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Some up close details of the bottom tier of my spongebob cake. all hand painted with food coloring on fondant.

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By alanahodgson

Apr 9, 2009

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By alanahodgson

Apr 9, 2009

Handmade gumpaste figure, buttercream finish with fondant flowers.

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By alanahodgson

Feb 28, 2009

This buttercream cake with fondant accents was made for a young gymnast to share with her team for her 9th birthday.

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By alanahodgson

Jan 30, 2009

This is a royal icing runout on a fondant covered board. I used the tutorial from cakejournal.com

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By alanahodgson

Nov 28, 2008

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By alanahodgson

Nov 28, 2008

I was asked to make a cake like my High School Musical cake, but Camp Rock instead. Wasn't even sure what Camp Rock was. I'm so not cool with the 10 year old crowd!

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By alanahodgson

Oct 11, 2008

buttercream w/ fondant accents and a hand modeled poodle topper.

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By alanahodgson

Oct 3, 2008

This is for a 1 year old's birthday. Mom says he likes balloons, so that's what I went with. Mom aske for this color scheme-she's an interior decorator and knows what she's talkin' 'bout. Love these colors!

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By alanahodgson

Jul 18, 2008

This was just a small cake for a friend's little girl's birthday.

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By alanahodgson

Jul 11, 2008

I HATE the kitty but I was pretty happy with the cake design. I was lazy last night and put off doing the figure so that's the price I pay when I wait till the last minute!

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By alanahodgson

Jun 18, 2008

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By alanahodgson

May 30, 2008

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By alanahodgson

May 16, 2008

Borrowed from iheartpastry's interpretation of Hugs n Stitches.

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By alanahodgson

May 16, 2008

My first doll cake. Had to use a couple of rounds under the wondermold because the barbie was so tall. I think the barbie really made the cake. She's so pretty compared to those doll picks.

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By alanahodgson

May 9, 2008

Another request for this cake, just smaller. I was a little bummed that when I colored my gumpaste for bows and swags that even though it looked like a nice contrast in color, onece it was applied the color looked almost exactly the same as the...

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By alanahodgson

Mar 6, 2008

When my cousin sent me the picture of the figure her son wanted I was not too excited. This little guy was not so easy. The kids liked it, though, and that's what it's all about.

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By alanahodgson

Feb 16, 2008

I spent all kinds of time coloring the perfect three shades of pink for this cake and then when the luster dust went on the variation was all gone. I was so bummed. Oh well. Once again, live and learn.

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By alanahodgson

Dec 20, 2007

First time ever I put the fondant on perfectly in the first shot! I was so happy until I put my finger in the side of the cake trying to turn it. Dang! I was a little disappointed with how my ball drooped on the bottom half even before I put the...

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By alanahodgson

Dec 15, 2007

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By alanahodgson (3 photos)

Nov 24, 2007

For a 4 year old girl who likes princesses, and Hello Kitty. Her mother tells me that she was adopted from China and that the ladybug is a national symbol of good luck. First time doing swags....I'll get it right eventually.

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By alanahodgson (2 photos)

Nov 24, 2007

One of three cakes I had to do last night. I couldn't start earlier because of sudden obligations that arose. I was stressed to the max and got 4 hours sleep. Yawn! Time for bed....

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By alanahodgson

Oct 20, 2007

This cake sent me to bed crying at 2 a.m. last night. I started stripping all of its buttercream off and throwing it away b/c I could not get it smoothed to my satisfaction. My first tears shed over a cake (one of three I had to do last night! Ya...

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By alanahodgson

Oct 20, 2007

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Oct 20, 2007

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By alanahodgson

Oct 6, 2007

Thanks to manders and aine2 for their inspirational animal pics. This is for my boss' grandson's birthday. All she told me, design wise, was that she wanted a 1 topper. So this is what I came up with. I hope she likes it.

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By alanahodgson

Oct 6, 2007

My nephew asked for the cheetos car from Herbie Fully Loaded. I had no idea what he was talking about and had to go rent the movie. This was a big learning experience, but fun.

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By alanahodgson

Sep 30, 2007

Made this for my cousin's little girl's 5th birthday. Definately need to spend some time finding out how to insert and arrange those wire thingys.

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By alanahodgson

Sep 21, 2007

This was a tough one. Used boxed cake which was way too soft to stand up on the dowels which poked through the barn and needed to be "covered" with icing. The animals are all royal icing, which was fun, but I can see from others on this...

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By alanahodgson

Jun 25, 2007

This was taken from a Witon yearbook. I misread the directions and made 3 torte layers rather than six full layers (too much cake!) but couldn't figure out why I didn't have enough room between the layers for the swags. It was my first all mmf cake...

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By alanahodgson

Jun 25, 2007

This cake was inspired by the stand that the skater pony stands in. It was for my daughter's 5th birthday. The flowers and butterflies were gumpaste. the rest is buttercream.

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By alanahodgson

Jun 25, 2007

This was my third cake attempt. It was for my twin's 2nd birthday. The track is pastillage, the rest is buttercream (well not the trains-toys)

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By alanahodgson

Jun 25, 2007

Comments (54)

dalilu 11/1/12 at 1:58pm

Where is the search feature for the galleries now? Before we could put the theme and then all the relevant cakes appear.

indianacakesbylisa 11/1/12 at 3:04pm

I would also love to find out about this feature!!!!!!!!! :-)

Sweet_Cake 11/1/12 at 4:04pm

I used the search on the top right of the page. Then the page give you some options like All/Product/Gallery Image. Select the one that you want and that's it!! =)

Yeloroz65 11/2/12 at 7:33am

That search option doesn't appear to allow you to search within a search like before. I'm trying to search in Children's Birthday cakes, but only for girls. Yesterday I tried searching for a girl's b-day cake several ways, and one of the searches brought up several adult/naughty theme cake. I think I just searched girl birthday cake. That search also brought up wedding cakes, and some random halloween cakes. Before you could do a general search, then there was an option to search within the results to narrow it down more. Does anyone know if that feature still exists?

lsfas 11/2/12 at 3:02pm

I agree Ladyfist74 I dont understand why these comments are under our albums when it has nothing to do with our pics

bighand 11/4/12 at 11:13am

i agree its really weird

Eileen22 11/6/12 at 4:48am

I can't find my favorites. Now I can't even search a particular cake. What's going on? This is not good at all. Does anyone know what happened?

Cakesbyinstinct 11/6/12 at 2:20pm

Please how do i search for cakes?

Scooper2 11/7/12 at 9:35am

Wheres the cake search??????

tinascakes8085 11/7/12 at 5:28pm

I was just getting used to the last change now this, and so far I am not to happy :(

Ashpatti 11/7/12 at 9:37pm

Agreed. This change is really confusing me. Nothing about it makes any sense. It was so easy to navigate before! What's happened?

carolinabass 11/8/12 at 8:49am

how come we dont get ANY answer to our comments and questions???

Jujube 11/8/12 at 10:05am

I really don't want to search thru THOUSANDS of cakes when I only want to view Hello Kitty!! WHERE IS THE SEARCH FEATURE?!? Hello....moderators....are you out there?? We'd like an answer please and thank you!

tinascakes8085 11/9/12 at 4:24pm

It is very complicated and the search feature is horrible, so not happy

SweetsbyLadawn 11/9/12 at 6:01pm

Oh god help what is the solution to the search feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

makeminepink 11/11/12 at 9:11am

I'm wondering the same thing. Is it here and we just aren't seeing it or is there not one?

Bonald 11/12/12 at 8:02am

Ugggghhhhh! This new design is HORRIBLE!!!! I can't find anything!!!!!

yessiescakes 11/13/12 at 8:52am

yeah i was about to ask the same ? hehehe hopefully they will figure it out soon.

Jimdog1 11/13/12 at 8:12pm

who is the bright ### Persons that changed the cake cental format. This really is a kick in the kister. Oh well I guess I'II stop visting this site.

teenaluiz 11/17/12 at 8:29am

Bring back the old cake Central!! The gallery search is totally gone, that was one of the greatest features.

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