Beauty School Graduation

For a gal graduating from John Casablanca Institute - and her real love is "waxing"! yikes :-)  Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling atop a Sour Cream Vanilla cake with raspberry buttercream filling.  Fondant features include the textured spa towel and the pretty bow.  All the little accessories, makeup, balloons, hot wax bucket (and of course the graduate in her spa uniform) are in gum paste.

Balloons were painted with 50:50 vodka and corn syrup so they would stay shiny when dry.

Note in her hand she has a wax strip with little hairs on it.. I love adding these little humorous touches...

gum paste tiger lily

Stars Wars cake toppers

Just a couple of cute toppers in gum paste...

Gravity defying cake!

My first effort at a gravity defying cake - to celebrate the opening of our new breast centre at the hospital!

Mini-Marcus had a wee accident during the party so I took him home for some cake "orthopedic surgery".  That's the danger when I make my creations only a few days before the event - legs, etc are not so stable.  These little guys are best done at minimum 7 days pre party.  That way the sugar paste sets up rock hard and they last forever!!!

Dinosaur Dig Cake

Birthday party for a couple of 4 year old twins who love dinosaurs!  The vanilla sponge cake in front was adorned with T Rex fossil bones - each bone individually molded out of fondant..the kids had fun eating all the bones!  The back cake (the volcano) was a chocolate mud cake.  Dinosaurs are made from combination of either rice krispies, fondant and gum paste.  All keepsakes.  More pictures after the jump.