Retro Fleetwood Mac and NKOTB Cakes

24 Friday Mar 2017

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album cover cake, cream cheese frosting, Fleetwood Mac Rumors cake, Key lime cake, layered fondant design, New Kids On the Block cake

Fleetwood Mac is BACK!! And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, it proves I’m just way too old.

My dear friend Missy asked me to make a cake for her friend’s 40th birthday.

She wanted a replica of the birthday girl’s favorite album cover, this artistic rendition of the iconic 1977 Fleetwood Mac “Rumors” album.

It took some time and a few sharp exacto blades to cut the image out, but I think I got it pretty close. Luckily, it was a fairly simple design.

I really love this fondant image-layering technique. It’s kind of like putting a puzzle together from the front to back to get the 2-dimenional image to look kind of 3-D. The hardest part is visualizing the layers as separate pieces

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The cake is a 10″ square key lime cake filled with lime curd and iced with cream cheese buttercream.

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Another blast to the past was for Missy’s 40th birthday. Her brother wanted the theme to be her favorite late-1980s group, New Kids On the Block.

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For this one, I used an icing image and added fondant details. Much easier than cutting each piece out separately!

Happy belated 40th birthdays, Ladies!!

I had fun making these unique and different cakes for you! :0)

Disney Infinity Birthday Cake

27 Thursday Aug 2015

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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Disney Infinity, homemade marshmallow fondant, Key lime cake, lime buttercream

I have to admit, I didn’t know much about Disney Infinity when my client called to ask me to make a cake for her son’s birthday. Actually, I knew nothing. My kids really aren’t into Disney anymore, so I though this was a new Disney movie I just hadn’t heard of yet.

S, I googled it and the search kept coming up with all of the characters I already knew….Toy Story, Cars, even Nemo. What??? It took some research and my kids enlightening me to figure out it was a new video game!

Since my client wanted to use her son’s game pieces on the top of the cake, I googled the game console and logo and cut them out by hand from red, black and gray fondant in a size to fit the 10″ key lime cake, iced with lime buttercream. I also added red and black stars of different sizes and a name plate and happy birthday sign with letters cut using my Wilton small letter cutter set. The icing and filling are lime buttercream (made from silky Swiss meringue buttercream flavored with fresh lime curd).