This past month was pretty busy with cakes and preparing my Iowa State Fair decorated cake entries. I had 3 new cakes and 2 Iowa State Fair cake entries. I will have another post about my Iowa State Fair entries soon. I also was featured on the Iowa State University website: www.iastate.edu
The first cake is a birthday cake made for my co-worker's daughter's 1st birthday. I made a smash cake for the daughter to eat. The cake is just a simple number shaped cake decorated with butterflies, lady bugs, caterpillars, and flowers.
The first cake is a birthday cake made for my co-worker's daughter's 1st birthday. I made a smash cake for the daughter to eat. The cake is just a simple number shaped cake decorated with butterflies, lady bugs, caterpillars, and flowers.
This next cake is a DJ cake with working lights and a rotating spinner. The spinner was a bit tricky to figure out. My dad came up with a solution to get the disk to spin. My dad re-purposed the motor of a old humidifier for the spinning portion of the cake. I used a headband, rice krispies, and modeling chocolate for the headphones. For the laptop I used L-brackets, 2 rectangles of wood, rice krispies, and fondant. To get the straight line around the outside, I used painters tape and my airbrush. The overhead lights were also a bit tricky to figure out how to get them to stand up. I used carriage bolts, L-brackets, and a ripped 2x4 for the overhead support. I also created a platform for the laptop to sit on by cutting a hole in the base and screwing 2 boards through the holes and L-brackets and another piece of wood for the upper platform. I used LED lights throughout the cake to replicate lights on an actual DJ setup.
The third cake I made was for my brother-in-law's birthday. He loves to fish for catfish, so I made a catfish cake. The cake was chocolate cake with buttercream filling. I used a round frosting tip to add the scale texture. For the coloring, I first placed painters tape on the sides to block off a strip of fondant. I then added spots and layered colors using my airbrush. I added the whiskers after the coloring. For the water I took a paintbrush and frosting and "painted" the board.
The last two cakes I made for the Iowa State Fair. The first cake is Pascal, the chameleon from the movie Tangled. The second cake is a castle with a dragon. I will post more details on how these cakes were made in another post.
Well that's all the cakes I made in the month of July. Look forward to next month where I will have an XKCD themed cake and a 3D dog cake.
~Mary Burroughs
~Mary Burroughs