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Old 10-17-2011, 09:52 PM   #1
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Yay! We made it to the aquarium cake! My proudest cake moment. I think....

blue jello with suspended fish on a yellow sponge base......

07 and 08: Pirate treasure island totally revisited, Knights, Train and Aquarium (Hebe stopped having themed cakes by this point....)

(someday I will scan the photos of the cakes I did for beest when we were at Uni...)
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:04 PM   #2
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Verrrrrry Cool !!

The Aquarium Rocks !
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:12 PM   #3
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Verrrrrry Cool !!

The Aquarium Rocks !
Thanks More of a wobble than a rock but......


OK, I think I'm done. Hector had a "normal" cake this year, and Thor had an internally multicolored cake with chocolate buttercream and a few race cars plopped on top.

They are all really too "mature" for themed cakes any more. Which is OK, because they're all so busy I no longer have the time.....
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Old 10-17-2011, 10:07 PM   #4
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09 and 10: Starwars: Dark and light side, Dogfight, Nerf Wars, Swamp.
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Old 10-18-2011, 01:30 AM   #5
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Wow, monster!
Everyone of them is covered in Love!

You're an awesome mommy!
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Old 10-18-2011, 01:37 AM   #6
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Max has been looking at the cakes saying, "that's yummy and yummy and yummy", except for the Shark cake. That one's yucky apparently. I guess that means it's definitely not a dolphin!
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Old 10-18-2011, 06:30 AM   #7
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wow. I feel like such a slacker.

those are some awesome cakes, monster.


My kids were lucky to get a Betty Crocker with some pre=made frosting slapped on.
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Old 10-18-2011, 07:12 AM   #8
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wow. I feel like such a slacker.
LOL. That was my first thought too. Its a good thing I wasn't a Mom, I would have failed.

Monster, some of the icing looks 'moldable', like the stuff I've seen on the cake wars shows. How did you make it and how does it taste?
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Old 10-18-2011, 06:33 AM   #9
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In my world, cakes come from bakeries.

As a kid they also came from the kitchen, but as a grownup, they come from shops. I feel no shame in my utter lack of cake making prowess.

That said: they're some fine looking cakes.
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Old 10-18-2011, 07:09 AM   #10
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Thank you. I've been meaning to create this thread for years -wll at least since the aquarium cake (which I think I posted somewhere at the time)
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Old 10-18-2011, 07:41 AM   #11
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Bravo!

You should do these for other people for moneys!
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Old 10-18-2011, 07:55 AM   #12
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Those are all amazing!

Did you also make the plate for the Batman cake? That's a cool looking plate.
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Old 10-18-2011, 08:17 AM   #13
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Wow - those look great, and they're each unique which is a prize in itself.
I loved the shark one - I'll have it if Max doesn't want it Ali.

Of course my fave is the aquarium cake, but yes I had seen it before.
Which isn't to say I'm not impressed all over again.
I might feel a steal coming on - it's such a talking point of a dessert...
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Old 10-18-2011, 08:20 AM   #14
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Wow - those look great, and they're each unique which is a prize in itself.
I loved the shark one - I'll have it if Max doesn't want it Ali.

Of course my fave is the aquarium cake, but yes I had seen it before.
Which isn't to say I'm not impressed all over again.
I might feel a steal coming on - it's such a talking point of a dessert...
pour the jelly a little at a time. set the first layer, then make slits in it for the fish/whatever, insert then so the hold, then pour the next layer, wait for it to set, repeat.

My bug filled halloween jelly wasn't so successful because it had to stand around too long, but I'm going to try again this year.

I really want to make a swimming one, but i can't find little swimmers to put in it.
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Old 10-19-2011, 01:46 PM   #15
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I really want to make a swimming one, but i can't find little swimmers to put in it.
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/no.../novelties.htm

Scroll down to the swimmers. That what you had in mind?
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