90 Celebration

I took pictures supplied by the family and printed them on icing image paper.  

The cake was three flavors, White with Strawberry compote, Chocolate with Chocolate Mousse and Almond with Raspberry compote.

The lettering was cut from fondant using funky alphabet letters.  The leaves are gumpaste.

Skiing Family

A lovely women told the story of meeting her husband while they were both ski instructors at a local resort.  Their son is now an instructor at the same resort.  The two men in her life were celebrating birthdays and this is the cake for that event.

Here I am well into making the figures, and again I got so involved, I neglected to take pictures.  I started with the legs, which is a three inch tube of pastillage and indented to make the separation of the pant legs.  I have inserted an 8" skewer for full support.  I left them to dry overnight.  Next is the core of the ski jacket.  Then the sleeves which I support overnight so that they can hold their poles and skis.

Here is the sons figure.  He will be hanging over the edge of the finished cake, therefore, this figure is sitting.  

The cake was two different flavors and stacked high.
One tier was French Vanilla with Raspberry Compote and the other was Coconut with Coconut custard.
The cake was based coated with buttercream and then a wide strip of fondant covered the sides of the cake, giving me a canvas to paint snowy hills and trees.
I started with airbrushing the clouds and hills, then using royal frosting the tress where done with the brushed embroidery technique.  The free standing trees are done on ice-cream cones and the branches are created with a rose tip.
  The top of the cake is finished with a good layer of buttercream and it was covered with dried and broken sugarveil to create snow. The borders are finished off with a shell tip and  covered in the sugarveil snow.

Football Birthday

This sheet cake is Chocolate with fudge filling.  It features white buttercream and shell boarders.

The bothers both play football and their respecitve jerseys were made of fondant and piped with royal icing.  The little footballs and fall leaves are gumpaste.

Cupcake Wedding

This couple had fourteen dozen cupcakes consisting of fourteen flavors, both mini and regular size. I created a key so the guest would know what they were choosing.  

The leaves where made of gumpaste and the mums are pipped in buttercream.

Mini cupcakes:

Raspberry/Raspberry Compote and a raspberry leaf

Spice/Apple butter cream cheese with yellow leaf

Peach/Peach Compote with orange leaf

Hummingbird/Banana custard and yellow-brown leaf

Chocolate peanut butter/peanut butter mousse and red mum

Almond Joy/coconut with 1 doz. red leaf and 1 doz. brown leaf

Turtle/caramel custard and 1 doz. had two leaves, 1 doz. yellow mum

Almond/raspberry and 1 doz. pink-brown leaf and 1 doz. long yellow leaf

Red Velvet/cream cheese and orange mum

Italian Cream/coconut custard and maple leaf of red-brown

Large cupcake:

White/strawberry and purple mum

Red Velvet/cream cheese and orange mum

Chocolate peanut butter/peanut butter mousse and red mum