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Newest Cake Design- Fall & Wedding Flower Theme

Quote sketch for anniversary cake- Fall & Wedding Flower Theme

This is my latest cake design, still awaiting order confirmation on it as this is just the quote drawing, but I really liked how it turned out so I thought I'd share it. It's a 10" square warm brown base, with an 8" moss green square top, with gumpaste calla lillies and fall leaves of various sizes . The branches are chocolate, and the cupcakes surrounding the bottom are Gerber daisies (undecided gumpaste, fondant, or buttercream). Hopefully now I get to make it!

Turbo Power Rangers

Wow what a weekend! 3 cakes in a row whew! But alas we made it through...
Here is the last cake from little my cake marathon, I had a request for the red Power Ranger from the Turbo Power Rangers  series, so I looked him up a little bit and couldn't decide on the design I wanted to go with, so figured I'd wing it on the day. It was as I was leveling the cakes and happened to stack them on top of each other in a way they looked rounded, that I was struck by inspiration and decided to sculpt the Power Ranger's helmet. So I went with it, mixed up all my colors, and then later that day sent it off to the party! Talk about last minute creativity!
Here's how it turned out...

Red Power Ranger Cake

Power Rangers Helmet Side

Damask 80th Birthday Cake

Damask 80th Birthday Cake

I love damask, and I have not yet had the opportunity to put it on a cake. This weekend is our family reunion and my aunt's 80th birthday, so for her I have designed a very elegant 2 tier square cake, with a lemon cake base and lemon curd filling.

It will be donned with damask and quilting, and accented with edible pearls and fondant roses. The accent colors are pink and lavender, with a white base and black damask piping and borders. I am also adding chocolate filigree to the bottom tier sides, and placing a matching style of filigree on the top of the cake.

Damask 80th Birthday Cake- Top

Damask 80th Birthday Cake- Front

Fondant Roses and Chocolate Filigree

It's Strawberry Shortcake!

A basket of strawberry shortcake...

This week I am creating a Strawberry Shortcake character cake, for Abby who is turning a big 7! I gave her several Strawberry Girl options, and this is the one she liked best. I am making a 9x13 cake, double layered, with pink marbled vanilla cake and buttercream filling.
The sides of the cake are going to be chocolate buttercream basketweave and decorated with strawberry blossoms and sitting in a bed of grass. On top of the cake, in each of the corners, I am going to have miniature strawberry bushes decorated with blossoms and fondant strawberries, and then in the middle of the will be Strawberry herself and Happy 7th Birthday Abby.


Here's how she turned out!

Strawberry Shortcake 7th Birthday Cake

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cake Side Basketweave

You'll Never Walk Alone: Liverpool FC

Liverpool Football Club Logo

Yay more soccer fans!

This weekend I made a Liverpool Soccer (Football) Fan Cake for a joint father-daughter birthday party (love it!). They are both mega fans of Liverpool FC so I made them a surprise birthday cake and incorporated as much LFC fan stuff as I could fit onto it.
I chose to make a stadium cake, I had never done one before and really wanted to so I gave it a whirl and it turned out great. It had a 9x13 2 layer base, with 2 more layers carved and stacked for the stadium bleachers. I left one long side open so that the center of the field could easily be seen.
On the center field, I hand piped the LFC logo, and wrote Happy Brithday (centre) Neil (left) Tegan (right) in the green banner at the bottom. I built miniature soccer nets as well as a red and white soccer ball to also go on the field.
For the audience, I individually hand piped [way to many] dots using the LFC fan colors, and made miniature flags and banners out of fondant to place amongst the crowd.
On the very back of the cake I wrote "This Is Anfield" the sign that people entering the stadium go under at the entrance, and threw on some LFC fan facts on the stadium upper walls.

Front- Liverpool FC Soccer Fan Cake

Back- Liverpool Soccer Fan Cake

Field- Liverpool Football Club Soccer Fan Cake

My Little Pony

This week I am doing a birthday cake for a little girl who is turning 5, and loves My Little Pony- in particular "Fluttershy". 

 So for her I have designed a 2 tier cake (carrot cake- great choice for pony lovers) that is going to have an 8" round bottom and a 6" round top. The base tier will be a soft cream yellow, with small butterflies and carrots piped on, and the top tier will be pink with quilted lines and edible pearls! Of course topped off with a pretty fondant bow...Oooh La La!

Top of the cake- Hand-piped pony

On the very top of the cake I am going to hand pipe an image of Fluttershy which I have hand-drawn out to be holding a flag with a birthday banner on it.

Front of cake- Bow replaces where Fluttershy is

Here's what I have for her so far...

...the bow is going to be sitting on the shelf of the bottom tier and trailing down the cake.

My Fondant Bow (Lavender)