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50Th Birthday Chicken Cake
This is a cake that I did for a good friend of ours who turned 50. The chicken is a round cake with RKT neck and head and tail. The feathers are fondant in different shades of brown. Just attached them with a little buttercream. The bottom cake is a 10" round cake with buttercream icing. The "icons" about our friend are all of fondant. He lives in an old farmhouse that his brother and sister-in-law own. The brother and SIL live in the city, but wanted "organic" eggs, so guess where the chickens ended up and who is taking care of??? You got it....and he hates those chickens! Hope you like!!
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Columbus Blue Jackets Birthday Cake
This cake is for a friend's son's birthday. He wanted the Columbus Blue Jackets Third Jersey logo. I sort of cringed when I saw it - because it was a little detailed and I did not know if my hand would be that steady. Besides that, these are good friends of ours so I volunteered to make this as our gift to their son, as long as the cake wasn't too big and elaborate. I am really trying to drum up business right now too (just started my own cake business about a month ago), so the more cakes I can get out their, the better. Referrals have already started. Anyway....this is a chocolate cake with a frozen buttercream transfer. This was my first attempt at this technique and I kind of like it, especially for those detailed sort of things. It is pretty easy and fairly quick to do. If you can trace over a line, you can pretty much do this. A couple of notes that I might try differently - first, I froze mine in between doing different parts so that my lines wouldn't move too much (suggestion I saw from IndyDeb). That was great, but next time I might use parchment paper instead of wax paper - the wax paper curled/crinkled a little while in the freezer. As said from other posts, these do come out a little thick. So, next time I will be sure to spend more time making sure the exposed edges are clean and neat or else I will make sure the whole top of the cake is a complete transfer. This turned out fine in the end, but I had to use a much larger shell border than I normally use and I had to move it in a little to cover the raw edges. Finally, I might try all high ratio shortening (I used half butter/half shortening). The white, even with white white added, looks a little dingy to me. Just my experience. I have a Justin Bieber cake to do for Monday, so I think I might try the same thing with it and try the different techniques.
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Noah's Ark Baby Shower
quarter sheet cake. The theme was Noah's Ark for the baby's room and shower. I looked all over for ideas and found a lot with the actual Ark made of cake/RKT. I new this client didn't want to pay for all that work, so I found inspiration online for handmade animal heads. So sorry, forgot who made the ones that I used for inspiration. I thought this was along the same lines as Noah's Ark, but simple and pretty. Animal heads are fondant.
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Small Birthday Cake And Matching Cupcake Tower
This was for my daughter's gymnastics coach's 21st birthday. The cake is a I believe a 6 inch cake. The "21" is made of gumpaste and sprinkled with silver disco dust. The cupcakes are chocolate and some white cake with matching purple buttercream and silver dragees.
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Teenage Girl's Birthday
This cake was for a 13 year old girl. She wanted bright colors and liked fondant. White cake with real buttercream underneath. Just let me say that buttercream with all real butter (no shortening) is DELISH! I usually don't care to eat the icing or the cake after I have had my hands in it all day, but this stuff was really good! The idea was inspired by a similar cake from Andrea Sullivan.
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Gymnastics Year End Banquet 2010
This is a cake I did for my daughter's year end banquet for gymnastics. It was a big hit and my first big stacked/topsy turvy cake. The gymnasts were gumpaste - I just found clip art and used the clip art as my stencil. The rest is fondant and edible silver paint and edible silver glitter. Thanks for looking!