2010 Graduation

This was a tough one!  The graduate's high school mascot was a tiger, with the colors green and orange.  The college mascot was a snake with the same orange and green.  So we tried to combine it!  It is a gumpaste snake and gumpaste numbers, adhered to wires that I stuck in the cakeboard. 

It was a small cake, with 10" and 6" tiers.  When I set it up, it looked amazing!  The fabulous event planner had orange and green tables, tiger balloons, green clappers to give to all the guests, and many other details all green and orange!  She is fantastic to work with!  If you are in the Orlando area and need a good event planner, for any event, her name is Tara Boatman.  Contact me and I can give you her info!

This was just a fun and cute one to do.  The colors were red, white and blue.  The venue was a really cute mexican restaurant.  I can't wait to go back for a meal!

Ladybugs and a Bridal Shower

Ladybugs for a little girl who turned one year old!  The little bug was for the little girl to smash up!  The aunt who ordered the cakes said they didn't want a lot of fondant, so that the texture wouldn't confuse her.  So I did buttercream in red, then covered with the fondant faces and spots.  I'm sure the little birthday girl was covered in red! 

I was given two days to do this bridal shower cake.  I love square cakes, and pink and white.  The bride-to-be and the mother loved it.  They were 5" and 8" squares.  I won't say it's easy to cover squares in fondant, but I absolutely love the look! 

Both of these orders were a white cake with raspberry filling, covered in vanilla buttercream!  Yum!

Mad Hatter

Another fun one to make!  I got to use purple and gold luster dust all over this!  The effect was fantastic and the pictures don't do it justice. 

A daughter of a friend of mine loves the new Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp. So this was my take on his hat.  I had not seen the movie, so the hat looked quite dark and purple to me, however, I was told later that it was more of a deep burgundy. So I'll have to see the movie now!

Anyway, it was fun.  I covered it in white fondant, then brushed black paint on it.  Then spotted the luster dust all over.  The peacock feather, hat pins and little note were all made from gum paste.

Rower's Delight

This cake was for the yearly banquet of Edgewater Crew.   Both my kids row from this boathouse, and I have recently started rowing with the Master's program.  Rowing is a fabulous sport!  It works your legs and core and is a blast to do!  Anyway, about the cake...

This is the front of the boathouse, with little gum paste shrubs, bricks, picnic table and our sacred 'E'.  The grass was royal icing spread on the board with little clumps of grass from a grass tip.  The cake itself is the boathouse. There were two levels, one vanilla and one chocolate.

The sides of the cake (boathouse) were made and painted about a week before the cake was made.  They were also made from gum paste.  The red roof was fondant.  The little red doors in front and back, and all the bay doors were also gum paste and made to fit inside the walls.

This is the back of the boathouse.  I made the food trailer and a launch with a life preserver inside. They were both made of gp also, along with the dock.  It's hard to tell from the picture, but the water was a pretty blue shade of piping gel, laid over brown sugar to look like sand.  It was a muddy season this year, so we felt like we needed the mud along the side of the boathouse and next to the water.

On the back wall, the bricks have the crossed oars and bricks that spell out EHS (Edgewater High School).  I couldn't get the correct color of bricks with the paint (food color gel) that I had, so I did the best I could!  I learned a few things about painting gum paste!

This last picture I really like, just thought I'd add it!  Thanks for looking!