Paris Cake

I was commissioned to do this cake by a woman named Raquel. The French Toast man is her own little character.

I designed the cake, and decorated the cake. I covered the cake with white fondant and then painted on all the color you see. (*I used my watercolor paint brush and paste food coloring.*)

Blue, white and red are the colors of the French flag, which is why the inside of the cake is colored in that manner; as well as decorations on the outside of the cake.

I hand painted the Eiffel Tower on the background as well.

Everything you see is edible and made with Fondant only. I did not use anything else. I hand cut everything, and formed everything you see by hand as well. The toast and main part of the cake are cake, covered in fondant.















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Independence Day

This year for the 4th of July I had a pretty big party. It ended up being a large potluck, and quite a success too! I only made 50 cupcakes and a few dozen cookies, becuase I thought that most everyone else would bring desserts, since they are quite easy -- I was wrong. Most of the other guests brought chips and veggie trays, and other random finger foods. Needless to say, however, is that desserts were in high demand. my cookies disappeared faster than any of the other food items, and my cupcakes followed suit shortly thereafter. The cookies were not that special really. I used butter-cream frosting and pipped on stripes and stars. And i didn't decorate the snicker-doodles at all.
The cupcakes were a different story! I really enjoyed creating the cupcakes. They were vanilla-flavored cupcakes with a special colorful-surprise inside them. I layered each cupcake with red white and blue, heavy on the white. I have found that the older people get, the less they enjoy heavily colored foods, so I tried to make the cupcakes with about 50 percent white (or non-colored cake batter).
To get the bi-colored frosting, I put two colors of frosting in a single pipe bag. I then swirled the two-toned butter-cream on top of the cupcakes. After all that was done I put a single blue piped-on-star on top of each cupcake.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
 



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