Ruffles Dress Cake

My inspiration for making this cake was my sister's, Sheena, dress.  She showed different pictures of her trying on red dresses that she planned to wear for the holiday.  One dress that I find her beautiful was a red ruffle dress.  I changed the color from red to a Lakers' trademark color - yellow and purple. 

This cake was placed 2nd Place in the Tiered Non-wedding category for the Advanced Division at the National Capitol Area Cake Show in Annandale, VA.

Masquerade Mask Wedding Cake

My inspiration for making this cake design was one of Martha Stewart's Wedding Cake.  I always wanted to make a masquerade them cake or Mardi Gras theme cake.  Rather, I stuck with my plan to make it all white cake with lace trim designs with four (4) half-face masquerade masks and a full mask.  The masquerade masks (full and half masks) were made of gumpaste.  The feathers are the only non-edible accent on the wedding cake.

Dog Cake

He's name is Kyle.  I was planning to make a Yorkie, but ran out of time.  I accidentally over did the airbrushing, which made the pup look way much darker.  The brown was supposed to be an accent, but inadvertently made it darker than I anticipated.

This dog cake took home 1st Place for the Sculpted Cake Category in the Advanced Division at the National Capitol Area Cake Show in Annandale, VA.

Papillon Dog Cake

His name is Goat.  This cake pup was supposed to be a "papillon", but ending up looking a mixed-bred Russell Terrier-Papillon dog.  I didn't quite get the sculpting of his head right.  The fur of a papillon dog is difficult to achieve.  Anyway, this was my first time to sculpt a dog cake.  This cake was a challenge.    

The color may seem be odd, but there were brown patches at back.  In this picture, he was waiting to be placed at the Atlantic Bakery Expo 2012.  Poor pup.... he didn't get any award this time.

This cake pup was a yellow cake covered with modeling chocolate.  He was airbrushed with brown food coloring, which I shouldn't have.  He was holding an engagement ring in a Tiffany Box..... "Marry me...", he said.

Ka-Chow!!! Lightning McQueen

This cake was inspired by the movie, Disney Pixar Cars 2.  This was my first sculpted cake, Lightning McQueen from Disney Movie Cars2!  This cake was for a friend of mine who's son was turning 4 years old and loves the movie, Disney "Cars."

I received a lot of questions, "how long did it took me to finish this cake?" My answer was "too long, but was worth it."  It took a little bit longer because of the type of cake I used, plus again my machine with edible ink was not printing at all.  I had to rush to one of my local super market's bakery to have the images printed on icing sheet.

This cake was a moist, dense chocolate cake with Swiss meringue Ghirardeli chocolate filling.  Then, I decided to iced the cake with chocolate ganache using dark Ghirardeli chocolate.  Finally covered with chocolate, dyed in red. The Earth emblem was edible made in gum paste.  The only inedible was the Earth frame holder.  The support that I made from gum paste snapped. I didn't had the time to recreate a new one.  So, my only alternative at that time was to use a frame holder.  The tires were edible, made out of rice crispie treats.

This is my son.  He's 5 months old in this picture with my loving husband at the background (chopped off).  He's my model. 

From my friend, Tony, this is his feedback.... His feed back in available in my Facebook page.

Anthony Polomene at Monday at 9:22am:  The expression on Anthony's face when he saw this cake was priceless. All day he kept asking me "Can I look at the cake again?" and he would stand there wide-eyed just staring at it. It was a big hit at the party and delicious to boot! Thanks Evelyn! Amazing work!