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Angry Birds Birthday Cake

One of my friends asked me to make her husband's birthday cake. He is apparently addicted to angry birds, thus an angry birds themed cake. After much searching to find a good picture of the birds and piggies, it was time to bake and create. He LOVES chocolate, or so I was told. So, I made the base of the cake of 2 chocolate 9x13 cakes and filled them with chocolate ganache. That's right, super chocolate cake. ;) The cake was then crumbcoated with vanilla buttercream (still perfecting the chocolate buttercream) and chilled. Then the cake was covered in a green tinted MMF. The birds and the piggies are made of rice krispie treats that I molded and then crumbcoated and coved in tinted MMF. It was super exciting when the birds and piggies started to come alive with all their little eyes, tails, eyebrows, etc. Then I took a dowel rod cut at the height needed and covered it thick in tinted MMF and took toothpicks to support the sides of the slingshot and then added a small strip of fondant to the back for the slingshot. A little blue bird was then added to the slingshot. The wood and stones are just molded MMF. Then the rest of the piggies and birds were added to the cake and then the wood and stones. I took green tinted buttercream and piped grass onto the cake between the wood and stones and around then the slingshot base. For around the cake, I cut out grass blades out of green tinted MMF and added them to the cake sides. Total time for this cake was ~ 10 hrs.

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Bridal Shower for Stella

My sister-in-law came to me at the end of January and asked me to make a bridal shower cake/cupcake for her friend. Her and the other bridesmaids had a forest, winter bluish-gray sort of theme. She sent me a picture of the invitations and the centerpieces. The centerpieces had carnations on branches and the invitations had a birch forest on them. So, I designed a cake that had Peppridge Farm's Pirouettes surrounding it and gumpaste carnations on the top. I found on Etsy a woman that makes these beautiful wire trees with birthstones on the the wires. The girls wanted 3 types of cupcakes: Red Velvet w/ french vanilla buttercream, Carrot Cake w/ cream cheese frosting & Orange Dream w/ vanilla buttercream. They also had yellow gluten-free cupcakes for one of the bridesmaids. The cake was a 6" round made of buttery golden cake and filled with vanilla buttercream. I made different color gumpaste flowers just in case the girls couldn't figure out which was which cupcake. From what I've been told, it was a complete hit and more important the bride LOVED it!!! :)