2008 May 14 « The Sugar Lane

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Sugar Flowers in a Cake Purse

This is actually a cake that was made to look like a Purse with lots of gumpaste (sugar) flowers bursting from the top of the purse. To create this cake I baked 3 cakes in loaf pans and leveled them flat so that they would stack then covered the emtire cake with Buttercream. The next step was to cover the cake with vanilla fondant. I cut out blue fondant flower shapes to decorate the outer sides of the purse. to create the purse handles I actually use a play doh factory, kids toy to make the rope shapes with fondant, but it is important to allow the ropes to set up a bit before attaching to the cake.

The gumpaste (Sugar) flowers were all hand made. I especially love creating the roses and calla lillies, however all flowers are beautiful to me. Which is why I designed this cake showcasing the beauty of sugar flowers bursting up and out of a purse but not a real purse but a Cake Purse.

Their are many things that can be done with cakes with just a little creativity and a few tools. I love the look on a persons face when they receive a cake that is not the usual grocery store cake that has been frozen for days before we purchase them, but sold to us as a fresh cake. Whenever people recieve a custom designed cake it makes them feel so special which I think we all deserve to feel special more often then not. Custom cakes should tell a story about the person they were created for. A great example would be this Tiffany Box Cake that I created for my cousin Rhonda who loves EVERYTHING from Tiffany’s and it’s her favorite store. This cake clearly tells a story about Rhonda and the things in life that she loves.

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Categories Cake Decorating

Diaper Bag Cake

14 May

Diaper Bag Cake with handmade fondant bottle, baby keys, blocks, pacifier, and baby sandals.

$It\'s a cake$

This cake was designed for my brother and his wifes baby shower. To create the diaper bag itself I baked 2 cakes in an 11 x 15 cake pan, then cut those cakes into 3 sections, iced in buttercream and stacked them to the height that I had chosen for the diaper bag. Once stacked I covered the cake in Buttercream Icing. The next step was to cover with fondant, prior to putting the fondant on the cake I used a rolling pin with designs to imprint that design on the fondant. Then I cut a baby t-shirt out of fondant, a baby blanket and a hat out of fondant as well, then these things were laid on the top of the bag to give the appearance of them hanging out of the top of the diaper bag. I cut a long strip of fondant to create the handle for the bag and then draped it. Several days prior to making the cake I made the baby sandals out of gumpaste so they would harden up in time for the baby shower. The bottle was made taking alum. foil formed in the shape of a baby bottle then covering with fondant. The pacifier was hand made using fondant as well as the baby keys which I just used different cookie cutters to cut shapes out to form keys. I cut out white fondant shapes to create small wash clothes and put them in the side pocket of the diaper bag. The baby figurine to the left of the diaper bag was made a week in advance using gumpaste to sculpt a baby girl holding a blanket.

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Categories Cake Decorating

My Little Garden Cake

14 May

This Whimisical Garden cake is one that I must say I had the most fun creating because of all the details that I added. Starting with the Angel Girl sitiing on a tree stump, the little butterfly on her arm, all the little garden animals just being themselves and of course it was a birthday cake so I added a miniature birthday cake on top of the tree stump which seems to be attracting the bumble bees, bear, mouse, and the butterflies which are all looking to be a part of the celebration. There is a path that leads to the rear of the garden and who else to greet you at the beginning of the path but a small puppy I call Teddy. He is the perfect one to greet all who come for a visit to the little getaway garden. The garden itself showcases all the beautiful flowers that have bloomed and of course the bright green grass which is like walking on cotton. Last but not least in the rear left corner there is even a miniature cupcake garden for all those who need a quick little snack as they enjoy their getaway in the whimisical garden.

I love creating cakes that tell a story and this one surely does. The grass on the cake was created with using buttercream icing, the angel girl, animals, bugs and flowers were all hand made using fondant.

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Categories Cake Decorating

How I created this Dooney and Bourke Purse Cake

14 May

Dooney and Bourke Purse Cake. This sheetcake with a purse was made with half chocolate and half white cakes, the cake was then covered in buttercream and the purse itself which is also a cake which I sculptured into a purse shape to look like a popular Dooney and Bourke purse that has ice cream pops all over. To create this look on the purse I covered the cake with buttercream and allowed it to set up. The next step was to cover with white fondant which is really just a sugar dough. I then cut ice cream shapes out of different colors of fondant and applied to the purse to create a replica of the designer Dooney and Bourke purse which can be purchased at finer department stores. The handle of the purse was also made out of fondant and dried over top of a large cup to get the rounded shape. The sugar pearls were hand strung with fondant and the ring and earrings were handmade out of fondant as well.