Monday, August 31, 2009
My first Baby Butt cake!!!!! The daisies were so cute on this cake. Everything is edible. The baby legs are rice krispie treats with fondant on them. The baby bum is white cake carved with a fondant blanket. The square cake is marbled with vanilla buttercream. Would love to do this one again to perfect the little legs, but the feet and toes were pretty close.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Another 90th Birthday!!!!! This was for a man who loves to play golf so we thought the 3D Golf Cart would be so cute. I had so much fun making all the parts for the cart. The golf bags, clubs, seat and Flag were all fondant. The cake was yellow cake with Lemon Cream filling. The golf ball in the water was white chocolate. The tires for the cart are chocolate cookies. Loved, Loved, Loved this cake!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
My other big accomplishment for the summer was my cousins wedding cake. My first official wedding cake and it was big. Enough to feed 225 people. The close up of the scroll work was before I put the finishing touches on the cake. All of the flowers were fresh roses. I arranged the cake and table. The cake was all vanilla with ivory vanilla buttercream. There is a fondant ribbon around each layer at the base. The 14" base and the 10" had a Whipped Chocolate Ganache filling. The 12" and 8" had a Strawberry Cream Cheese filling. The topper was a 6" with a Coconut Cream filling. They took the topper with them on the Honeymoon and I will make another for their anniversary. I learned a lot from this cake and hope to get to do more wedding cakes in the future.
The groom's cake for my cousins wedding. He was a huge Georgia Tech fan and wanted his cake in the shape of the GT. It is a 11x15 sheet cake with a Poundcake on top cut out in the GT shape. The scroll work on the side mimicks the scroll pattern on her cake. I was very pleased with how this one turned out and he was even more excited.
I have to say this is one of the greatest accomplishments so far. I spent 3 days working on the cake. It was very dear to my heart as it was celebrating the life of my late grandfather and his identical twin brother. We were to celebrate my Great Uncle's 90th on July 11. He passed away on June 13. Just one month shy, so with keeping of my idea on the cake we got together as a family to celebrate their memory. They did everything together, so here's the story. They spent their younger years in the Navy serving in World War II. Which is the left side of the cake. The middle is dedicated to their 40+ years at the Georgia Power Plant Atkinson. The right side was one of their biggest feats and that was to hike the Appalachian trail, the entire thing in their 60's. They were truly amazing men and it thrilled my heart to do this cake in rememberance of them. Everything was edible except the AT trail sign. I made that of paper. Everything else was made from Fondant and Gumpaste. The building is RKT covered in fondant. The tent and cattails were gumpaste. And the cute trees were ice cream cones and Royal Icing.
This was the year for 13 year olds. She was having a Luau and wanted something tropical. Flowers were made from Gumpaste. The flip flops,13 and swirls were fondant. The seashells were made from white chocolate. That was my first attempt at making chocolate molds. It was very fun and tasty too! Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.
Monday, August 3, 2009
For a Vacation Bible School end of the week ceremony. Their theme was Fruit of the Spirit and they requested a fruit themed cake. The bottom layer was a 12" Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Mousse Filling. The middle was a 10" Lemon Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Filling. The top was a 8" Pineapple Cake with a Pineapple Cream Cheese filling. I did the basket weave so it would look more like a fruit basket. The cake is covered with grapes, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and the top has Apples, Peaches, and Plums. Quite a task on the basketweave, but it came out beautiful.
This was for my cousin's little boy who loves racecars and Hot Wheels. It is 2 8" round cakes pushed together with a dome cake on top. I cut a tunnel all the way through the dome. It was so cool! The racetrack is crushed oreo cookies. The Hot Wheels sign is MMF. The cars and blimp are from the store. I made the checkered flags using lollipop sticks.
Retirement Cake for a principal of a local school. She loves the beach and they wanted the cake to reflect the invitation they had picked out. This was a huge cake being 2 12 x 18 sheet cakes pushed together. One chocolate, one vanilla with vanilla buttercream. The sand is vanilla wafers and brown sugar crunched up. The chairs were made by my husband out of popsicle sticks and then painted. Palm trees are pretzel sticks with fondant leaves. Fondant beach towels and flip flops.
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