Two Little Girls In The Woods
A very specific request for fathers day (or was it grandpa's day?). Two girls sawing wood. The girls should present the grandchildren of this (grand)father. I never met them, so I had two work with 'two blond girls, one of 1 1/2 years old, the other 3 years old'. I couldn't find any examples anywhere, so made this up as I went along. This is what I ended up with and I was quite happy with the results. Second attempt on making girl figurines, first attempt on trees and bambi (I thought adding trees and bambi just kind of gave it the finishing touch). Double chocolate cake, cherry filling, nice combination! All decorations etc vanilla fondant. Thanx for looking!
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Little Farm Life Birthday Cake
For a young mom celebrating her birthday. 'Could you do something with a farm theme?' As she only wanted a small cake to serve 6, I didn't have all that much space to work with, but I still wanted to 'dress it up' a bit. So I made all baby farm animals like piglets and a lamb. Added a few ducks, a scarecrow, a wheelbarrow with litlle carrots, some hay, some flowers, a picket fence. It was a lot of fun to make and I always love how you can still be creative on small cakes. She loved it and left in uncut for three days, because she just didn't want to ruin it. Her boys thought it was Playdoh! I had a laugh over that... all fondant, but still a good guess litlle fellows! Thanx for looking!
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Bike Cake For A 3-Year Old
She desperately wanted a bike for her birtday. Not just a bike, but a bike with polkadots! Also, she wanted a bike birthday cake. I didn't like to make a cake shaped as a bike, so I came up with this. As the mom also preferred a two layer cake, I made this design. Besides the lower stack, a cycling path. The little girl is having a picknick on top and her bike is lying in the grass. I also added some extra details like birds and flowers and stuff. Carrot deluxe with sweet cream cheese filling (own recipe). TFL!
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Puppy Love
This was a very last minute cake. The birthday girl had seen a cake with a puppy I made before and desperately wanted a 'puppy cake' for her birthday. Mom asked me if I could make it on such short notice. The girl has a puppy labrador chocolate brown and her favourite dog, a blond labrador, had just died. I made the chocolate one as a cake topper, as her mom requested, but also made the blond one, kind of hidden underneath a blanket behind the cake. Sort of symbolic. The girl loved it and her mom told me later that no one was allowed to touch the puppy's and they now sleep next to her bed. Too cute!!! Vanilla Sky cake (own recipe, very fluffy vanilla cake with strawberry and cream filling) covered in vanilla fondant. Pups also made out of fondant. Thanks for looking!
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Love Birds
For a first aniversary, 'just a romantic cake for two' she said. I got inspired on CC so thanx a lot ! I like the way it turned out and thankfully, so did the bride-of-one-year. Vanilla Sky (own recipe of fluffy vanilla sponge cake) with cherry and cream filling, decoration with fondant, branches are hand painted with colouring (black) and a drop of wodka.
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Birthday Cake 'ocean' With Mermaid And Dolphins
This very lucky 8-year old birthdaygirl desperately wanted a dolphin on her cake. She just loves the ocean theme so I decided to be a little more creative... and added just a few more details... like... the mermaid, baby dolphin, turtle, coral and.. more. Her parents came to pick up the cake and were just stunned and the birthday girl herself was thrilled. She called me the next day and said it was even better than she could have ever imagined in her most beautiful dreams. Quite a compliment! Needless to say I just had a blast making this cake. A Lemon Delight with Sweet lemon filling (own recipes), decorated with fondant. All the ocean figurines are also made out of fondant. The centerpiece is made out of wood, covered in fondant. The mermaid is partly a Barby doll (as a gift to the B-day girl). Comes with matching cupcakes! Thanx for looking!
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Classical Cake With Fleur De Lis (French Lilly)
I had a little trouble with the bow on top as the first one turned out too big and I had just a short time to make a smaller one, leaving it with not enough time to completely dry out, but... with a little creativity I managed to sort of save it. I used vanilla fondant for decoration, roses are hand made. Pink colour was made by mixing electrical pink with maroon. Thanx for looking!
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First Birthday Baby Blue With Baby Elefant
A two layer vanilla cake filled with strawberry and cream, covered in vanilla fondant for a little birthday boy celebrating his first birthday! The sides are patchwork with litlle flowers, litlle blue birds sitting on the cake and on top a litlle baby elefant on his blanket. The mother wanted a simple birthday cake with classic and cute details. I think it turned out lovely. The cake also comes with sidecakes and matching cupcakes. I even made a seperate cupcake to put on the bottem cake when the top cake was removed. They adored it. Thanx so much for looking!
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Kabouter Plop - Goblin Plop - Gnome Plop - Birthday Cake
'Kabouter Plop' is a very popular tv-series / film for childeren in The Netherlands and Belgium. He is a gnome that lives in a toadstool (sort of mushroom) in the forest with his friends. This little birthday boy turning 2 just loves Plop and wanted a Plop birthday cake. I think it turned out really nice. This fluffy vanilla (sponge) cake is filled with cream and strawberries, covered in marzipan (as a toadstool red with white dots) and decorated with a combination of marzipan and vanilla fondant. I tried to make the Plop figure come to life a bit by making parts 2d/3d and made 3d decorations like toadstools, a blue bird and a little birthday cake with two candles. The boys name is on the side, I used the same font and colours used foor Plops name in the series. He loved it!!! Thanx for looking!
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Musical Birthday Cake With Piano Puppylove And Roses
I simply LOVED making this cake, it was so much fun! For a man turning 40, as a present from his wife. She gave 'carte blanche' in designing the cake, but I managed to put in a lot of personal details. When she came to collect the cake, tears came to her eyes, she was so touched! What a great feeling to make someone so happy. So here goes: The cake is a two layer carrot deluxe (own recipe) with sweetened cream cheese filling and vanilla buttercream as icing. I used both marzipan and vanilla fondant for decorating. The cakeboard is decorated as a piano, using fondant. The red cake is marzipan with musical bars impressed and fondant musical notes attached. The top cake is fondant decorated with '40' in red out of marzipan. The top of the upper cake is edible musical sheet which was handmade. The notes are from his favourite song! The topper is a little dalmation puppy as he simply loves dogs. I chose the Dalmation as the colours matched so perfectly with the rest of the cake. I especcially made his colar red! The puppy is made out of fondant. The sides of the sheet music are finished of with little hearts as a symbol of his wife's love. Made out of marzipan as are the roses in the middle! Between the two cakes is a cd with his favourite song (same as the sheet music) just as a little surprise. The cake comes with a side cake and matching cupcakes. The sidecake has a muscial chip, playing 10 seconds of the favourite song when you push the bottom... Side cake is also marzipan and fondant decorated. The cake is a fluffy vanilla two layer minicake with apricot, strawberry and whipped cream filling. Vanilla cupcakes with fondant decoration. I think I've got it all.. just drop me a line if you have any questions. Thanks for looking and I would really appreciate any comments!!!
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Spring Cake With Ladybugs And Appletrees
My friend told her mom she would surprise her with an applepie... instead.. she ordered a spring cake from me! I couldn't leave out the applepie bit, so I decided to make appletrees on the side of the cake. My friend loved it! Fluffy vanilla cake with apricot and whipped cream fillings, decorated with marzipan. Thanks for looking!
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3D R2D2 (Starwars) Birthday Cake Gluten Free
Quite a job, this 3D R2D2 cake. I didn't even know who R2D2 was.. but I think it does resemble the pictures I found and the birthday boy was thrilled, so I was told. The cake is about 40 cm in heights and all gluten free. The mother was so excited that she could still offer her kids suffering from coeliac disease this amazing cake. The body is made out of 4 different layers of cake (carrot deluxe gluten free and fluffy vanilla cake gluten free) with different filings (vanilla buttercream, sweetened cream cheese, apricot ). The head can be taken off and is made of fluffy vanilla cake gluten free with vanilla buttercream and apricot. The cake is covered in Marshmellow Fondant (definitely NOT my favourite!). The legs are made out of foam covered in MMF. I would have loved to have made it out of rice krispies or something like that, but due to allergies it was not possible to use that kind of ingredients. I painted the head silver, which I think, looks quite good. Well, I'm quite proud but the very best part I think, is the fact that this cakes comes with sound and all! As you can see on the bottem, I made a speaker out of fondant. Underneath is a soundchip and using an R2D2 translater on internet, I recorded a birthday message for the birthday boy in R2D2 language (sound). Push the red button and let the cake talk! Really great (with some help from my husband for the technical details). Thanx a lot for watching!
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Spring Birthday Cake
For a mom and son, sharing a birthday. The mom said "something in spring green for 12-15 persons" and I came up with this design. I used just a touch of electric green food colouring which turned out to be this beautiful green colour. For the flowers I used a combination of blue and purple, for mom and son. Added some little white flowers and filled the hearts with silver sugar balls just to add something different. Two red butterflies with pearl dust represented mom and son and I let the leaves just run of a bit for a playful design. The cake was a beautiful velvet vanilla, very fluffy cake, filled with fresh strawberry cream and accented with fresh strawberries and a strawberry marmelade. Finishing touch with a smooth vanilla buttercream. Decorations in marzipan, all edible.
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Spring Cupcakes 'bee'
These cupcakes are a match the 'Linda's Special' purple and yellow easter/spring cake. I love the little bees, they make me smile. Double chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and marzipan decorations. Sorry, the colours didn't quite work out, there was too much sunshine. It's actually a dark purple with bright yellow. Thanx for looking!