Sculptured cakes
by Trill's alter ego
These two views show a
Sculptured cake made for a
sweet 16 birthday party.... as
with most sculptured cakes, a
cake board is cut to the shape of the cake and is usually
lifted off the main cake board and the supports are hidden
making the cake appear to be standing on it's own. In this
case I frosted the cake with white buttercreme and air-brushed the "paint job" with liquid food coloring. The
wheels are actually small chocolate covered donuts with the centers stuffed with aluminum foil and
frosting "spokes" used as decorations.
This snickers cake was a favorite choice for birthdays... The cake was baked in a loaf pan the size of
which varied with the number of servings needed. Chocolate cake was first frosted with a chocolate
buttercreme and then a chocolate poured fondant was then poured on one end of the cake. I found it
helpful to put wax paper under that end of the cake to catch the overflow of chocolate and once I got the
look I was after it was easy to remove the excess and keep the cake board clean.
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This "sleeping baby cake" was popular for baby showers. The baby portion was sculpted from cake and smooth frosted using a "hot knife" technique. |
| This baby shower cake was made from a 1/2 sheet cake that was trimmed to fit the pattern. Then the cake is smooth frosted and the pattern traced onto the cake with white frosting, then air brushed using liquid food coloring... the finishing touch is to trace over the white lines with black frosting.. this gives the cake a 3D look. |
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| This sculptured cat cake was assembled on a cake stand which is then frosted to match the cake... the tail is actually part of the cake stand but the "feet" are sculpted from cupcakes. |  |
 | This sculpture did not require a cake stand, the cake is baked in a "Stand up Rabbit" shaped cake pan, the ears are cut off of the cake and used for the arms and the feet are made from cupcakes... the pants are air brushed on. |
| The mamma duck cake is backed in the "stand up rabbit" pan and the babies are made from cakes backed in a bear candy mold pan... you can get these pans from Wilton, just buy one of the Wilton Cake Decorators yearbook and check the back for ordering information. |  |
 | This was my very first sculptured cake. The dogs ears are made from gum paste |
| For the tail of this trout cake I used foam plates cut to the shape of the tail finn and secured to the cake board with skewers. |  |
 | This cake was made for display for the Ventura county fair, it was my first experience with sculpturing in front of the public. I picked Father Serra as the theme because next door to where I was sculpting cake a wood sculpture was in progress..and they were sculpturing Father Junipero Sarra as a tribute to his founding of a mission |
| The hands on this sculpture are made from styrafoam which is covered with frosting... |  |
 | The M & M's were indivedualy piped onto wax paper and then frozen first so that it was easy to place them onto the mound of frosting.. |
| This monkey cake was baked in the stand up rabit pan... I got a lot of milage out of that pan! The feet are sugar cooking cut with a foot cookie cutter. |  |
 | This cake features royal icing "onion" rings and buttercreme mushrooms... the cake crust is air brushed... |
| This lop eared bunny cake was frosted with white frosting and then air brushed... |  |
 | This tractor cake was made for a friend of mine who owned a landscaping business... |
| This is NOT a cake... it is a large victorian gingerbread house I made for a display for a really nice shop in Grants Pass Oregon... |  |
 | Here is another view of the same gingerbread house.. |
| These singers were gingerbread decorated cookies |  |
