Friday, January 21, 2011

Zebra and High Heel Birthday Cake



I made this cake for a friends 26th birthday.The bottom tier is a 6" vanilla cake filled with chocolate ganache. The top tier is rice krispies covered in buttercream and fondant.

This was my first time doing zebra stripes and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.


It was also my first time making a high heel which was a lot of fun. I could sit and make these for hours with different designs, the options are endless. The flowers are all made free hand and the 'necklace' is gumpaste.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Dora the Explorer 2nd Birthday Cake

This cake was made for a friends daughters second birthday. Her favorite cartoon character is Dora the Explorer and Boots. The cake is a 10" chocolate cake with faux whipped cream filling - it has the texture and taste of whip cream but it isn't.




The cake was covered in fondant with fondant decorations.
This is my second attempt at making a Dora figurine. I learned a lot from the last Dora I made so this one turned out a bit better...not so neaderthalish lol.



Boots the monkey



Backpack and map



The present on top was made from rice kripsy treats, dipped in chocolate and covered in fondant.

27th Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my sisters 27th birthday. She adores reece's pieces buttercups so I mimic the flavors for her cake. The cake was an 8" chocolate cake with peanutbutter buttercream. The middle torte of the cake had chucks of cut up reece's pieces.



The rose on top is made from modeling chocolate and the 27, the writing and the flakes are chocolate as well.

Fall Wedding Cake

This is a wedding cake I made for a friend who tied the knot this Fall.
The cake was a 10", 8" and 6" square cake, two tiers were chocolate with vailla fudge filling and one tier was vanilla with chcolate fudge filling.



The cake was covered in chocolate fondant with gold swirls and dragees. The swirls were hand painted with edible gold paint.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Mom's Birthday Cake



This is the cake I made for my mom's birthday. It's a 6" chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and covered in marshmallow fondant.



The reindeer was scupted from modeling chocolate. This was my first time making and playing with modeling chocolate. It was a lot of fun to work with though it did become VERY frustrating at times.

It took me a while to get the right shape of the reindeer. My first attempted looked more like a dinosaur than a deer lol.



Once the reindeer was shaped and dried I painted it with edible luster dust. The reindeer is completely edible but it does have some supports in the body.
Snowflakes are made from royal icing. The "snow" is buttercream with edible sparkles.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Littlest Pet Shop

I had a lot of fun making this cake, I was given a pitcure of a similar cake but made some changes.



6" Lemon cake with lemon filling, covered in fondant. All the decorations are made of a gumpaste fondant mix.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Family Dinner


This 6" cake was made for a family dinner. I just wanted an excuse to try some new flowers I had seen online, flower is gumpaste and fondant mixed.

Fondant covered chocolate cake with vanilla and chocolate whipped filling. The fondant job on the cake is horrible, I didn't feel like making two different kinds of icing - one for filling and one for under the fondant, which is what I normally do. The filling is very light and shifts alot, hence the lumpy, bumpy fondant. But I must say the flower looks nice!
 

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