Snowflake Cake

Just to kick this off right. No fondant was used on this cake, everything was homemade, and I did not use a stencil. I iced the whole cake with chocolate icing and then dyed the rest of the icing red and piped on an intriquet snowflake by hand. This was a birthday cake I made for a co-worker.

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Anniversary Cake

This is a double layer heart cake that I had made for my parents' 25th wedding anniversary. It is a remake of what their wedding cake really did look like.

I used buttercream fondant to cover the cake, did a row of rosets around the bottom and around the middle. I made purple and blue (my mom and dad's favorite colours) chocolate roses around the top. On every second rose I put a little white dove on it. And to finish it off I used rosets to write 'R+S' on top.

My parents loved my remake on their wedding cake.

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Glow in the Dark Icing

Glow in the Dark icing is one of my new favorite things. It is so cool that there is now a way to have your cakes of cupcakes glow under a black light.

When you mix gelatin and tonic water it creates a glowing effect under a black light. You can either brush the mixture onto a cake, or you can dip the icing part of the cupcake into the mixture.

If you want actual measurements and directions I would suggest going to this sight. http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Glow-in-the-Dark-Cupcakes
It is the best if you are looking for a step by step process.

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Book Cake

This is a chocolate cake I made with chocolate icing and marbled modeling chocolate I rolled out to make it look like a leather book cover. I made a pencil, witch's pendant, wax seal, and piece of parchment out of modeling chocolate. I hand painted everything with icing coloring and piped yellow to make it look like string holding the book together.

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Harley-Davidson Cake

My Brother's birthday

This year I decided to make my oldest brother a Harley-Davidson themed cake since he loves them so much. I chose a chocolate cake with nanaimo bar filling, dirty iced with homemade peanut butter icing, and covered with my homemade marshmallow fondant. It is a tire with the 'Motor Cycle Harley Davidson' symbol hand piped onto the top NOT using a stencil. My family loves my cakes because I do not make them super sweet. They are a little sweet (because they are cake after all) but not so sweet that they give you a tooth ache like many store bought cakes. The wrench is also molded out of my marshmallow fondant.

 

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2nd Nephew

While I've done all of my first nephew's birthday cakes, I have only done a few of my 2nd nephew's. My 2nd nephew's mom married my brother and became part of our family.

Grave Digger

First of all my 2nd nephew's birthday is July so it is extremely hot and we do not own an air conditioner. My butter cream is always extremely stubborn and I have to go between piping the icing on the cake for a few minutes, to putting the bag of icing in the freezer for a few minutes so that it stops trying to melt on me. I made it entirely out of cake and it was my first monster truck I have ever done. It's not perfect but my nephew really enjoyed it.

Camouflage Jeep

All I got told for this birthday was that he wanted camouflage. So I decided to make him a jeep 4x4 ing through rocks. Everything was again made entirely out of cake and homemade butter cream frosting. On the base I also added crushed oreo crumbs for dirt and oreos as the tires.

Chocolate Family Cake

This cake was for his family birthday, so I was told to do something simple for it. It is a simple round cake with homemade chocolate icing, and orange colored butter cream icing. All I did for this was pipe hunting objects around the sides.

Hunting Cake

This was one of the first fondant cakes I had ever done. It is a two tiered round cake with a camouflage rice crispy treat gun wrapped around the cake. I mixed the colors to make the fondant camouflage. (My fondant is always homemade, NEVER store bought) I piped an orange browning head on the face of the cake and used fondant and gold shimmer dust to make bullets to place around the cake.

Duck Dynasty Cake

Finally this year he wanted a Duck Dynasty cake. So since his favorite is Uncle Si, I decided to do this cake. It is Si coming out of the water with a duck decoy on his head. This is suppose to be the crazy way he decided to hunt the ducks that day. Since his hands are 'lethal weapons' he felt that if he let the duck come to him he would be able to get more of them. I dirty iced the entire cake with my homemade peanut butter icing and covered Si and the duck in my homemade marshmallow fondant. Every part of this cake is edible. It is entirely cake. The base was covered in blue colored piping gel to give it a swampy watery look.

I was extremely happy with how this cake turned out and my marshmallow fondant is just right, no super sweet like most fondants.

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First Niece

Butterfly

My niece's first birthday she chose a simple butterfly cake. We were looking through different cake book and she found this butterfly cake and decided that that was the one she wanted. So all I did for this cake was carve it, and roset it with homemade butter cream frosting. She loved it and he piece ended up more like a baby smash cake.

Bubble Guppie Cake

For her second birthday cake she wanted bubble guppies, since that was her favorite show. So I layered round cakes, and piped all the bubble guppies around the sides with homemade butter cream frosting. I also used a small teddy bear cake pan turned on it's side to make Mr. Gouper in 3d on top. I did not use any stencils at all. Everything is done completely by hand.

Snow Princess Dora

Since my niece's birthday is at the end of November I decided to make her Dora the explorer cake a snow princess theme. The cake is homemade butter cream, silver shimmer dust, and pink pearl sprinkles. Dora, Boots, and Swiper are made out of gum paste. Nothing is store bought. I made everything for this cake. This was the first time I had ever used gum paste and I was very happy with how Dora, Boots, and Swiper came out.