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I made the flowers on this cake to match the bride's bouquet. It's white cake with raspberry mousse filling and lemon cake with lemon curd filling, all iced in vanilla buttercream. The swags are fondant with pearl luster dust. I really love how this cake turned out! I can hardly wait to deliver it. The callas were fun to make (first time for those). I used corn meal to coat the stamens on the white ones and instant coffee ground up to coat the purple ones.
It's been a family tradition since my children were very small to make a gingerbread house each year at Christmas. When our youngest daughter went away to college we stopped do it. My husband and I decided to make one this year after a six year respite. It was a fun thing to do together and it brought back many fond memories of Christmases past. Most of the decoration on the house is gumpaste. The chimney is candy rocks and the trees are rice krispy treats covered with royal icing. The snow is also royal icing.
I made this cake for my sister-in-law's birthday. I am ever so proud of this cake; it's one of my top five favorites that I've ever made. It's a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganache filling under the fondant. The handle is gumpaste; the beading is sugar pearls. I was inspired by another picture I saw here, but I can't find it to give credit, so if it looks like one you've made, THANKS for the great design!
This groom's cake goes with the autumn wedding cake I posted earlier. The couple needed additional servings but didn't want anything frilly or whimsical, so I just did a cake with their initial on it. It's a red velvet with cream cheese filling and vanilla buttercream.
I love this cake. It's a 4/7/10/14 cake - weighs a ton. the leaves are all hand cut gumpaste, painted in a variety of colors with vodka and food color. The cakes are also a variety of flavors. Coconut cake with chocolate ganache; chocolate fudge cake with raspberry puree; white cake with lemon curd..
This was a wedding gift for some friends. It's a tier of lemon cake with lemon curd filling, and two tiers of chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganache filling, all iced with vanilla buttercream and covered with fondant. I bought the gumpaste roses and dusted them with blue petal dust and pearl luster dust. The drapes are also fondant.
I made this cake for a car lover. It's a 9" chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, vanilla buttercream covered with black fondant. The silver and white pieces are gumpaste. I actually rolled a car tire into the house, covered it with plastic wrap and pressed the fondant into it for the tread.
The design for this baby shower cake matched the invitations. I love making these types of cakes. The gumpaste pieces are so much fun! The cake is white with a raspberry/cream cheese/marshmallow cream filling and vanilla buttercream. I actually added three little gumpaste clouds around the top tier after I took the picture because it just looked a little bare. I ground up raw sugar in the food processer to make the sand.
This was a little birthday cake for a friend. The person who ordered it said, "Just make something pretty" which wasn't much guidance. I used Avalyn's cake for inspiration. It's a devil's food cake with chocolate ganache filling.
This cake was covered with black fondant and had white gumpaste stephanotis flowers; white satin ribbon. It was a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganache filling and vanilla buttercream under the fondant. I thought the design and flavor were both risky choices for the bride, but I think it looks quite elegant.
This cake was decorated with silk lilies provided by the customer that are like what the bride carried in her bouquet 55 years ago. It was a lemon cake, lemon curd filling and vanilla buttercream. Those swirls are still a huge challenge for me. I felt like I finally got the last one I did right!
This is a first birthday cake. The decorations are all gumpaste. The cake is a banana cake with caramel buttercream filling and regular vanilla buttercream icing. I twisted two pieces of plastic wrap and put them in half circle shapes under the fondant to make the ripples in front of the alligator on the board.
This was for an Alaskan native. It has the typical wildlife of Copper River salmon, moose, grizzly and polar bears, a fishing boat that resembles one the birthday girl worked on as a teenager, and the Alaskan mountain range all around. All the decorations are gumpaste or fondant, and the boat is rice krispy treats covered with gumpaste. I painted the fondant mountains with grey food color, painted on the pine trees, then used royal icing to add snow. The boat is named after the birthday girl and her birthdate and place are the registration number on the boat. This is one of my all time favorite cakes. The cake was Italian Cream cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing.
This is a coconut cake with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream icing. I used brown grosgrain ribbon around the base of each tier and made the gumpaste lilies. I think it looks very elegant.
I made this cake for a good friend for her 45th birthday. I told her it was to "cushion" the blow of having a landmark birthday. I saw one made on the Fabulous Cakes show and wanted to try one. I was happy with how it turned out. It's a devil's food cake with chocolate chips with chocolate ganache and raspberry filling covered with vanilla buttercream and fondant. I used two shades of pink luster dust for the shading.
This is a cake topper for a boy who is turning 13. He's the drummer in a band named Jester. All the drums are rice krispy treats covered with marbled gumpaste made to look like his drum set and painted with luster dusts. The stage is styrofoam covered with gumpaste. I needed that so I'd have something to stick the stands for the stool, cymbals and some of the drums into. I just made the topper; mom wanted to make her own cake. This was a lot of fun to make!
I made this topper all out of gumpaste. It's all freehand; I didn't use any molds. I made the nest by running the gumpaste through my pasta maker. I brushed the baby with some dark pink luster dust to give it a bit more dimension. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. The woman just ordered the topper. She's going to put it on her own cake.
This was an easy cake to make. It's a white cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream icing. The ribbon is satin and the flowers are fresh. Unfortunately, the flowers they brought me didn't match the color sample they gave me earlier. My ribbon did match the sample. When I delivered the cake, the bride loved it so I guess it's all good.
This was for a baby shower where the hostess gave everyone a time of day, and we bought gifts for the baby based on what she'll be doing at that time, thus, the clock on the front of the cake. It's white cake tinted pink, vanilla custard, vanilla buttercream, fondant stripes, and gumpaste decorations. When I looked around after the cake was served, there was not a single plate with cake left on it, so I guess everyone loved it!
The couple had their 50th anniversary six months ago, but they're just celebrating with the whole family now, so their son wanted it to say 50 1/2, which I think is pretty funny. It's a delicious cake: white almond sour cream cake with mocha filling, chocolate buttercream, decorated with gold dragees and gold luster dusted gumpaste pieces.
I had to drive for 2 1/2 hours through mountain roads to the resort where this wedding cake needed to go. I've never been so nervous in my life. I'm glad I insisted on fondant when I booked it; I transported it in boxes and stacked it there. That's fabric ribbon and fresh flowers. It's a lemon cake with raspberry filling. I'm so relieved to be done with this one! BTW, I piped in a thin line of royal icing at the base of each tier and smoothed it in with a paint brush and a little water to get the nicely joined tiers. She wanted a very smooth line, and it was a challenge to get all of that very cleanly done.
I am very happy with how this cake turned out. I used Tonedna's buttercream icing and Sharon Zambito's icing method for square cakes, and this cake came together like a dream! I don't like the scale of it - the middle tier is just too big. I'm not a big fan of off-setting the tiers, and I really don't like it when they hang over the edge of the one below. This is a 6"/9"/12". Carrot cake with cream cheese filling on top; chocolate fudge with raspberry fluff filling for the middle tier; lemon with lemon curd on the bottom. Buttercream all around. The flowers really made this cake. The florist did all the flowers.
This is a "Thomas the Train" (in profile) cake. I had SO much fun with this cake. I used Tonedna's buttercream recipe and it was a dream to work with, and I loved the design. It's a white cake with chocolate ganache filling. The decorations are fondant and gumpaste. Inspired by lots of cute train cakes by others here.
This cake was a lot of fun to make. The face is rice krispy treats covered with black fondant and steamed to make it look shiny. The cake is lemon with lemon curd filling.
For a young man graduating from high school. Capital Eagle, Letter, and his two sports of baseball and hockey. Fabric ribbon over fondant.
This cake took me forever to make. It's two tiers of white cake with chocolate ganache, and two tiers of lemon cake with raspberry filling. The black swirls are fondant, and all the flowers are gumpaste. I cheated and bought the tulips, but I made the rest of the flowers by hand. I was so tired when I finished that I just took the picture of the cake in the fridge. : ) I need to credit tonedna for the design inspiration.
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