Red, White and Blue Birthday

My friends’ brother was coming home from serving in the Marines and it was his birthday,

both very good reasons for a party.

I felt very privileged and excited to do the cake for my friend for him.

It was a chocolate cake with a raspberry cream filling, covered with Italian butter cream, topped with vanilla fondant. I layered it with colored ribbons of fondant and stars. It was topped with cut out patterns of fondant to create a camouflage pattern on top. The prairie dog was so much fun to model and the fur was added using royal icing.

For my Wilton students, the cake has a lot of inlays and overlays from course 3. :0)

 

 

Happy Birthday Zoe!!! Zoe's Rapunzel birthday.

I know I haven't posted much for a while, so, I'm making up for it with a few more posts. :)

 

Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair....

Here is my version of Rapunzel’s tower room. It's complete with painted walls, book shelf with a book she was reading and paint brushes on the table. There is even one on the floor where her "mother" painted the pointy fanged face. Of course she has to have her green friend Pascal as well.

Grandpa wanted me to go all out for his little Zoe, such a softy. The cake is French vanilla and iced with Italian butter cream. The back wall is done from a fondant/gum paste mix (for my students it is the 50/50 mix you learned about in class 3) the table and brushes, along with the rug, and even Pascal are all gum paste details. The floor is fondant and painted by hand.  All the details on the wall are hand painted as well.
Happy Birthday Zoe! :)

D D's birthday!

Happy Birthday D D !!!!

Here is a picture of his Cake. Love you Buddy.
He wanted a chocolate cake. So i made a chocolate cake with chocolate chips with a butter cream icing. He also waned a blue jeep. Sense he loves jeeping with his mom and dad I made it durty and out in the mud. :)

king salmon shaped retirement cake

This was a fun cake to do. It was a chocolate cake with a mousse filling, hand carved to look like a large king salmon that the gentleman caught on a trip to Alaska. It was covered with Italian buttercream and then wraped in rolled fondant. The fins are made of fondant as well. The cake was hand painted with edible colors and edible glitter to give the scales a shine. Around the cake is candied seaweed that was actualy good. The cake was presented with a large (new) fising lure atached to the top lip of the fish.
I was able to do this cake while I worked at Lake Powell and it was for a friends husband as well which made it even more special.