Fall Gender Neutral Baby Shower
This is a simple 2-tier cake for a friend's shower. They're not finding out the sex of the baby, so it's a gender neutral cake. Chocolate and banana cakes layered with peanut butter buttercream and banana mousse filling, covered in ganache and fondant. Pregnant figure is gumpaste, and my first. She didn't fare well, but I learned a lot while making her.
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Beer And Fishing
I made this cake for a friend's birthday. His wife asked it to be a surprise and wanted it to be themed around Coor's Light and Cabela's. I know he loves fishing, so I combined the idea of fishing with the neat suspended beer can pouring into a mug I'd seen here. Thanks to becklynn for her help with the beer mug. It is buttercream with fondant accents and royal icing foam. The handle is gumpaste, but it broke, so I poured some of the sugar used for the beer stream over it (before it was colored) and formed it back together. I liked how it looked even more that way. The fish is 2, 4" rounds that were torted and filled and carved. It's covered in fondant and hand painted with alcohol/paste colors.
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Ivory And Black Anemone Cake
Two tier buttercream cake with anemone. Top tier is red velvet. Bottom tier is key lime. This was my first buttercream cake, and my first wedding cake. It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but everyone setting up in the reception loved it. It was served with key lime, red velvet, and espresso chip cupcakes.
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Vegas Themed 30Th Birthday Cake
Not the best pictures, and not a completed cake picture since the client met me half way and picked up the cake, so the topper couldn't be added until she arrived at home. Hopefully I'll have better pictures from her later. Anyhow- 3 tier (4 1/2 square, 8 and 12" rounds) cake. Top two tiers are WASC with raspberry filling, bottom tier is Macsmom's mocha toffee crunch. All layers were covered in ganache (top two white, bottom chocolate) and then fondant. Decorations are all fondant/gumpaste. Sign is handpainted with food coloring gels with alcohol. Jackpot lever is RKT. Top tier is covered in red disco dust, and bottom tier painted with silver luster dust.
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Whimsical Birds And Trees
This fun cake was for a rehersal dinner. The bride didn't care what it looked like as long as her colors (blue, green, purple) were incorporated into it. I saw a beautiful cake a friend of mine had photographed for a wedding in AK, and used it as inspiration. Bottom tier is chocolate covered strawberry, middle tier was turtle, and top was chocolate covered strawberries with pecans. This is the first cake I covered with ganache, and I really enjoyed working with it. I had some trouble with my fondant though, so I'm not as thrilled with the outcome of this cake as I hoped I would be. Decorations are fondant (royal icing piped onto birds' bodies) and flowers are gumpaste.
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Patriotic Cake For 2Nd Birthday
2 tier (10 & 6") cinnamon roll cake covered in maple buttercream and covered in MMF. Inspiration was from Melanie at Cake Walk blog. All decorations are sugar paste. The toddler was my first time making a sugar paste figure. Number was painted with disco dust. Stars are on galvanized steel wire (like that used in milk buckets). The grenade seems out of place b/c there was supposed to be a BDU uniform top on the opposite side, but the sleeve fell off when I was placing it on the cake... I had a bit of an over decorating monster come out of me with this cake anyway, but I'm still pretty pleased with the result.
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Father's Day Grill Cake
I saw a picture of a cake online that looked like this, and thought it was a cute idea for Father's Day since my dad loves to grill. The cake is a double layer WASC cake torted 3x with my grandma's homemade strawberry jam. Covered and decorated in BC icing. The hot dogs and cheese burgers are sugar paste.
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Wedding Cupcakes!
I made these cupcakes for my own wedding 1/10/09. They were a white cake with flakes of dark chocolate filled with a whipped cream mixture (whipped cream, roasted hazelnuts, raspberries, and crush Heath), topped with a thin layer of ganache, and then iced with a white chocolate cream cheese frosting. Everyone loved them!
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13 Year Old's Zebra Birthday Cake
My photographer for years asked me to make this cake for her after seeing the cake I made for my sons party. I had fun with it. It was my second cake, and my first topsy turvy cake. It had some very obvious errors (like the bow...boy do I need work there! Oh, and measuring the size to cut out but taking into account the frosting and fondant on top of that- geeesh!), but I learned a lot from that experience, and can't wait to make another topsy turvy cake!
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Mason's 1St Birthday Cake
This was my first tiered cake. I made it for my sons first birthday with the help of a friend. I made the topper out of a food safe dough. I'm hoping to learn how to work with more with fondant/modeling chocolate so next time I can make a topper that's actually edible. The cake was a lemon raspberry cake.