocolate Ganache Cookie Cake
The client's husband has a catering business and makes this cookie as part of his dessert offerings. She asked me to copy the cookie for his birthday, so I copied it in flavor and appearance. The chocolate cookie layers are a dark chocolate pound cake iced in dark chocolate buttercream. The middle layer is a white chocolate vanilla cake iced generously around the sides with whipped white chocolate ganache.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Heart Cake
Chocolate chip cookie in the shape of a heart for my daughter's birthday. I was way behind on time to get everything done, and it shows in the writing. I didn't take the time to get the lumps out, and the tip kept clogging up. My daughter loved the flowers, and I didn't want her to be disappointed if I didn't post her cookie!
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Butterfly And Flower 1St Birthday
Chocolate chip cookie and vanilla layer cake with vanilla buttercream. The flower and butterflies are a fondant/gumpaste mixture. The birthday girl's mom has an interest in quilting, and I wanted to incorporate that into the cake as well to make it a little more personal. Thanks for looking!
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Amelia Rules! Cake
My daughter loves the "Amelia Rules!" graphic novels, so she asked for an Amelia cake for her birthday. The cake is alternating layers of chocolate chip cookie and brownie filled and iced with chocolate icing, then covered with chocolate fondant colored red. The comic book cells are hand painted on buttercream fondant. Amelia is krispie treats covered in fondant/gumpaste. Her arms are white chocolate modeling chocolate.
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Batman Cake
Chocolate and vanilla layer cake with buttercream icing. The "pow", "boff", and "sock" words are made with fondant/gumpaste. The Batmobile is made with modeling chocolate. The buildings are rice krispie treats covered in fondant. The Batsignal is fondant/gumpaste. What a fun cake to make!
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Butterfly And Roses Wedding Cake
This cake was done for a wedding celebration after the couple eloped. It was a small gathering, but I wanted them to have a keepsake cake. The couple's grandchilren have severe food allergies, so the cake is entirely egg-, nut-, and dairy-free. The fondant (covering cake and roses) is homemade marshmallow fondant. The butterflies are Wilton cookie icing that was allowed to set for several days on wax paper. It was still a little softer than I was used to, but meringue powder was out of the question.
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Mini-Size Snickers Bar Cake
Snickers bars are my husband's favorite candy, so I made this cake for him to celebrate Father's Day. The inside of the cake is layers of chocolate cake, caramel, peanuts, and candy bar nougat. The front of the cake (unwrapped) is covered in melted chocolate. The rest is covered in chocolate fondant with the Snickers lettering done in color flow (similar to royal icing). The bar in the front was just for size comparison.
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Shopper's 40Th Birthday Cake
My first cake for a big party (before I learned how to better smooth buttercream) for a woman who shops well and takes a lot of care in what she looks like before she leaves the house. She thought the saying was funny, although not everyone would, I guess! This was my first purse and first shoe; the purse is cake under fondant, and the shoe is gumpaste. Fantasy flower is gumpaste also.