Delightfully Painted Cakes–Monet Style

Monet Style “Painted” Cake with Buttercream

My mother is a HUGE Claude Monet fan so this year, for her 50th birthday I made her a “painted” cake loosely representing one of Monet’s beautiful paintings.  I baked a classic yellow cake and whipped up a large batch of delicious buttercream frosting.  I separated the buttercream frosting into smaller cups and individually tinted the buttercream colors using Wiltons gel colors.  I then frosted the cake with a white layer and “painted” the cake to resemble Monet’s painting using a food safe paintbrush.  The process was very fun and completely artistic 🙂

 

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Wedding Cake Stand

 

 

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I created this custom, hand crafted 5 tier crystal cake stand for a bride-to-be in Australia.  The cake stand stands nearly 5 feet and weighs over 23 pounds!  The sizes of the tiers are 18″, 16″, 14″, 12″ and 10″ with 7″ chandelier style acrylic crystal strands.  I am currently selling this piece and other custom crystal cake stands on Etsy at Cakedress.com if you are interested.  I can created similar stands in virtually any size so please message or convo me if you are interested in pricing.

In my opinion, a plain white wedding cake would look elegant and timeless on this crystal cake stand.  I think you would want a square sheet cake that was about 3″ deep for each tier and maybe a simple monogram cake topper as an accent.

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The white cake above is the perfect cake for the 5 tier crystal cake stand.

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The crystal and silver monogram cake topper is a brilliant idea for the 5 tier crystal cake stand, it would tie the whole cake together.

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You can look at my custom crystal cake stands on Etsy at Cakedress.com

Fondant Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine and Spiderman

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Handcrafted fondant Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine and Spiderman fondant figures.  Superheros are always a great birthday party theme for young boys, these precious fondant figure are sure to jazz up any cake!

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The above cake is a great representation of a superhero cake at it’s best!  This cake theme appears to be Spiderman with accents of Thor, hulk and Ironman…classic.  This cake is very even, linear and clean.

 

http://roomtoinspire.blogspot.com/2011/01/superhero-party-part-3.html

If you don’t want to go “traditional” superhero with Spiderman, Hulk, Ironman or Wolverine you can go superhero inspired like the picture above.  This is a really cute way to not use the commercial superheros and create your own in your children’s image.  This is a very creative and custom idea–very cute!

Wizard of Oz–Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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It has been a few days since my last blog entry–things have been crazy busy here and I haven’t had much time for my cake creations 😦  My very dear friend Susie turned 51 on Saturday and her favorite movie of all time is the Wizard of Oz.  Naturally I made her favorite cupcake, Strawberry Margarita cupcakes with Strawberry Margarita Buttercream frosting.  I used Airheads Extreme Sours as the “rainbows” and dollops of the buttercream to represent the clouds.  These cupcakes were very simple yet cute and delish!   Message me if you are interested in this recipe 🙂
There are TONS of party decorating ideas revolving around the classic the Wizard of Oz.

http://swconfections.blogspot.com/2009/09/wizard-of-oz-cake.html

I love the above Wizard of Oz cake because it is edible and in my mind it totally represents what I think of when I hear Wizard of Oz–it has the main characters, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow and the Tinman.  The cake also has the yellow brick road, Emerald City and of course the ruby-red slippers!

http://www.cookiemondays.com/2010/04/wizard-of-oz-party.html

I love the above picture, little ruby-red slippers as party favors for all the guests 🙂

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Or you could use little girls Dorothy style aprons as decor and as party favors.
Wizard of Oz is a classic and will continue to be popular for party and holiday themes.  Please message me with your wonderful Wizard of Oz creations!

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