Doctor Retirement cake

This cake was designed for a Doctor's Retirement party. The cake is fully covered with fondant & decorated with fondant accessories.

Ballet shoes & Ballerina cake

These cakes were made for two sisters who are into ballet. The birthday cake is decorated with the ballet shoes as a topper, elegant lacework kind of swags and a ribbon bow. The ballerina cake design is an inspiration from the Debbie brown book, just that it is made to look more apt for a 5 year old.

Both the cakes are covered with vanilla fondant. All the decorations are made of fondant.

Memoirs of a cake

I participated in the Wilton's 80th Anniversary "Past & Present" cake decorating contest which was held on 14th June at Darien, IL.

My entry was named "Memoirs of a cake" which represented how the cake decorating styles evolved through time. The lower half of the cake represented the "Past" with the lower most tier having ruffles, trellis, swags as the decorations whereas the second lower tier with ornate shapes in cornelli lace and bordered with the Lambeth style. The upper half of the cake represented the "Present" with the non-traditional funky styles of decorations topping off with a gumpaste floral spray.

The celebrity judges for the contest were Colette Peters, Mark Seaman, Debbie Friedman, Laura Ragano. This entry did not win any place except the Award of participation. But, it was a wonderful experience to see others designs.

These were the comments from the judges for my entry.

Judge 1 : Good use of stages of theme
Judge 2: Very nice use of colors & patterns
Judge3: Very creative use of theme
Judge4: The roses are lovely. The detail of the lattice is done very well. The overall style of the cake is very nice and flowed very well.
Judge 5: Nice expression of old & new techniques. Floral spray is beautiful.

Colette Peters demonstrating brush embroidery technique.

Animals cake

This cake was made for the birthday of a 2 year old girl who is fond of different animals. I was specially requested to include dog, cat, squirrel, fishes & birds in the design. I added additional frog & bunny enhance the theme. The cake was designed to look like a walk into woods with lots of trees, stones,fences & a bridge by the water.
View of the back of the cake.
A closeup of the top tier
Closeup of the bottom tier which has the squirrel eating nuts beneath the tree. Fishes jumping in the water with water splashes. An eagerly awaiting stork & a frog by the water stream.

All the animals were hand molded out of fondant. This was a little unusual kind of theme. I truly enjoyed designing this cake & was pleased with the outcome.

Dear Anamika from The Sugarcrafter presented me with another award. I take this oppurtunity to Thank her for her kind gesture. She is a very talented sugar artist & an inspirational blogger friend. I feel extremely happy to know that I make up her day :-)

Louis Vuitton Purse cake

This cake was made for a mother & her daughters sharing common May birthdays. The request was to make a Luxurious birthday cake in the shape of Louis Vuitton purse stacked on top of a Luggage suitcase.

The purse is carved from a sheet cake & covered with chocolate fondant. All the handles & hinges are made of fondant. Gold accents on the purse are hand-painted. The flower sprays are made of gumpaste which are good keepsakes.

It was a very good experience making this cake and I was pretty happy with the outcome.
Here is the back view of the cake Close look of the rose sprays

Arte y Pico Award & Top 10 pictures Tag

Dear Swati from Sugarcraft India presented me with this award. Swati is a very encouraging, kind and inspirational blogger friend. Thanks Swati for giving me such an honor. I am extremely happy about it.

I had also been tagged by Swati for a Meme called Top 10 pictures. So here are my favorite ones from the pictures posted so far in this blog.

It was really fun to summarise the posts in this blog. I really enjoyed :-). I further tag

Anamika- The Sugarcrafter
Sujatha- Spicy Khazana
Mansi- Fun n Fud
Mishmash

Hope you will Enjoy!!

Magical birthday cakes

These cakes were designed for a 6 year old birthday boy. Harry Potter was the birthday theme. The cake design was totally customized for the birthday boy.

His dad designed a portrait of the boy giving him Harry Potter look & style. This picture was the inspiration for the cover page of the 3D book cake.

Here is the picture of the portrait that was provided to me for the design.

Next, was the 3D Magical castle which sits on top of a scenic mountain. The castle has elaborate detailed decorations. The castle is carved from a sheet cake, covered with buttercream and decorated with a combination of buttercream and fondant accents.

Here is the view of the front of the castle..
Here is a view of the back of the castle...

It was all together a different challenge & an excellent experience to make someone's birthday Truly Magical.