Let me just say that horizontal stripes are crazy crazy hard to make look good when you're working with fondant. We could have done them out of real ribbon but that just wouldn't be our style, we had to do it right. But I LOVED how this cake turned out. It looks like a cake that would be in a fashion magazine... if there were fashion magazines for cakes... :o)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Demo Cake For a Photoshoot
i stayed up until midnight last night making this cake for a photoshoot for a magazine that will be coming out in July. They wanted a clean and modern cake so I think that's what I delivered. The quilting was crazy intense on a cake this big, and putting miniature dragees at all the intersections took hours. You may not be able to see it but the black tiers have a scrollly impression on them. It looked cool in real life. The M turned out kind of "interesting" but it was like 11:00 at night and I was fried. Oh well, there's no changing it now.
Yellow Wedding Cake w/ Piping
This cake was so much fun to make!!! We had some issues along the way. We were having issues getting this color right. I colored the fondant and it was pretty close then covered the tiers and after they sat for a while the fondant turned like a peachy color. It was absolutely not right. Just as I was ready to pull the fondant off and redo I had a great idea to airbrush the cake! It worked perfectly and we ended up with the perfect color. It was bizzare. I just filled the cup with water and added one drop of yellow and it was perfect over the weird peachy color. I'm just glad we hadn't started on the piping yet!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Denim and Diamonds Sweet 16
The theme was denim and diamonds so we kept with the blue tones with lots of bling. It's hard to see in this photo but there is bling at the corners of all the diamonds. Our favorite part was the pocket and jean stitching elements. It was too fun.
Pea In A Pod Baby Shower Cake
This cake was a replica of a "Cake Girls" cake that I saw on TV. It was so darling I had to make it.
Sunflower cupcake tower
This wedding had a sunflower / garden theme so we made 140 cupcakes for the tower with fancy fondant sunflowers on them.
Tree stump cake for cupcake tower
I wish I had taken a photo from the top of this cake. It looked like a tree stump with their initials carved into it. The top had tree rings carved into the fondant
White & Purple Wedding Cake
This was an interesting color of purple but we matched it pretty well. Who knew that it was yellow that we needed to tone down the bright purple???
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Beatles Cake
This birthday cake was fora die hard Beatles fan turning 30. I took images from the "Abbey Road" and "Revolver" album covers to create this "artsy" cake. That was the instructions... It had to be artsy not funky and cool so I hope we achieved that. I was pleased with it.
Boston Terrier Cake
Okay, this birthday cake was for the owner of the Boston Terriers, not the dogs... She just happens to love her pooches very much so that's why we put them on the cake. The paw prints were fun to make. We cut out hearts and then modified them a little bit and then added the circles.
Fondant Dogs
These dogs were really fun to make. I've never modeled dogs before but I've done farm animals and monkeys... how hard could it be? These are supposed to be Boston Terriers and I think I did an okay job for being an amateur modeler (is that even a word?). The noses could have stood to be a little shorter but for my first time I did alright. :o)
Cupcake Cake
This cake was so much fun to make!! It took quite a bit of carving to make the top like I wanted it but I thought it turned out great. You may not be able to see it in the picture but the "frosting" section was airbrushed with pearl and dusted with super fine edible glitter. The cherry on top was just the cherry on top. :o)
Cub Scout Shirt Cake
Melissa made and decorated this cake and did a phenomenal job! I have the best employees ever!! When it comes to detail there is no holding back with Melissa. Talk about a cool cub scout banquet dessert.
Special Order 60th Birthday Cake
Well, all the cakes we do here are special order but this one was super special order. I love it when they taylor the cake to the person it is for. Apparently he likes poker, golf and is some sort of "pretty pretty princes." I'm not sure of the details and I didn't ask.... :o) Everything is edible on this cake except the flag pole, it's a sucker stick.
More Valentine's Cupcakes
These were fun to make. I really liked the variety of designs. It made the cupcakes way more interesting.
Valentines Cupcakes
We baked these in red cups with white polka dots. The hearts are made from red fondant engraved with a heart design. The design was done with a rubber rolling stamp by my good friend Erin's scrapbook design company. They are called "roller doodles" and if they haven't yet been used with ink they (or any other rubber stamp) can be used to put an impression in fondant. Check them out at www.glitzitnow.com. Fun technique.
Kai Lan Sugar Cookies
Yay!!! The food color printer is working again!!! These cookies were crazy amounts of work. Mostly because I had never made them before and wasn't sure what I was doing. We printed the images on frosting paper and then made a card stock template to cut out the cookies with a knife so they would match the images. If it had been more than 24 cookies I may have made a cookie cutter... Then we iced them with royal icing and layed the images on top of the wet icing. i made a huge mistake though and stacked them too soon before they were dry and the images came off on the parchment paper in between them. I had to print new images and then add a new layer of frosting and redo the images. It was CRAZY. I made Wall-E cookies too and the same thing happened but I didn't have the frosting sheets to recreate those so we had to make cupcakes with mini Wall-Es on them but I forgot to take a photo of those.
60th Birthday
We did 3 60th Birthday cakes 3 weeks in a row. It was fun. The colors on this cake were so bright and fun. When I dropped it off some little girls playing outside asked if I was from "The Cake Boss." It was cute.
A Mini Remake
We did a wedding cake back in December like this but it also worked in a mini version for a baby blessing. We of course added the W instead of the cute balls and the banner on the bottom tier.
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