Neapolitan Ice Cream Cupcakes

These mini Neapolitan ice cream cupcakes are colored and flavored to taste just like the Neapolitan ice cream.  The bottom layer is chocolate, followed by vanilla, and last is strawberry (which is also pink colored).  Each cupcake is then topped with a vanilla butter-cream scoop of ‘ice cream’ which is topped with homemade fudge chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
The little cherries are hand made from two colors of fondant.  The entire cupcake is edible ice-cream flavored fun.

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California Beach Cake

I made this cake for a scouting event, it was auctioned off and the donations were given to the scouts to further their 'education' at scout camp.
It was fun to make this cake, because I got to choose the materials and design.
I made the shells out of fondant (hand sculpted), everything is edible. The rocks were made from chocolate and coated with a candy coating (they are not handmade). I also painted a bit of coloring on the fondant shells.
The layers on the inside cake go as follows; Bottom: sandy brown. Middle layer: white. Top layer: sky blue.
The frosting was made from a simple butter-cream frosting recipe. I used paste-based food coloring to color the frosting. The sand of the cake is made from a mixture of raw cane sugar, and turbinado sugar (natural/unrefined brown sugar). To make the darker "wet" part of the sand I added a bit of brown food dye to the sugar.
I wanted the cake to have an artistic quality to it, cartoon-ish, some would say, thus I purposefully made the water blue, without any whitecaps. I thought it looked more artistic/less real that way.


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Nascar Race Car Cake

I was pretty sick when I was told that I needed to make a cake with less than a days notice, for a surprise birthday party. I was ecstatic about the theme of the cake. I have been wanting to make a race car-type cake for quite some time, but never had a reason to; until now.

I set up the fondant and quickly sketched out what I wanted the cake to look like. I was too limited on time to create what I really wanted to, so I had to stick with a traditional-style cake. The flavor of the cake was carrot cake, with butter-cream frosting. I used fondant to make the car and the blacktop.

I made the little Nascar race car out of green fondant, and let it set for a bit before applying the details. I rolled out each 'decal' and cut them with a knife. I also cut out the number 18, with a knife and placed them all on the car. After they had time to set I used a little bit of food coloring to write on the decals and make them look more like adds. I employed my little sister to help me do the base layer of white frosting to the cake. I rolled out some black fondant and cut it to the approximate shape that I desired. After laying the blacktop down on the cake, I mixed the green into the butter-cream frosting and pipped the grass onto the cake. Shortly after that the cake was finished and heading off to surprise an 18 year old female-Nascar fanatic!

 



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Mushroom Cake

So here is a mushroom cake that I made. It's not the greatest; I made it in a hurry. I just rolled out a blue layer of fondant and stuck orange rounds on top and rolled them together. The top cake is chocolate.
The two 'baby' mushrooms are made of fondant and cake as well. The tops are chocolate cake as well. The bottom layer is frosting with graham crackers, candied on top. (*the graham cracker candy is tasty, but very very sweet.*)


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