Cakes by Steph

Here she is … Emily’s Island Princess cake for her party with family tomorrow.  I had to fight with Barbie a little to cooperate and almost took a friend’s suggestion to take her legs off LOL  But a little knife work later {to the carboard base, not barbie } and she got in there far enough.  Icing is all buttercream and the dress is covered in a shimmer pearl dust.  The flowers on the cake corners are Frangipani (a tropical flower – she IS the island princess you know ) and it was my first time doing them.  I was suprised at how easy they were.  Those are made of gumpaste.  The barbie cake was made in a pampered chef 8c measure bowl (glass) and the base is a one layer 10″ square.

This smaller cake is a 4″ one made with some extra cake batter I had.  Thought it would make a fun “personal” cake for Emily.  Again has the Barbie’s dress pattern on it and the shimmer dust.

These castle cupcakes I made for my daughter to take to school for her bday.  I had found this idea online along with another idea (princess crowns).  I let her pick thinking that won’t take too long.  Ok…well lesson learned   I spent a good 4 hrs on the castles alone.  Fortunately the baking and icing/glitter part was super quick.   But she loves them (other than thinking that the castles were going to be really big cause of the pic I had shown her).  They are dusted in a pearl dust so they shimmer.  I had to make 24 of them to take.  Whew…I’m tired of that now   But they did turn out cute.   I wish the pic could show the details and shimmer better…I need to make that light box!

Here is the cupcake cake I made for my daughter’s 6th birthday party with her friends tomorrow.  Cupcake cakes are made by putting a whole bunch of cupcakes together and icing over the top.  Then to serve you just take a cupcake off – no cutting!   On top is the tiara I made earlier this week (see pics below in the last post). I’ve put a pic below of the island princess barbie this was based on.

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This is my first royal icing crown – well I should take it back – my second as the first one I did shattered on me during “dusting” :S  But This one came off with only one minor breakage and I’m just letting it sit another couple days before handling it anymore!  Let it get good and hard.  This is for on a cupcake cake I’ll be making for Sat for my daughter’s birthday party with her friends.  So hopefully it can survive until then!  

 The crown is made with pink royal icing and has 3 layers of design on top of each other for stability.  Then once dried I painted it with a pearl luster dust to give it a shimmer.

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