Anyone in here decorate cakes?

[scarlett873]

Oh and Stargrazer...that is beautiful!!! The fondant looks so smooth! Is that fondant covering the cake board? I haven't tried doing that yet. Is it difficult? I usually use the colored foils on my cake boards, but love the look of the fondant!

 

[Disneynutbsv]

And I made these for Easter

 

[stargrazer]

Thanks for the compliments...it did turn out REALLY smooth ...I don't get to do much fancy, but I'm just happy to be developing basic skillz so early in the game (I haven't been at this a year yet...see date of thread start, lawl) and I appreciate your comments!

I did cover the cake board; I just prepared the fondant like I would for cake, covered the board with crisco and plopped the board over it. I cut around the outside with an xacto knife (sp?) and ta-da, perfectly covered cake board. It was the brides design (the whole thing) and I think it added a great touch.

So cool to see everyone's work!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Ok here are some other cakes I have made since the wilton classes.

My dh and ds5 birthday was on Valentines day so this is what they wanted.

My handwriting is terrible on cakes. I think I'll buy some of those letter forms soon.

then for his birthday he asked for a splash mountain cake. I thought I would give it a go and here is what I came up with. Everything is edible except my Christmas ornament.

Different views

Brer Rabbit, his door and the signs were made from color flow icing

And this was my attempt at the Witon castle for my friends 6 year old daughter

Sorry so many pictures!

I cant wait to try out some of the recipes on this thread!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Hey Cakers! Glad to see everyone doing fabulously well!

I've been gone for a long while, sorry about that...so many fabulous pages of photos to look at, beginner and pro. So loving this thread

So here is finally a pic of something I did recently...a spur of the moment wedding cake for my girlfriend. She was insistant on real shells and ribbon, so really all I had to do was make the cakes, color the fondant, cover them and stack them, but I want to add something to the thread so...here it is~~

Amazing work, ladies - everyone.

I LOVE the color of this cake!

 

[MosMom]

Star, you know I love sea cakes!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the Splash Mountain cake. OMG!! Makes me all happy to look at it!

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Very well done!

 

[scarlett873]

Excellent job on the Splash Mountain cake! I would have drawn an absolute blank had someone requested it of me...lol

 

[Maleficent13]

Holy crap, that Splash Mountain cake!!! That. is. FABULOUS!!!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Thanks everyone! I was very excited how it turned out.

I had this vision in my head of how it was supposed to look and with the help of pictures it came out exactly how I imagined. 1st time in my life I think!

The only thing I would do differently are the signs. They are color flow and I had the logo PERFECT and the hand painted Laughin' Place sign down just right but once I put the blue iciing around it the logo was all squished and got distorted. Next time I'll make them 2 seperate color flow pieces and then either use either gum paste glue or vanilla to stick the logo right on top of a solid background. That would look better. But as you know color flow takes days to dry right so I didnt have that option this time.

 

[MosMom]

I cheat when it comes to the sign stuff. I would print out a picture/logo and glue it to gumpaste with piping gel. I commend you for trying. I wouldn't be able to do it.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I cheat when it comes to the sign stuff. I would print out a picture/logo and glue it to gumpaste with piping gel. I commend you for trying. I wouldn't be able to do it.

It wasnt as bad as I had thought doing it seperate. I had the logo underneath the parchment paper and just traced it and it looke PERFECT til I added the darned blue! so next time I'll just do them apart and glue them together. If it doesnt break it will look pretty good!

Notice the IF!

 

[stargrazer]

Sorry I'm late on the comeback but that SM cake is a-maze-ing Let's see more...

~!go cakers!~

 

[MrsKreamer]

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!! I finished Course I. I got the rose on the first try. So friggin excited about that.

Here is my first rose...

Course II starts Thursday and we get the same intructor. I am looking forward to week off from baking a cake.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Your rose is pretty!

I've done two frozen buttercream transfers yesterday. The first one is Yoda for my son's cupcake birthday cake next week. Then I did one last minute with the leftover icing that you use and did a skier (its our Rec Dept. last day to ski and they are having a cookout). They are pretty easy to do! I was kind of intimidated at first. I'll post a pic once I get the cake iced and decorated

 

[crz4mm2]

WOw. you guys are terrific. That Splash mountain cake is terrific!!
Great job.
DD wants to do cakes. I hope she will someday. I used to do cakes "back in the day". In fact, I did my own wedding cake (with some help!!). But nothing like you guys are doing.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Here is my Frozen Buttercream Transfer. I did it for our Rec Dept. which was celebrating the last day of skiing. They did a big cookout, everyone loved it and asked me how I did this

This is my 2nd one, my other one is still in the freezer.

Please, if you have any suggestions on improvement, I would really appreciate it

Oh and I tried Sugarshacks icing and I wasn't really all impressed with it, its no different than what I did before except she uses coffee creamer. Not sure what the big deal is??? Oh well, I gave it a shot.

 

[susieq76]

Wow! So much talent here!!!! I have never had the opportunity to take a class, but I make cakes for family and friends. Here are some of mine

 

[disneygals]

Those are great! I love love love the bunny cake!

 

[Carys]

Those are really neat cakes! I second the bunny and my other favourite is the cake made up of play blocks, so cute.