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Hexagon pattern in fondant. Wafer paper flowers.
Cake inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, "The Seven Ravens." It was featured in the October 2013 issue of CakeCentral Magazine. The bottom tier is ringed with fondant feathers; the middle two tiers are painted to create a water-color effect, mimicking the water in the inspiration photo by Arthur Rackham. The topper and accents at the sides of each tier are made with isomalt - poured, colored, and broken to make jagged pieces to reflect the ice castle in the story.
The design was made by punching edible paper with a craft punch, the ribbon is real, and the flower is gumpaste. The cake is a 6-inch cake, just under 7 inches tall. This design is inspired by Jessica Harris' second Craftsy class.
This is a cake I did for the 2013 fashion issue of CC Magazine. It was inspired by a Valentino dress. The background fondant is painted lightly with gold and all the lines are extruded fondant.
Cake made for a friend's husband's 40th birthday. Fondant covered with modelling chocolate decorations. The dashes are piped royal icing. Thanks for looking!
I saw a clutch on Pinterest with folded fabric circles and I thought I'd try it in fondant. I do realize now that they look like little calla lillies, but I still like the effect. I cut circles in two different colors and layered them together then folded them so the inside was showing. I then layered them for the effect on the side of the cake and placed them in a circle for a type of fantasy flower on the top.
I made this cake with spring in mind, hence the sunny yellow color. It was just for fun. The decorations are all modeling chocolate. The brackets were individually cut by hand and applied in panels using Jessica Harris' wax paper transfer method. The bow on the top tier is made using her template (found on her blog or in her Craftsy class). I really love the way this turned out! And after I made it, I found I had the perfect cake stand for it - notice the bracket shapes mirrored around the edge. I couldn't have planned it better! :)
My first time painting a cake. This design was inspired by some scrapbook paper. I drew it freehand onto the cake.
I made this cake for a friend whose mother-in-law was celebrating both her 70th birthday and her 40th wedding anniversary. The cake decorations are symbols of all of the things that she loves, including the names of her grandchildren. All of the decorations are fondant.
Birthday cake for my sister. I'm practicing my smoothing technique.
Birthday cake for my niece, carved rather than baked in a specialty pan. Chocolate cake with strawberry swiss meringue buttercream and dark chocolate ganache. Decorations are all fondant.
This is my first peony flower, modeled after a beautiful tree peony. I put it on the top of an anniversary cake for a local cake decorating competition. The cake itself is decorated with a hand-pressed quartrefoil design around the bottom and top tiers and hand-cut quartrefoil pieces on the middle tier.
This is a wedding cake I designed and did for a local cake decorating competition. It took 2d place! It was my first time doing any sort of competition, so I am very pleased. All of the decorations, including all the birds around the bottom tier, are hand-cut, no cutters used at all.
Cake made for a dear friend's husband's birthday. His hobby is fishing, so she wanted that theme and let me come up with the specific design. The cake is an 8-inch vanilla bean cake with vanilla SMBC filling and covering. The fish is gumpaste and the other decorations are fondant.
All fondant. Vanilla Bean Cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache.
Another simple little Valentine's cake. All fondant.
Simple little fondant cake.
Practicing new (to me) techniques. All fondant.
Trying lace design piped on cookies.
My first time doing topsy-turvy. Made for a friend's little girl for her second birthday. The characters are chocolate transfers.
Done for a friend. Chocolate 8" tier, white (vanilla) 6" tier, both with chocolate ganache and fondant. Snoopy is RKT and the Woodstocks are modeling chocolate. TFL!
Simple 6-inch chocolate and vanilla marble cake with SMBC and ganache. Covered in fondant with fondant band and heart.
Clone Wars cake for my son's 6th birthday. I believe this is Rex's helmet. It is marble (chocolate and vanilla) cake filled and covered with dark chocolate ganache and fondant. Fondant and "painted" details. I must admit, I'm not super happy with the painting. It was my first time doing it. I was super happy with the carving, though. The whole thing is carved from a 12-inch round.
Kettlebell and Weight Plate cakes I made for the opening celebration of my friend's gym. The kettlebell is 6- and 8-inch rounds carved with a wire and rice krispy treat handle secured to the cake by wooden skewers. It is dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache and fondant. The weight plate is a single layer 10-inch red velvet cake with cream cheese SMBC and fondant.
First time piping on cookies...
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