Cake Gallery > Sweets Treats
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Butterfly Birthday
Cake is covered in homemade fondant and decorated with 40 Royal Icing butterflies ready to take flight. Cake topper is cut from a fondant and gum paste mix.
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The Gardener (Details)
Inspired by Wilton Cake Decorating.
Fondant garden tools and seed packet adorn this cake made for a gardening fan. Planted in cookie crumb "soil" are flowers attached to wire, making them the only inedible part of this display.
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The Gardener (Details)
Details of shovel, seed packet & gardening gloves, all modeled in fondant.
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Purple Fantasy Flower
Small Two-Tiered (4" & 6") Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream covered in Vanilla Fondant. Flower centers and lettering are detailed with Piping Gel tinted with Gold Shimmer Dust.
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Purple Fantasy Flower (Details)
A second look at the Fantasy Flower.
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Garden Party
Modeled after the "Gardener", the flower pot cakes are Sugar-Free White Cake & Frosting to accommodate a diabetic diet while the base cake is simply Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream.
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Garden Party (Details)
The gardening tools up-close.
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Garden Party (More Details)
One last look... I love this little tipped over flower pot! I will have to use this detail again in the future. The cobblestone was marked out by hand.
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Jungle-Themed 1st Birthday
From top to bottom: Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream, Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Buttercream, & Chocolate Cake with Peanut Buttercream (by far, my favorite!), all covered in Chocolate Fondant in various shades. Animals were modeled after the party decorations.
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"Anna"
Tall & narrow, this 4", Double Barrel 6", & 8" tiered Baby Shower cake was full of firsts for me. Lots of learnings, but I love the way it turned out!
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"Anna" (Details)
The pattern choice, color scheme and overall design were all modeled after the party invitation. You can find a link to the original invitation in my journal posting for 03.15.10 about this cake.
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Baby Sneakers Cake Topper
Absolutely too cute for words!
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"Rylee"
This is a 6" Round /8" Petal/10" Round cake, covered in Fondant. All the Fondant/Gum Paste accents were hand cut, molded and/or painted with gel food color/vodka. Royal Icing was used for all of the stitch marks and "flight paths".
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The Whole Picture...
The natural light in Kristy's front room was awesome! Here you can see the cake and it's inspiration all in one.
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"Rylee" in Detail
The little blue butterfly...
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"Rylee" in More Detail
... and the cute little orange & purple bubble bee.