BarbaraF's Cake Central Gallery

BarbaraF's Cake Central Gallery

Fairy Toadstool

Fairy Toadstool

My baby girl's first birthday cake! Buttercream with some fondant decorations. "Smash cake" toadstool cupcake is shown in smaller picture.

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High School Musical (Gabriella) Cake

High School Musical (Gabriella) Cake

FBT Gabriella, MMF and BC decorations.

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Fairy In A Forest

Fairy In A Forest

Cream cheese frosting w/buttercream and fondant decorations. For my 6 year old's birthday

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Uncle Sam Cupcakes

Uncle Sam Cupcakes

Fondant hats, everything else buttercream.

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Softball Turtle Cookies

Softball Turtle Cookies

My first attempt at decorated cookies! These were for my ten year old's softball team ("The Turtles"). In their league, they use bright yellow softballs, hence the coloring of the shells.

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Red Beret Cake

Red Beret Cake

For a friend's mom who always wears a red beret and sunglasses. Buttercream with fondant ribbon. (I had to do the lettering on site, and I didn't have a camera then, so I photoshopped it for the pic.)

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Manga Cake

Manga Cake

A manga cake for my stepdaughter. Chocolate cake, cream cheese frosting, fbt, except for the hair, which I just did freehand. Royal icing drop flowers.

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"apparel Design" Cake

"apparel Design" Cake

For a friend of mine who is going back to school to study apparel design. Mostly buttercream, with some fondant accent pieces.

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Tae Kwon Do Dragon Cake

Tae Kwon Do Dragon Cake

This was a remake of one of my first cakes. The original turned out so badly I never posted it on cc. I was much happier with this one. The dragon is buttercream over fondant, and the kicker is a fbt. All the gold parts (medallion and dragon mane) are piped white chocolate candy melts with gold luster dust painted on top.

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Diva Cake

Diva Cake

This was a goodbye cake for a woman at work. Thank you to Traci, whose diva leopard cake inspired me. All buttercream frosting, royal icing sunglasses. And dragees...LOTS of dragees :-)

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Cherry Pie Cake

Cherry Pie Cake

I made this cake for a pie contest at work (Did you know a layer cake with custard, jelly or cream filling is considered a pie according to the American Heritage Dictionary?). All buttercream, except the cherry pie filling. I used disco dust on the "pan" which looked neat and metallic in person, but the flash made it look funny in the pic. Thanks to klacrawford, whose cake I used for inspiration

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Flower Garden Cake

Flower Garden Cake

This was for a goodbye party for a person at work...and my first time doing a flowery cake. Thank you to all the many talented people I stole ideas from while looking through the galleries.

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Puppy In Doghouse

Puppy In Doghouse

I ran out of time on this one (again) and had to rush to finish it, so it's not as neat as I would have liked. Thank you to Ihatefondant, whose adorable cake I used as inspiration.

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Peacock Cake

Peacock Cake

My 13 year old stepdaughter's only request for her cake was to use my "peacock" (blue/green) disco dust. I couldn't think of anything better to make with it. The peacock is a big rice crispy treat. Most of the decorations are buttercream - the "eyes" on the tail are rice paper with edible markers, piping gel and luster dust.

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Chocolate Candy Basket

Chocolate Candy Basket

I have the hardest time trying to find an idea for my husband's birthday cake, because he has so many rules! It must be chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting, no colored frosting (because he can TASTE it!) and absolutely, positively, no fondant!! It makes a cake decorator just want to WEEP!! Anyway, this is what I decided on this year...thanks especially to MoonicaLeigh, whose Valentine cake I shamelessly copied!

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Cinderella Cake

Cinderella Cake

This was for my stepdaughter's 4th birthday. It was my first doll cake, and my first time covering a cake w/MMF. It didn't turn out *exactly* how I wanted, but I learned a lot, and she loved it. Dress is all MMF w/royal icing accents. Pearl dust/disco dust/glitter used liberally :-)

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Teddy Bear Halloween!

Teddy Bear Halloween!

These little bears are all dressed up and ready to go trick-or-treating! They (and the pumpkins) are all hand moulded MMF. The bats are rice paper/piping gel/MMF, and the rest is all buttercream!

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Teddy Bear Halloween

Teddy Bear Halloween

My first tiered cake! Buttercream frosting, mmf teddy bears. The bats were made with rice paper, black piping gel, and fondant.

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Black Dragon Cake - Better Picture

Black Dragon Cake - Better Picture

I know I already posted this one, but the birthday boy's mom sent me a picture she took of the cake, and it was SO much better than the horrible one I had, that I had to post it again! Sorry!

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Another Dragon Cake!

Another Dragon Cake!

I suppose I should take it as a compliment that everyone likes my dragon cakes enough to order one...but I wish SO desperately somebody would order something new! Anyway, this customer wanted a chinese dragon and clouds, and wanted me to use the colors red, black, purple, orange, and white! I thought it was a very strange color combination, but I did my best. Chocolate cake, cream cheese frosting, fondant dragon, and buttercream decorations.

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Garden Cake

Garden Cake

This cake would have been MUCH easier if I hadn't insisted on EVERYTHING being edible! White cake, chocolate frosting, sugar cookie "pickets" fondant flowers (my first), oreo "dirt" and everything else buttercream. The flower stems are "Pocky" wrapped in fondant, and I learned how to make the butterflies from the wonderful article on this site! Thank you!

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Martial Arts Girl Cake

Martial Arts Girl Cake

A cake done before I knew how much easier buttercream is to work with than cream cheese frosting! Still kind of goopy, but I tried to clean it up as much as possible. Chocolate Cake, with bct on cream cheese. Martial arts girl is breaking a graham cracker "board" Around the sides of the cake, it says "Happy Birthday Madison" in Korean.

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Martial Arts Boy Cake

Martial Arts Boy Cake

My first time using "spray color". I think I'm fairly pleased with the effect. For a 5 year old's Martial Arts Birthday Party. The writing on the top is Korean, and says "Mudo Max" Mudo means martial arts, and Max, obviously, was the birthday boy.

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Martial Arts Dragon

Martial Arts Dragon

My first upload and my first experience with fondant! It was for a martial arts birthday party, and the only thing the mom wrote on the order form was "DRAGON!!" It is chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and MMF dragon (although I covered up almost all the MMF with buttercream - oh well!) The "ball" is a large dragee.

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