Cakes by Steph

My little sister turned 18 last week and we celebrated her birthday party this weekend!  She is all about fashion, design and shopping (and her cell phone   ).  This cake was all about her.  My older sister and I designed and created this together – another fine S&S creation   Some details…

The purse and the shopping bag are cake, covered in fondant.  The tissue in the gift bag is gumpaste.  The handles on the purse are fondant as are all the decor – except the piping…which Shelly painstakingly piped for THREE hours!  She has a cramped hand now   But she did a great job!  Meanwhile I put together the gift bag and dress model.  The model is all fondant that I sculpted and then made a fondant dress for.  It is embellished with some piping.  We finished off the “Louis Vuitton” handbag with both tan and gold painted embellishments (including a zipper pull that Shelly embossed with a LV logo.  Its all about the details, folks   The shoe and cell phone I made a few days earlier from gumpaste.  They are painted with luster dust to shimmer.

In the end it took us just about all day to do this cake….lots of putzy time (and kids interrupting) went into this!  But well worth it.

Ballroom dancing anyone?  This is a 11×15 cake, all icing with some ballroom dancing design!  Simple and classy…black and white.

This was for a rubbery ducky themed baby shower.  All buttercream icing except for the fondant wave and gum paste ducks.

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This is March’s birthday cake for my husband’s work.  Two days after St. Patrick’s Day so we did a themed cake.  The pot is cake, covered in fondant, base is cake with icing.   The only things non edible are the coins ~ just didn’t have time to make something.  But its all good.  The rainbow is gumpaste.  The base cake is 10″ square to give some size reference…

Here’s another variation – similar to one I made recently but with some awesome lime green added in! This is a great big cupcake cake.

The last of the guitars (for now…).   Again the guitars were made with royal icing piped out.  Fondant covered and piped on scroll work around the guitars on the base.  Real ribbon used.