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Cakes for All

Contributed by: Kim Buchanan (W. Orange, NJ)

1) Spiderman: 10" and 8" banana cakes covered in buttercream with banana filling. Buildings are fondant. Spiderman is an edible image icing plaque.

2) Princess cake: 8" chocolate and 6" vanilla cakes covered in all buttercream with chocolate mousse filling. Royal icing flowers. Tiara is not edible.

3) Engagement cake: Taken from the Wilton 2007 Yearbook. 10" and 8" square vanilla cakes covered in buttercream then fondant. Bows and ring are color flow.

4) Airplane cake: Wilton Cross pan used for airplane, atop a sheet cake using hidden pillars. All buttercream. The pilot is not edible.

Gobble It Up: Design found on the Wilton website. Mini sports ball pan for body covered in chocolate buttercream. Wilton

"rollout cookie" recipe and "leaves" cookie cutters used for feathers and turkey. Candy melts used for pumpkins on base.

Autumn Celebration: 2 bundt cakes used for pumpkin, covered in buttercream then rolled fondant. Ice cream cone used for stem. Leaves are fondant. Everything painted with luster dust.

First Birthday

Contributed by: Marlene Royer (Washington, NJ)

Hello, Would like to share a picture of the first birthday cake I created for my niece's 1st birthday. It was my first attempt in using fondant, it was a bit challenging but definitely fun! I used Wilton's premade white fondant and colored them with gel food coloring. I also used butter flavor to the fondant to give it a nice flavor. I also used starburst candy to do the little presents on the cake and Easter color m&m's for the center of some flowers. The cake was made of butter pound cake with chocolate truffle and strawberry filling. It was yummy!

My next big project is my daughter's 1st birthday cake -- I would like to make a carousel cake but instead of using fondant, I

will instead use white molding chocolate.

Firefighter's Birthday

Contributed by: Sarah Albright (Green Camp. OH)

My name is Sarah Albright I live in Green Camp Ohio it is a small village on the outside of Marion and Columbus. I have been doing cakes for about 6 years now and love it. The fire fighter cake I made for my husbands birthday. I copied our fire symbol at the fire department that we work at. The second cake was for my sister in law Tiffany's baby shower I could not think of anything to do then I went to Krogers and saw they could take pictures and put them on edible paper to just lay out on your cake. I got one of Asher's ultrasound pictures and it took them about 10 min. to put on the paper. Everyone loved the cake. I also used the spray in the can to do the blue on top of the cake.

Alamo Sweets!

Contributed by: Linda Heard (San Antonio, TX)

Mermaid Cake

This 10 inch cake was placed on a Marshmallow Fondant covered board. I combined 2 blues and 1 green to achieve the marbled effect that represented water. The shells were formed using a candy mold and after letting them set for a day I brushed them with pearl luster dust. the seaweed is also made of Marshmallow Fondant. I use edible images on so many of my cakes, I don't know what I would do without my frosting sheets and wafer paper images! The trunk was created using my own technique and Marshmallow Fondant. I have written an e-book with step by step instructions. The cake was delivered to a very excited 3-year old and when she turned to yell Thank You it brought tears to my eyes. That is why I love what I do!

Lightning McQueen Cake

I received a request for a Lightning McQueen Cake two days before a desperate Father needed it. His son was turning 3 and the Father has evidently lost track of time. Even though my schedule was full I agreed to make it for him. Like other bakers I don't know where to stop. I always want to make my cakes different and "out of the box". I covered the board with Marshmallow Fondant and added a highway using the same. the cake needed to feed approximately 20 - 25 people so I had to bake two cars using Wilton's Lightning McQueen Cake Pan. Cutting the top of one off I was able to make it two layers with a buttercream filling. As always I wanted a rich red color for the car and was able to obtain it by using the powdered food coloring. But WAIT! What else can I do? I had to small battery operated lights that were meant to hang on a string around your neck for parties. They last 8 hours so I taped the base up so no metal was touching the cake and inserted them in the headlights of the car. I was like a kid when I saw them beaming. The Security Guard at the subdivision's gate saw it as I was entering and said it looked fake! I guess that was a compliment? Anyway the 3 year old boy loved the cake, the Father was very happy and relieved and I was sure to get more orders from the family.

The Princess Cake

Each year I get to make a friend of my Daughters little girl's birthday cake. This year's theme was a Princess and Frog them. I took the invitation and made edible trim for each tier. The Princess and Frog was sculpted of Marshmallow Fondant. The rocks were also made of marbled Marshmallow Fondant. The Princess is sitting on a 4 inch cake for the Birthday Girl that has been frosted in buttercream and draped with the marbled fondant. Handmade flowers were made of pink fondant and the words from the invitation were printed in black around the cake. The Princess' dress was made with pink and green fondant flower petals. I really enjoyed making this one. I matched the hair on the Princess to the hair of the little girl. She loved the cake!!!!

The Groom's Cake

Thanks to the inspiration of Earlene of Earlene's Cakes I was able to make a bride's dream come true. Her fianc� has 3 professions (firefighter, paramedic and police officer). Her first request was to have a vehicle cake that represented all three. I told her not only would that be hard to do but probably wouldn't look good so being from Texas she decided on an armadillo. The order was placed months ago so I have had lots of time to lay awake in bed worrying about the armadillo. I was browsing the internet and particularly Earlene's website and saw the cake named Hunter and Shot Gun Shells. I ordered the instructions and was able to stencil the vehicles on the cake using her example. Thank goodness I didn't have to make an armadillo!