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I made this for a friend who loves sheep. The cakes were baked in Pyrex bowls and decorated with buttercream - ears and tail are gumpaste covered with buttercream curls, and eyes and nose are fondant. It was made to match a stuffed animal I found.
This was for a school raffle. My son made the flowers and ladybugs.
For a milestone birthday - this is a 2-layer 10" chocolate cake (gluten-free) with vanilla BC and fondant decorations.
Definitely the most complicated cake I've tried so far! The cube is 5 layers of vanilla raspberry swirl, stacked and trimmed to 8" (more or less - not perfect by any means!) and covered with MMF. The Black Forest cake is three 8" layers with cherry filling, covered in BC and grated chocolate. Made for a geek's big 3-0!
This was a deep dark chocolate cake (Hershey recipe) with white chocolate BC and gumpaste decorations. The cross topper was made to match the crosses each child was given as a gift.
A 9" contour round on a 14" cake board, covered with MMF and gumpaste flowers. The cake inside is lemon with raspberry filling.
Made for a friend who loves polar bears. Kinda fun to do a "winter" cake in the spring!
A 6" chocolate square and a 9" vanilla square, covered with MMF. The bows are 50/50 fondant and gumpaste.
Rainbows inside and out - six 9" layers of vanilla cake in all the colours of the rainbow, covered with white chocolate BC in all the colours of the rainbow. Definitely the most food colouring I've ever used in one cake...
Made for a friend's birthday. The cake is raspberry swirl butter cake, covered in MMF and decorated with painted branches and GP cherry blossoms. This was my first attempt at a teapot cake.
Two-tier cake for a friend's daughter - 6" vanilla and 9" chocolate covered in MMF. "Kaboum" is the birthday girl's favourite show.
My son asked for a volcano cake for his 8th birthday. I used the giant cupcake pan and carved the top layer, then used some of the pieces to make the 'outcroppings' at the sides. The icing is knoxcop1's chocolate decorator's BC and was yummy! The lava is red BC, the water is piping gel tinted blue, the grass is green BC and the sand is brown sugar.
This was my cake for the Wilton tall cakes class - 2 tiers covered in indydebi's BC with fondant decorations. Thanks to ellangel for the design inspiration!
I was really happy with how this turned out. Vanilla cake covered with indydebi's BC, for which I tried tutugirl's smoothing technique - thanks to both of you! Branches and leaves are BC, flowers and cardinals are fondant, with the cardinals' details done with edible markers.
This cake is half chocolate, half raspberry swirl. Both my father-in-law and my brother-in-law's girlfriend celebrated "milestone" birthdays in December. No numbers necessary - let's just say both of their ages ended with "0"...
My 7-year-old son decorated this cake for our Christmas dessert. He's been wanting to decorate his own cake for a while now...
A 3-layer checkerboard (red, white and green) cake with MMF and GP holly. It's based on a design from the Wilton site. And pouring the checkerboard layers was a pain!
My first attempt at a stacked cake - 6" and 8" tiers, covered in MMF with gumpaste carnation and 50/50 bow from the Wilton class.
A cake for a friend's April birthday (sweet pea is the flower for April, and also one of her favourite flowers).
Yes, really! I have a friend who loves Converse shoes, sheep and purple, so for her birthday I made a purple cake with the sheep (done in Color Flow) designed after the sheep on a pair of her favourite Converse. One of them is black, and of course he's facing in the opposite direction from the rest...
The cake itself is pumpkin - actually two pumpkin bundt cakes. Eyes, nose and mouth were rolled from black gumdrops, and the leaves from green ones. The vines are fruit snacks, cut into strips and curled, and the stem is an ice cream cone covered in chocolate. One of my first cakes, done a few years before I started taking classes.
I made this cake for a friend's poker party. All BC icing with fondant cards on top (colored with edible markers) and molded candies on the sides. The cake itself is vanilla with raspberry filling.
Made for a work colleague's wedding shower. All BC with royal icing flowers.
My final cake for the Gum Paste and Fondant course. The mums and black-eyed Susans are gumpaste, the leaves and border are fondant, and the cake is covered in MMF.
This was white chocolate pound cake, covered with BC and MMF, with gumball eyeballs. Lots of fun to make!
I made this for a raffle at my son's school. At the last minute I couldn't get the licorice to work for the antennae so, sadly, I had to go with pipe cleaners. Hopefully I'll have more opportunities to practise making ladybug cakes!
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