Gobble Gobble

This turkey consist of layers of individual cookies. It takes approximately 50 cookies.  I used a gumpaste poinsettia petal as the cookie cutter for the tail feathers and a snowman cutter for the body.  Once the cookies are frosted, they are assembled in rows held together with royal frosting.

This is a smaller version of the above cookie and I also cut off the hat of the snowman, so as not to cover the tail feathers on the completed display.

  Cookies constructed of smaller cookies make a nice display and will serve a number of guests.

This  cookie cutter  is approximately 8" across.  First he was frosted and then detailed in royal frosting.  

All of these cookies were covered in shrink wrap for shipping.

Callie

That all important FIRST birthday, lets celebrate!

This is a 13x9 sheet of Chocolate cake with a fudge filling. The cake was frosted in buttercream and the zebra print was hand-cut from black fondant and applied one strip at a time.  The design was finished with a pink peony and leaves of gumpaste.  

Rattlesnake

A long time client brought me this picture of a design her 6 year old son requested for his birthday cake.

First things first, I need to create the armature for the cake.  I started with a 20" cake drum, which allowed me to hot glue the armature to the board so the final cake would have good support during transportation.

The rattlesnake head and upper body is made of rice cereal treat.  The snake was to be chocolate cake,  I started with the trunk the cake which I wrapped with wafer paper to hold-its-shape prior to adding the fondant.  This paper is very light and will melt into the buttercream.

The remaining cake was added and the tail was wrapped in wafer paper, again for support.

The whole cake and cereal form was then covered in buttercream.  At this point I rested the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours to firm up.

The underside of a snake has long rows of scale and the back of the snake is small circular scales.  I started with all the areas of the underside of the snake laying rows of fondant in thin strips. Then starting with the head, covered the remaining area with fondant.  The pattern was pressed into the fresh fondant with a cake tip and diamond shape gumpaste cutter.  

   

Here is the finished cake, airbrushed and trimmed-out with gun, gun-belt and bad-guy black hat.

The sand is vanilla wafers ground in coffee grinder. and the message is cut from Fox Run cutters.

Happy Birthday Jake!

WWE

 This is a 10" square Chocolate cake with Strawberry Compote covered in black fondant.

The ladders, chairs, posts and characters were created with 50/50 paste a few weeks in advance.

The ring ropes were made of colored long bamboo picks.

I love the mohawk and tattoos..

Steak House

A new steak house is opening in a neighboring community and the new owner was being celebrated the night before the public opening.

This is a 1/2 sheet cake of Almond with Vanilla Custard.  the steak and prawns are cake covered in fondant and painted.  The baked potato is a large cake pop covered in fondant and the white part of the potato is  soften buttercream.  The butter pat is fondant.  The little carrots are only fondant.

"Surprise Patty"

                         A Surprise Birthday party for Patty was planned by a long time client.

The cake is a 12" round with a slightly carved side.  The side panels were made a week in advance to allow the fondant to dry, for easy of handling.

These flowers are from a number of fall flowers made in advance for the upcoming season.  On this cake I included fall flowers listed in the two cakes below plus the addition of pine cones, acorns and a large tiger lilly.

The Cake is Carrot with Cream Cheese filling.  It was frosted in buttercream and the panels were overlapped around the sides.  The next step was to add the fondant ribbons around the basket and a braided in two layers and a wreath around the top creating a finished edge.  Finally the message is pipped on and the flowers added.

Josh and Jess

A fall wedding showers is the celebration for this cake.  It is a  1/4 sheet cake of Red Velvet with Cream Cheese filling.  The buttercream frosting is white with a plain shell border on the bottom and reverse shell border on the top.

The gumpaste flowers are mums, lotus pods, wheat,  heather, poppies, hypercium berries, ivy and colored fall leaves.

Mom

A little birthday cake for mom featuring fall flowers of mums and poppies in gumpaste is frosted buttercream.  You can see some of the side, it features green cornelli lace.  The 6" cake is Chocolate with Fudge filling.