The cake was five tiers of cookies and cream cake with chocolate ganache filling and vanilla buttercream. Each tier was covered in black fondant and decorated with green royal icing in a cornelli lace pattern. The gerbera daisies were all made out of gumpaste. A large dowel went through all the cakes in order to support the top tier and to make it look like the stems of the gerbera going through the top cake. I used green straws wrapped in florist tape for the flower stems.

I recently attended the National Capital Area cake show in Burke, VA. This is the first year this show has run since it split off what used to be called the Mid-Atlantic cake show. I entered the wedding cake competition and the theme this year was “Our Dream Wedding”. We were given background information about [...]

This past weekend two of my good friends, Merryl and Karen, got married. I was honored when they asked me to be a bridesmaid, but when they also trusted me to make their wedding cake I was truly grateful. Since they were getting married in January the theme of their wedding was everything winter and snowflakes. [...]

    
This cake was entered in the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Cake show Wedding Cake Competition. It was my first entry in the Wedding Cake competition and there were over 80 entries that year. The theme for the competion was “Fabric Fantasies”. You had to choose a piece of fabric and decorate your cake to match it, [...]

 
 
This cake was entered in the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Cake show, Intermediate division. It was my first cake show and I placed 2nd. Starting from the bottom, the cake board was covered in tan fondant and sprinkled with brown sugar to look like sand. A silicone mold was used to make the fondant sea shells. The [...]

 
  
This was the first tiered cake I ever made. It was the final assignment in the Wilton Level 3 course.  The round tiers were covered in fondant and stacked. The roses were hand made out of fondant.