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I made this cake for my daughter's 18th birthday/Halloween party. Bottom tier is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Top tier is orange-flavored, sour cream pound cake. Cake topper is modeling chocolate.
Buttercream and chocolate ganache birthday cake with an owl theme inspired by CC user "radnorgirl"
This is an Audrey II cake (and cupcakes) I made for my daughter's high school production of Little Shop of Horrors. The bottom (flowerpot) is chocolate/chocolate, and covered in fondant. The top (Audrey II) is green velvet cake with mint chocolate chip buttercream, covered in fondant.
This was my first shot at an ombre cake, requested by my niece for her high school graduation. Interior is vanilla cake, exterior is swiss meringue buttercream flavored with raspberry oil. Fresh raspberries on top.
Quick and easy spaghetti and meatball cake for my son's Lad'n'Dad bake sale. Tomato cake with cream cheese buttercream, ferrero rocher meatballs, buttercream "sauce."
S'mores cake for my son's bridge ceremony (from cub scout to boy scout). 10-8-6, graham cracker cake, milk chocolate ganache filling, marshmallow-flavored buttercream, covered in MMF. The red and blue fondant for the flag were Fondx, since I hate making bright colors from scratch.
Simple yule log, using the chocolate cloud roll recipe from The Cake Bible. Fondant accents and meringue mushrooms. Whipped cream filling.
This was a cake I made for our school Christmas party. The bottom tier is a humminbird cake with lemon cream cheese frosting, and the top tier is yellow cake with eggnog frosting. The cityscape enclosure is gumpaste with fondant accents, and the nativity scene is a mix of fondant and gumpaste. Inspiration for the cake came from CC member 'dittle': http://cakecentral.com/g/i/3144773/birthday-cakes/ I didn't change very much, because the original is such a great cake, but I thought it would make a perfect setting for a Christmas nativity.
This was a cake for my son's 11th birthday. He was having a mad scientist party, and we decided this might be a good way to represent the theme. He's ordered a new pet to take over the world! WASC (which is his favorite), with a standard american buttercream. The box sides and top are modeling chocolate (first time working with it--pretty intriguing), and the tentacles are fondant. Packing peanuts are marshmallows, obviously. Images are on edible paper/edible ink. Thanks for looking!
The doghouse is made out of vanilla butter cake with eggnog-flavored buttercream, covered in fondant. Snoopy is RKT covered in fondant and Woodstock is gumpaste. All credit for the design goes to jenbakescakes. I'm still in the early stages of this hobby, and thus sincerely flattering others by imitation. ;)
My daughter's 14th birthday party was this weekend, and she wanted an alien autopsy cake for the festivities. She was very specific that she wanted it to be scary, and that she wanted it to be gross once it was cut open. I tried my best to meet these requests, and while the cake may not be very scary--it certainly was kind of gross. More than a couple of guests declined to try a piece after the 'dissection' was complete.
Body and head are WASC covered in basic buttercream and MMF. Legs are RKT covered in basic buttercream and MMF.
This is a Gibson Les Paul cake that I did for a friend's 50th birthday party. It's a full-size 1:1 replica of a Gibson Les Paul that he owns. Overall, I'm happy with the results, although I'm an amateur and had a lot of issues (especially with the neck, which isn't even close to level). Lessons learned: 1) Don't tackle a cake this big until I learn a lot more; 2) Don't ever buy Satin Ice fondant again as it's a real pain to work with; and 3) 14x22" cake pans are tricky to bake with.
This is my second attempt at a sculpted cake. I used the cake for 3D modeling recipes here on CakeCentral (vanilla for the Pokeball and chocolate for Pikachu), a mixture of homemade and Fondarific fondant, and a simplified swiss meringue buttercream.
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