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Pound cake covered in marshmallow fondant. Bows are made of gum paste.
The background doesn't do it justice. I work at a local bakery, and just didn't think about moving it before taking the picture.
Bows were made of gum paste, ears are made of fondant with toothpicks stuck to the back (with gum paste) so they would stay on the cake.
The center is an edible image. Customer ended up complaining that the flowers were the wrong shade of yellow. :/ I think it's beautiful!
Made for a customer's 40th birthday. :) This was sooo much fun! Everything but the disco ball is edible.
Made with four 8" layers of yellow cake for the main part of the head, and rice krispy treats to make the 3-D parts (the mouth and neck area). Covered in marshmallow fondant.
We had a bit of a mishap with the glitter, and the topper broke (it was a larger 3-D snowflake), but I'm altogether happy with the result.
Stargazer lilies on top, calla lilies, and butterflies are handmade from gum paste. The rest of the flowers were ordered.
80 pink cupcakes, with a 7" display cake on top.
The corner shells, center heart, and roses are done with a striped bag.
Gum paste Stargazer lily, in preparation for Wilton's Course 4: Advanced Gum Paste Flowers (I'm an instructor).
1/2 sheet cake, decorated with buttercream (some airbrush accents) and piping gel. The lemon is a 9" round cake cut in half, with edible glitter for the sugar on top.
Just a fluffy, buttercream traditional wedding cake. I can't take credit for the design, it's one of the choices in the wedding book where I work. This cake is a dummy for display.
Fondant-covered wedding cake dummy for display at the bakery where I work.
This is a dummy cake decorated in buttercream for display at the bakery where I work.
Mini cupcakes with a buttercream swirl and piped chocolate trees. It was actually pretty easy to make the trees, but there are 100 of them!!
Chocolate cake with buttercream filling, covered in a very thin layer of marshmallow fondant. I painted the top design using a traced template, and used stencils and some freehand painting on the sides.
Hand painted zebra stripes on marshmallow fondant, done with CK Super Black Food coloring thinned out with lemon juice. Tiers are 10" and 8", each cut into 3 layers and filled with buttercream. Flowers are handmade with gum paste.
Chocolate cake with hazelnut filling. All decorations are made by hand. I got there in the nick of time (got stuck in traffic, GPS got me lost, Murphy's Law kicked in big time) and managed to slap some branches and flowers on in about 10 minutes! Whew! Lots of fun, but glad it's over!
I got the design inspiration from a card I found at Wal-Mart, the same place I got the topper (actually a table centerpiece). I wish I had gone a little heavier on the fondant on the bottom tier; it's not as smooth as it could have been. The grad loved it, and that's all I care about.
Trying out my "nature" fondant mold from Wilton. I think I like it! Needed heavy dusting with cornstarch, which was difficult to clean completely off the finished cake. Not bad, though, Wilton. Not bad.
My first real attempt at a pattern after learning the technique from my Wilton classes. I used a T-shirt for the pattern. Dark chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting and fresh strawberries inside. Iced in the best dark chocolate icing I've ever tasted!
Chocolate cake with cream cheese filling, covered in marshmallow fondant. I also used modeling chocolate and some royal icing. Later on I decided it needed blood, so I added some red food coloring to piping gel and splattered it everywhere! This was so much fun, and the birthday girl (a roller derby girl whose alias is Mizz Monstah) loved it!
Yoda was originally done with color flow (like the Star Wars logo at the bottom), but I put it in the freezer... big mistake! Apparently that makes royal icing melt. Oops. So I spent about an hour transferring and filling in the pattern in buttercream. The birthday boy loved it!! Chocolate cake with vanilla filling.
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