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  • Tea Set Birthday Cake

    First Name: Shelia
    City and State: Fayetteville, AR

    This was a birthday cake for a co-worker’s wife. It is a teapot and teacup with saucer.
    The cake is a chocolate cake covered with marshmallow fondant colored purple with mocha icing. The yellow roses are fondant with gumpaste. The teacup and saucer are gumpaste.
    The cake is [...]

  • Dog Bone Cake

    First Name: Julie
    City and State: Weston, MO

    This is an 8″ inch red velvet cake with homemade cream cheese icing. The cake was made for our vet’s office to say thank you for taking such great care of our dogs. I used a cookie cutter to cut out the dog bones with fondant. The entire dog [...]

  • Double Tier Birthday Cake

    First Name: Tracey
    City and State: Evans, Co

    This is a double tier cake, 12 inch round on bottom and 9 inch round for the top. It is frosted with buttercream frosting, using a star tip for the edge and a small dot tip for the black center. The 17 and the larger circles were [...]

  • SpongeBob SquarePants Cake

    This was a rectangle buttercake, decorated with fondant in a Spongebob theme for my son’s birthday.

  • Cake Decorating Contest II

    The first cake decorating contest was quite a success. We had several outstanding entries. Thank you again to everyone who participated.
    Due to the positive response to the first contest, a second contest is beginning immediately. We already have several good entries to review, however not all them will be posted. In the past 95% [...]

  • Contest Winners – Cake Decorating Contest 1

    Contest Winners – Cake Decorating Contest 1
    Thank you to everyone who entered our first cake decorating contest. We appreciate all the entries.

  • Fish Cake

    First Name: Janita
    City and State: Melbourne, Australia

    I used Willow’s sugar glass in yellow and dyed the soft sugar icing a darker shade of yellow (using a little orange) so that the ‘glass’ would contrast.
    To get the water effect I used three techniques: 1. used light green dye to get consistent base colour, then [...]

  • Wall-E Birthday Cake

    First Name: Jamie
    City and State: Burt, Mi

    I made this wall-e cake for my sons 9th birthday party. It is a three layer Chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling. I used 10 in square pan (3 layers) to create the body and then I used two layers of a 8 inch to sculp [...]

  • Jack Daniels Fondant Cake

    First Name: Kiana
    City and State: Dingmans Ferry

    A classic Yellow cake w/chocolate pudding filling covered in Black Fondant & royal icing JACK DANIELS logo which I copied from a print from my computer. This was my first time trying fondant, I am 17 years old and new to cake decorating but would like to make it [...]

  • Clown Cake

    First Name: Milly
    City and State: Cleburne, TX

    This is “CLOWN CAKE” and this was actually my project
    On this cake I used 8 x3″ round pan, for the Clowns I used tips 21, 3. and for the dots I used tip 3 and 5 and for the star border I used star tip 21 and [...]