A Toast to Shopping, Curling, & Real Estate

A big surprise party was planned for Liz's 60th birthday.  The hostess wanted to showcase the birthday girl's interests in curling and shopping, as well as her position as a realtor for Howard Hanna.

The shopping bag IS the cake.  It is a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling & icing.  It will serve 45.  In order to maintain clean lines, the cake is covered first in fondant and then gum paste panels painted with the store logo.  The panels are then applied to the cake with melted white chocolate.  The tissue paper is very thinly rolled fondant.  The pearl necklace is fondant, too.

The For Sale sign is hand painted gum paste.  The curling broom is cereal treats covered in chocolate & fondant with a plastic handle inserted.  The curling stone is cake with a gum paste handle.  The martini is cake crumbs mixed with icing, a buttercream "froth", and fondant olives, accented with a fondant napkin.

Fit To Be Tie (Dyed)

My, how time flies!  Jordan is now 11 !  It seems like yesterday that she was turning 9 and wanted butterflies and polka dots...............Now, it's Tie Dye and peace signs!

In addition to the photo of the completed cake, you can see the batter in the pans before baking and also what the cake looked like when cut.

Everything is edible, except for the peace sign topper (it is made of fondant, but it has a wire in the center and is covered in pixie dust).  I made a mold for the small peace signs.  The smiley faces are done with edible marker.

The cake is white cake with malted chocolate filling and would serve 25.

A Custom Gown for Dessert

This was a small cake for a bridal luncheon.
I designed the fondant dress based on the current styles of strapless and with voluminous "pick-ups" for the skirt.  There are "crystal" bands on the bodice and dropped waist made of sanding sugar.
The edible bouquet is a group of miniature fondant roses and leaves with fine pink fondant ribbons.
The cake is pink velvet with malted buttercream filling, iced in bright pink buttercream and would serve 20.