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Happy New Year!
New Years Cake for my parents! Champagne bottle is strawberry cake filled with whipped white chocolate ganache, strwaberry mousse, and champagne buttercream. Wooden box is chocolate cake filled with whipped chocolate ganache and fudge filling. "Wood" is made of modeling chocolate; bottle is covered in fondant; filler and grapes made with fondant.
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Purse Cake
One of my mothers-in-law has a birthday on New Year's Eve and we won't be there, so I made this Chanel purse cake to take up to her today. It's dark chocolate cake filled with whipped ganache, peanut butter mousse, and fudge filling. Cake is covered with fondant, with gumpaste dog, handles, zipper pull, and logo.
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Candle Cake
I saw the pretty candle cakes everyone has been making, so I really wanted to try one, too! Cake is vanilla bean white chocolate, with whipped white chocolate ganache and almond slivers, and whipped white chocolate ganache and raspberry jam. Cake is covered in fondant, with handpainted details. The melted wax part is candy melts, and there is a tealight in the middle.
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Pa Retirement Cake
Cake for two of my dad's PA friends who are retiring. The books are almond cake with amaretto buttercream and almond slivers, covered in fondant; the bag is vanilla cake with vanilla bean buttercream, covered in fondant; and the lettering, PA symbol, and prescription note are gumpaste.
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Cupcakes
Cupcakes for surprise bridal shower --dark chocolate cupcake with fudge filling topped with whipped dark chocolate ganache. Some are garnished with handmade fondant roses and leaves, others with a raspberry and white chocolate shavings, and the others with dragees and fondant hearts painted with pearl dust.