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The football is chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The field is a 10? x 2? square butter cake with half Bavarian cream filling and half strawberry filling, covered in vanilla butter buttercream icing. The football has a really nice leather like texture on the buttercream. The longhorns, letters, stripes and laces are all done in vanilla fondant. Did I mention how hard it is to achieve burnt orange with food coloring?
This is a 3 dozen cupcake tower, half chocolate and half vanilla flavored cake with vanilla buttercream in red, lime and sky blue. Atop of the cupcake tower is 6? vanilla cake with Lime colored buttercream and a purple egg shaped monster made from rice cereal treats, buttercream and fondant.
The top layer of this Betty Boop cake is butter/white cake with chocolate ganache filling covered in vanilla buttercream. Betty is made with a icing technique called color flow. She was extremely fragile. Her ear ring was painted with gold luster dust and some detail work was done with edible markers. it was lemon cake with freshly zested and juiced lemons with fresh raspberry cream cheese filling with vanilla buttercream. I loved the raspberry cream cheese filling, I mean you can go wrong with cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, sugar and fresh raspberries.
This is a 8? round two layer white cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. This cake is covered in fondant with fondant decorations; fish, anemones, water weeds, waves, aquatic plants etc. The fish have been dusted with luster dust and the eyes are done with edible markers and a dot of buttercream frosting. The bubbles on top around the octopus are buttercream frosting. The top of the cake is sprinkled with disco dust for a wonderful sparkly simmer
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on the bottom and vanilla buttercream on top photo album book. Book cover and book mark are done in fondant. The book mark was painted with metallic gold luster dust. Photos are edible images
This was a white cake with cream cheese filling (colored pink) with butter vanilla butter cream. This cake has satin ice blue stripes and the brown stripes and branches are done in chocolate fondant. The cherry blossoms were made in fondant and hand molded to shape and hand painted with food coloring and edible food markers for variation. The Cherry blossom centers were done in royal icing. The leaves and boarder were done in butter cream. Tied with a satin ribbon
This is a French vanilla butter cake with yellow food coloring in the batter and Bavarian cream filling and vanilla butter cream. The top is done with edible images and the Xanadu logo is done with color flow icing and then hand painted with metallic blue luster dust. The neon yellow boarder (the whole bottle of neon yellow) is sprinkled with disco dust. The Happy Birthday Melisa is done with butter cream highlighted/outlined with gold fleck?s mixed in piping gel giving it a sparkly golden glow. The butter cream lines were hand painted with metallic blue luster dust. The roller skates are made from fondant brushed with super pearl luster dust. The whole cake is sprinkled with sparkly disco dust (yes it's called disco dust). 12 cups of batter and 5 batches of buttercream?not sure how much this cake weighed but it was a lot. The look was sparkly tacky gaudy 1980 roller-skate Olivia Newton john glam?well?I think that was achieved!
Chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream icing. Cross was done with fondant and hand painted with gold luster dust, the diving dove was cut from fondant. Scroll work was hand pipped in each of the corners and the look of the 'pages' was hand done on the sides of the cake
Vanilla cake with chocolate filling. Covered with chocolate and vanilla fondant. Silver belt buckle is fondant hand painted with silver luster dust then painted with silver shimmer air brushing paint. Rope is done with chocolate Twizzlers glued with chocolate candy melts
This cake is a Guinness porter dry stout chocolate sour cream cake with Ghirardelli chocolate ganache filling with a Baileys Irish whiskey cream buttercream frosting! What is supposed to look like a derby hat is a Butter pecan cake made with Guinness beer and Irish cream buttercream frosting covered in vanilla fondant. The buckle on the derby is painted with gold luster dust. The Derby is hand carved and I think the dome shape is ok but just didnt take the time on the brim and it didn't come out so well. You cant tell from the photos but there is a cupcake cut diagonal under the hat tilting his derby up on its side a bit. I think my little Irish man looks more like an Irish werewolf or caveman. I may have had one too many while I made this! But my 5 year old little neighbor loudly declared that this was the best chocolate cake ever! it really was fantastic and I dont like beer!
What little little girl woun?t love a hot pink sparkly bottle of nail polish for her birthday! This cake was four 8 inch round white cakes covered in hot pink vanilla butter cream. White fondant daisies with black fondant centers. Each daisy was hand painted with pearl luster dust and dried in a flower former so the petals were curved. The handle to the bottle of nail polish was originally done with rice crispy treats and covered in black fondant but, it weighed almost 2lbs and would add too much weight to this already tall and heavy cake. So that idea was scratched and opted for non-edible styrofoam was covered in fondant instead. i forgot to weigh this cake but it was pretty heavy and pretty tall too at least 26 inches tall! Inspriation from cakecentral
Black, White and Red Masquerade Cake. This is a 6 inch on top of and 8 inch on top of a 12 inch round. This is my first time doing the quilting look. The silver beads are edible. All the cakes are all covered in my first attempt at making homemade marshmallow fondant! The homemade marshmallow fondant was very messy to make. I got excited about making it because I thought when I was done with the first 2-3 batches and it was resting that this was going to be a winner?making my own fondant would be a fraction of the cost And most importantly...it tastes a ton better! You can flavor the marshmallow fondant with any extract and its softer than regular fondant. I even made a batch with a bag of Gingerbread marshmallows... I had and had gingerbread flavored fondant! But...the next day when I went to roll out the fondant and cover the cakes I found out quickly that its elasticity stinks - it tears very easy and does not stretch well at all! And I also found out you can only color it when making it not after it done like regular fondant. Last, its not nearly as smooth looking as regular fondant. Up close you can see what I would call pits in the fondant. Not an all over smooth look like regular ?Disappointing - to say the least. I will have to do some more research before continuing on with homemade mm fondant. Any thoughts link or advise would be appreciated. Sorry about the shinny glare in the photos, it was not this shiny.
Happy Valentines Day. For my husband....a red velvet heart shaped cake with cream cheese butter cream filling/icing covered in homemade marsh mellow fondant (homemade marshmellow fondant recipie from cakecentral). Roses and leaves are royal icing, the smoochie kisses are red food coloring (americolor) painted on a rubber lips stamp. all tied with a red satin ribbon. Inspirations from cakecentral.com
Super Bowl Football Cake Ball Truffles Packers Cake Ball Truffles in the shape of footballs! my super"bowl" of Oreo cream cheese truffles. they were awful to roll into this shape, and piping on white chocolate was not easy. I ran out of time to pick out the best footballs for the photos..so lets pretend these are the good ones
Happy Birthday to my son! He wanted a Harry Potter party so here is the cake idea we came up with together after looking at many ideas on cakecentral.com. The bottom cake is an 18x24 chocolate cake, the book is a white vanilla cake, the (mini) Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is butter yellow cake. All of the cakes were covered in butter/vanilla butter cream icing. The bottom cake is wrapped in chocolate fondant with a wood grain pattern in it. The castle is also covered in chocolate fondant and a brick pattern. The edges of the books pages were hand painted with food coloring watered down with corn syrup and water so I could paint with it. the font was dont with a etbile printer and cut out with a razor and placed on the book page. The wand, the book mark and glasses are also fondant. The doors are painted with gold luster dust. The scarf with fringe tassels is fondant as well pressed with something like fish scales inverted pattern press sheet. The grass is butter cream. The stars and moon are fondant painted with gold and pearl luster dust on floral wire. The Hogwarts crest in the lower right corner is an edible image. I was going to put in the center of the wood grain base but I didnt look just right. The snitch sits upon a pedestal of cereal treats with a stars and moon pattern on the fondant. The snitches wings are glued to the ball with melted butterscotch chips. The castles turrets are ice cream cones covered in black fondant with a ?scales? pattern. They are glued down with melted Ghirardelli dark chocolates. Whats a Magical birthday cake without some sparkler and fire candles! (photos not shown due to people in them). This cake has 26 cups of batter and I think 4-5 batches of butter cream. It was super heavy I didnt weight the cake. My photos are not so good, I think the cake came out really well. more photos and information at http://patticakespatticakes.blogspot.com/ . feel free to ask any questions...i am always happy to help as i am happy to get my questions awnsered by fellow amature cake decorators.
French vanilla cake with vanilla Bavarian cream filling and butter/vanilla flavored butter cream icing. Ribbon and flower were done in fondant in their wedding colors of purple and white.
One layer of vanilla sponge stacked on top of a layer of chocolate sponge with vanilla butter cream filling and vanilla butter cream frosting. This cake was a 10x10x4 square - it was pretty tall and very heavy. I had three motorcycles driving around the cake. I wanted to cheat and use an edible image for the Harley Davidson logo, but the bake shop would not print it due to copy right laws. I had to hand pipe the logo and the motorcycles out of butter cream. So I ended up using a mirror image of the motorcycle and logo and piping gel to stamp the image on the cake and then went over it with butter cream. I think the logo and motorcycles came out nice. What was very disappointing was the different powered sugar I used. For some reason it was very crystal like and the food coloring didn?t absorbed into the icing when I was coloring it. It seems to separate. the orange looked just awful. Now all I have to do if figure out which brand of powdered sugar I bought so it won?t happen again! Last photo had sparklers in the cake?what's a Harley cake without a bit of fire!!
Nothing says Happy Birthday like a dead bird on a cake This was a Bourbon Butter Pecan Cake with Rum Buttercream icing (it was so good). The dead Dove is made from French vanilla rice cereal treats covered in fondant. Shotgun shells are French vanilla rice cereal treats covered in fondant and edible gold luster dust. ?Buck shot? are edible silver pearls (two on the body, one in the head, one on the wing and few on the 'ground'. The rope boarder is done with rum buttercream and the barb wire is royal icing. Inspiration from JawdroppingCakes on cakecentral.com
This was for my niece's baptism. Chocolate with vanilla butter cream icing and fondant bow and sash. it was her favorite color - hot pink...doest look that color in these photos. the texture was odd, the instructions said to take a paper towel and touch it and pull up. if i had to do it over again i would have made it smooth.
French vanilla with butter/vanilla butter cream and fondant bow and holly leaves with berries.
This is a 6x3 and a 8x3 tiered french vanilla cake with strawberry filling covered in vanilla butter cream icing.The hearts are fondant and the dots are royal icing. The couple in love silhouette is made from color flow icing. Some cakes that are supposed to be not complicated turn out to bethis cake was certainly one of them . It didnt stack evenly I spend a long time trying to correct something that is darn near impossible to fix after it happens. Then I cant even tell you how long it took to smooth the icing. I got it where I was ok with it and then piped on the design she requested (this open heart with a hook ) and it looked awfullike a lower case m and j so I scrapped it offnote black icing on white leaves a purple rings had to scrap that off too. Then I put fresh icing on top of already crusted butter cream icing and tried to smooth it is even harder, it just doesnt spread it pulls the first layer. I should have switched to all fondant I just didnt have the time. I placed the ribbon that she wanted around the cake and it was too thin and looked weird, so I had to run out and by wider ribbon first thing this morning when the store opened. Then I quick colored some fondant black. Cut out the heart applied them and applied the color flow silhouette figures (a few times.. they kept breaking they are super fragile..glad I made several). Put the flowers on and the processed to fuss over everything. The spacing of the hearts, too many hearts..the ribbon not laying flat (I put it on 4 times) and the icing not smooth enough. I guess the good news is it transported well and nothing moved, feel off, slide or broke and it tasted really good. Really not sure why everything that is normally not a problem became so troublesome this time...In the end all with all the fixes I think it came out well and the host of the bridal shower seemed to like it.
The barn strawberry cake with vanilla/butter cream icing. The barn yard is 9x13 French vanilla cake with butter/butter cream. The edges of the barn yard and the path to the barn are covered with chocolate butter cream and crushed walnuts. Silo made from cereal treats covered in butter/butter cream icing. Happy Birthday Abby and 3rd signs is a gram cracker covered in butter cream icing. Chickens (complete with combs and detailed feathers), pigs (with wrinkles and curly tails), cow (with eye lashes, hair and horns), corn (with husk and Each kernel hand piped on), mouse on top of silo (with whiskers and curly tail) are all made from Royal icing. Sheep are marshmallows with pretzel legs and covered in butter cream icing. 6 batches of icing, and over 15 hours of work (not including research and prep, shopping, clean up or delivery)I cried (a lot) when it feel over in the truck moments before reaching its final destination (stupid speed bump!). It was somewhat repairable. (we put a foil wrapped brick behind the barn to hold it up. I cried ..alot.
Mother's Day Cake 3 tires tiered lemon cake with four layers of lemon filling and vanilla butter cream frosting. Roses and lilies and Cupcakes 1: Banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, butter cream flowers. Cupcakes 2: Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla bavarian cream filling and vanilla butter cream frosting with butter cream roses Cupcakes 3: White chocolate vanilla cupcakes with vanilla Bavarian cream filling and vanilla butter cream frosting
I made this cake for one of my co-workers. She and I are huge fans of all things Scottish. Our favorite book series is called the Outlander which is about a Scottish highlander from the clan Fraser. (I highly recommend it Diana Gabaldon's Outlander) The Fraser crest says Je Suis Prest which means I am ready. The bottom says Co`Latha Breith Sona Dhuibh Sassenach which means Happy Birthday Sassenach in Gaelic-Scots. The cake is French vanilla cake with French vanilla pudding added to the batter (make a slightly more firm cake). Its filled with half vanilla Bavarian cream filling and half strawberry filling. The sides are done with chocolate butter cream in the basket weave pattern with chocolate butter cream rope boarder. The top and rope boarder are done with vanilla/butter butter cream frosting. This has over 14 cups of batter and I lost track after 5 batches of icing I wish I would have weighted this cakeits very very heavy. This cake took 14+ hours to make and decorate (doesnt include research, shopping for supplies, set up, clean up or delivery). Its a surprise for hershe hasnt seen it yet, I cant wait to see her reaction! - update: She loved it and so did the whole office. Many complements on design and the outstanding flavors! Attached is a copy of the design I used for the Fraser crest.
Halloween Candy Corn Castle Cake 6"x 4" round on top of a 10" by 4" round Dark chocolate butter cake and Almond Rum cake (colored orange) with vanilla butter cream icing. Everything is covered in chocolate or vanilla fondant with a brick pattern. Bats, ghosts are fondant. Bats are on floral wire. Almost a whole bag of Brach's Candy Corns, Reese's Pieces and Hershey's Candy Corn Kisses 'glued' on with royal icing and or butter cream icing. Licorice fence 'glued' together with milk chocolate candy melts. Coffin is chocolate candy melts colored and hand shaped, dirt is brown sugar. Grass is butter cream. This cake took me 15 hours to make!
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