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This was for my partner teacher's baby shower. The owl on top was created from a stuffed animal owl in her baby's crib. French vanilla with chocolate ganache, covered in fondant, airbrushed, balls and owls make with fondant.
Each tier was about 8 or 9 inches tall. Each tier had 4 two in. cakes. Starting from the bottom tier it went like this, 10", 8", 8", 10", middle tier 8", 6", 6", 8", top tier, 6", 4", 4", 6". I think I cut the top tier down a little because it seemed too tall and skinny. All were carved and smoothed a little to shape.
Fire Helmet Groom's Cake Strawbery cake, carved and covered with candyclay/fondant mixture, yellow shapes cute and gold logo cut with the cricut, words printed edible paper. The flashlight was a little rough so I'll need to rethink it next time unless someone out there has some tips. But I did love the little light which was an inverted circular gem made out of cooked isomalt sugar and a mold.
Palm leaves were cut out with the cricut machine. The cake was airbrushed (palm trees and leaves also), royal icing dots used, cake topper was a gumpaste/edible image combo, palm trees were chocolate clay/fondant mix, figures were fondant/gumtex.
Phew! This really took a lot of time for me. Sometimes the imagination exceeds the abilities and time I have! Trying to decide on the design, I came across this painting and as you can see, that was my inspiration. Dorothy was fondant and Toto was chocolate, yum!! Oh, and the rainbow. I handcut it out of gumpaste, painted it one color at a time and sprinkled Wilton's shimmer dust on each stripe. The clouds were handcut, airbrushed and then swirled with an edible marker. he cake was handpainted with a combination of icing colors and pearl dust. I'm definitely not a painter, and I really need to get with my art teacher friend for some classes. The poppies were made out of royal icing and airbrushed with gold and red pearl dust. I love poppies! I remember picking them during my trip to Morocco, so I had to get them in this cake somewhere. I put little fondant circles on the backs of some of them so they would stand out. The shoes I learned to do thanks to Sharon Zambito and her tutorial.
I had this design in my mind for a while and was able to use it with this cake. I marked a wooden skewer and then pressed it into the sides of the fondant to create stripes. Then I handpainted each stripe with vanilla and pearl dust. At first I was not happy with the streaks but in the end I think it really added to the striped effect. The topper was made by printed out a design off of the invitation on edible paper and then mounting it to fondant/gumtex and cutting with an x-acto knife. The pinwheel bows I made out of fondant with royal icing buttons and I used this pic as a guide http://sweetbows.com/library/ClassicPinwheelBow-scarlet.jpg Add a caption The topper was made by printed out a design off of the invitation on edible paper and then mounting it to fondant/gumtex and cutting with an x-acto knife. The pinwheel bows I made out of fondant with royal icing buttons and I used this pic as a guide http://sweetbows.com/library/ClassicPinwheelBow-scarlet.jpg I had purchased some butterfly cutters a while back and finally got to use them. I shaped the cutouts on leaf formers after stamping some holes with a wooden Wilton gumpaste tool. After they dried I airbrushed them with vanilla and pearl dust and then filled in the holes with royal icing.
I covered this cake with edible frosting sheets, pink ribbon strips have daisies imprinted on them with a stamp although it's not shown in the pic. The tweety bird plaque was made out of fondant/gumpaste, face was handpainted with edible paint and markers.
This cake was specifically requested to copy the design of a Pink cake Box design -
Edible image cutouts used for characters and black Mickey Mouse cutout, balls are gobstoppers, cake was airbrushed, fondant, edible markers, and painting used for other decorations. Oh, and the yellow small balls are actually white dragees that you can color or dust to your liking. http://www.miamorsweets.com/
Design was based somewhat on the party invitations. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream covered in fondant.
This was a fun cake I did for a good friend's 8th birthday. I basically copied a google pic of a Pikachu figurine. The grass hill and tree stump were vanilla cake with chocolate ganache and fondant (the tree bark was chocolate candy clay which holds texturizing better). Everything, everything, everything was airbrushed. I was very lazy with this cake. The apples and leaves were candy clay. Due to my laziness, Pikachu's tail didn't last very long. I had made it out of gumpaste/fondant the night before, so it was not dry and started curving as soon as I put it on. The ears made it okay. I let them dry in Wilton leaf formers, I believe, and that gave them the curve. Oh, and the body and head are rice cereal treats covered in chocolate candy clay and then fondant. You can still see the lumps from the rice cereal which I don't like :(
This was for a 13th birthday party. Cake was yellow with chocolate buttercream, covered in vanilla fondant. Handpainted zebra-stripes, numbers were fondant/gumtex with silver dragees. Also used silver dragees to make the belt buckles at the base. Everything is edible (except for the feathers :P)
I´m here in Argentina visiting my in-laws and got to decorate my little nephew´s baptism cake. It´s summer here, and boy was this cake sweating! I learned a great lesson which is to always make sure the legs of a figurine are made out of fondant that is equally as hard as the body. The pink fondant was way too soft and kept squashing under the sheepçs body weight. The sheep on the top jumped off the hill and committed suicide! I used a fan brushed to paint the texture for the grass and that turned out pretty cool. The shepherd was somewhat inspired by a ¨Precious Moments¨figurine. I used a guide on the internet for the sheep. It comes from Utilisima, a great cake decorating tool here in Argentina Everything is made with fondant. I worked in a very small space with my husband´s family watching, but it turned out ok. My sister-in-law is a trained artist and she helped me with the design and gave me the great idea of covering popsicle sticks with fondant for the fence instead of have to wiat for the fondant to dry hard. She also gave me some great tips on mixing colors. The figurines I made beforehand and brought along with my marshmallow fondant and a box full of my most important cake decorating tools.
Helmet was made out of rice cereal bars, covered in candy clay and fondant with gumpaste for the mask brace. Gator was made with a mold and fondant. The cake was yellow with cream cheese filling, covered with white chocolate ganache and vanilla fondant. The cake was airbrushed and dusted with silver pearl dust. The birthday girl traveled 3 hours one way to pick it up, oh my gosh, I wouldn't do that!
The bride opted for an easy design, which I was very thankful for since this was only my second wedding cake and they're still a little scary! The flowers were handmade from fondant and painted with pearl and petal dusts.
Didn't know about the cool bundt idea until after I baked the cakes already, but it worked out fine. I baked three very thick 9 in. cakes and then carved them down. This was one of those "good cake" days, you know? No real setbacks and the finished product is pretty much what you had hoped for. After carved, frosting, and covering with fondant, I airbrushed the cake, starting with yellow, orange/red, brown, green, and a little black. The stem was fondant and marshmallow fondant mixed together. The leaves were cut out of fondant, thinned out, embossed, handpainted & airbrushed. Since this was for family and I use family as my cake guinea pigs, I tried a new recipe which was peanut butter cake, torted and filled with chocolate ganache and Reeses peanut butter chips, and then covered with chocolate ganache and a thin layer of vanilla marshmallow fondant. This awesome pic is thanks to having a mother as a professional photographer :) Happy Holidays!!
Vase was cake and fondant with rose cupcakes.
This was a free cake I gave away with a royal icing Mi Amor Sweets logo on top. In response to someone's question about the logo, here's what I did: "I forget what the technique is called, but I taped a paper copy of my logo onto a flat piece of cardboard and then taped wax paper on top. Then I traced the outline with a medium consistency of royal icing with a very small round piping tip. After letting the outline dry for 10 minutes. I filled in the logo with a runny consistency of royal icing. A way to make sure you have the right consistency is to spoon a little bit of it, drop it back in the container, and then count to 10. The royal icing on the spoon should be blended back into the rest of it without any marks. You can fill it in a disposable piping back and snip the tip of the bag. So, anyways, you fill in your outline. Make sure it's totally dry and then use a very think spatula or knife to remove it from the wax paper. You can used colored royal icing or go back and handpaint white royal icing with gel coloring and vanilla or lemon extract."
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