Thursday, July 28, 2011

Zebra print with purple flowers

This is a 6-inch square on a 10-inch square covered in white fondant with true-black fondant zebra stripes, purple mmf pearls and faux daisies.  I purchased these daisies at Michael's.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Monster High Cake

This is a 3-layer 6-inch round cake.  It is covered in true-black marshmallow fondant and decorated in mmf diamonds and white buttercream "stitches" to make the argyle pattern on the sides.  The pink ball border is buttercream.  The characters are hand made from mmf.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Fondant Character: Olivia sun-bathing

This was requested by a customer who loved the Olivia figures on last week's cakes.  I am not available to make her a cake this week, so she requested I just make the topper.  This is the first time I have done this, but I really enjoyed it.  The character work is my favorite part of cake decorating!  She is sitting on a fondant beach-towel, white with red polka dots, that is personalized with the name "Olivia".  I made some tiny seashells to fill her little blue sand bucket as well.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Olivia Cakes

These are two identical 3-layer, 6-inch round cakes. Each is frosted in buttercream icing and covered and decorated with marshmallow fondant. Olivia is handmade from mmf. The roses and leaves are mmf, but the flower stems are colored toothpicks (half a toothpick per flower).

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mini Mario Cake

This cake is a little smaller than I typically make, at only about 4.5 inches.  I normally stick with 6-inch rounds at the smallest, b/c they are wider than they are tall, which makes them more stable and less likely to wobble or tip over.  But I wanted to make a little bitty Mario cake for a little one's 4th birthday party.  He loved the huge Mario cake I made for someone else in January and so I made this one similarly for him, although on a much smaller scale :).  It is frosted in buttercream icing and trimmed with mmf details.  The tunnel with the flower is a heavy duty paper tube (the ones that are inside a roll of plastic wrap are great for this!) covered in green mmf.  The flower, mushrooms and bullet are handmade from mmf.  The stars are mmf on lollipop sticks.  I wrapped the board in foil and covered it in green mmf for added color.  Happy Birthday Calvin!