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Marie Antionette-inspired wedding cake for two brides who wanted an elegant cake. Used real fresh flowers on the top of the cake and put more flowers on the cake at the wedding venue. SMBC as a base under the fondant---cake was multiple flavors. Thanks for looking!
Tardis cake from the show "Doctor Who"....chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream, ganached and fondanted. Used fondant panels that had hardened over a week in order to make the perfect box shape. Cake was about 11 inches tall. Thanks for looking!
White cake with chocolate buttercream Large sculpted dinosaur cake made for a first birthday party The head was made out of RKT and the tail and legs were made out of fondant. Ganached and fondanted. The cake also had two dozen cupcakes and a small smash cake.
Four-tier wedding cake (strawberry with raspberry filling and triple citrus with lemon buttercream all SMBC'd and fondanted) The bride said "Do what you want" :) For each tier, we wrapped a piece of burlap and then a thinner piece of ivory satin ribbon. The pearls were hand-rolled, strung, and draped. We also made floral brooches and skeleton keys. The top flower is real and was placed on top in a pinch until we arrived at the venue to scope out the other flowers (see the final picture with the blue hydrangea--what a difference a flower can make to a cake!) Thanks for looking!
Orange cake with orange creamsicle filling, ganached and fondanted...bodice made of RKT Made for a woman's mother who loves the show "I Love Lucy"--this dress is inspired from the scene where Lucy is in the chocolate factory. Cake was made using the Wilton dress pan Little poof hat and chocolates are on the bottom of the board, too :) Thanks for looking!
Walking Dead cake...Chocolate with Peanut Butter filling...made for a 13 year old boy and his father (who share the same birthday). Customer came in with a picture and wanted the same exact cake (this cake design originated from "Sweets to the Sweet" who is based in Atlanta). Everything is edible and made of fondant/gumpaste except for the doors, which were cardboard covered in fondant. Thanks for looking!
Superman Wedding Cake White cake with strawberry filling, ganached and fondanted The bride wanted me to surprise her groom with a Superman wedding cake--my employees and I wanted to do something that was very elegant so we went with the concept of Superman and his bride (modeled after the couple) flying into the clouds around a cityscape. The "windows" on the buildings were piped with royal icing. Thanks for looking!
Superhero Birthday Cake A combination of chocolate and white cake with chocolate/vanilla buttercream, ganached and fondanted Hand-cut logos of Batman, Iron Man, and a half-dome head of Spider Man (RI was used to do the webbing--SO HARD on a round surface!!) Thanks for looking :)
Ivory and Lace Wedding Cake White cake with white buttercream, SMBC'd and fondanted. Cake went with about 15 dozen cupcakes (seen in next photo). The cake topper was made by the bride--she cut it out of paper :) Thanks for looking!
'Stache Bash Cake and Cupcakes Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream, ganached and fondanted with accompanying red velvet and gluten free fondant capped cupcakes. Mother of the birthday girl wanted the white on top of the cupcakes so that the kids could hold the cupcakes up to their faces for photo ops :) Thanks for looking!
Marie Antionette Bridal Shower Cake White cake with white buttercream, ganached and fondanted. Gumpaste roses and ranunculas (they were more fantasy flower-like!). Gumpaste brooches and pearls were guilded and dusted with luster dust. Thanks for looking!
Ivory cake--dummy cake piped using royal icing. a 0, 1, 2, and 13-star tip was used. Took me about 17 hours just for the piping! The flowers on top are real. Thank you for looking!
Paisley Cake--dummy cake covered in fondant and accented with blue, green, and white paisleys. Gumpaste flower on top :) Thanks for looking!
Ombre Petal Cake--styrofoam dummy cake covered in individual petals...it took two of my employees plus me 20 hours to complete. We finished off the top with two burgundy poppy flowers. The cake was made for a bridal expo and we will "finish" the cake off with a few more small flowers on the top...the cake is very "Maggie Austin-esque" :) TFL!
My entry for the 2012 CNY Cake Competition that took place in Ithaca, NY, on October 6th. I placed second in the Adult 3 (Advanced) division! The cake took about 36 hours and actually had a bottom tier that broke horribly 2 minutes before reaching the hotel after a 5 hour drive! The black records are made of gumpaste and have a styrofoam core. TFL!
Yellow cake with buttercream with a ganache basecoat covered in fondant. The bottom portion is cake while the top part is styrofoam. Made with gumpaste coins, pearls, and isomalt sugar gems. The cake was made for a guy they call "Golden Boy". Thanks for looking!
One evening, I was hammered with several Pizza Hut commercials (and the subsequent craving to order a pizza!) so I decided to make a cookie set of a pizza picnic. Pizza, pizza slices, a bag of chips, red coke glasses with straws, and little white paper plates. Also, the LARGE sugar cookie picnic blanket. The patterning was airbrushed.
Baptism cupcakes...strawberry banana cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and orange cupcakes with orange buttercream. The colors and animal heads were modeled after the party decor. I particularly enjoyed making the ark. Everything is made out of gumpaste. Thanks for looking!
Red sox hat cake--chocolate cake with peanut butter filling and chocolate buttercream. Logo was hand-carved. Thanks for looking!
Lighthouse cake made for an 80 year old's birthday. She is particularly fond of this lighthouse that is located on Nantucket. The cake (which is the body of the lighthouse) is made of red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and covered in chocolate ganache. The top piece is predominantly edible--there is a cardboard round covered in black fondant that is providing support. The windows were all hand cut and they also have "glass" (which are overhead transparencies). The light is a little battery-powered blinking light that I bought at a craft store. The walkway is one solid cut piece of gumpaste (with the vertical white pieces being cut skewers that I painted with white food coloring). As for the pink flamingo: it is a family joke :) Thanks for looking!
My submission to the 2012 Connecticut Cake Competition. Inspired by a 1940's wedding dress dedicated to my grandmother, who did not have a wedding dress when she married my grandfather in 1944 (she could only afford a suit). The cake took 57 hours of which 24 hours were spent on the flowers. The cake is real (white/yellow with non-dairy buttercream) and was donated to a soup kitchen after the event! The sewing box is also made of real cake (with a wooden skeleton and paneled with gumpaste) and could open and close. Thanks for looking!
Hat cake and cupcakes all decked out in 49ers gear for a huge fan (obviously!) Hat cake was white cake with chocolate buttercream and the cupcakes were a mix of white and chocolate cupcakes with buttercream. The logo on the hat was hand-made but the logos on the cupcakes were used with my edible printer. Thanks for looking!
Sorry that this photo is so blurry...the other photos are better! Cake trio for my daughter's first birthday party to go with a "Shabby Chic" theme. I created cakes for the adults (the green one is chocolate with salted caramel buttercream, and the pink one is yellow with raspberry buttercream) and a little 4 inch "smash cake" for my daughter (white cake with chocolate frosting). The green one has pearl necklaces draped all down the backside of the cake, and they have gumpaste and dragee brooches on the front. The pink cake has an ombre effect--I took strips of varying colors of pink and used my stitching tool to make them look like strips of fabric. The flowers on the top are real (a ranuncula and English rose). The ivory cake has a gumpaste bunny on the top (which is my daughter's nickname). Thanks for looking!
I made this cake for my sorority chapter's 30th anniversary (the Epsilon Kappa chapter at St. Lawrence University). The flavors are chocolate cake with coconut SMBC, chocolate cake with cookie dough bites, and red velvet with cream cheese. I hand-painted parts of our symphony on the cake and sculpted two owls (with sparkly bows) out of gumpaste. Thanks for looking!
Simple four-tier white wedding cake with black satin ribbon and gumpaste white anemone flowers. Cake flavors are white cake with SMBC and chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling. The bride wanted just the ribbon base but I pulled a creative last-minute decision and put the tiny black dots along the ribbon to help tie in the stamen centers and to also give the cake a little more detail. Thanks for looking!
6 inch yellow cake with buttercream frosting and 8 inch midnight chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream and fleur de sel salt Design was inspired by a cake found on Google search. The snowman is made out of yellow cake with buttercream filling. To give it structure, each cake ball was coated with white chocolate and then covered in gumpaste. The "ice wall" behind the snowman was a change in the design to accommodate the fact that the snowman wasn't positioned in the middle of the top tier but rather more towards the front. The hardest part of this cake? The hat and scarf!!
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