Deja Vu all over again

A friend at work requested a cake just like the ones she'd seen on my blog!! How exciting to have someone like what I'd made enough to want it for their party too.  These cakes were for her children's birthday party.  For him, a baseball cake complete with glove, bat and ball and logos from his baseball team on the bat and ball.  For her, a cake for a princess complete with jewels, flowers and a pretty bow.  Everything was edible!! 

BRAVE

This cake was for a young girl's birthday party with a 'Brave' theme.  I was shown a few examples of styles of cakes she'd like..and went from there.  I was given the characters to use on the cake which helped a lot too!  I've never tried creating a 'landscape' on a cake before but I was happy with my first attempt.  I think my customer was happy too. This cake was decorated mostly in buttercream with a few fondant accent pieces.  I hand crafted the name and painted it gold to match the gold 'buckle' around the center.

Cat Box

This is the original design I used as a guide. NOT MY WORK.

Maybe in a past life, I was an art counterfeiter.  ; )   I am getting pretty good at duplicating designs that others bring to me.  Maybe not 100% but it's close!  Don't get me wrong, I love the challenge and it keeps me from having heartburn about expectations of a perfect design from me. And whenever possible I try to make the design as much in buttercream as I can as well.   Here was a cute Hello Kitty cake that my customer found that I was able to duplicate for her daughter's first birthday.  We tried to keep as close to the original as we could, but we had to go bigger to ensure we had enough cake to feed everyone.  The hardest part was finding a box big enough to put it in for the ride to the party!!  The very cute original photo is also included so you can judge for yourself if I've captured the essence of the HK cake request.