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This was another xBox cake I did for a groom's cake, but the bride asked me to include a replica of a Red Baron pizza box on top. The pizza box was made out of RKT and hand-painted.
This cake was a conglomeration of flavors, with the anniversary tier being red velvet and chocolate and filled with ganache. The other tiers were red velvet with cream cheese filling and chocolate with cookies and cream filling. The entire cake was covered in Vanilla Meringue Buttercream icing. The bride and groom loved it! It was our first attempt at decorating an entire cake in meringue buttercream and Laura, Cake Decorator Supreme, did a fantastic job!
Red velvet with cream cheese icing and covered in fondant. This cake was for a musician and he loved it!
Hand-painted on fondant. Golden Yellow Pound Cake and Chocolate Meringue Buttercream.
Hand-painted illustration of a Crumb comic. Golden Yellow Pound Cake with Chocolate Meringue Buttercream.
This cake was for an Independence Day picnic. I suggested to my friend that I do something special for the cake that included her and her husband, so I put their heads on the body of bald eagles and voila! Chocolate butter cake with buttercream frosting (organic shortening). Bald eagle illustrations and lettering done in chocolate.
This cake was created for a family that was celebrating many birthdays at one party. All the figures are made of gum paste and sculpted to resemble each of the people celebrating a birthday. Extra details corresponded to their hobbies or passions. The cake board is fashioned after the Game of Life. Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.
This was an orange butter cake with an orange mousse filling. Very refreshing and light. Perfect for a summer treat. Tie-dyed icing is swiss meringue buttercream in different colors, dolloped on the cake and then merged together with a metal spatula. I piped and carved swirlies to give in a slight Van Gogh look. So much fun to do!
This cake was for a local farm owner's birthday. They asked for parsnips on the cake, so I painted the parsnips, lettering and some of the side grass in chocolate. The rest of the cake is covered in vanilla buttercream (made with organic shortening, as always) and piping while the inside is chocolate butter cake with the vanilla buttercream filling. Chocolate painting is so much fun. I'm getting waaaay to obsessed with it!
This was the first cake I ever iced completely. No fondant. Chocolate cake with a swiss meringue and strawberry puree buttercream filing. Icing on the outside was a typical buttercream, but, as always, I use an organic shortening that is non-hydrogenated. I altered the Wilton buttercream recipe to accommodate organic shortening and it worked!!! All of our cakes are made with local and/or organic ingredients and I used a whole wheat organic flour from Lancaster, PA for this cake as well as local strawberries. It actually came out a little more moist than usual, which was a good thing! Wheels were made of covered Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies. Icing a cake is much like painting it, so I enjoyed it. Just took a lot of patience. Face is made of 50/50 gumpaste and fondant mix.
Hand-painted on fondant. Vanilla cake, swiss meringue buttercream and fresh strawberries. The kids loved it. Every piece was eaten!!!
New Moon-themed cake. Piping on vanilla fondant. Ruffled tulip made of gum paste and hand-painted. Red velvet with cream cheese icing. Paper cutout of trees for the background. A lot of fun to create compositionally!
Twilight-themed cake with hand-painted design on vanilla fondant. Apple is a small cake, which was also hand-painted. Red velvet with cream cheese icing. Paper cut-out form under base of cake.
Life size, Chevelle Jackson guitar for a 40th birthday. Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. Fondant, including details. Hand-painted. Cake was not that tasty. Not a great recipe, but the cake was a hit!
Happy 89th, Grammy! I hand-painted this portrait of my Gram. She was a young 18 in this photo. So beautiful and classic that I had to put pink, pearl-dusted "pearls" around the bottom. It reminds me of Rita Hayworth. Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.
This cake was a challenge, but so much fun! Fantastic vanilla cake recipe with swiss meringue buttercream icing. Lightning McQueen sculpted in RKT and covered in buttercream and fondant. Rest of cake is covered in fondant. Hand-painted "Rusteze" logo.
We made this cake for a 40th birthday party and it was a hit! No cracking in the fondant. Yeah! We did try to use silver metallic glaze on the bottom of the iPod, but we found out that the silver glaze is only good for smaller areas (i.e. the dial on the iPod). We ended up adding a band of gray fondant around the bottom. We also have to practice lettering. Perhaps, stenciling will be our next attempt! Everything else was a success. Chocolate cake with swiss meringue buttercream/ganache filling. We also sculpted beautiful earbuds that the customer decided she wants to cure and use as an art piece in her home.
This was a birthday cake for a dedicated Bob Dylan fan, based on a 1966 poster by Milton Glaser. Red velvet and cream cheese icing (all made from scratch with local and/or organic ingredients) and hand painted. This was the first time the fondant came out silky smooth! No cracks. It was a miracle! For Bob's hair, we built up layers of sculpted fondant.
From scratch chocolate cake with swiss-meringue buttercream icing. Colored the fondant, hand-painted details and sculpted all the animals. Added royal icing to the cake base, but didn't let it dry overnight. Thankfully, it ended up looking like sand or dirt and worked with the theme. A lot of fun! Still learning, however. It's only my third cake to date!
This cake was a 12x18x2 rectangular cake, which I made for my brother's "moving to London" party. I used fondant on top, Wilton buttercream icing and hand-painted the Queen Elizabeth portrait, originally done by Andy Warhol. I love painting on fondant!
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