Slideshow of my baked goods (2009-2011) - Part II

There are three cakes featured in Part II:

1) Golf course cake for one of my sister's boyfriend's birthday

2) Wedding cake for one of my Wilton Cake Class projects

3) Bow tie cake for one of my Wilton Cake Class projects

1. Golf Cake Overview

This is where my love for fondant began....the golf cake was probably one of my first cakes outside of class that I started to play with fondant. As you can see, I became very creative with the cake. I recreated a golf course with a yellow birdie (see, I love little birdies!) using fondant, brown sugar, and colored icing (for the grass and wording)

2. Wedding Cake with Pink Roses Overview

This cake started as a two tiered plain jane white cake but ended up being a simple yet elegant and classy wedding cake. I made a number of pink roses with fondant prior to class and didn't know how I was going to use them. I started decorating my plain white cake with the roses, strategically placing them on the tops of the cakes. Later on, I added some beadwork around the base of the cakes for a finished look but something was still missing...it needed more but I didn't know what or how much more. With the help of the teacher, I decided to keep the cake simple by adding a trio of white dots all around the side of the cakes, allowing the pink fondant flowers to be the focal point of the cake. It worked...sometimes keeping things simple and classic is better than over complicating things.

3. Square Bow-tie Birthday Cake Overview

We had to make a two layer square cake for class. Instead I was over zealous and baked a four layer cake. Probably because I wanted this cake to not only look good but taste good too. It was one of my sister's birthday that week and I wanted to bring a cake for her birthday dinner, which happened to be the following night. Instead of throwing out my class project cake (hard to eat a whole cake with just a hubbie and a newborn), I wanted to save and serve the cake.

We learned how to make a bow and decorate with fondant. It is a simple to use cut outs from rolled out fondant for decorations. I loved making this cake. I use some of the techniques I learned from the bow-tie cake and wedding cake to make my niece's princess cake - in a future post coming soon!