Farm Birthday Cake
My sister and I also worked on this farm cake today. It's an 8" vanilla cake, a 10" chocolate cake and a 6" chocolate smash cake. Buttercream frosting and all fondant and gumpaste decorations. We had such fun working on this and the parents were just wowed when they came to pick it up. I think this is my favorite cake we've made. I hope I don't forget anyone, but thank you to the following for their inspiration cakes or directions and pictures on modeling animals: Aine2, cakeboxsoc, cuppie cakes, & brucakes
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Puppy Birthday Cake
Here's a cake my sister and I worked on today for a friend of hers. Her little girl is turning 2 and all she would say she wanted for her cake was a puppy and lipstick. So, we tried to make it look like the puppy got into the purse, and drug everything out and ended up with the makeup at her doghouse. Lots of fun to make and the birthday girl LOVED it! It's a 6" strawberry cake with buttercream frosting. All fondant and gumpaste decorations. Thank you to cakeblondie here on CC for her inspiration cake.
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Cupcake Birthday Cake
This cake is for my niece's birthday. She just turned 4, and she picked this cake out from some pictures we showed her for us to make. It's an 8" chocolate cake on the bottom, a 6" strawberry cake on top and a jumbo chocolate cupcake for the topper. Frosted in buttercream with fondant decorations. Thanks to cakesbyashley on Flickr for the inspiration cake.
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Basketball Cake
The bottom cake is a 1/4 sheet cake in chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting. The basketball is a 6" yellow butter cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and then covered in fondant. The jersey is also made of fondant. I got the inspiration from a couple of cakes I had seen either here or on Flickr.
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Pink And Grey Wedding Cake
This is a dummy cake I made today because we are snowed in. I've been dying to try some new techniques and practice my roses. All three tiers are styrofoam, 6/8/10 combination. Combination of MMF and Satin Ice fondant used to decorate with. Still need to add a few more roses, but really pleased with how it turned out!
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Present Cake
This is a 1/4 sheet cake in vanilla with vanilla buttercream frosting. The cake batter was tinted to match the color scheme of the decorations and create a "rainbow" cake. The name tag was made from color flow and the bow was fondant. This is the first fondant bow I had made and my sister did the color flow name tag.
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Bright Birthday Cake
This is a cake my sister and I did for a birthday party today. Inspiration cake from Sweet Cakes by Rebecca from a picture she posted on Flickr. The bottom tier is an 8" chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The middle tier is a 6" strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream. And the top tier is a 4" vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. Decorations are buttercream, fondant and gumpaste.
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Super Mario Bomb Cake
My son saw a cake like this on Flickr and asked if I could make it for his birthday. What good is it having a mom that makes cakes if you can't get the cake you want? So I turned in and this is the cake he ended up with. The bottom is made of two layers of chocolate cake and one layer of vanilla cake. The "bomb" on top is half chocolate cake and half vanilla cake. The cake is frosted in vanilla buttercream on the bottom tier and chocolate buttercream on the "bomb". Decorations are made of fondant. My cake is not nearly as good as the inspiration cake, plus I didn't make a Mario, but I'm pleased with how it turned out and my son loved it!
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Rocket Ship And Moon Cake
This is a cake my sister and I did for a little boy's birthday. The rocket ship and the moon are marble cake and the cupcakes are vanilla. All have vanilla buttercream frosting and the moon is also covered in fondant. The stars on top of the cupcakes and on the cake board are fondant. The blue cake board is a foam core board. Inspiration came from a similar cake I saw on Flickr. The mom said the little boy just stared at it and said "Wow".
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Ghost Cake
This is the very first fondant cake I made. It is three 6" rounds stacked with a half ball stacked on top of that. It is covered in MMF. Eyes and Boo are both made of fondant. I stuck tissue paper under the bottom edges of the fondant to create the ruffled/floating look. It was made to be auctioned at the Fall Festival at my kids school.
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Zebra Guitar Birthday Cake
This is the first carved cake I'd attempted and the second fondant cake. Base cake is a 1/2 sheet plus a 1/4 sheet. It is all buttercream. The guitar was carved from another 1/2 sheet cake and covered in fondant. I used my kids Guitar Hero controller for a template. Cake was about 2.5 feet long. The birthday girl loved it!