As you may have noticed, my life has become quite cake-licious. I love doing them, especially weddings…and especially weddings where the bride TRUSTS me to go for it.
That really excites me.
I mean, that’s a real compliment, the “I trust you” Bride. Love it. LOVE.
But, despite all of the wedding cakes I’ve done this summer, I’ve also been doing quite a few birthday and special occasion cakes. And now…I am finally getting around to posting some of them for you.
At the top is a HUGE Cake. Nearly 3 feet long. This was a groom’s cake in the shape of Han Solo trapped in Carbonite. I sculpted Han out of fondant, and applied a border and the couple’s wedding date. I hand brushed pewter and silver luster dusts to set it apart from a basic gray cake. I hear they loved it!
In the middle you have two kid’s birthday cakes. One is Super Mario (which I had to throw together in only about 4 hours start to finish) and a John Deere cake.
Next you have a chocolate upon chocolate decadence! This is a Swiss Chocolate cake filled with dark chocolate ganache, milk chocolate mousse, and fresh raspberry puree. It’s covered in white chocolate fondant and chocolate fondant that I swirled together. Nice effect and not too difficult to do, either!
At the bottom you have my wedding cake from this weekend, a Chinese wedding with paper cranes (the groom and his friends folded over 1000 cranes!), orchids, and gold vining. I love the way it turned out!
Now I am off for a few weekends in the cake baking department…this weekend I am off to the Big Summer Potluck, and from there I am flying immediately to meet my family at the beach for a week. I am hopefully meeting up with Shari of Tickled Red in Wilmington to hit a few tourist attractions on Saturday… THEN, we head to a vineyard in NC for a night in a treehouse! While I am gone I’ll be getting some news. Pray that it’s good, but even if it’s NOT, it was still a huge deal for me! Can’t wait to share!
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I want 1000 paper cranes so I can wish for a Han Solo cake for my birthday.
Every once in a while, I think about hanging 1000 paper cranes from my ceiling. I think it might be pretty.
Dusting might be a challenge.
Not that I dust much.
(Boy)
Simply gorgeous! I love the chocolate swirl one! And the Han Solo one is just amazing!! Enjoy the break and time off at the beach!
What beautiful cakes! I especially love [your wedding cake, of course] and the swirled one! That flower on top is absolutely gorgeous! What lucky people that can have you create cakes for them.
The picture of the Han Solo cake doesn’t even do it justice! Everyone loved it so much, thanks so much for the amazing job you did!
That chocolate swirl cake is a dream! So impressive.