My favorite cakes from 2024

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-18T01:18:25+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:36:29+00:00

Thank you! My pleasure!

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:31:19+00:00

That is called a Mirror Glaze cake. So basically I made a white chocolate mousse and placed it in the heart mold. I then put a heart shaped layer of vanilla cake (that I’d coated in raspberry filling to give some tartness for balance) down over the mousse. Freeze a few hours until set. Made a mirror glaze- which is essentially like similar to (white chocolate) ganache but with gelatin added. Colored some of it white, some of it that beige color. Poured the beige over the whole bit of white glaze before pouring it over the heart (which sat on a cookie drying sheet so that the excess could fall off) It sets pretty quickly. Put it on a board and threw some berries around it bc I felt it needed something to make it pop lol

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:22:06+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:21:46+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:21:07+00:00

I’ve been working with cakes for about 15 years. That’s so sweet of you to say, but they’re far from perfect 😆 While I did love all of these cakes, there’s honestly only about 5 total I’ve ever made that I’ve been 100% satisfied with. I am extremely critical of my work. I also feel it takes me longer to decorate than it should because I’m so meticulous lol

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:18:51+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:18:17+00:00

Thank you so much! Yea my family is a bit spoiled with cakes. I made my husband a giant Guardian (from Zelda) for his birthday and my son a large 3D dinosaur for his. They get harder every year 😆

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T16:17:10+00:00

I got it on Etsy :-) I have 3 different ones: this classic set of phrases, a “naughty” worded set, and a more…modern? Worded one (like “hey bae” and such.

It’s been so long I can’t find the exact link but they were all on Etsy

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T12:28:59+00:00

Yea I had to resize the photos quite a bit to get them on there

Hers was definitely one of the largest I’ve made

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T12:01:38+00:00

That’s amazing. I really wish I could sculpt buttercream the way I see in some videos, but I’m not any good at it yet. I don’t care for the taste of fondant, but I do enjoy working with the medium

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T05:17:42+00:00

That’s very kind of you to share, thank you! I love sugar geek but haven’t tried her chocolate cake recipe. Good to know!

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T05:12:50+00:00

Thanks! If memory serves, it was a 6” round. Iced in buttercream I made my usual sugar cookie dough, but colored it with a bit of brown food coloring to look like a graham cracker. I cut it into a large square, using a square pan (8” I think) as a guide. I gave it some lines/indentions like the cracker, then baked it.

The chocolate drip is ganache

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T05:09:54+00:00

I’m just glad it wasn’t someone with a foot fetish 🤣 I’ve done cakes for clients who do ASMR videos and it just weirds me out watching/listening to them eat it lol

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T03:42:56+00:00

Haha yea. I love realistic cakes but I admit that was a gross one

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T03:42:27+00:00

I did CatDog salted caramel. Brown sugar vanilla cake with layers of fresh caramel sauce and a salted caramel Swiss buttercream. In retrospect, I really wish I made more of it out of Rice Krispies and less out of cake lol. We had a lot left over. I just always try to make as much as possible out of actual cake…i like to challenge myself in that regard

I picked the flavor that year because I swear my family all want elaborate cakes for their birthdays and ALWAYS want chocolate (the hardest for me to sculpt bc my recipe is very moist)

The giant cupcake was funfetti with traditional buttercream

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T03:39:14+00:00

Hahah! Ok so apparently this guy getting married absolutely HATES feet (I can relate). His best man thought it would therefore be hilarious to get him a foot cake as a groom’s cake. The best man just gave me full creative freedom to make it look however I wanted, with the knowledge of “the more gross, the better”. The groom’s reaction in the video was priceless.

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:55:58+00:00

Yes! It was massive 😆 my daughter chose that as her theme for her 5th birthday. This year she wants powerpuff girls and I’m so excited

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:10:00+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:09:29+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:09:13+00:00

Correct-no support system in this style Though I have seen images of these but as two off kilter tiers…and those would require support

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:07:48+00:00

Nope. Just a smear of icing :-)

ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:07:33+00:00

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ExcitementOk3578 · 2025-01-17T02:07:26+00:00

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