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Inspired by the "Hugs & Stitches" theme/decor, this is a 6" Round /8" Petal/10" Round cake. Top & Bottom Tier (three-layer) are Dark Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream, while the Center Tier (two-layer) and Smash cake (one-layer) are Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Fondant/Gum Paste accents all hand cut, molded, and painted with gel food color/vodka. I used a canvas fabric to imprint the cut-outs with texture, and I'm over the moon happy with how this turned out! I'm looking forward to many more birthday cakes for this little girl...
Done on the fly for an impromptu birthday celebration... Dark Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream and fresh Strawberries. Sign post is rice krispy treat covered in fondant and painted with Pearl Dust/Vodka. Lettering cut by hand, Clay Gun used for the outside black line, I "painted" the cake board with colored royal icing and added some gumpaste flowers left over from a previous project... they did make it appear a little more "girly" than I had anticipated, but my dad's not afraid of his feminine side so no harm done.
6" Round Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Buttercream, covered in Vanilla Fondant and Fondant Accents. Colors and design based on the scrap booking paper I used to cover the cake board. I have since purchased a frill cutter for any future ruffle cakes, but my first shot wasn't too bad.
6" Round Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream (my new favorite combo!!), for my uncle's 70th Birthday... his nickname is "The Frog" and for the life of my, I have no idea why?!. It was served with 5 dozen cupcakes - Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Strawberries & Cream, and White Chocolate & Raspberry. I made Green Velvet cake balls so I could make little frogs for the cupcakes, but they look like little globby monsters instead. I still think they're cute, though. Cupcake wrappers were hand-cut from a home-made template.
12"-10" Tapered Rectangle, White Chocolate Cake with Raspberry SMBC, Black Satin Ice Fondant, Sushi pieces are cake with fondant accents. Theme was based on Ribbon seen on cake board, design based on Sushi Serving dishes I found online. Will not use pure white fondant for rice in the future, it's a tad too bright. Photos are slightly out of focus because my aperture was set incorrectly. Live and learn.
I loved making this cake!!! Lots of firsts for me... First stenciling, tallest single fondant covered tier (the 6" double barrel), first attempt at edible jewels, first fail at edible jewels (went with gum paste & luster dust instead), first and last time I use a boxed cake mix based recipe (I definitely prefer scratch recipes), and first transportation trouble... the cake was rather tall and narrow, smallest tier was 4". Thanks to Stellastarchild for sharing her converse shoe pattern and directions! The stencil damask pattern, color scheme, and overall design for this cake is based on the party's invitation... see my blog for more details.
I know I need to iron my backdrop, but it was hell just trying to get this cake out the door on time... which I wasn't quite able to do, looongg story. I did have a great time with the modeling, though. Learned a lot about what I am truly capable of accomplishing, in the best possible sense! From top to bottom: Vanilla Cake with Vanilla IMBC, Strawberry Cake with Vanilla IMBC, Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter BC filling (YUM!) and Vanilla IMBC. All covered in Chocolate Fondant in varying shades... animals modeled in fondant, no GP this time. Thanks for looking!
Chocolate & Vanilla Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing. Checkered Heart: Flooded Red first, sprinkled with red sugar, and let dry while working on other cookies. Finished by brushing off excess sugar off and then flooding with white/pink. They didn't last but a day on the kitchen counter... and there are only two of us living here!!! Good thing I took pictures right away.
Chocolate & Vanilla Sugar Cookies with Fondant & Royal Icing accents... Stripes are extruded from Sugar Gun and rolled to 1/8" before cutting. Argyle diamonds were cut from tiny-TINY pattern, lines are piped. Polka-dots were cut with different sized tips, and then rolled into sheet of fondant (Dk Blue strip from Sugar Gun). Time consuming, YES, but they were a gift and worth every minute. I wouldn't mass produce these from fondant as they are now... I might with RI though.
Sugar Cookies with Fondant accents.
The "pineapple" barrel cake is made of four, two-layer 6" round tiers of Pineapple Pound Cake with a Pineapple Glaze filling and Vanilla Buttercream. The "Ocean Floor" is a two-layer 12" round Chocolate Chip Cake with Chocolate Buttercream and is covered in Vanilla Fondant. The decorative accents were hand-modeled from Fondant and Gum Paste, and painted with Silver Pearl Dust where applicable. The window glass and Sandy's helmet are made of Poured Sugar. All said and done, this cake stood between 18 & 20-inches tall. www.mandymakescakes.com
8" Round Chocolate Cake with Vanilla IMBC, 4 Layers. Covered & decorated with Vanilla Fondant. Inspired by Toptier & chilz822 here on CakeCentral.com, as well as the originial from Gateaux Inc. Thank you!!! This was made for my brother's girlfriend's birthday yesterday... it was a big hit! See a simple "how to" for this cake on my website, www.mandymakescakes.com. Questions and constructive critiques are welcome! Thanks for looking!!
Little family of Sugar Cookie people inspired by our lovely neighbors. Clothing made of vanilla fondant, attached to cookies with corn syrup.
Bear modeled of Chocolate Plastic, cake covered in vanilla fondant. Blanket is 50% Fondant, 50% Gum Paste. (Sorry the picture is a little out of focus, this was taken back before I had discovered the art of photography).
4" & 6" square tiers of chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream... something decidedly non-Christmasy for a Christmas Eve birthday.
So much easier the second time around! Everything's edible this time... Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream. Banner reads "Happy Birthday to you!" in Japanese... at least I hope it does. Marbled chocolate & vanilla fondant painted with piping gel to give it a lacquered look.
Birthday Cake for a Gucci Watch collector... didn't know there was such a thing until last week. Used 6 & 8" Rounds to build the cake, Lemon Cake with Raspberry Buttercream. Designed it to look like it's sitting in a watch box without the lid... next time, I'll build the lid... and make the cake a wee bit smaller. (See the actual watch at http://www.gucci.com/us/us-english/us/cruise-10/timepieces/#0-1057896-218076I16J08171 .)
For a Bridal Shower... Bottles are tinted gum paste shaped & dried over real wine bottles. I painted them with green FC after drying for a more realistic color. This is also one of my more favorite cake boards, too.
This is the speed boat cake that never was... but it's super cute just the same!
It's still early in my "modeling" career... still working on the shape of people. I spent too much time on the scuba guy and not enough time smoothing the fondant... but it still looks good!
Made on the fly... but I think it's kind of cute! I'll have to use this 'pattern' again.
6" Round Cake decorated with Fondant Cut-Outs
6" & 8" Tiers covered homemade fondant, not MMF, with 40 Royal Icing Butterflies. Cake Topper cut from Rolled Fondant & dried.
Everything is edible except for the chop sticks... they didn't dry in time so I had to use real ones. Modeled after design in "Confetti Cakes".
My first attempt at a Purse Cake... and it won't be my last. So much fun and so easy thanks to the directions in "Planet Cake". Logo are the initials of the birthday girl.
Flower pots on top of cake are "cupcakes" made without sugar for diabetic Grandmother of a friend. Tools & Gloves made of 50/50 Fondant & Gum Paste and left to dry overnight.
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