How-To: Li'l horsie!

Seems the world loves little horsies, so here's how I made the cute little one from Samantha's birthday cake!

First, here's what we need:

2 football-ish shaped balls for the body and face, 2 small and 2 large cones for the legs, a different colored fondant for the accents and a 3rd color for mane and tail.

I stamped out little circles for the hooves and the nose, and wrapped them around the legs and the head, like so:

Then I added 2 tiny balls and pricked them in the middle with a toothpick to make nostrils, and made a little crooked, smiling mouth just for the cuteness factor.

Put it all together with fondant glue (a little pinch of tylose powder in a couple of teaspoons of water) or water. The larger cones are the hind legs, the smaller in the front.

Add some details, like mane and tail (I like to use a garlic press for perfect hair) and soon we have this cute little guy.

Kid's birthday cake: Dominic (Backyardigans)

This is a kid's first birthday cake. Dominic loves the Backyardigans, so that's the cake he got! This was the first time I experimented with the floating stars, and I think it really makes the whole cake. The clouds were made by warping a flower-shaped cookie cutter (you take what you got!) The cake is white chocolate with strawberry glaze filling and vanilla cream.

Just-because cake: Jenny.

Feel-better-rainbow cake made to order. Strawberry cake with strawberry and buttercream filling and vanilla fondant airbrushed with food coloring. Now that was fun! (and messy...) The pot of gold is modeling chocolate, and the coins are gumpaste brushed with edible glitter.

Just for fun - here's a picture of the work in progress:

Baby Shower cake : Brie

Brie's baby shower cake was so much fun to make! The only instructions I got was "just make it girly, and vanilla!" So I went all out with the pink and the hearts. The cake is French Vanilla with buttercream and white chocolate filling, with melon-flavored fondant.
This was a large cake, estimated to feed around 60 people.

Baby Shower Cake: Elisa

Elisa's baby shower cake was a simple, two-tier white chocolate cake with fruit and buttercream filling and melon-flavored fondant. The baby and the little flowers are gumpaste. This cake was made on fairly short notice, so the flowers are glued on with white buttercream instead of tylose gel. It leaves white marks if you're not careful, but is great in a pinch when you can't wait for the tylose gel to dry.

Graduation cake: Peyton

  

This is a cake made to order, for the graduation of a star soccer player.

The bottom tier is 2 layers of white chocolate cake with pineapple glaze filling and canilla fondant. The top tier is vanilla cake with tropical fruit filling, white buttercream and berry - flavored fondant.

I copied the little soccer player from a photo on the graduate's facebook (it's research, not stalking!) She is made from gumpaste, and is completely edible. This was my first time using disco dust, (glitter effect on the lettering and the stars) and I'm sorry to say it didn't photograph well. The glitter looked great in the light though.