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The Toy Story cake is done and delivered....I had so much fun doing this cake; I really enjoy modelling characters out of sugar. My client, wanted as many characters as possible but I was only able to commit to 5 for sure, maybe 6 ..but not Woody, Jessie, Buzz or Rex...they are far too complex to do quickly and with the order coming in a week ahead of date needed it just wouldn't be possible. So, the client said that's was okay she would look around and see if she could find some 2 or 3" toys to use for the missing characters BUT surprisingly enough there are very few small Toy Story toys to be found ... I was looking as well. Mom was about to give up and she found Toy Story Pez Dispensers ... SCORE, the only problem was, they are only busts of the characters and the characters I made were full 3d. This meant I had a bit of a challenge to disguise the fact the the toys had no body or legs ... (if I didn't disguise it...the characters would have looked really odd). Finally I got idea of putting them in a crate with packing peanuts around them (marshmallows) and Sketch letting us know they were going to the attic. Even the toy box is sugar paste. The bottom tier is a two layer chocolate mud cake with vanilla filling, the top tier is vanilla cake with vanilla filling. All topped off with real buttercream icing. The toys and accents are sugar paste, with the exception of the Pez Dispensers...LOL
Outdoor pajama and pancake/breakfast birthday party theme....so, I created a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling and icing. Fondant balloons, banners and birds for the outdoor party and a handpainted fondant over chocolate brownie, creates this stack of pancakes complete with butter pats and syrup
Hand painted Grumpy Cat using melted white chocolate (some coloured with food colours) in order to create texture for the "fur"... cake is vanilla with chocolate buttercream frosting and filling. Who doesn't love Grumpy Cat!
"Frozen" Inspired Cake. Two tier vanilla cake iced and filled with buttercream. Elsa and Olaf were handpainted on fondant with large fondant snowflakes and smaller white chocolate snowflakes. dusted with coarse white and blue sanding sugar to give them a glittery appearance. It was a fun cake to make.
60th birthday slab cake with fantasy flowers and a fondant horse that was handpainted using food colors of course. This was a lot of fun to do and I am quite pleased with the horse! Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing and filling
3D modelled fondant giraffe
I received an order requesting a two tier cake with custard filling for a 60th birthday. The cake needed to incorporate the lady`s favourite animal (giraffe), favourite color (green), favourite flower (gardenia)and favourite jewel) pearls. So I came up with this design...a giraffe resting in gardenias and gardenia petals, wearing a pearl necklace. I didn`t want the giraffe to be cartoonish so I did my best to create as close to a realistic model of a giraffe as possible. The bottom tier was a 10 inch from scratch vanilla cake with from scratch italian chocolate custard filling and the top tier an 8 inch from scratch chocolate cake with from scratch italian vanilla custard filling. The giraffe was hand modelled from fondant and the flowers and petals were from gumpaste.
Minion Birthday cupcakes...cute and fun to make. The cupcakes are chocolate with raspberry buttercream filling and icing .
Hot PInk Topsy Turvy Birthday cake for 6 year old girl. It was a fun cake to make and very bright and sparkly. There are NO wires going directly into the cake....the wires were inserted into a straw filled with royal icing and the #6 was on bamboo food skewers and the puffed heart were on a lolli pop stick and cement with a little bit of royal icing to ensure they remain secure.
The Grim Reaper 8 year old birthday cake. The child`s birthday also happens to be Halloween. The skull is a full 10 cup chocolate cake, torted and filled with chocoate icing and covered in fondant...the neck holding the skull off the ``shoulders`` is also made of chocolate cake. I had to make the neck piece a bit larger than I wanted to ensure that is was structurally sound so I ended up bringing the cape around to hide most of the neck. The shoulder cake is a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. The next issue was where to put candles...so I made 8 cubes painted black (airbrush color of course) to hold the candles on the cake board.
Halloween Cookies for my Grandson's Birthday Party!
Along with a recent birthday cake that I did, (cement mixer themed cake) I was asked to also provide some cupcakes for ladies with dietary restrictions….one lady is celiac the other uses no refined sugars, sucralose or asparteame, after a gastric bypass. Instead of making separate cupcakes for each dietary concern I decide to make one recipe that covered BOTH conditions. We decided on pumpkin spice cupcakes made using almond flour and honey and fresh pureed pumpkin. It was also requested that I make the cupcakes look pretty of course no candy sprinkles or sugars etc. I decided upon hand painted floral fondant cupcake toppers being as both ladies were avid gardeners…AND prior to consuming the cupcakes the fondant topper could be peeled off the top of the cupcake to retain the “processed sugar free” cupcakes.
I was asked to do a cake that was “budget” friendly with the biggest bang for the buck that had a cement mixer truck involved for a 51st birthday; It needed to have a minimum of 35 servings and a slab cake was preferred. No other direction was given and being as the cake was intended for a 51 year old gentleman I wanted to make it a bit more adult like than alot of the “construction themed” cakes that I saw on google images and keep within the smallish budget. So, this is what I came up with. Cake is Almond Sour Cream Cake with dulce de leche filling and vanilla buttercream icing.
monogrammed wedding cookies used a thank you gifts on tables. The couple wanted a specific font used which they supplied an example to use(Old English Font). Stencils of this font weren't quite what they wanted, royal icing wasn't strong enough the hold the shape consistently so, I ended up using white chocolate for the monogram...which worked very well.
Color Scheme for the wedding was plum, black and white. The wedding took place on Friday the 13th and it was important to the groom that the 13 became an integral part of the cake(s). A large 13 sugar "pick" was used on the square cake along with a spiced plum and french blue hydrangea bloom and anemone topper. The cupcakes had 3 different toppers...a 13, a small hydrangea blossom and anemones. The front decoration on the square wedding cake was a recreation of the scroll work that was on the couple's own custom digitally created wedding invitation. The cakes were WASC from scratch filled and iced with Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Re creation of the banner that hangs from the Habs stadium when they retired Patrick Roys number. The cake is a from scratch White Almond Sour Cream Cake with a sinfully silky Swiss Meringue Buttercream filling and icing. Everything is edible including the Stanley Cup made by hand from Modelling Chocolate and the Fondant Habs Logo. I had a lot of fun making this cake...
My take on the Sesame Street theme song, cake. (Sunny Days, Blowing the Clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet) and of course Elmo was need to pop up to say hello. I did this for my granddaugther's 2nd birthday...she is NUTs about Sesame Street but especially about Elmo. Special thanks to Cakeldy for her excellent tutorial on her facebook page for creating Elmo in RKT and covering with Fondant. My Elmo is a bit different than hers but the concept for it came from her tutorials...thank you Cakeldy
Hello Kitty Cake and Cupcakes. Vanilla cake and chocolate cupcakes both with vanilla butter cream filling and white chocolate ganache frosting. This was the first time making and using ganache...not sure how I feel about it. I am however VERY pleased with the 3D Kitty I was able to create and the overall look of the cake. When I delivered the cake the BD girls brother told me I was a great cake maker and he wanted me to make his BD cake next month. LOL out of the mouth of babes....the BD girl just smiled and hid behind Mom
Baby Shower cake with Blue Ombre Frills and Baby Converse Shoes. First shoes I've ever done and I am quite please with them
Pirate themed cake for my Grandson's birthday. Chocolate cake from Scratch with a strawberry and buttercream filling, and fondant iced.
Received a call Friday evening for a Toronto Maple Leaf cake ready for Sunday noon. A bit of a rush but, it turned out not too bad. Done in buttercream, fondant decorations and white chocolate for the white letters.
Butter cream cake in carved into a letter "G" for a 4yr old girl's birthday. The theme of the cake is "Grace's Garden". This was my first attempt of modelling various critters and I am fairly pleased with it.
"Grace's Garden" Birthday cake for a 4 year old girl. Grace was born on the first day of spring so we decided on a pastel garden theme...complete with modelled fondant critters...this was my first attempt at modelling critters etc
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