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Oh Christmas Tree
White cake and white whipped meringue buttercream under green fondant with white buttercream 'snow'' glittering with silver sparkle sugar 'ice crystals' and red and gold candy pearls for the 'lights'. The cake was single layers in 9, 7, 5, 3 inches. I didn't use a board inbetween, but I did use a single central bubble tea straw to keep the layers from sliding till the buttercream crusted and as a support for the top three inches which is a hollow drape of fondant. The star is fondant on a wooden skewer inserted into the straw.
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Happy Birthday Tyler
If they can't have hockey, let them eat cake. A seven inch red velvet cake filled and coated with white chocolate sour cream ganache. Then I used black candy clay to cover. To get a good sharp edge I chilled it with the ganache, cut a strip for the side and did the top separately. The logo combines fondant (the white and the orange) and candy clay. The birthday boy was 'way happy' with the result and from someone who doesn't normally eat sweets at all, his "it tasted as good as it looked" was a high compliment indeed.
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Sometimes A Cake Is Just A Cake
When I make a birthday cake for family I'm allowed to do whatever I want. In this case a cake for both my brothers allowed me to experiment with getting as much filling as possible into a cake. I made three short layers, cut the center out of the middle one and filled the hole with a cheesecake filling. Then I added a brick of cream cheese to Charlotte's whipped frosting and voila! It truly was good to the last bite.
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Congrats Sam & Chad
My DD's wedding cake. Vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream, fondant, gumpaste hydrangeas and dogwood flowers on applewood branches. The cakes travelled from Manitoba to BC in their naked state on dry ice and were decorated at my DD's house, then transported uphill and down to the venue. The toppers also travelled from Manitoba to BC. They travelled on memory foam in boxes and only two of the dogwood flowers broke in transit. I carried extras and most of them wound up scattered on the table as a bit of extra decoration. The MoB was a bit of a Mobzilla during the transport for which her DH forgave her. And in the end a good time was had by all.
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Happy Birthday Evelyn
My sister asked me it i had ever made a cake to look like a cameo, so when her birthday rolled around. . . . The cake was coconut made with coconut milk in place of regular milk and was filled with pineapple buttercream and decorated with fondant. It was also my first attempt at airbrushing and that didn't turn out too badly.
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Mama We Miss You
This was the first Mother's Day since my mother passed away last August. We got together to celebrate the day with our children and I made this cake in remembrance of my mother's love of gardening. The cake was lemon layered with American buttercream, covered in fondant and decorated with pink gumpaste dogwood flowers and a blue fondant sash. I used a place mat I picked up at the dollar store to emboss the "straw" pattern on the hat, and the brim is of a piece with the fondant covering the hat itself.
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Watering Can With Flowers
This small oval cake was a triple citrus (orange, lemon, lime--one layer of each) with an almond paste type filling, orange buttercream and covered in fondant. My first try at covering it with black fondant was a complete disaster, so I peeled it off and covered it with a white fondant that I painted black with Americolor black mixed with vodka. The flowers and lady bugs are all gumpaste and the rust accents are CK terracotta petal dust. I'm kind of glad that the black fondant didn't work out, cuz the paint over white actually gave me exactly the battered and beaten metal look I was going for. The 88 years young recipient refused to believe it was a cake until they cut into it and served her a piece.
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A Basket Of Eggs For Easter
A triple citrus cake--that is one layer of lime, one of lemon, and one of orange cake--with a thin layer of raspberry jam between the layers, covered in orange buttercream and MMF. The eggs are RCT covered in candy clay then a gumpaste shell, and finished with fondant accents.
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Spring Is Coming
A six inch dark chocolate cake with peanut butter filling covered in fondant and decorated with fondant accents. The upper branches, the bird, the border, and the center flower were all made with the Wilton mold. The rest of the flowers were done with the newer Wilton plungers and the trunk of the tree was shaped by hand. All of the accents were colored with CK petal dusts usd dry.