Mardi Gras in December

Bow Cake!!!

by Helga Maldonado
(CT)

I made this cake for my friend's little girl birthday. She's so cute and always have a big bow in her head. :) That's why she wants a big bow on top of the cake, and of course I love making bows it's so fun and easy. And always cute.

Comments

Beautiful !
by: Anonymous
Like ur color combination. U did a good job with the ribbon roses and that bow is gorgeous.

luv bows
by: Yani
What a pretty cake, luv the pink bow on top of the cake!!

So Pretty!
by: Lorelie
Thanks Helga, It is so pretty. It's obvious you like to make bows. Very nice work.

I like your cake design
by: Robin Covey
very pretty little cake! looks original

Nursing Retirement Cake

by Katelynn
(Surprise, AZ)

A friend of my mom's was leaving her work so she wanted me to make a cake for him. He was a nurse retiring from the ED so I made him a scrub top with all the supplies. It is chocolate with coconut pastry cream ....Enjoy!


Too Funny!
by: Anonymous
Love the bloody band aids!! Very original and I'm sure it made everyone smile.

Spring Strawberry Filled Wedding Cake

by Robin Covey
(Akron, Ohio)

I was inspired to make a wedding cake out of the need to post another picture of my work on my website and such. I got creative and wanted to do a traditional small 3 tier stacked cake, so here it is.

Spiked Heel

by Edith Sieg-Reed
(Newport News, VA)

A young lady that I met happens to like the designer Christian Louboutin and asked if I could help make her birthday special. She wanted a pair of his famous shoes, and this was her way of having them ;-)
Thank you Edith for your spiked heel cake. Very cool! Can you give us some details on how you made these fabulous shoes?

Comments

Making the spiked shoe
by: Anonymous

Using crispy rice cereal is so much easier to deal with; someone else mentioned, it is lighter than an actual cake as well. I'm sure one could carve out a shoe, but the crispie rice is so fun to play with. You almost have to overcook the marshmallows. By doing this, it makes the contents stick together better. I like to eat these delicious treats, but for the sake of molding, it has to be harder, so the marshmallows just need to be cooked longer.

Superman Cake

by Edith Sieg-Reed
(Newport News, VA)

Superman cake! I am a nurse and a young man that has Down's syndrome was at the nurse's station talking about his upcoming birthday. I asked him what kind of cake would he want and he replied, Superman. His enthusiasm prompted this cake. The look of surprise and all the hugs and thank yous from this special guy was priceless! The fondant back drop was my first, so I was delighted in it turned out.

Thank you Edith for yet another great entry into the cake competition. What a nice thing you did making the superman cake for this little boy.

Picnic Cake:)

by Maria Paula
(Joshua Tree, California, United States)

This picnic cake was made for my mom and her friends. They love to have picnics, talk and eat really good food. So she asked me to make a cake that represented her friends and of course her.

Here is what I came up with. A cake with her and her two friends enjoying a picnic. It is a chocolate cake with icing on the top covered with rolled fondant, fondant flowers and fondant figures.

I like this cake because it can be used in every occasion.
My mom and her friends loved the cake so much they did not want to cut it. I felt all my hard work has paid off with my picnic cake.

I hope you like it:)

Comments

Thank you
Looks Too Good To Eat
by: Lorelie
Hi Maria, Thanks for entering your picnic cake. very nice job. I love all of the little miniature foods.

FUNN
by: Anonymous
The fondant figures come to life in this cake it is incredible, it is fun to look at, all the food and drinks on the table are amazing

Jun 21, 2012
Question
by: Eva

I am new at this cake thing so I don't know that much. I was wondering how you did the tablecloth. Is that fondant, or did you use food writing markers? My work place is having a picnic and I'm doing a cake. I thought of doing something with this tablecloth pattern. This cake is amazing!!

July 03, 2012
Hello Eva
by: maria paula duarte

hello eva how are you??
thank you for liking my cake
I just paint the fondant with food coloring and cut it with a cookie cutter.
i have a video in youtube in spanish( i dont know how much it would help you).. but i show all the process... I dont think you have to understand to know what i am talking about.. just by looking you would be fine, plus you can ask me if you have any questions...
mi youtube user name is everydaywithmariapau
so just go in youtube and search for my channel name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5knmZPwWYg&list=UU0JYUhiBDPyWNX2K9SLPFzw&index=2&feature=plcp

thats the link ....

thank you..

Cat Birthday Cake

by Meena Mustafa
(Virginia USA)

I made this cat birthday cake for Mohd's birthday which was on the 6th of June. He just loves cats. So I surprised him with this cake cause all his three cats love being in the living room :). The decor from carpet to couch was created by me using gum paste and food colors. If you look closely I even made the cat's poop near the plant lol. The flavor was German chocolate covered in fondant. I really enjoyed making the art work for this cake. Hope you guys will like it too :)

Thanks Meena Your cat birthday cake is great! Very unique idea.

Comments

marvellous
by: SONIA
nice piece of art its looking really delicious hope its taste the same...lukin really yummy...:)good work Meena lovin it...:)

Fantastic Scene!
by: Anonymous
This is one amazing creation. Thanks for sharing this feline-lover's view of a comfy setting.
The detail work is phenomenal!

Unique
by: Sum
Fantastic! Clever idea and good color choices.

Wow
by: Yani
"What an adorable cake and all those cats are so cute!!."
A for Adorable

by: Anonymous
This is my favorite cake since I am a cat lover. Lots of hard work for fine details. I am sure Mohd loved it.

So luscious cake
by: Virginia
So great,I had a piece of my birthday cake from Meena and always wish to have some more, Thanks so much for such amazing flavor.

Wonderful
by: Ahmad
It looks marvelous and I hope it tastes the same. It depicts the wonderful artistic sense and great skills of its creator. Simply superb and awesome.

Princess Party Cake

by Maria Paula
(Joshua Tree, California, United States)

My princess party cake was made for a friend who has a one year old baby girl. She told me it was going to be a princess party so I decided to make this for her to enjoy. Everyone liked it and the little girl was so happy looking with her first birthday cake, it was awesome.:)

I covered the cake with buttercream and then rolled fondant. The fondant figures and fondant animals are made with lots of love:)
I hope you like my princess party cake.
Thank you

Comments

Really Sweet!
by: Lorelie
Hi Maria, Thanks for your entries. You do amazing work. You must spend many hours making your fondant figures.

LOVELY
by: Anonymous
This cake is really sweet and thoughtful, it looks like it was brought straight out of a scene from a princess movie.

Pumpkin Graveyard Cake

by Anthony Parker
(Coram, New York)

This pumpkin graveyard cake has a delicious double chocolate as it's base layer, topped with Hershey's chocolate icing and Oreo cookie crumbs.

The Pumpkin is made of a delicious yellow cake recipe topped with orange and green fondant, with dark chocolate for it's face.

Also on this wonderful cake are a variety of Halloween decorations all made from white and dark chocolate which include ghosts, rat, eyeball, skull, tombstone, and a bone arm coming out of the grave. Wrapped around the cake is candy corn and a few mellow creme pumpkins.

After making this Pumpkin Graveyard Cake, I definitely learned how important greasing the pan prior to baking is. Lost a whole cake! :(

Comments

awesome
by: Anonymous
This was so good and very festive...and so much detail!

Awesome
by: Brooke
Great job!! Very creative, and it tasted very yummy too!!

Pumpkin!
by: Anonymous
Looks amazing. The detail is really good especially the stem. Keep up the good work. Can imagine it tasted as good as it looks .

Great!!
by: Anonymous
This was both delicious and creative. I loved all the little details incorporated with it, like the grave stones and ghosts. =]

Delicious
by: Anonymous
As somebody that attended the Halloween party and actually saw it and tasted it in person, this was without a doubt the best cake I've ever had. It was even better than some wedding cakes I've had in the past.

Spooky
by: Lorelie
Anthony, Thank You for your awesome Pumpkin Graveyard Cake entry. Very cool. I am sure it tasted great too. Good Luck! let everyone know about your entry so they can vote and comment.

"I Love Sweets" Birthday Cake

by Ann Bailey
(North Carolina)

This "I Love Sweets" cake was made for a young girl whose mother said she couldn't make up her mind what kind she wanted. She went back and forth between an ice cream one to chocolate cupcakes to strawberry shortcake. So I thought it was a good idea to combine all of them into one.

The ice cream cone is made of rice Kripsie treats and the slice of cake on top is strawberry with fresh strawberries inside. The bottom is a triple chocolate fudge with chocolate ganache, covered with fondant.

I decorated the bottom tier with fondant cupcakes flavored with amaretto. I had fun making it and the young girl and mother loved it.

Thank you Ann for a great entry! The idea is very unique. Love it. Hope it gets lots of comments and ratings.

Comments

very cute
by: Anonymous
well executed and I adore the whimsy

WOW
by: Rachel
Your cake is really cool. I love the way you made the ice cream cone and especially the cupcakes on the side. Great job

Ahoy!

by Mary F
( Indianapolis, IN)

Ahoy! The Mayflower

For Thanksgiving, I wanted to make a cake that would wow my family and friends but also represent the holiday. I have done various turkey themed deserts, so I decided to do something different: The Mayflower.

Construction

The base is a regular half sheet. I dyed buttercream an ocean blue and spread it on generously. Using my flat spatula, I went over the icing in a rocking motion to replicate the sea, creating a wave effect.

For the boat, I baked a cake in a bread pan. I knew this would give me a dense and oblong cake (similar in structure to a ship) without much carving. Once the cake cooled, I cut off a rectangle piece (the last sixth of the bread-pan cake). I put that on top of the end of the cake to create height and secured it with frosting.

I then began carving the ship. I rounded the back. At the front of the ship, I carved it to a point and slowly angled downward. Once completed, I dirty-iced the ship. Next, I covered it in a light brown and added a piped border in a slightly darker brown.

Cake Decorations

For decorations, I piped three stars on either side of the ship as well as on the back. I cut 5 small marshmallows in half and placed the sticky side on top of each star to act as windows. For the ship's sails, I used 3 pretzel rods, cutting two of them to be shorter than the middle sale. Lastly, I cut three squares from edible paper and punched holes on either side placing them over the pretzel rods. Voilà!

Thanks Mary, I love your Ships Ahoy cake design, You gave a couple of great decorating tips too. Love the pretzel rods and edible paper sails tip. And the frugal: baking tip.
Thanks for entering the cake decorating contest. Good luck and may you get lots of comments and ratings.

Baptism Cake

by Ilona
(PA)

Baptism Cake For My Baby Boy

Family and friends were coming to celebrate my baby boy's Christening and I wanted to make a cake for the occasion. When I began to think about the type I was going to make I decided that I wanted it to symbolize certain aspects of his special day.

Since it was a baptism I wanted to show both innocence and purity. I decided to use chocolate to represent the innocence of children (what kid doesn't like chocolate?), and white flowers to symbolize the purity and tranquility of a newborn.

For the bottom tier I used yellow with chocolate ganache' and vanilla meringue filling (which took 2 attempts to make it correctly). The upper tier was chocolate with chocolate ganache'. The dogwood fondant flowers were brushed with petal dust powder to make them appear realistic.

The best compliment I received was it was as delicious as it was pretty.
Ilona R.

Thank you Ilona for submitting your beautiful Chocolate Baptism Cake. It is very sweet. The fondant flowers are very well done too :-) and it looks so yummy.

Beautiful!
by: Alecia F.

Ilona,

Your baptism cake looks sooo yummy! Great job!!
I just entered the contest myself, but I should have read the other submissions first. I'm not a writer, that's for sure! I love how you talked about innocence and purity and that it influenced how you pick the colors and flavors!

X-Box Cake

by Meena Mustafa
(Virginia USA)

I made this cake for my son's 10 Birthday as he just loves playing computer games. It was chocolate covered in fondant. He was so happy to see it that he wouldn't even take his eyes off of it lol. I am so glad I could bake this for the love of my life and make his day :)

Thanks Meena for your contest entry. Your son looks soooo happy with his x-box cake.

Comments

Very cool!
by: Rachel

Impressive! Great job!

Star Wars Cake Jabba The Cake

by Rachel Souza
(Sutter Creek, CA)

I used 4 boxes red velvet cake and part of a big top cupcake and two sheets, to start. I shaped and cut then with homemade frosting crumb coated then let dry a bit. Then started the mass creature and was done 3 hours after decorating. I had used sprinkles for his eyes. My Son loved his Birthday surprise!!!

Thank you Rachel for your Star Wars Cake Jabba The Cake. I love that you showed us how you sculpted him. He is quite ugly isn't he? Tell all of your friends and family to comment and rate your cake entry. Good Luck

Comments

Awesome !!
by: erik
I never thought i could get hungry looking at jabba. Great job.

Great!
by: Melanie Buhlert
I am sure that this made both Matt and Jakob feel proud. You took one of their favorite things and made it into CAKE!! It looks just like jabba the hut.......only edible. Great job!!

Love it!!
by: Christine K
This is SO creative - I love it!!
totally awesome

by: super
Jabba as a Cake so Great!!

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