Wilton Cake Class Course 3

This class had 2 cakes

This one is our first fondant covered cake

This one had to be fondant covered and 2 tier. It was November so I went with a fall theme. Plus I learned how to make chocolate fondant (it tastes like a tootsie roll). I also learned NOT to use Marshmallow creme. It makes a very soft fondant, that breaks very easy. But I managed, I had made my leaves out of it and some were breaking, but you can't tell.

This is Serina's cake. I had to post it, because it came out super cute. I'd love to make this cake sometime :)

Made November 2008

Wilton Cake Class Course 2

In this class you make all of the different things each week and in the last class you decorate 1 cake




Made October 2008

Wilton Cake Class Course 1

I don't like these, but I have to post them. They are the cakes you do in course 1.

This one is using a cookie cutter to imprint a shape on the cake and then using a random tip to fill it in.


This one was ugly, the colors are too bright and there were so many flowers, but they were the flower we'd learned to make.



This one isn't too bad. A simple cake with roses on top


All of these cakes were made in April of 2007

Books

This was Teresa's birthday cake

After it started to fall...



And our solution to a falling cake


It says "TDH & M detective Agency: The Birthday Mystery"





Made June 23, 2009

Thomas The Tank Engine and Sir Topham Hatt Cake

This one was fun making because Nathan requested a Choo-Choo cake months ago. It wasn't easy though. The 3-D cakes are much more difficult than a round or sheet cake. I know, duh, obviously they are more difficult. I just haven't mastered them. At least this one didn't try and fall :)

Made July 8, 2009

More Birthday Cakes

The dots and stars are fondant, everything else is buttercream. I don't like to cover cakes with fondant if I don't have to. (Sept. 2008)


The gift and the hat have cake under the fondant (1/2009)




Just a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and crushed peanut butter cups on the sides
(3/2009)

The candles are fondant (1/2009)

A lemon cake with raspberry filling - Yum! ;P (1/20/2009)

Cakes using a star tip

These are just your typical star tip cake.

I had a pan for the bus, the other two I drew on the cake

Taz was made Sept. 2008

Bus was made probably 2003

The Crown was made Dec 2007 I believe

Hamburger and Fries Cake

I made this for my husband's birthday this year.

The bun is 2 8" round yellow cakes with chocolate frosting and fondant over that.

The patty is a brownie

The tomato, lettuce, bacon and cheese are all fondant

The fries are just yellow cake cut with a crinkly pastry cutter

The condiments are tube frosting from the store

Made February 2009

Pink Skull Cake

I modeled this one off a Mylar balloon.

The skull is fondant, everything else is buttercream.

It was a lot of fun to make.

It is a 2 layer 10" cake

Made March 2009

Graduation Cake

The graduation cap, tassle, and the red and blue beads on the bottom are all fondant.

(I made the black myself. It takes a lot of food coloring. I basically dip the fondant in it a few times to get the nice black color, smearing my hands with lots of Crisco before).

Made June 27th, 2009

Firetruck

I bought the fire truck pan and followed the instructions on the back :)

Made July 2007

Daisies and Pink

This was designed by T for her 9th birthday.

Made June 24 2007

Yes, Plastic Flowers

This is a 4- layer homemade spice cake(2 - 8" rounds cut in half) with cream cheese frosting, chopped walnuts on the sides and plastic flowers. I love the ease and beauty of this one.

Made January 2009

Under the Sea Cake

A cute little under the sea cake I found on M&M's site. It was fun to make and really cute

Made June 2008

Anniversary cake

I made this small cake for my parents anniversary. The idea was to create a small wedding cake. Pretty basic, the flowers were made ahead of time using royal icing.

I made another for their anniversary, one special for my mom. It was sugar free. The cake is a spice cake recipe substituting Splenda and the frosting was cream cheese, pudding and cool whip. It's not very pretty, but the consistency of the frosting is more pudding like, then frosting like.

Made October 2008

Sackboy Cake

This is the Sack Boy from the Playstation game Little Big World. This was fun to do. All the parts are cake, minus the globe, it's just a large piece of fondant. The zipper and it's parts are fondant as well as the eyes and mouth. The stitches are done with small lines made to look like a knitting.

Made March 2009

Transformers Cake

The transformer is made using little dots. I usually draw my pictures on paper before I do them on the cake. But this one was giving me a hard time, so I think we ended up printing a picture to trace the outline on the cake. I used different colors to get the shadows right.

Made August 26th 2008

Fondant Baby Shoes

I made these with playdough first. Then I carefully took the pieces apart and traced them on to cardstock. Then I just cut it out of fondant and put it all together. Water makes an amazing glue for fondant

Made September 14th 2007

Miniature Wedding Cake

It seemed fitting to start with my most recent cake. I did it this morning.

This is a 2 layer 8" with a 6" and a 4" on top. The frosting is buttercream and black store bought frosting. The red roses are fondant.

Maybe...?

I love browsing galleries of cakes, and knowing how they were made. So I thought it might be fun to make a "gallery" of my own.

It's going to take some time to get them all on here and write how they were made. I'm not sure I could remember all of them. Maybe what I'll do is start with the pictures and as I have time, add how they were made.