Friday, November 12, 2010

New York City Cake and Cupcakes Favors

This is a New York City theme cake that I made for a birthday party this week. The cake is vanilla buttermilk  filled with chocolate mousse. My clients didn't really want a lot of NY details, they just wanted black buildings, a few taxi cabs and a doll with long curl hair. They were working with black, white and shades of pink colors and didn't want anything else to crash with the color palette they were using.
I made the "buildings" using  50% gumpaste and 50% fondant, they were dried as rock when I attached them to the cake. I baked, frosted and decorated the whole cake in 2 nights. In case you are wondering... yes, I just slept for a few hours. 
 
The doll is made of gumpaste, I consider her an improvement from my last doll, no links because I do not want you to see it ;). Everything is hand made, I made her hair with the help of a tooth pick,
I love tooth picks!

 Did I mention that I also baked, frosted and packed 100 cupcakes favors for the same event?
The cupcakes were vanilla buttermilk with pink frosting
 and black polka dots.
I baked and frosted the cupcakes in a few hours and I was lucky that one of my friends volunteer to come and helped me pack them. Without her help, I might be still packing them at this point. 
 Well, have a nice weekend everyone, thank you for stopping by.

20 comments:

  1. I love everything about this cake. The lady looks amazing and the colors are great!

    Raychel

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  2. gorgeous cake!!!! the little lady precious. love the hair!!!!!!! love the dress and the purse. you are amazing!

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  3. If I were a cake, this would be me! I love, love, love, love, love it!!!!!!

    :)
    ButterYum

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  6. Everything about this cake amazing! Fabulous design! And those ringlets and the added sparkle on on the figure is perfect!

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  7. You did an amazing job! The doll is perfect! Love the hair!

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  8. Qué bonita la tarta, es tan chic! me encanta! menudo trabajazo, los cupcakes presentados individualmente!
    Felicidades por todo el trabajo realizado!
    Un besazo wpa!

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  9. This is such a fun, beautiful cake!! Love it! And the doll is wonderful!! Her dress is so adorable! Although, I have to say, I think the little taxi cabs are my favorite!! :) Fantastic job on everything!

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  10. WOW I love this cake!! and the girl is so pretty I love her hair!! So pretty!!

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  11. I love your blog! I am following! This is soo amazing!!!

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  12. No wonder you didn't get any sleep! Beautiful job from top to bottom! I bet your client was so happy:)

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  13. Love it! Those curls on the doll are lovely. I wish my own hair looked like that!

    I'm curious - why did you make the buildings out of half gum paste/half fondant? Thanks! I love cake decorating, but I'm a novice.

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  14. Fantástica!! Te ha quedado genial como todas las que haces. Siempre la mejor.
    Muchos besos.
    Montse

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  15. The doll's hair looks wonderful! I am sure the cupcake decorating was a lot of work, but the boxes looked fantastic!

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  16. What a LOT of work!! The hair is amazing :)
    How do you get your black fondant from looking chalky from powdered sugar? I can never seem to get all the dust off!

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  17. Wow. The hair on that doll defies comprehension! I love it! You are so amazing and talented and beautiful and wonderful and....I could keep going but there isn't enough room. Fantastic job!

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  18. This cake is seriously one of the best you've ever made! Gorgeous <3

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