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This is the finished product. I cut out neon colored happy faces, peace signs, and daisies to adhere to the sides of the bottom and tie dyed lettering for the sides of the top tier, then used yellow color spray for the background & black sparkle gel for the smiley face. Most of the kids weren't familiar with fondant and were amazed they could touch the bottom without making a mess.
My niece wanted a tie-dyed theme for her birthday and I worried I wouldn't be able to pull it off. I looked on this site and found instructions from the Cake Boss & was pleased with my results. I believe I accomplished the tie-dye look without going too far and getting a marbled effect. What do you think? Depending on the colors used, it could go for a boy or girl.
My nephew was moving out on his own for the 1st time, so I made somewhat of a replica of his apartment, including a gum paste grill-complete with burgers, and gum paste doors and windows.
These are all made of fondant and hand-crafted to match the party decorations chosen for the celebration. The zebra was the first and the lion was last, and though I fell in love with them all, my favorite was the giraffe...I almost didn't want to give them away! (These went with the monkey face cake)
This was my first attempt at a 3D cake, with the help of my oldest son. This is before I learned the pros were using rice cereal treats to keep the weight down. We used everything from cake to twinkies to put this together, and had we waited another moment to snap this picture, it would have gone in the "disaster" gallery! the "S" emblem, bone, & tongue are gum paste
This is a graduation cake shaped like a guitar. Sitting in the "hole" is a figurine of the grad playing his acoustic guitar. The spotlights actually work as well.
I made the dolphins and side decorations of gum paste, used my angled spatula to create "waves", used spray color to control the amount of color on the cake, and used foam stamps as a template for the side decorations of starfish, crabs, mermaids, etc.. I then used crushed cookies pressed into buttercream spread onto the cake board for sand and also used real seashells (after washing, of course) on the "beach" (I did tell the recipient, as I didn't want any broken teeth!)
I made the guitar and amp of fondant, but didn't give myself enough time for them to dry. I looked up the sheet music for "Happy Birthday" on the guitar and did my best at matching the notes on the cake. If I had it to do over, I'd have used gum paste...live & learn!
Elmo & the lettering are made of gum paste. The banner is made of sparkle gel. I also purchased the royal icing balloons. An accompanying cake was made with a matching top & bottom border on a round cake with confetti sprinkles and ballons in the center for the birthday boy to have to himself (not shown)
This was made for the child to dig into n his 1st birthday. The ears are made of sandwich cookies covered in frosting. This cake goes with the fondant safari animals I made for his cake & which are shown under "figurines"
I made part of the cake beach and the other ocean and used hula dolls and run in sugar palm trees. The designs on the sides are stamped on using foam stamps and thinned paste colors (the hardest part was that it was iced in buttercream, so the stamps didn't want to take very well)
This is a closer look at the top of the previous cake. I forgot to mention the color is sprayed on.
I incorporated a few aspects of the game on this cake. I have the scoreboard, players (made of teddy bear-shaped graham crackers), a bat for the batter made of a toothpick with a pointed end cut off, the field, and a partial baseball off to the side. He LOVED it!
This was made using a shaped pan & could be used for a boy or girl depending on the colors used. I also decorated the cake board so it wouldn't look quite so plain.
This cake was made to look like the invitations. The stars are sugar cookies decorated with food writers and icing.
Instead of using the molded pan for the skirt, I carved this from 3 layers of round cakes, made the ruffles & bow. The front view wouldn't load, but the ruffles go around the front and a V-shape starts at the waist, going to the bottom and is flat but made with mild waves to show "movement"
Decorated to mach the party decorations and internet picture. Buttercream icing & roses, purchased Disney Princess set. Used spray color for each princess' spot.
Batman is made of gum paste, the "Gotham City" background is made of posterboard, Bat signal is a decorated sugar cookie.
Hot pink buttercream with black bottom borders and pearl strand upper borders. Also used are oversized "diamond" rings, a tiara, and a "pooch in a purse". Separate tiers, top is supported by pillars filled with pink and black sand.
The side view of the previous cake showing the detail onthe caterpillars
Birthday cake iced with whipped icing, decorated with buttercream ladybugs, caterpillars, and grass
2 tiered cake with fondant and gum paste decorations, buttercream icing was colored using spray color
more use of school colors than my previous cake, fondant mortar board and diploma
solid colored background; mortar board and diploma are fondant, scroll edging at bottom
Daisies, sweet peas, ruffle-edged tulips, apple blossoms, and violets
covered with whipped chocolate frosting and decorated with buttercream roses and a run-on sugar butterfly with string work on the side (if I remember correctly)
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