German Shepard
German Shepard bust. Head is sculpted from modeling chocolate and hand painted with icing colors. Bust is white vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream icing, covered with fondant and hand painted with icing colors. Collar & bandana are fondant, bones & dog tag are made from sugar paste. This cake is in two parts for transport to recipientâs location 45 min. away. There are 4 more views on my web site.
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Kathie's Tiffany Lamp Cake
My friend Kathieâs Birthday cake. Vanilla cake with banana cream filling, covered with chocolate ganache. I bought a second hand lamp, took it apart, attached a plexiglass circle to the top. I covered the base & pole in sugar paste and sculpted to look like a tree. Kathie loves looking at the birds on the feeders in her yard, thatâs where the bird idea came from. 7 different birds decorate the shade. other views are on my web-site. www.sherisconfections.com
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Fish (Snook) Cake
The fish is 18â long, made of compressed cereal treats, covered with fondant and has wafer/rice paper scales. dusted with silver luster dust all else is painted with petal dust. The water is gelatin (like wings & petals -1 Tbl. gelatin & 3 Tbl. water). The fish sits on a three layer coconut cake, filling is white Ghirardelli chocolate coconut ganache and vanilla butter cream icing covered with coconut.
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Wafer Paper Decorated
I got this idea from someone who posted a link to a web site on the forum. Sorry I donât remember who posted or the site link. Next time I do one of these I will cut the petals/feathers narrower and put at least twice as many rows. I only had about 50 full sheets of paper and had to stretch it to cover all three tiers. Tips are dusted with luster dust. This was a 12â tall cake. One 8âx3â two 6âx3â and one 4âx2â collared for an extra inch of height. I then torted each layer and filled with chocolate ganache. I used only one cake board between the two 6â pan layers to prevent collapse. I then doweled through all layers into bottom cake board. I left ¼â of the dowel sticking out of the top. Iced with butter cream and covered with fondant. CUTTING: I cut the wafer paper in half length wise, measured 1â wide by 3 ½â tall petals/feathers leaving them attached by a slight strip at the bottom. I only had about 50 sheets of wafer paper, I should have had 100 or more and made the petal/feathers 1/2 â wide by 3 ½â tall. I pulled each petal/feather through my fingers to curl it then dusted each tip with dry luster dust. I tried to wrap the strips, starting at the top of the cake, but they wouldnât curve the way I liked so I attached each one individually with royal icing. When I receive my next order of wafer paper I will experiment to see of a hole punch hole at the strip between each petal will allow the curve I want.
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Transformers/optimus Prime (Circa 1986)
Optimus Prime, before he transforms is 19" long from front of cab to back of trailer. Optimus Prime robot is color flow. I wasn't pleased with the sloppy work I did on the side blue & white stripes. By 6:30 a.m. when I finished I didn't care anymore, just wanted to be DONE.
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Harley Skull Birthday Cake
The request was for a dark chocolate cake with everything (cake, filling, icing and decorations) dark chocolate. The cake is 10" square 4.5" tall chocolate fudge, dark chocolate ganash filling, dark fudge buttercream covered with chocolate foundant. I made a skull mold and poured 4 dark chocolate skulls which I placed one on each side of the cake. I made a dark chocolate plaque with Harley Davidson and the winged skull. I painted the wings with brown luster dust.
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Victoria's Secret Cake
The gift bag is spice cake, covered and filled with buttercream then covered with fondant, the light stripes are painted with pearl dust. The camisole is sugar paste, lace design is painted on with blue luster dust. The flower & tissue paper are sugar paste. This was a birthday cake for my friend Kathy.