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Made for the first birthday of a friend's grandson. 12" round WASC cake with Vanilla Almond VIVA crusting buttercream and Sunnyside Up Bakery (Hobby Lobby's) fondant. Had a hard time using the fondant, as it wanted to give me elephant skin and showed every flaw. Ugh! Greenery is gumpaste - wired, veined, and dusted. Figures are out of homemade modelling chocolate. Supported with plastic sucker sticks and toothpicks. Had to make in such a way as could be disassembled to go on an airplane and reassembled by friend.
10" round cake with Viva crusting buttercream and hand cut sugar sheets.
White Almond Sour Cream cake with Cream Cheese icing. Daisies and leaves are gumpaste
6" and 3" french vanilla cakes with Vanilla/Almond Viva Crusting Buttercream piped into Purple Ombre Rosettes (look blue in pictures). Purple gumpaste butterflies from a mold. Simple and quick!
I made this dark chocolate cake for my daughter's birthday. I used 4 10" round, 2 8" rounds, and 1 6" round before carving. The arms, feet, muzzle were made from the cake scraps. All was ganached then covered in marshmallow fondant. Ears are fondant. Nose, eyes, mouth, and footpads are modeling chocolate.
This cake was so much fun! Wanting to try smocking, I read Cynthia Venn’s book, “Smocking in Sugarpaste” and had to try something similar. The materials used for this cake were royal icing, marshmallow fondant, and Nicholas Lodge’s recipe for gumpaste. I first tried to smock using bamboo skewers, but with little success, so I ended up ordering and using a smocking roller (much easier!). The “Chevron” pattern was set using a pair of tweezers (another new skill for me) and then piped on the side of the cake in royal icing. Next, I had my first try at bridgework (I’ve wanted to try this technique for a long time!) I used a size 2 Wilton tip for the bridge and a size 0 PME tip for the extensions, hail spotting, and drop loops. I think I’ve piped this section at least 4 times over with various breaks during the hail spotting and drop loops! The cake was then trimmed with gumpaste frills (more re-piping of extension work, grr!) and my first try at sugar ribbon inserts. While I am pleased with the inserts, they were hard to place in my gumpaste frills, as the frills were drying so quickly.
No fail sugar cookie decorated with glaze icing and some hand-painted accents.
Red Velvet cake with crusting buttercream. For a friend's last day of Chemo :)
Key lime sugar cookies with Antonia 74's royal icing (with key lime flavoring added). Wanted to make Easter lambs
blue cross, roses, leaves,
Chocolate fudge cake for my dad's birthday with a white chocolate candy clay puppy made to look like his shih tzu
Fell in love with the look of scroll work on pumpkins so tried it on cookies for my son's fall festival class party. No fail sugar cookie with glaze and then Americolor color on a brand new clean stamp. Took a couple of tries until I got it how I liked it!
No Fail Sugar Cookie with Antonia 74's royal icing
No fail sugar cookies covered with a glaze, then hand painted roses using Americolor colors. Made for a bake sale for Omaha's RCCA. Really pleased with how they turned out, although I definately need to practice my roses and leaves more!
Challenge cake entry for Omaha, NE RCCA Cake Show. Inspired by Cre8tiveSue's Wedding Sandcastle Cake, this cake had to incorporate 15 items chosen by the club that included corn flakes, water, jelly beans, gum balls, coins, a car, an animal, molded candy, candy bar, shell border, marzipan, etc... Lots of fun to think of how to incorporate into one cake. I used a mixture of crushed corn flakes, brown sugar, and sanding sugar for the sand. I dusted gumballs with pearl dust and put them into gumpaste shells. The crabs were molded in a silicone ice cube tray I have. I had a hard time with the bucket not drying (used 1/2 gumpaste, 1/2 Duff's fondant)
This bunny is laughing because a ladybug is tickling his toes! Carved styrofoam dummy cake covered with mmf. Ears and feet are half gumpaste, half mmf. Fantasy flowers are gumpaste. Entered into Omaha's RCCA Cake Show.
Cake I made for Omaha's River City Confectors Club Cake Show this past weekend. First time trying Oriental Stringwork (not so scary after all!) and the flower lace points (I think that is what they are called). Pink MMF covered cake dummies with Royal icing & sugar pearl butterfly.
Gluten free chocolate sheet cake for Grandma Lorene's birthday. Blue buttercream fantasy flowers
Gluten free - chocolate with butter cream yellow roses and lavendar accents for inlaws anniversary. Roses were too close to the edge, so they kept pulling off the edges, but inlaws loved it anyway. Fun learning experience!
French vanilla cake with Indydebbi's Crisco Based Buttercream. Sheet cake done in the same colors as the original wedding cake. Thanks for looking!
Chocolate fudge and vanilla cupcakes with buttercream, chocolate ganache, candy cherries, and sprinkles. Simple and fun to do!
Puppy cupcakes for my daughter's class
Based on Debbie Brown's Cartoon Cakes, 10 inch round dark chocolate fudge cake with cookies and cream filling for my daughter. Hand molded fondant/gumpaste topper. Iced in buttercream, as my daughter prefers it to fondant.
White cake iced in buttercream with a strawberry buttercream filling for a little girl's first Communion. Borrowed ideas from berniel and CenterpieceSweets here on CC.
No Fail Sugar Cookies and Antonia 74's royal icing
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