Eagle Birthday Cake

My largest cake order yet: two layer sheet cake for a Pensacola principal's surprise birthday party!

My customer wanted an edible, 3D bald eagle to grace the cake.  She said that bald eagles hold a lot of spiritual meaning in addition to it being the school's mascot.  She also wanted it to look like Alaska with the eagle perched on top of an iceberg (with all that gorgeous blue color!)

 So I sculpted an eagle out of rice krispies and covered it in gum paste.

36 eggs total in this cake!  I put 4 half sheet cakes together to make one huge double layer sheet cake.

Strawberry filling in between the layer... sealed in with my beautiful crumb coat layer... ;)

Covered in marbleized marshmallow fondant!  In hindsight I won't cover a cake this large with fondant again... I don't have the proper equipment to do so easily.  But thankfully the marbleized effect helped cover the two fondant pieces and it just looked more like water!

Iceberg made out of rice krispies as well.

I was very happy I had the opportunity to make this cake.  It pushed my creativity limit and I gained a lot of experience from it.  

Happy 50th Reggie!  Hoped you enjoyed your surprise party!!

Disney Sugar Decorations!

   Ahh I am so sorry I've been MIA with my blog lately... during Columbus weekend we went to Amelia Island for my brother-in-law's (Gorgeous!) wedding and I just haven't gotten my groove back!


   However, no worries... I have been playing with sugar still... A LOT of sugar!


   This Saturday is the Disney Halloween contest  eeeek!  My theme is "Mickey's Halloween Nightmare."  Here are a bunch of my decorations I've made over the past week and half!  (We haven't been able to eat at our dining room table for about a few weeks now oops).

Here's Mickey... my first time ever "sculpting" with gum paste.  I painted his colors on by mixing my gel colors with vodka.

Minnie the Witch with her brood of pumpkins.

Boooo!  Mickey ghosts!

Royal icing spiders, bones, hands, and eyes.

Marshmallow fondant coffin with royal icing spookiness.

Last but not least, possessed Pluto with crazy eyes and vampire fangs!

The Fondant Cake

My first ever fondant cake!

I love it.

Simple.  Elegant.

 It's a 12 inch chocolate cake and 8 inch gluten free

butter cake... covered in homemade marshmallow

fondant and buttercream frosting...

Simple buttercream dot borders easily

complete the classy look.

My cakes will never be complete without 

homemade sugar flowers... love making them!

Anyone want me to make them a cake!?!

Sneak Peek Fondant Cake!

   So tonight is my last fondant and gumpaste class... but I'm not too sad, I'm starting the flower and cake design next week!


   Here's a sneak peak of my FIRST fondant cake ever!

All 12 inches of square chocolate cake!

I used a recipe for Marshmallow Fondant from here.  So easy to work with!

Hellooo Fantasy Flowers!

Lots of leaves and "filler" flowers...

Let the decorating begin!

Gum Paste & Fondant Class! Part 2

   Here are some of the flowers we made in class Tuesday night!

Daisy

Chrysanthemum 

(not sure I've ever seen one that looks like 

this... ok, Wilton!)

Fantasy Flower

(don't mind the two tone... I was running out of gumpaste!)

   And now... I'm working on two cakes... one for my final gumpaste class, which will be pretty with lots of flowers... and a Disney Halloween cake!  I entered the Wilton Hobby Lobby cake challenge October 22.  So I've started making some Halloween decorations.

Spiiiiders!

Gravestones!

    So much fun!!

Gum Paste & Fondant Class! Part 1

   So far I've gone to two gum paste and fondant Wilton classes.  It was kind of hard to get the hang of it for the first class... it's so different to work with compared to buttercream!     However, after tonight, I can officially say I love working with gum paste and fondant!  The other girl in my class and I could've stayed in Hobby Lobby all night making flowers.  They're so simple to do once you get the hang of it.  Check out my lovely creations below  :-)

The first class we made the bases for our flowers: roses,
carnations, and mums.

My first carnation I made in class tonight!

My two carnations and their bases (the funny looking "hats"
in the bottom of pic).

Calyx of carnation. 

My first rose in class!

Sweet and simply calla lillies.

Oh, and here's my ugly bow I made the first class.  I kind of miscounted
the number of loops so it didn't come out quite right.  Oops!