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Craftsy Dragonette, "Sculpted Adventure" Class - My new Craftsy Class, "Sculpted Adventures" is finally OUT! In this class I will show you my support method, which, combined with my food-safe method creates an organically sturdy framework just as muscle and bone do in an actual animal. I cover how to make a sitting Dragonette, but really this is a technique-based class that you can use to make ANY sitting animal. We cover the WHOLE process, from the board up! Class materials include full-scale patterns, material lists, and personal access to ME via the awesome @Craftsy platform <3 If you haven't checked out Craftsy's amazing class selection (including many FREE ones!), I highly recommend them as a resource for any Maker. Here is a COUPON for HALF OFF!!! <3... www.craftsy.com/ext/HeatherSherman_5274_H
Pork Princess Dirty 30 - 2/8/15 - Happy Dirty 30 Birthday!! I love it when clients know what they want! This "Pork Princess" was requested by the owner of Heritage Belle Farms - a modeling of one the reddish pigs she raises, wearing a pink tiara in a mudpuddle! I LOVE it! This sweet girly porker is filled with pink Almond/Vanilla poundcake, soft Caramel and Almond Swiss Buttercream...YUM!
Rainbow Connection - 2/14/15- Part of the wonderful Be My Valentine Collaboration, dedicated to all who would like to be in love without boundaries, without fear or discrimination. We believe, everyone has the right to be loved and be in love freely. "Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love " Paulo Coelho My personal vision was to portray the full-spectrum, vibrant, dancing energetic connection two concious beings can make. I attempted to symbolize the shared creation that fills both beings with thrilling light, hope, and Love and Color...independent of the differences of the body like skin color, religion, age, or gender. It could be said that this sculpture is also about Agape, or Pure Love, which can be between any beings who recognize each other in mutual admiration and connection. Maybe that is why the tune that kept running through my head while creating this was: "Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me"! Happy Valentines Day to you and your Loved Ones, and Thank You Hajnalka for a Collab well-run! Be sure to visit the Collaboration Page and see all 40+ Artists contributions from around the world! https://www.facebook.com/BeMyValentinecollab
"Frog Prince": Rackham Illustration Cake -8/18/13 - Here it is! Awhile back I was invited by CakeCentral.com to participate in a Theme for their Vol4 Issue 10 edition addressing the work of artist Arthur Rackham (9/19/1867-9/6/1939). I was asked to use his illustrations of "The Frog Prince" to inspire a cake design. There were two Rackham illustrations for this story, and I chose the one of the Princess with the Frog at the well, in the deep dark woods. This cake was started as one lump of ivory fondant tinted various shades and then painted with a uniform sepia wash to match the tones of the original illustration.
Yellow Submarine Cake -2/14/14 - YES! I LOVE the Yellow Submarine! The Sub is cake on a custom board, with modeling chocolate and lots of Yellow fondant! Beatles are hand-molded out of modeling chocolate and gumpaste. The drum front is and-painted onto rice paper, on the front of a solid chocolate drum.
My Entry into this year's Sweet Times in the Rockies Cake Show here in Denver Colorado. The Home and Garden Show theme this year was "Safari". I love giraffes. Absolutely love them. When the mama kisses her baby I just melt. My family also loves "Meerkat Manor" and Flower, so she just had to join them in a moment of admiration of a huge blue butterfly. The bodies of both giraffes are cake, with Mama resting on a custom-made food-safed board with wire legs and neck. Modeling chocolate makes up the neck, head, legs. This sweet pair was the Winner of the People's Choice Award at the Sweet Times in the Rockies Cake Show. Thank you everyone who voted, and to the folks who put on the Show!
Discworld Turtle Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - 10/12/13 This custom-order was a special request cake, as an Anniversary gift. It is a tribute art piece inspired by Terry Pratchett's amazing fiction "Discworld". This sculpture is of the "A'Tuin", the giant turtle who floats through deep space with four huge elephants atop his shell, who bear the Discworld on their backs. Waterfall around edge of disc is gelatin, rainbows are solid gumpaste. The underside and fins, head, tail are a food-safe board covered in gumpaste, sculpted and hand-painted This creation was filled with Chocolate Mint Grasshopper cake filled with Chocolate Cookie Crumble with Dark Chocolate Mint Buttercream, and was covered with more Dark Chocolate Buttercream.
Red Dragonling Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - 6/2/11 - This is my second most popular cake, and was made as a donation to our daughter's school for the annual Silent Auction. The winner of the auction was having a Renaissance Birthday Party for her son, and she asked him to describe his role-playing 'character'. He said: "(He) is a red dragonling. Which means an immature dragon who has wings but cannot yet fly. In his hand he holds a white healing orb which is a orb that casts healing spells". Okay! I Love a specific request! This one was Vanilla Orange cake and was filled with Milk Chocolate buttercream. The spines and claws are made of gumpaste, and the scales are from colored fondant. If the birthday boy had been a bit older I might have used red velvet cake...har-har. His mom tells me every time she sees me how much fun he had with that cake and that he was the absolute center of attention on his Birthday!
The 4th of July with Blues Traveler at Red Rocks is truly a Carnival! Here is the cake I took them this year - may I present "Cat", the iconic BT logo, all dressed up in his Uncle Sam beetle-back coat and musket for the 4th of July! The carnival muscle man from this year's poster art & tent complete the circus feel. The top half of Cat's head & tent are filled with Chocolate Goddess Cake & Caramel which got demolished in happy fashion after the show.!!
Carnival Animal Train by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - Toot! Toot! All aboard the Circus Train Birthday Express!! This darling Birthday Boy loves transportation, so I took that license to ride and made a colorful animal circus on wheels. He loved it - "My Choo-Choo!!" he kept saying :-) Vanilla cake with birthday rainbow sprinkles and white almond buttercream. Happy Birthday!!
60th Anniversary Fiesta Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes- 8/4/13 - ¡Feliz aniversario! This darling couple has been married for 60 years (!!!!!) and decided to throw a huge party in their beautiful backyard. Mamacita special-requested that this creation match her chili-pepper-Fiesta-theme party plates & napkins, and that it also contain Papacita's Favorite Pineapple Upside-Down cake. Everyone loved the cake, and the cutting after the toast helped make the Fiesta a huge hit!
String Cheese Incident Jellyfish Cake by H. Sherman Art2Eat Cakes - Music helps me Make Cake! I've loved these SCI guys for YEARS, but there was so much to choose from visually that I needed to consult with some folks who bleed Cheese on this one. Special design consultation Thanks to David Schitter, Liz Wilson, C Alan Crandall, and Daniella Katzir for your expertise! This cake was composed of MegaVanilla cake with Chocolate Buttercream, and was truly enjoyed by all - such kind and pleasant folks they are! A wire supported the large tentacles, and the jellyfish head by a rod, but everything else is freestanding sugar. Thanks for having us - looking forward to New Years! ;-)
Our littlest daughter LOVES penguins, and the familiar movie we all know that shows so many of them. This 3-d sculpted cake was a huge hit - yet another delighted client. She even hung tough when it came time to cut the head off, but Grandma nearly fainted. Baby Birthday Girl's favorite cake is mama's Golden Almond Vanilla with lots and lots of chocolate ganache. This one has a gumpaste/fondant center head and egg. The egg was surprisingly difficult. Powder color was used on the neck tint, and the mouth on the beak is hand-painted.
Tedeschi Trucks Band, "Made Up Mind" Locomotive & Bison Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - 6/15/13 - I decided to focus on their new album to be released August 20th, "Made Up Mind". We cut this creation after an unreal show, and everybody seemed to really like the Vanilla Pound cake with Caramel soak and Black Cherry Filling. BIG THANKS out to Derek, Susan, Road Manager Chris, The Band, Staff, and Red Rocks Support for an AMAZING show! Special mentions too for Colorado Railroad Museum, and Old Engine #683 for help with reference.
Christmas Tree Cake Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - 12/20/11 - HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! This Tree was a challenge! Each branch is dry gumpaste, as are ornaments and candy canes. Each colored ornament is individually hand-painted with gold, silver or copper luster dust. Gifts are krispy treat covered in gumpaste wrapping. Golden red-green sprinkle cake within, coconut 'snow' on the base and inside in the filling- YUM!
Rainbow Unicorn-Pegasus Mama and Baby Cake by H. Sherman, Art2Eat Cakes - 7/18/11- This is undoubtedly my most popular cake. It recently went viral on the Web, and clocked over 3000 Flickr views one day in April, currently over 14,000. My middle daughter has always been very specific in her Birthday requests, and this one was no different. When she requested this one, I was not too surprised. She wanted "a Rainbow Pegasus Unicorn with a Rainbow Horn and Rainbow wings and a tiny baby unicorn too". Anything for you my little Baby Rainbow Pegacorn! This creation was filled with Golden Almond Pound Cake with pineapple-mango filling and Vanilla Buttercream. The feathers and mane are made of individually hand-shaped hardened gumpaste. The wings and head have a food-safe internal support skeleton and are composed of rice-krispy-treat. It was a HUGE hit at the party, and my 7-yr-old was very brave when it came time to cut into it. No one cried, I promise, and once they discovered how delicious the inside was, it was all forgotten and forgiven!
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