Golf Bag Cake

4x 6 inch cake stack covered in Jennifer Dontz's chocolate fondant with RKT "padding" for pockets. The golf club heads are modelled from pastillage; except for the tiger head cover which is fondant over a styrofoam shape.

3Rd Birthday Dragon Cake

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Blue damask stencilled and white pleated 6 tier chocolate mud wedding cake. Brooches are sugar - central thistle design cast from a brooch belonging to the bride's grandmother. Sugar fans inspired by thecaketress. This was my first wedding cake ... whew! OK - in answer to some of the questions... I made the sugar fans from CMC-stiffened fondant - using an impression mat to get the lace pattern on it. (The wavy edge pattern come from a pair of pinking shears (well-sterilised of course!)) I shaped each layer over rows of chopsticks and then built up the fan layer-by-layer. The trick is to roll the fondant pretty thinly so that the fan doesn't get too heavy and the folds don't get too chunky. Stencilling is easier than I expected - although I have help from my DH to hold it in place. I've found that the pattern is pretty forgiving of a few mistakes here and there. I'd definitely recommend trying it if you like the effect! The pleating I got from several sources, espcially here on CC - but basically it is just overlapped strips all the way round - again keeping them thin so that it looks more like folds than strips. HTH

Fondant Flower Girl Cake Topper

A handmade topper on a buttercream cake. My 3rd "human" figure - the first made in a class that I took with Gracescakes here in Jo'burg, SA. Fondant is hardened with CMC

Anjo's Forest Tea Party Cake

Fondant tea set toppers with extended tier tree stump cake covered in fondant.

Purple Damask Cake

Red gumpaste flower, royal icing stencilled pattern

A Cake Upon A Cake ...

RKT topper based on something I found here (I think). I was asked to do Dr Seuss in one tier ...

Noah's Ark Cake

Tattoo Art Black Birthday Cake

Bottom two tiers are cake, top one is a dummy. All covered in sugarpaste, airbrushed black and then splattered with gold. The tattoo art is handpainted on stiffened sugarpaste, roses are gumpaste.

Lime Green And Pink Paisley

Chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache ... and very thin white sugarpaste (as per my Planet Cake book). I like the effect of the sharp corners .. but it is pretty stressful to do without the paste tearing or getting thin enough to have a chocolate shadow showing through. Did the paisley patter using Lindy Smith cutters and the rose is hot pink sugarpaste. (Next time I'll do it lighter to leave more colour "space" for dusting on other colours.)

Pink, Brown And Lime Topsy Turvy

Topsy turvy with styrofoam wedge separators. Top tier is a dummy, bottom 3 are ganached (had to cover them while this was too soft .. sigh) chocolate mud and vanilla buttermilk.

Bear And Butterflies

Baby shower cake .. chocolate mudcake with dark chocolate ganache under fondant. Bear, buttons and butterflies made from CMC-hardened fondant.

Darth Vader Cake

Dark chocolate mudcake with chocolate ganache and fondant. DV is made from RKT covered with moulded chocolate fondant and airbrushed black.

Callum's Rocket Ship Cake

Daniel's Two Tier 2Nd Birthday Cake

Bursting Bear Baby Shower Cake

Wolfi's 60Th

Variation On A Mad Hatter Cake

Two bottom tiers are dark chocolate mud cake with dark chocolate ganache under fondant, top "tier" made with rice krispie treat covered in fondant, Didn't add quite enough CMC to the hat brim so had to keep propping it up as it tooks ages to dry

Ed Hardy Inspired Birthday Cake

Birthday cake for a 12-year old girl. Didn't know what Ed Hardy fashion was when she told me what she wanted. Thank goodness for google... Think I did OK - she was very excited when she saw it! Bottom two tiers are dense chocolate cake with mousseline chocolate buttercream filling, and milk chocolate ganache under marbled pink fondant. Top "tier" is rice krispie treat, also with fondant. Decorations are : roses, flames, 3D skulls (pressed from molds) and leaves in sugarpaste, heart in pastillage, the rest decorated with colored fondant.