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Make this roller coaster cake to look like the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster. Given how short/small the cake really needed to be it doesn't look exactly like it but does follow the basic shape of that famous roller coaster. Nearly ran out of time but did the people very quickly in the last hour or so (they are not as elaborate as I would have liked, but are retro in a way, so I like them). Also, the photo makes the wood planks look more blue than white, but they really were white, and each was marked with wood grain and nail holes. The background was slightly off-white buttercream.
Sleeping Beauty
Fancy Nancy tea party cake. All edible, even the tiara!
Rapunzel/Tangled cake
Overhead, close up
I donated my services for a kids bday cake to a local charity and the winner wanted a skateboard cake for their son William. Getting that silhouette to stay like that was a challenge... I broke 3 others, in all different poses, before I go the angle, thickness and pose that finally worked. I also replaced the skateboard a few times because my initial ones were sagging too much in the middle... The final one had 3 toothpicks hidden in the horizontal deck to keep it nice and straight.
This is my 4th Hello Kitty cake like this. People seem to really like them, although I find them a bit boring. This time I used a smaller board (simply bc I ran out of the bigger boxes to fit my bigger boards this time), so the name wound up on the side of the cake instead of on the board. Client requested a pink bow this time, instead of the traditional red one. Everything is MM fondant, except the bow which is 50/50 MM fondant and gumpaste.
vanilla cake with chocolate ganache fill. Colors and design by the 6 year old client. Those wired stars were bending in all the wrong directions so i added those swirly things on the side of the topper to help hold them up better. Maybe the wires are too weak, or maybe I just don't really know what I'm doing? In retrospect I should have secured them into one central base probably behind the star topper. But after poking a bunch of holes in the top of the cake on both sides, this was the best fix I could come up with at the 11th hour!
All fondant or 50/50 fondant/gumpaste. Strawberry house carved from three 4" rounds of chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling. Base cake is three 8" rounds of vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream.
Tie dye cake for a party based on the theme BAKED BY MELISSA, which is a popular cupcake shop in NYC with a tie dye logo. Not my favorite cake, as the colors and busy-ness of this one is not something I'd normally do, but my 13-year old neice was thrilled, as were the other guests!
Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream covered in MM fondant with fondant and gumpaste letters and numbers.
chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream covered in chocolate fondant with fondant and gumpaste accents. Everything edible except dowel 'masts' and candles in the 'cannons'!
this was my 3rd Hello Kitty cake, and I think 3rd time definitely was the charm! Changed it up a little this time with a 3D bow-- my first bow ever btw! Vanilla butter cake with pink vanilla bean buttercream filling
Ice Bird from Angry Birds Space. Vanilla butter cake with chocolate ganache filling, MM fondant and gumpaste for all details. Beak is RCTs covered in MM fondant
Tepig (from Pokemon) and Pokeball candle holders gumpaste; fire and letters fondant; dutch chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream
Batman and Robin (and Joker) cake for 4-year-old Henry! 4 layer chocolate cake with ganache filling. Took a day to do each of the figures as I'm still learning how to do them!
Cake I made for my son's 6th bday which was at a karate studio. My first fondant person (which was modeled after my son... it came out pretty darn close, right down to the 2 stripes on his yellow belt, one of which he got in class the morning of the party so I had to paint it on at the last minute!)
Monkey in a pile of bananas, inspired by designs seen here on CC and elsewhere on the web. My first fondant monkey!
simple little cake I made out of left overs for a friend's twin boys who were turning 2 and having a small family party at home. After seeing the cake the mom decided to invite a few friends over and we made an impromptu party that turned out to be bigger than anticipated and I was left wishing it were bigger and nicer. But everyone seemed to enjoy it nonetheless and were astounded it was made from 'scraps.' It tasted so moist and good, I'm now much less wary of making cakes more than a day or two ahead of time, if need be!
specific request by a little girl named Sasha who was turning 5. She wanted it to have both leopard and tiger print, and she wanted it pink. She also sent me a very specific leopard pattern she wanted me to follow. I tried a version of the leopard with the centers colored pink, but decided to scrap it and start over to keep it more simple.
special request by a mom of twins named Sunny and Luke who were turning 2. Colors and design came from the mom, but I think I over did it a bit with the embellishments
special request for a little girl turning 10 who was having a 'spa' themed party. Everything is cake except the stick of the wand, and the brush, which is made from fondant.
replica of his yacht for my dad's 70th birthday. all the grandchildren call him poppy so decided to use that on the cake
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