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Today is great Grandma Niederhauser's 80th birthday.  Last night we had a party for her and I was asked to make her a cake. I took this as an opportunity to try out a few new techniques.  Not all of them were a success. First, the bottom layer is supposed to have lots of horizontal folds like a sash was wrapped...

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Pink Pig Cake

Every year I donate cakes to school auctions.  It's a fun way to get my name out there while helping our kids' education. Most of the time, people forget they buy it and I never get to make one.  This time, they remembered. I wasn't given a whole lot of direction on this cake.  They just said the birthday girl likes...

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...Aaand Once Again. The Owl Cake

One day in the not-so-distant future I will own a very nice camera that takes very nice pictures. One day. In the meantime, you have just seen the 3rd owl cake I have done in 2 months...

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Millenium Falcon Cake Topper

Now THIS is a cake topper to be proud of!!! Of course, I hope to make many more of these, which will perfect the technique, and I will probably eventually look back at this one and think it was a bit rough...but I still like this one. Jared asked me if I would make this for a buddy of his that is graduating from...not sure...

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Pink Flower Baby Shower

 If I am totally honest with myself, this is not my favorite cake design. I made the most common and most disasterous rookie mistake.... ...over-decorating...

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