Star Wars Inspired OSSAS Cake 2007

In September of 2007, I entered my first Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show. The theme for the show was motion pictures, so I chose Padme from Star Wars in her picnic gown. For the competition, the table must be dressed to reflect the theme and inspiration items must be presented.

The cake is covered in embossed fondant and painted gold. Green ribbons and individual miniature roses decorate the cake to mimic the pattern on the bodice of Padme's gown. The topper is a floral ball of dozens of miniature roses. The cake board is covered in embossed fondant made to look like a wicker picnic basket pattern.

The was my first "big" competition and I have a long way to go, but my score was in the upper 3rd, so I was extremely happy with the results.

3-D Morton Inhaler & Stacked Books Cakes

My husband is a member of the Anesthesia History Association and for their Spring meeting in Pittsburgh this year, he asked that I perform some "cake magic" for the member's dinner. The logo of the association is a Morton Inhaler, a large glass sphere with a port for inserting anesthetic agents and a mouthpiece for the patient to inhale those agents. The association has also published, and been affliated with, several prestigious books.

Everything on this cake is edible. The sphere is dark chocolate cake with rolled buttercream icing. The mouthpiece and port are hand modeled gum paste painted with luster dust. The books are caramel cake marbeled with dark chocolate and dark chocolate marbled with caramel. They're filled with chocolate mousse. They're iced first in vanilla buttercream and then covered with fondant. The titles are hand piped to mimic the actual books.

The AHA membership was delighted with the cake and published a photo of it on their website. The picture of the cake is also going to be published in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' newsletter.

Happy Mother's Day & Happy Birthday!

Mother's Day and her birthday were on the same day, so her daughter requested her Mom's favorite: Classic petit fours for the family celebration. A small cake for a get-together with friends the next day was also in order.

The classic white cake petit fours are a little over an inch and a half across and about an inch and a half high. They have a bit of vanilla in the center and on top and are iced in poured fondant. The pink and yellow rosebuds and half roses are hand piped in royal icing.

The cake is also white cake with vanilla buttercream with a piped fantasy dahlia on top.

Memorial Day Stars

This cake was made to accompany 90 star shaped sugar cookies covered in the same color fondant stars. The cake fed 30 and was french vanilla soaked with amoretto simple syrup.

Butterfly Birthday Cake

This 2 tier french vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream icing was fora birthday girl who loves butterflies. She chose this cake from several others and was very specific about the colors to be used. She has wonderful taste because the delicate pastels were beautiful against the warm shade of the chocolate buttercream. The butterflies are hand piped chocolate with licorice antennae and the dots and banner are fondant.

From the mother of the birthday girl:

"The cake was a "BIG" hit at the party. Everyone loved it and couldn't get over how magnificent it was...
Now for the taste ~
We have never had a better tasting cake and frosting in our entire lives. Even the fondant, which I am not usally fond of, tasted great.
The chocolate butterflies were awesome, as well"