Little Bits

Here is a closeup of the top tier rose swag.

I’m just so proud of this cake!

Another view

This is the first of 2 cakes for Wilton’s course 3 – Fondant and Tiered Cakes. This is a package cake. It is a square, 2 layer dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. It is covered in homemade marshmallow fondant and topped with a fondant ribbon and bow!

This is the last cake from my Fondant and Gumpaste class. It is a devil’s food cake, iced in buttercream and covered in fondant. I was really pleased with how well the fondant looked… very smooth and uniform. On top are some ribbons and curly-q’s made from a fondant gumpaste mix.

My boss’s birthday was this month, so I surprised him with a logo cake of his favorite sports team – the Georgia Bulldogs! The cake is red velvet (in keeping with the Georgia theme), iced with white buttercream, and topped with a fondant logo G. I was happy with everything about this cake, except for the red outline. In hindsight, it should have been a thicker line.

For Course 2, there was only one cake. We spent the first 3 classes learning a bunch of different flowers and borders. The final cake was used to present examples of all the flowers that we created. The flowers are made of royal icing, while the birds are made from ColorFlow. There is a basket weave around the sides of the cake. Talk about a lot of work!

For my niece’s birthday, we volunteered to make cupcake to supplement the birthday cake. Tammy piped the icing on top, and I made the flowers. I think they turned out really cute!