Last week was a busy week! A couple of customers needed 2 cakes for same person, but having 2 parties. It started with Twilight. I was asked to do a simple cake for a family dinner mid week celebrating a birthday for a 10 year old. This is what I came up with:
It was an 8 inch round covered in buttercream. I did a blood red ribbon border in bc trimmed using black bc and my open star tip. The Parrot Tulip is gumpaste and is inspired by the flower from the cover of one of the books. The plaque was printed on wafer paper using the twilight font and was mounted on a piece of fondant. The birthday girl was jumping up and down with excitement and actually cried when she saw the cake.....that reaction reminded me how worth doing what we do is!
Her second cake was a sheet cake with an edible image for her party with her friends:
The greeting is cut using the cricut and twilight font. I lightly dusted Edward with bright white luster dust to make him shimmer like he does in the books and movies.
Another 2-for was for my cousin and his girlfriend. Their son was turning 1, and they wanted a Cookie monster theme:
It started with cookie monster cupcakes for daycare. These were really fun to do and are covered in bc with real cookie crumbs and fondant eyes for decoration.
His party cake was a 2 tiered fondant covered cake. Cookie is sculpted from modelling chocolate and all of the decorations are gumpaste. The lettering was all cut using my cricut - I am really starting to looooove that machine now that I'm used to it! I spelled the birthday boy's name on the sesame street sign as I thought it would be cool:
I always do a free smoosh cake whenever I do a 1st birthday, of course it had to be a cookie monster head!
I also had another Super Mario cake based on the one in my last post - I made a couple of changes to the layout of the gumpaste decorations and made the pipes curved for a bit of extra dimension:
Easter weekend, I spent alot of time working on a 3D My Little Pony:
I'm not going into too much detail on this one, as I took some pics along the way and plan on turning it into a tutorial if you are all interested! Post a comment and let me know! I'd love to hear what you all think!
The last cake I'm going to post was done this week for delivery yesterday (I actually have a cake-free weekend this weekend and plan on taking advantage of it to reorganize my cake room, make some sugar flowers, and try some new recipes). It is my 1st attempt using the chocolate transfer technique from Sharon Zambito's Sheet Cakes DVD which can be found here. It is of Wolverine from the X-Men. The lettering is gumpaste using (you guessed it) the Cricut. I love the web - it allows us to find so many great things - including the same font used on Wolverine comics:
The cake itself is covered in bc, with the chocolate transfer on top. The red x-men logos are gumpaste brushed with red luster dust. The letters got a dusting of super blue luster as well! I love Sharon Zambito's dvd's - they are really helpful, and have let me bring my skills to a new level!
My next post will be sooner than later - I plan on doing a feature where I review a cake decorating DVD. I have a small collection of material to work with and plan on doing 1 a week. If there are any requests for a particular sugar artist or dvd, let me know and if I have it, I will review it for you.
Until then, HAppy Caking!
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