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I must admit, I struggled with this design. I knew I wanted to combine round layers with hexagon layers. I knew I wanted to do pleating on a cake but not in the traditional sense. I knew i wanted the pleating to be pearlized to look like raw silk. And the other thing I knew for sure, I had to use this freaking oversized, beautiful, diamond bedazzled, bow brooch that I bought in Texas! I struggled with how to incorporate ...

Yes, I know it isn’t perfect! This was my first feeble attempt at doing string-work and bridgework. Keeping with the blush colored theme of the 2011 line, I designed this cake because I have always been intrigued with this technique. So, I had to try my hand at it. Trust me I can see every imperfection, so all you professional pipers, “pipe down”!!

I sketched the cake out before I began as I do most times. I decided to cover this ...

I love this design from this years collection. My photographer Whitney Carlson with Dove Wedding Photography wore this shirt to our photo shoot last December! It inspired me to design a cake around the shirt. This just goes to show you that you can be inspired by many, many things. Always have a camera ready to snap some inspiration for future projects.

This is one of my favorite cakes I designed for 2011! I love, love, love ruffles!!! This blush colored base fondant fabric cake is simply decorated with 2mm sugar pearls/drages’ and piped with a tip# 3 white beaded border. The shining crown of this beauty is the fondant/gumpaste ruffles cascading down the front of the cake. Notice how the French sugar ruffles get larger as they graduate down to the base of the cake. Once the ruffles were placed on the ...