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This was for a lingerie shower.
I ran out of time on this cake and had to put the fondant on while the cake was really cold. Then I airbrushed the layers. For some reason the bottom layer started to sweat really badly and I couldn't get the purple dots to stick; they kept sliding off. I just stuck a toothpick in the middle of them to hold them in place and covered that with a coordinating dot of buttercream. I told the client about the toothpicks and she made sure they were taken out when the cake was cut. This is my second topsy cake. I don't really like doing them.
This cake was really fun to do. It was for a man who told his wife he wanted a cake of his two favorite things; TVs and TaTas. So that's what she ordered! She wanted to incorporate Ga football on it too, so I made the girl wearing a Ga bikini. I also decided to go with an old school tv because it was more recognizable. Modern tvs just look like picture frames. :) All buttercream except for the girl and the controls.
I've been learning how to work with gumpaste for the past week and this is probably the third or fourth cake on which I've used it. This was by far the hardest cake I've done with it. For some reason my royal icing wouldn't set and the 2 kept slipping. Also my gumpaste curls kept breaking. Ugh! Thankfully I had made extras so I was still able to get the cake done. The icing and dots are buttercream, the loops and curls and 2 are gumpaste.
This is strawberry cake that I carved down into a hula girl shape. Her skin is fondant, but the rest of her is buttercream.
I made this cake for a friend's shower. I have been wanting to try gum paste for awhile and this is my second attempt at using it. I think it turned out well, though I do see a lot of room for improvement. This cake was a lot of un to make, too. :)
My camera didn't seem able to take a good picture of this cake; the colors are all washed out. Shoes and lei are made of gumpaste. I strung the flowers onto dental floss but next time I do it I think I'll put a small fondant bead in between each flower. Otherwise, I'm happy with this cake experiment. :)
Chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
Red velvet cake with buttercream frosting. Cut from a ten inch square cake and hand drawn with buttercream icing.
This was made for a 5&6 year old girl's softball team. The father had seen a picture of a ladybug cake and wanted one made for the team. It's tie dyed cake with buttercream icing and she was lots of fun to make. :)
Chocolate and strawberry cake with buttercream icing.
You can't really tell it from the picture, but the fish is 3d. I carved it from a half sheet cake. It's all buttercream with airbrush details. I have no idea what kind of fish this is. All the order said was "fishing theme" so I got a magazine and found a fish. Lol. :)
This cake was the first time I'd decided to enter a contest. I'm a self taught decorator all the way and I've learned everything through trial and error, the latter being a BIG part of my journey. This cake was going so well and then I turned my back to get more icing and SPLAT. His head fell off! After a minute or two of wondering what to do, I decided to just scrape off the old head and bake a new one. Lesson learned: too much icing on a sphere shaped cake WILL make it fall apart. On the second one I didn't do a dirty icing layer and he held up just fine.
This was carved from a single sheet cake. It's all edible and mostly buttercream. The head, face, and dress are covered in marzipan.
This was made for my uncle, who is a big Nascar fan. The car is 3d carved and all of those little details on it were pretty time consuming. Still lots of fun to make, though, and he really loved it.
Made for a Beatles fan... the submarine is actually 3d but you can't really tell from the picture. The customer loved it. :)
These tie dye cakes seem to be really popular. I didn't get a picture of the inside of this one, since I'm sure the customer didn't want to have a huge hunk of their cake missing, but it was tie dye inside too.
I was experimenting with some new painting techniques on this cake, which I think turned out well even though there is a ton of room for improvement. I will definitely use this technique again.
There seems to be a lot of confusion over this cake. I posted this under "disasters" because most everyone who saw it (myself included) thought it looked very funereal. It was meant as something sweet for a new mother's birthday but came across as sort of creepy. The customer loved it, though, and I'm hoping his wife did too. :) Since I've gotten the comments below I decided to move this picture into another gallery but I'm not sure which one. Any suggestions? This is a cookie cake with cupcake baby doll decorated with buttercream frosting.
This was for a mom who was doing her nursery in a Ga Bulldog theme. This is the cool whip icing (sometimes people call it free flow or bettercreme) and the dog is hand drawn, but the pacifier is real.
This is a 3d sheet cake I did for a little girl's birthday. It's fully edible and mostly buttercream. I cut the horse's torso and head from a sheet cake and modeled the legs with fondant. The airbrushing was more of a cocoa color with black accents but it darkened pretty quickly. Next time I know to make it lighter than I want the color to actually be.
This was for my dad's 50th birthday. My mom had chosen a 60's theme for the party and mostly everyone showed up in tie dyed shirts. I decided to try out the rainbow cake method I'd seen on YouTube with this cake and it worked really well. Everyone was really surprised when they cut the cake open. No one wanted the top layer chocolate cake; they all wanted to try the rainbow cake. :)
This cake was a blast to make! It's all edible except the figures and is mostly buttercream. The only fondant is on the rooftops. This is my second castle cake and the first one where I used cone towers. :)
This goes along with the sports ball cake I did. These were the smash cakes for the twin boys. Yellow cupcakes, buttercream icing.
This cake was massive. Yellow cake with buttercream frosting.
The balls are cupcakes. All buttercream.
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