Garden theme birthday cake, different angle
Bottom cake is two flavors, half red velvet with cheese cake flavored butter cream and almond sour cream with almond flavored butter cream, then covered in fondant. Top basket weave cake is lemon sour cream pound soaked in raspberry syrup and covered in butter cream basket weave flavored with creme bouquet. My gum paste handle broke as I was pushing it into the cake, so I had to disguise the break with a pink bow. I just didn't have time to make one from gum paste. The gloves, seed packets, garden tool, flower pot, tulip bulbs, birthday card and envelope, along with a box of Miracle-Gro all made from fondant. Miracle-Gro box was RKT covered in fondant and then cut-out gum paste lettering and decorations added. Roses are gum paste as are the leaves and small flowers and butterfly. Lilies are made from royal icing. Dirt is ground up Oreo cookies without the icing. Fed well over 125 people. Thanks for looking. I did post another angle showing the other side of the cake under garden theme
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Comment by RUBY JOHNSON on September 15, 2011 at 8:10am
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Linda, this is breath takingly beautiful. You are so talented. I love the details on your basket. Cant stop saying enough. Great job.
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Comment by Linda Wolff on September 15, 2011 at 8:06am
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Thank you Debra. I'm certainly not a professional-just a home baker, but it truly is my passion.
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Comment by Debra Jones on September 14, 2011 at 11:39pm
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I couldn't even make real flowers look as adorable as your presentation. You are am amazingly talented pastry artist............Bless you for sharing the beauty....Debra Jones
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Thank you Tami!
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Comment by Tami Chitwood on September 13, 2011 at 6:29pm
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So lifelike and just stunning!
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Comment by LInda Santos on August 25, 2011 at 9:31am
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Linda, That is just a BEAUTIFUL cake! the detail is exceptional! The Butterfly is fantastic too! Great work!
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Comment by monica murphy on August 23, 2011 at 3:50pm
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Lol! wow, well it stuck in the correct place, thats for sure! The butterfly was awesome, the whole cake is awesome! I know what you mean bout the gumpaste and the cardboard, i had to do the same thing with some of the high heels, even after drying for several days they still were not dry, so i had to use cardboard under them with hot glue in order to set them in place. I even tried the oven light thing to dry and still it didnt work. but your butterfly was so real, you out did yourself with this cake!!
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Nope, I rolled gum paste very thin, looked on line for a butterfly that I like in google images, made a copy of the butterfly on card stock, and used that as the pattern to cut it out, then folded the remaining piece of the card stock in half so that the butterfly would dry with it's wings bent a little, and waited several days for it to get rock hard so that I could paint it with food paste. Then I let it dry again before making a roll out of black gum paste and forming it a little like the body and stuck two flower stamens in for his antennas, then let him stay on the folded piece of card stock to finish drying until I put the cake together. I live where it has been flooding all summer long along the Missouri river so the humidity has just been horrible and my gum paste hasn't been drying as hard as it should. What is really funny, is the 'varnish' of white corn syrup on the wood was so tacky, that I was just holding the butterfly in that spot trying to figure out where to put it, and low and behold...I was too close to the cake and it had already stuck, so there it stayed! lol
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Linda, iam wowed by this cake, it is a master piece!!! Here is everything thats in my garden! i have approx 100 plants, 88 of which are roses and i think yours look so real. Its beautiful, did you make your butterfly out of gelatine?
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