Nightmare Before Christmas
I made this cake for my best friend's birthday. Her birthday is just before Christmas, and she said she was tired of getting Christmas cakes for her birthday. But her favorite holiday is Halloween. So I told her I wanted to make her a Christmas cake she would love. And she did! Lol. The cake is Choc WASC, choc filling, covered in ganache and fondant. All elements are handmade with fondant/gumpaste. The "cube" is hand painted. :o) Thank you for looking!
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Star Birthday Cupcakes
Cupcakes for my DD's birthday at school. I spent so much time planning her party and making her cake, I forgot her cupcakes till the night before. So I decided to go with something simple. She loved them, and I got to be the class hero for a day. lol. TFL! Cupcakes are banana cake with strawberry cream cheese filling, BC swirl and fondant stars
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Toy Story Bed Birthday
I made this cake for my daughter's 7th birthday. She's a huge Toy Story fan, and while I was looking for ideas for her cake, she decided she wanted Andy's bed. I found a ton of inspiration from CCs here, but mainly from this cake by mom2twogrlz: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1654712 Thanks so much! The cake is banana with strawberry cream cheese filling, covered in ganache and fondant. All is edible including the image of Buzz dipping Jessie (my daughter's fav part of the movie is when Buzz is speaking spanish and dancing with Jessie, lol) Thanks so much for looking!
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Safari First Birthday
I had a blast doing this cake. It was for a little boys first birthday, and his mom said she always called him "monkey." :o) The bottom tier is WASC with Lemon Cream Cheese filling, covered in fondat. The top tier is chocolate WASC with Strawberry Mousse filling and iced in BC. The smash cake is marble with Strawberry Mousse filling. All accents are either fondant or 50/50 gumpaste/fondant. I want to thank CC members, because I get a lot of recipes here. :o) Also, I don't know if this caker is on CC, but here is the inspiration cake: http://melcakewalk.blogspot.com/2010/04/monkey-safari-birthday-cake.html I hope yall like it! :o)
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"aphrodisiac Cake"
My MIL asked me to do this cake for a guy at work who had just remembered his girlfriend's birthday was coming up in two days. So, I rushed and stay up till morning for two nights getting this done. The cake is WASC Chocolate cake, with Strawberry Mousse filling. Iced in buttercream, with fondant roses and chocolate dipped strawberries. I didn't want to write on the cake, so I used a gumpaste tag. Also all the "drips" are melted chocolate. My husband gave the cake it's name. lol. I had fun doing this cake, because the guy only knew he wanted strawberries and chocolate, but had no idea about design. So this is what I came up with. I'm really proud of it. :o)
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Woody Cake
I made this cake for a boy I met through Icing Smiles. Isaac was celebrating an end to his chemotherapy with a cake, and he's a huge Woody fan. The cake was chocolate with chocolate filling and covered in fondant. Woody, the boot and the hat were all made by fondant/gumpaste. The only thing that wasn't edible was the string I used to thread through the brim of his hat. I thought I could have done better, but Isaac and his family loved it, and that's all that matters! TFL :o)
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Funeral Cake
Never heard of a funeral cake till I was asked to do this one. It was for my father in law's wive's aunt who passed away. She asked for a simple sheet cake with flowers. It's butter cake iced in buttercream. I wish I could take credit for the flowers, but because she asked for this 2 days ahead of time, i thought it'd be better just to buy them and place them on. I piped leaves around them to fill in the gaps.
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Black And Yellow Birthday Cake
Here is a cake my brother in law asked me to do for his friend's surprise birthday party. It was last minute and all he gave me were the colors and said she didn't like flowers, so this is what I came up with. The cakes are 7" and 10". Both are red velvet with cream cheese filling. Covered in buttercream with fondant accents. To me, it was a little much on the yellow and black, but that's what he said she likes, so here it is! The letters of her name are difficult to see and it might not be the best picture (taken with my camera phone). My camera wasn't charged at the time and he came and whisked it away to the party before I had time to get some good pictures. lol.
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Christmas Party Cake
We had a Christmas Party pot luck at DH's work last week and this was my contribution. He gave me very little notice and this is what I came up with. The bottom tier is chocolate butter cake with chocolate peppermint filling. The top is butter cake with french vanilla filling. Both covered in mmf with mmf and buttercream accents. Oh, the border on the bottom tier is leftover marshmallows that I didn't use for the mmf. I wanted to make the bow myself, but I had already stayed up for nearly two days making it, and I just didn't have the time. It came out great though! Nobody wanted to cut the cake! LOL.
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Frogs In A Pond
This cake was for my girls (just a few of my guinea pigs. lol). This was one idea off my "cake idea" to do list. It's a quarter sheet butter cake with chocolate filling. It's covered and decorated in homemade lemon buttercream (well most of it, the flowers were tube icing). The pond is piping gel, the frogs and lily pads are homemade lemon mmf. I really enjoyed making this cake. I think I'm getting faster, cuz this one only took me two days (day one: baking, filling, crumbcoating. day two: icing, decorating) I was really surprised I got it done so quickly, and with no stress at all!
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Brush Embroidery Stencil Cake
This cake was the first time I actually got buttercream really smooth. Of course, I'm still perfecting it, but I'm gettin there! It's a basic yellow cake, french vanilla filling. I covered it in white chocolate, smoothed it, then covered it in buttercream and smoothed it. The flowers were my first attempt at brush embroidery. Everything else was made with stencils. I had a hard time keeping straight lines. My hand was shaking like crazy. But all in all, it wasn't so bad. DH took it to work, and everybody loved it.
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Chocolate Bouquet Cake
Made this cake for a friend who's about to have a baby boy. She already had a shower, so this cake was my way of saying congrats. It's a yellow cake with chocolate pudding filling, covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. The roses and balls are molding chocolate. I was really excited about this one, cuz it was my first time making the fondant (previously I used the Wilton kind, but nobody liked it) and chocolate myself and my first time doing chocolate roses. They came out really well, and everyone loved how it tasted.
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Flower Mini Cakes
I just did these cakes yesterday to test my hand at mini cakes. I know they aren't really right for this season, since they look more spring-ish. My hubby said I should make them anyway for picture purposes. Originally, they were supposed to be tiered cakes, but the tiers didn't come out how I wanted them. I used a cupcake/muffin pan to make the cakes. I think I'll try something different next time. lol. Cakes are marble cake with peanut butter. Buttercream icing covered in fondant. Flowers are fondant, and other decorations are buttercream. For some reason, I thought smaller cakes equaled less time and work, but I was SO WRONG. lol. These took a few hours and were the same if not more work than the regular size cakes I've made. lol.
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Charlie Brown And The Pumpkin Patch
This was a practice cake. I wanted to test my hand at making figures out of fondant. It wasn't for anything. My husband ate it. lol. The cake is chocolate with cherry coke. The filling is chocolate pudding with crushed cherries. Frosting is storebought chocolate since it was just a practice cake. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and pumpkins all hand made out of fondant. Vines are colored store bought frosting. This is my first time posting a picture, so I hope that's enough info! Thanks for looking!