In The Beginning!!!

Hello Everyone,
I thought that I would share with you the first few cakes that I made.  I would appreciate it if you would refrain from laughing. (You totally can laugh, cause I have no way to see if you are!! LOL  The first cake that I made was a cake for my Brother-In-Law, he had just graduated from College.  Keep in mind, that I never took a class, and this was in the 80's!!                        

These first cakes that I would love to share with you, all have one thing in common, they all have people, or characters made from gum paste on them!  Gum Paste is basically a sugar dough that you can roll, squish, flatten make things to go on your cake with  Gum Paste is very similar to clay.  They are great to have on your cake, because they take a cake, that already has personality and it just adds that little bit of extra of the 3D factor that the cake already has, and bumps it up a notch!!  This first cake I made for my niece, it was of these guys who are from the T.V. show called, The Backyardigans! I had never heard of these guys, because when my beautiful children were little, we were all about Barney!  Am I showing my age?  I think that the fact that I asked if I were showing my age, is a clear sign that I am showing my age!!                                                                

 These cute adorable guys are made out of gum paste so they are completely edible!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       This is the finished cake, and I must have done a good job, cause I got a big hug and kiss from her!! Which is the best form of payment that I have ever received!!!!She completely LOVED it!! Just don't ask me what their names are!

This second cake is a cake that I made for a little boy named Alex, it was his first Birthday, and his mom told me that he loved the Circus!!!   I made all these animals and the Ringmaster also out of Gum Paste I was told by his mom that he liked the lion the most, and did not want to put it down, but they were able to get it away from him when he fell asleep later that night!! Those stories just bring a smile to my face!!!  Again, all of my characters and my cake decorations are all made of completely edible ingredients,and materials, unless I indicate on your receipt,  verbally, and on a sticker on the box.  The last thing that anyone wants is a trip to the doctors on their birthday!!                                                                                                                

 This was just a fun cake to make!!  The characters were fun, and the balloons were great, although next time I will have to hollow them out to make them, because they were very heavy, and I was afraid that they might just fall right through the middle of the cake!!

This next cake I made for a 50th Birthday.  When the R.I.P on it or the over the hill theme, so I found out that they had a couple of dogs, and I asked for pictures of the dogs, and went for a humorous theme.  Again I made the dogs with the Gum Paste and tried to catch the personality of each dog, and I was told that I did!

 The cake, I gave a lot of thought.  I decided to go with the rocking chair, with his trusted dogs at his feet, and him sitting in his rocking chair with a lamp, and some AARP magazines ready and waiting to be read on the table next to him!  I took this picture before I actually finished, and there was some fringe on both ends of the rug, and the writing on the cake was "Hope your fifties are Rocking"  He apparently Thought it was amazing!!

So these are a few of of the cakes that I have made with Gum Paste figurines, and I hope that you liked them!  I hope that if you like what you see, you will give me on order, and let me give you some ideas that will work for you and your next Occasion to Celebrate!!!