ICES Day of Sharing Spring 2010

I spent today having fun at the International Cake Exploration Societie Day of Sharing for the Ohio Chapter. It's sort of like a union meeting for people who enjoy cake decorating.

I took a class from Jing Palasique, Certified Master Sugar Artist, creating roses, orchids, and lilies from modeling chocolate. I love the results and I learned some great tricks. He's a delightful instructor, too.

The OH ICES chapter asked for members to make cakes with chocolate icing to be used as centerpieces for our luncheon. The cakes would then be donated to the Columbus, OH Ronald McDonald House. The theme was a colorful birthday.

I made a chocolate fudge cake with cookies & creme mousse filling and malted chocolate icing.

I created an edible bow and ribbon out of fondant and modeling chocolate to match the decorative paper on the cake board. I then trimmed the bottom of the cake with fondant balls in the color pattern on the paper. The 8" round would serve 20.

Fruits of the Holy Spirit Confirmation Cake

Cousins, Marija & Michael, were being confirmed today. Marija's Mom requested an open book cake to serve 60 decorated with a white dove on a red disk on one page and a list of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit on the other.

The cake is hand carved into the open book shape. The bottom layer is chocolate. The top layer is white with mini chocolate chips. The cake is filled with raspberry mousse and iced in vanilla buttercream. The pages and decorative accents are fondant and all edible.