Chevron And Pearl Bridal Shower Cake
A fun small bridal shower cake. 6" and 4" tiers. Lemon cake, raspberry filling with lemon buttercream. Chevrons, pearls and flower are fondant. I adapted the design from a pinterest post that showed several coordinating cakes in this chevron design and color pallet. Kudos to original designer.
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Doc Mcstuffins Birthday Cake
A cake I did several weeks ago for a little girl whose cakes I've done since before she was born! It's Doc McStuffins inspired. Two 9" rounds stacked--top french vanilla and bottom tier chocolate. Buttercream frosted with fondant skirt, stripes and polka dots. Gumpaste topper coated with Disco dust and the flags I made and attached to the cute striped purple straws.
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Chevron Peach And Aqua Birthdy Cake
A cake for a friend whose name is Michelle but whose nickname is T-chelle. Three cakes. Two 8" cakes on bottom, carrot with cream cheese filling, and vanilla with bavarian cream filling, both frosted in buttercream. Top 6" tier is chocolate with chocolate buttercream under two thin coats of aqua BC. Fondant decor. PS. I hate doing chevrons!! ;) The picture does not show how shiny the gold was. I used gold highlighter dust and gold luster dust.
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Baby Jungle Cake
Glad this one's done! My husband cooked a few items by accident and I had to make new fondant palm trees and a few animals. Buttercream frosted and fondant decor and molded hand painted baby. Took me a couple of tries to get the pith helmet right! But the mom to be loved it and that made the extra angst worth it.
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Violet Flower Pot Cake With Bcterra-Cotta Pot
Made this for a friend of my daughter's who had a baby girl named Violet. I had a hard time photographing this...why does violet tend to turn blue? Any way it looked much better in person. This was a small 6" vanilla cake with raspberry filling. The 'pot' is buttercream...and yes,it's meant to look a little rough textured! :D. I have cookie crumbs in the pot and the flowers and leaves are a mix of fondant and gum paste.
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Vintage Downton Abbey Inspired Birthday Cake
Buttercream frosted 3-layer french vanilla 7" cake with fondant accents. Rose ball is piped buttercream rose technique on a styrofoam ball. Gold accents are fondant as is pearl necklace. Made for my SIL who (like me) is obsessed with Downton Abbey and loves all things vintage.
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Flowers And Butterflies Birthday Cake
Last minute cake for a dear friend of mine. She loves flowers and raises butterflies so the theme is obvious. Buttercream frosted with fondant flowers. Watering can is a mix of fondant and gumpaste. Colored the fondant gray and dusted it with pearl dust. Antiqued it with a mix of brown and green gel color mixed with lemon extract.
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Avenger Theme Cake
My version of an Avenger cake picture that was sent to me. Design credit goes to person unknown but I thank them. I added the Captain America symbol in front. Cake is a tres leches layer cake. Big thanks to CC member sweettreat101 for her help with the tres leches recipe and how to make it 2 layers instead of the usual 1 layer. I could not have done this without her! Buttercream frosted with fondant Avenger's logo and hero faces. Third cake in an Avenger theme birthday party for 3 little 'superheroes'.
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Thor Avenger Cake
The Thor Cake. Part of three cakes I did with an Avenger theme for two little boys. Cake is chocolate with fresh strawberry filling, chocolate buttercream with a couple of thin layers of blue buttercream topping it to give it the blue background. Hand cut gum paste letters, silver helmet and lightening bolt. Fondant face and hair. I used silver luster dust on grey fondant for the helmet.
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Purple And Black Modern Wedding Cake
Direct copy from a cake I saw on here from a.funk. I loved it so much and when my best friend called and wanted a last minute cake for her son's impromptu wedding I was thrilled to try it. 7" and 6" squares frosted with smoothed buttercream, french vanilla cake with alternating layers of bavarian cream and raspberry filling. Fantasy flowers, vines and leaves are fondant.
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First Birthday Cake For Little Girl I Did The Baby Gender Reveal Cake Baby Shower And Now This One For Her Design Based On Invitation
First birthday cake for little girl. I did the baby gender reveal cake, baby shower and now this one for her! Design based on invitations. Chocolate cake with a caramel, pecan and ganache filling. Chocolate BC underneath the pink BC.
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Halloween Witch Leg Cake
Copied the witch leg bottom tier from the My Cake School tutorial. The problem with producing a cake for your own party is that you never have enough time to get everything done!! So, the shoes don't have the detail that I wanted and the skirts are only 2 instead of three little ruffles and the stars on curly wires that I had planned to put on didn't get on...but even so...it was a fun cake for our witch murder mystery party. Top tier vanilla with lime curd and bottom tier vanilla with pistachio filling.
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Double Birthday
While on vacation in Montana, my SIL and her 1 year old granddaughter celebrated birthdays. I was asked to make a cake for both of them. So with quite an age difference between them, I tried to come up with something they both would like that might coordinate. The bottom tier is hand painted to look like the Franciscan apple design that my SIL loves and collects and the top is a ladybug for my grand-niece. I took the wrong size pan for the ladybug with me so it's larger than I wanted, but she didn't care. This is not my favorite cake but it was made with love...in a kitchen that I was very unfamiliar with and a limited supply of cake tools!
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Tiffany Blue Box Cake
40th Birthday cake for a lady who loves Tiffany. My interpretation of a design given to me off the internet, so I don't know who to give credit to...but all Tiffany cakes are closely related aren't they? :D This is two 9 x 13 french vanilla cakes stacked with lemon curd as filling. I was panicked about the lettering until I found these letter cutters. I just adjusted the size of the two capital letters to make it look more like the logo. Buttercream with fondant strip around top sides to give it that box look (matching it to the icing was a trip!). Gumpaste bow and bracelet and fondant pearls. The tag was a Wilton icing sheet I cut with an eyelet design scrapbook punch and lettered with food color pin.
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1St Birthday Cake
I did the baby shower cake for this sweet little girl and yesterday I got to do her first birthday cake. I hope I get to do many more! This is a 10" and 5" buttercream chocolate cake with a whipped chocolate ganache filling. I was told to do something with butterflies, flowers and to use orange and purple. All the decor is fondant and edible except the two butterfly toppers. They were so shiny and sparkly I couldn't resist them. I used one of the newer Wilton molds for the greenery and the orange border around the top tier.
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Christening Cake For Baby Boy
My next door neighbor called at the last minute and wanted a christening cake for her baby grandson. 7" three layer french vanilla buttercream cake with lemon curd filling. Decor is fondant. I thought the sides looked boring so I added a filigree stamp. Sprinkled with baby blue disco dust and white pixie dust.
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Giraffe Baby Shower Cake
My friend's niece wanted a giraffe theme, so I made a 4-layer 9" round buttercream French Vanilla cake with alternating layers of Bavarian cream and raspberry filling. The fondant/gumpaste giraffe is sitting on a one layer 5" round. The base is smoothed buttercream and the decor is fondant. She loved it, and that counts more than my whining about doing yet another jungle cake! ;D
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Old School Buttercream Wedding Tier
An 'Old School' (as Buddy the Cake Boss would say) buttercream wedding cake for my next door neighbors. A copy of their top tier from 30 years ago and a surprise from their daughters. I suck at buttercream roses so I did those in fondant--by hand--no cutters. I definitely need to practice my piping skills! Four layer 7" French Vanilla round with alternating layers of Bavarian Cream and Raspberry filling. TFL!
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Flower Pot Cake
A welcome cake for our new neighbors. French vanilla cake with lemon curd filling. Buttercream iced with fondant flowers and pot decor. I used one of the Wilton molds for the pot decor. Oreo 'dirt'. Two 6" squares on a 5" square that I tapered to look like a flower pot. Not my favorite cake, but considering the short time span, it's OK. TFL!