Fondant painting! Our little train is hand shaped into the engine, various cars, and the gifts. The paint is simply my paste food coloring mixed with clear vanilla. The alcohol in the vanilla evaporates quickly, allowing the coloring to dry faster.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
All Aboard!
Fondant painting! Our little train is hand shaped into the engine, various cars, and the gifts. The paint is simply my paste food coloring mixed with clear vanilla. The alcohol in the vanilla evaporates quickly, allowing the coloring to dry faster.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Sweet Baby
For top and bottom decoration I used a simple bead border in baby blue.
Baby booties for sweet little baby feet. Also done in buttercream, with little bows and ruffles. A very simple baby shower cake.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Ahoy Matey!
A yummy, gummy shark border keeps little hands away! The kids were served a gummy shark with each piece, these were laid in place, not glued with frosting.
The palm trees are made of shaped fondant, with wire reinforcing. Green tinted white chocolate palm leaves are attached to fondant and wire bases. I mounded frosting around the base for added stability and sprayed it green for "bushes".
A friendly little shark patrols the river. A little far upstream aren't you? With crushed graham cracker sand, and piping gel tinted blue for water, this little stream is a yummy mouthful.
The treasure chest candle was found at a local party supply store.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Another Graduation
A "Funfetti Border", was a lot of fun to do.
To add color to the side, I added orange curliques with black dots. She loved the look of the cake.
Here Kitty!
A Swimming Good Time
This was a difficult cake to put together. The top layer of the cake had a cutout section, shaped like a jelly bean. I put the two layers together and poured almost set jello into the cutout. I piped little swimsuits onto teddy grahams, and used blue M&Ms for the border. The water slide is heated Airhead candy, shaped and positioned, with melted white chocolate to fill it. Blue sprinkles on top simulate water. The sand is graham cracker crumbs. This was a big hit, with children and parents alike.
Graduates 2008
A Rose by any other Name
Here, a detail shot of the roses and star flowers. I used two sizes of roses, a full size rose for the center, and the outlying roses have one less row of petals.
The border is a simple shell border. To bring out the main golden yellow color, I piped the star flowers on the shells.
Lacey
I really liked the effect of the border of cornelli lace. It was a nice touch to formalize this simple cake, to fit the occasion.
Basket of Flowers
The side is a basketweave effect. I finished it with a rope border on the bottom, and the flower border surrounds a simple font on the top. The flowers are royal icing, and were dried on flower formers for a more realistic curved look.
A Little Bit of Pixie Dust
Wreath of Holly
Fall-ing in Love
When doing tiers, pre-assemble the cake before delivering to make sure it all fits and the colums are positioned correctly. Then take it apart and transport with colums in place. You reassemble the cake at the event. So here are shots of the seperate tiers, the final cake, and the extra sheet cake.
I used white daisies, blue forget-me-nots, red primroses, and rusty chrysanthemums. Top and bottom borders are the shell borders, and I used a ruffled garland on the sides.
A Beary Special Baby
Happy 30th Birthday!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sotas? Sotas Anyone?
Finished, in all it's glory!
A top view. You can really see the amazing texture the sotas gives the cake. The flowers are petunias. Beautiful flowers, and actually quite easy to do.
Just a detail shot of the top. The petunias have stamens in the middle, if you look closely, just like the real flower. These are plastic balls on top of hard strings that you set in the flower before it dries.
Incidentaly, my son's speech therapist came to work with him the next day and saw the cake sitting on the table. She was so impressed that she bought the top of the cake from me to take to work for a friend's birthday! Less cake I had to eat...
It Rained Flowers
I also used a reverse shell border. You do a shell in one direction, then switch to the opposite direction, and so on. This border is quite easy to get mixed up on, and takes lots of concentration if you are doing a large cake. I also like the Oval cake pan set that was used here. Now, if only my color flow butterfly hadn't broken...
Friday, May 30, 2008
My First Class Cake
For this one, I made lots of simple drop flowers in different colors. In class we only played with white frosting, so I went crazy at home. The best ones I set aside, and used on top of the assignment cake. There are flowers on the side as well. This cake taught me the importance of planning, at least a little, your design.
Welcome!
It has been mentioned by many that I should have a blog to show off the cakes that I have done. I thought about it and decided that was a great idea. Why not? I have a portfolio of cakes I have done that I keep to show perspective clients, but no one else gets to see them unless they are eating them!
So keep watching, and I will get up and running soon, with yummy pictures of delicious cakes, the making-of details, and finger-licking recipes!
Michelle