Last weekend was my niece Kenndey's 4th Birthday Party. It was a disney princess theme. After having the oven on for six hours in one day all the cakes were baked. My sister Sarah came over to help frost and cover the cakes with fondant. Then we added details to look like the dolls dress bottoms. We used the disney princess dolls and wrapped the bottoms of their dresses in plastic wrap then inserted them into the decorated cake bottoms. I used the Wilton doll cake mold plus one 8" round on the bottom to give it more height so the dolls would fit. Kennedy loved them!! And there was sooo much cake to go around. One would have been enough, but we needed four, because she is four!! lol.
This was the table setting at the party. We also did cupcakes with disney princess liners.
This was my final cake. I used white marshmallow fondant and piped lavender buttercream on the sides. It was a lot of piping but I was happy with the way it turned out. I made different shades of purple roses for the top of the cake. I piped them on to small sheets of parchment paper the day before and then let them sit out over night to dry. They were easy to handle and I could move them around to find the right position on the top of the cake.
This is a simple white covered fondant cake with purple ribbon fondant with intricate cut outs around the bottom edge. I used a flower cutter to cut out the flowers and used a ball tipped tool to make dents in the pedals. I used small yellow balls that I flattened for the flower centers.
This cake was based off of a place setting that my teacher brought into class. It was a plaid napkin, a green hummingbird plate, and flower napkin rings. We covered this cake in rolled butter cream. I was surprised how easy it was to use. I did a painting technique with food coloring to give it that brushed effect. I loved the plaid napkin so I made it my central focus. I used one of the flowers from the napkin rings and modeled it out of rolled butter cream.
This cake was based off "The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh. I loved this cake! I loved how free and artistic it was to create. I just smeared different colors with an off set spatula to give it a painted look.
Sorry for the poor picture quality but this cake was practicing the technique of covering cakes in ganache. It was really easy! We applied the ganache from a squirt bottle and covered the entire top of the cake letting it drip down the sides. We got to decorate the cake how ever we wanted so I thought a bee might look nice and i'm very ready for Spring :)
This cake was for my midterm. The criteria was have three roses to represent three different children of Pat and Joe, have at least three other types of buttercream flowers, have a basket weave on the sides of the cake, use a reverse shell border somewhere on the cake, and have the writing Happy 50th Anniversary Pat and Joe. I don't like how the writing turned out but I did enjoy making the flowers and doing the basket weave.
