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This was a spice cake with apple and caramel fillings. Gum paste flowers, dehydrated apples, whole nutmeg, and cinnamon sticks for decoration.
A friend wanted a birthday cake and left it up to me for design. Used the opportunity to try some techniques I hadn’t done before.
This is a cake for my co-worker. The colors for the wedding were sangria and silver. The cake is a white cake with raspberry filling and almond buttercream. The bead borders are molded fondant and hand painted. The roses are gum paste.
It turned out to be one of the hottest, most humid days of the year ... and the cake was outdoors : ( The flowers ended up "wilting" but the brides were thrilled with it anyway! Thankfully, I took pictures before the flowers started to sag.
It was a small, casual wedding at a nature preserve.
Simple design with buttercream ruffle rosettes and a gum paste peony.
For a backyard wedding. Decorations were made from burlap, lace and wood, so I incorporated textures in the flower petals. The cake stand is made from a clay flowerpot.
Nino wanted a shark cake for his fourth birthday.
We had a bake-off for a charity fundraiser at the office. This was my entry... banana cupcakes with dulce de leche filling and cinnamon buttercream.
For my brother's granddaughter's first birthday. He drove four hours round trip for this cake!
Cake for a bachelorette party. Used 7", 6" and 5" layers.
Birthday cake for my niece's boyfriend (who also happens to be my son's best friend). She said "I have some ideas for his cake. He likes PS3, Xbox, his bass guitar, pizza and his dog." I thought that was an awful lot of stuff to incorporate into a cake. So I went this route... there he is sitting in his room with all his favorite stuff!!!
My friend wanted a cake for her grandmother's 80th birthday. When I asked if she had any particular colors or designs in mind she said, "She likes lavendar. And she always wears spike high heels. Her favorite pair is leopard print." Now THAT'S an 80-year-old I wanna meet!!! LOL Thanks to Millie1957 for the inspiration for the ruffle flowers. When trying to figure out what to coordinate with the shoe, I remembered seeing her fabulous cake and thought those ruffles and jewels would coordinated perfectly.
My friend asked for a cake covered in paisley for her daughter's birthday. She also wanted an elephant and peanuts on it because they also call Paislee "Peanut."
My friend's daughter wanted a cake that incorporated different kinds of drinks, zebra print and bright colors.
My friend's groom is obsessed with Thor (I'm sure there's a story there... but she didn't share it!). She asked me to make a groom's cake of Thor's hammer. I thought it would be a blast to do the helmet, too and she liked the idea.
My friend found a photo of a cake she liked and asked me to match it for her wedding.
My sister saw a picture on Pinterest and asked me to make a similar cake for her twins' birthday. This is my version. First time making isomalt jewels -- gonna have to do that more often!
My friends all thought I was crazy to do it, but I made my daughter's wedding cake. To help save time on a busy wedding day and make delivery/assembly easy, I incorporated cake drums into the design. With everything done ahead, all I had to do was set the tiers on top of each other and add the flowers.
Birthday cake for a 16-year-old girl who originally wanted a T-Rex cake. But I don't do the kind of sculpted cake she wanted. So her mom said just do something fun. She likes animal prints, so I came up with this design and made sure to add some "T-Rex skin." She LOVED it!
My sister asked me to do something inspired by a notecard she received from the "birthday girl" Those Wilton molds were great!
Penguin/Winter themed baby shower.
50th birthday cake. Her interests are travel, photography and painting (that is a copy of one of her paintings and some of her photos).
My daughter asked me to make cupcakes for a potluck for her coworker's birthday. Her favorite color is purple, so I used Americolor Electric Purple, but it came out more pink than I expected. Everyone loved them anyway!
My friend gave me a picture of cupcakes she wanted for her daughter's birthday (sorry I can't give credit to the decorator -- I have no idea who it is). This is my version.
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