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3D Fire Truck With Working Lights
Birthday cake for a special 5 year old boy. The party was held at a Fire station museum. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling and frosting covered in fondant. All accents are fondant. Firemen are toys, and the dalmatian and boots are candles. The lights at the top and in the front are working. The cake was carved from two layers 11x15 cake.
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Zebra Stripe Ganache Cake
Birthday cake for my cousin. 6/8 Vanilla cake with layers of white chocolate ganache, dark chocolate ganache and apricot jam with a spritz of grand marnier. Bottom tier is covered in chocolate ganache and top tier in white chocolate ganache. First time covering cake in ganache and it was so simple! Top tier is covered in mmf and initial is made out of gumpaste painted silver and covered in sugar crystals. Pearl bracelets are fondant.
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Luau Theme Birthday Cake
This cake was made for a luau theme birthday party. My friend wanted it to be sophisticated and not cartoony. 3 layer 3 tier 10-8-6 square, vanilla cake with strawberry filling, vanilla BC covered in MMF. Decorations are gumpaste hibiscus and brown fondant coconut tree silhouette. To achieve the gradient I started with ligth turquoise fondant for the two bottom tiers. I used a deep turquoise luster dust on the bottom tier. For the top tier I added white fondant to the turquoise to get it even lighter. These are my first gumpaste hibiscus flowers.
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Princess Castle Cake
Princess castle cake for my niece's 3rd birthday. It's 8/6 vanilla cake with apricot filling and grenadine flavored buttercream. The towers are ice cream cones covered in fondant. The sign and door are fondant and the crown is gumpaste colored with luster dust and dipped in crystal sugar. The tourets are sugar cones. The brick pattern was made using an impression mat.
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Communion Cake
Communion cake for my niece. Center cake is 2 tier 12/8 with guava filling and mango buttercream icing. The doll cake is sitting on a 10in round filled with apricot filling. The doll was made with cake scraps mixed with icing. The lamb is sitting on a 9in round with apricot filling, both are covered in boiled icing (suspiro).
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Erupting Volcano Dinosaur Cake
Birthday cake for my nephew who is really into dinosaurs this year. Cake is 11x15 vanilla cake. Frosting is a mix of cake scraps, frosting, chocolate syrup and black/green/brown food color. I thought the color was a bit offputting so I sprinkled some brown sugar around to lighten it. The volcano is also a mix of cake scraps and frosting put in the wonder mold pan and in the freezer for a few minutes to set. It is covered in chocolate frosting. Inside the volcano is a shot glass that was used to make the eruption. A mixture of jello and lemon juice was added to the glass then baking soda to make the lava flow. Animals and trees were plastic and keepsakes for the birthday boy. Border is chocolate buttercream. The main comment from everyone is that it looked very prehistory!
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Purple Sweet Sixteen Cake
Sweet sixteen cake for my niece. 12/10/8/6. Tiers are vanilla cake, 8" chocolate cake, with apricot filling and BC frosting. Decorations are fondant, numbers are gumpaste. Separator is covered with sequenced fabric for the bling effect. This is my first 4 tier cake. The theme was venetian carnivale.
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My Birthday/practice Cake
I wanted to try several techniques I saw on cc and decided to use my own birthday cake for that. Bottom tier is vanilla cake with mango curd and coconut creme filling. Middle layer is chocolate cake with coconut creme filling and my attempt at the billowing technique with fondant. The top tier is chocolate cake with mango curd filling. There I tried the rose cake technique. It's all covered in white chocolate buttercream. The quilting pattern was made with a ruler and wooden skewer.

















