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Cake for my son's Gymboree teacher. She's a member of Phi Theta Kappa, and her birthday falls on the same day as when the group will be decorating bears and cards for oncology patients, so she decided to go with that theme. Bottom cake is a 14" dummy, covered in fondant and brushed with luster dust. Middle cake is a 12" chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting, also covered in fondant. Bear is pound cake decorated with buttercream and a fondant ribbon and bow. The card and Greek symbols are fondant. I used real ribbon around the round cakes.
Four inch chocolate Cake Mix Dr. cake with dark chocolate buttercream. Fondant bow, ribbon, tag and tag "string." For my Mom's boss. October 16th is Boss's Day - do you have your "bribe" ready? ;)
Birthday cake for a friend who brews his own beer. Bucket is four 10" butter cakes carved down a bit, frosted with white buttercream, then covered in gray fondant. Fondant was brushed with silver luster dust to give it a shiny silver metal look. Ice and beer bottles are made from poured sugar, bottle tops are fondant.
Birthday cake for a mom and daughter. Cake Mix Doctor basic butter cakes (9, 10, and 11 inch) with buttercream frosting, covered and decorated with fondant. Bow and tag were made from a fondant/gumpaste mixture. Cake board was covered in fondant and pressed with an impression mat for the "Happy Birthday" messages. Bow and ribbon were dusted with white luster dust for some sparkle, and the whole cake was sprinkled with purple disco dust. My first loopy bow and wonky cake! Many thanks to MacsMom, whose whimsical present cake inspired this one!
Cake for a friend's birthday. It's based on the piranha plant cake character from the Super Mario Brothers video game. The bottom part of the pipe is made from a 10" cake dummy and then a 10" cake. The top of the pipe is a carved 12" cake. Yellow butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, all covered in fondant. Piranha plant stem is a 3/8" dowel rod that goes all the way through the cakes and cake dummies and is secured to the cake board; also decorated with fondant. Plant head is a styrofoam ball covered in fondant. The thing stood about 3 feet tall! Many thanks to Doug for the diagram on how to put a central dowel in a wooden board, and mad_mike for his piranha plant cake that inspired this one!
Dragon cake for a friend's birthday. It's based on a Lindy Smith dragon cake - directions on how to make it are in issue 107 of Cakes and Sugarcraft magazine. I modified the design a bit since the birthday girl wanted a more "grrr-arg-y" type dragon than a cute one. CC Easy Lemon Pound Cake with lemon buttercream frosting, covered and decorated with fondant. Took FOREVER, but I think the end result came out great!
Birthday cake for a friend who crochets. She crocheted a stuffed unicorn, and gave him black eyeliner and clothes and named him "Eugene the Emocorn" so I made her a birthday cake that resembled his head. French vanilla cake with strawberry jam filling made in the Wilton horse head pan. Piped the buttercream to give it a crochet look and yarn-like hair. Fondant eye, nose, mouth and neckline. Many thanks to cakepanpam who had a buttercream crocheted cake that inspired the look of this one!
Birthday cake for a friend made to look like the Book of Spells from the movie Hocus Pocus. Cake Mix Doctor sour cream yellow cake with dark chocolate frosting. Covered and decorated in fondant. Stitches are royal icing. You can't really see it in the pictures, but I put some texture on the cover by pressing wadded Saran Wrap into the fondant to make it look more like wrinkled skin. "Pages" were made by repeatedly and randomly pressed a knife into the yellowed fondant on the sides. Coated the eyeball in piping gel to give it a wet look. Snakes are painted with silver Luster Dust; eyes are silver dragees. Got to use my fondant tools for this one, and they really made a difference in places! Had a lot of fun and learned a lot too. Best part was that if something wasn't quite right (fondant texture, folds or tears) it fit right in since the book is supposed to be old and made of skin!
Cake for my Mother-in-Law's birthday. She's a big Beatles fan. :) Cake was for four people, but I had the "Go big or go home" mentality, so cake is 16X24, but only an 8X8 square down by Paul is actual cake - the rest is fake cake. All iced in buttercream. Picture is from a Beatles cartoon poster and done using the frozen butterceam transfer technique.
Cake for our friend who was having some friends in from out of town for Spring Break. Cake board is covered in fondant (color was done to resemble leather), with fondant rope, badges (with the guests names), and lettering. Cake is a simple white cake iced in buttercream. Thanks for looking!
Was going to go visit some old friends and I wanted each of them to be able to take a cake home with them. 4 inch Cake Mix Doctor chocolate cakes, decorated with buttercream frosting and a fondant/gumpaste mixture sunflower and leaves. 18 cakes in total. Had a blast making them, was good practice, and learned a lot. By the end, I was running out of places to put them all until delivery day! Thanks for looking.
Birthday cake for a relative. 12" dummy on the bottom, 8" Cake Mix Doctor chocolate cake with dark chocolate buttercream frosting on the top. Both covered in fondant. Hat and flowers are gumpaste. Bandanna details in royal icing. I made the hat in two parts by molding brim and the top over two different cowboy party hats, then assembled them after they dried. Learned a lot from this cake! Many many thanks to pinkflamingo, DianeLM, and merissa who had cakes that inspired this one! Thanks for looking.
Just practicing since I haven't done a buttercream cake in awhile, and also playing with my new flower cutter. Cake Mix Dr. chocolate cake recipe and chocolate buttercream frosting. Cakes are a 3" round bottom and 2" round top. Decorated with fondant accents and a gumpaste sunflower.
Block and mushroom from the Super Mario Brothers Nintendo games. Block is made from two 8" square cake dummies. Mushroom is a simple yellow cake, made from two 6" cakes for the stem, then an 8" and the Wilton soccer ball pan for the cap. All decorated in buttercream stars to simulate the 8-bit Nintendo game.
Many thanks to Mike_Elder for his tank cake tutorial found here, and for answering some questions I had about it. I'm going to be making a tank cake for my dad's Christmas party that he'll be throwing for his model club. I wanted to practice first, so I made a smaller version and brought it for Thanksgiving dessert. :) Carved yellow cake body with a rice krispy treat turret. Frosted with buttercream and covered in fondant. Decorated with fondant accents. Lollipop stick barrel, and toothpick machine guns colored with food coloring. I didn't calculate the actual scale since this was a smaller practice cake, so the treads are a little short, but overall I thought it came out great!
Birthday cake for my Mother-in-Law who likes angels. In this case, the angels are helping to decorate the cake. :) She has amazing willpower and doesn't eat sweets, so the cakes are dummies. Cakes are covered and decorated with fondant and royal icing; angels are made from fondant, gumpaste, and royal icing. Inspired by a cake in the Wilton yearbook, and a cake made by Peggy Porschen in her book, "Amazing Cakes."
Birthday cake for my mom. Cake Mix Dr. chocolate cake, dark chocolate frosting, Satin Ice chocolate fondant. Decorated with ribbon, Kit Kat bars, Hershey bars, a homemade chocolate bowl, and Lindor dark chocolate truffles. I hope she likes it!
Made for a friend who's into crocheting. Used the Wilton ball pan for the center yarn ball and the mini-ball pan for the others. Covered in fondant. The kitty is my first fondant sculpture, and I thought he came out pretty good!
My mom likes gardening, but didn't want a huge cake, so I came up with this. A 6" round Cookies N' Creme cake, frosted with a chocolate buttercream crumb coat, and then decorated with vanilla buttercream using the grass tip. Cactus is a cupcake. White chocolate lollipop flowers with fondant leaves.
Made this for a co-worker who had admired my tiara cake. Devil's food cake (Cake Dr. recipe) with chocolate buttercream, then covered with Satin Ice Dark Chocolate fondant. My first time using chocolate fondant - next time I'll roll it out using Crisco instead of my usual cornstarch to avoid some of the marks. Buttercream stars and silver dragees for decorations. White chocolate tiara (with some parts tinted red) and brushed with luster dust. Many thanks to carrielynnfields for the tiara pattern!
Got the new Wilton ribbon pan, so I used it for this cake. Sour Cream Yellow Cake (from the Cake Mix Dr) frosted with buttercream. First time I torted a cake as well, which worked great!
Made this for a security guard where I work just because I wanted to. She likes white and milk chocolate. White chocolate mud cake with white chocolate frosting, covered in fondant. I molded the handcuffs and keys out of milk chocolate.
Made these for April Fool's Day this year. Got the idea from the book "Hey There, Cupcake!" White cupcakes frosted with buttercream. Yolk is fondant that I shaped in one of my measuring spoons.
Made using the Wilton shamrock pan. White cake with buttercream. Did this before I'd discovered CakeCentral and the Viva method. ;)
Another picture of the crown on top of my Mother's Day cake. White chocolate brushed with Luster Dust. Many thanks to MelC for her tiara template which I used!
My mother often refers to herself as a domestic goddess, so I thought Id make a cake that fit the title. :) Choc-o-holic two tier 8 cake on the bottom and pound cake pillow on top - all covered and decorated in fondant. White chocolate crown brushed with luster dust. Mom was most impressed. Many many thanks to Pyxxydust for her prince cake that inspired me, and MelC for her tiara template which I used for the crown.
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