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Draw Horse Assocation

Each year the New York Draw Horse Association has a Corn-beef and Cabbage dinner during the St.Patrick's Day weekend.  This year the organizers  requested a horse shape sugar cookies for each guest at the event.  I had several horse shape cookie cutters and baked several of each shape.  

I bake my cookies so that I can turn them over and frost the back of the cookie as it is a completely flat surface.  I start by using a flood sugar as the base frosting and once this is dry, I use royal frosting to hand pipe the detail

Welcome Riley Lucas

                      The excitement of a new baby brings together family and friends to celebrate.

This shower cake serves 50 guests.  The base tier is an 11" Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese and the top tier is a 7" White cake with Buttercream filling.  The cake is frosted in buttercream and features very very thin fondant pieces.  (As the two mediums do not work well together, it is important to make the weight of the fondant as thin as possible so that it will not pull off the buttercream.)  The momma and baby whale on the top are made of gumpaste and the white pearl border is made of fondant.

                                                    Congratulations to the new parents!

Clara Grace's Baptisim

                                       A second grandchild for my first customer, Clara Grace.

This is a 13x9 sheet serving 20-25 guest.  The cake was White with Strawberry filling.  The ribbon cross was made of fondant and the pale pink roses are gumpaste. I used a rose tip to add definition between the shell border.

Ashton

Ashton is the lovely daughter of a women who trains at the same gym I do.  Ashton and her family live the next town over from my home and her mom said every time they past my house she tells her mom she "wants her birthday cake done by that lady"

This is a standard 8" size birthday cake which serves 12 guest.  It is  a Chocolate cake with fudge filling.  The cake was covered in fondant zebra stripes, the bow, ribbon roses and gift tag were also made of fondant.  The bottom border was large size fondant pink beads.

( I completed this cake late into the night, therefore, the picture was taken under kitchen lights and unfortunately the picture does not have nice sharp color.)

Junior's 5

 Our little neighbor boy is celebrating his 5th birthday.  His mom said he wants a Hot Wheels cake.  

This is a 1/4 sheet cake, half White with Strawberries and half Carrot with Cream Cheese filling. The top surface was airbrushed green and a fondant racetrack was shaped into the number 5. Three hot wheel cars are also made of fondant as well and the start and finish lines.  A grass tip was used to create grass patches in buttercream and small little gumpaste flowers were added to finish the overall design.