Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumHere's my second decorated cake for the Illinois State Fair.
This is in the stained glass style. I'm entering it in the wedding/anniversary cake category. The other one is in birthday cakes.
Here's the link to the first one:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1157142026
tanyev
(44,514 posts)2naSalit
(92,705 posts)Nice work!
Siwsan
(27,287 posts)I used to decorate cakes - nothing so beautiful or elaborate - for my niece and nephew's birthdays. I had to learn basic cake decorating when I managed a Baskin Robins, while in college.
displacedvermoter
(3,031 posts)Gorgeous. Good luck in the competition.
Demovictory9
(33,757 posts)John1956PA
(3,374 posts)Glass mosaic lampshades are classics. You must own such a shade which inspired your beautiful decorated cake creation. Good luck in the competition!
58Sunliner
(4,981 posts)Permanut
(6,639 posts)lamp_shade
(15,092 posts)the quilts. I don't think I've ever seen one as beautiful as yours. Best of luck.
Biophilic
(4,740 posts)dobleremolque
(893 posts)judge at our state fair, says to tell you
Alpeduez21
(1,861 posts)anciano
(1,532 posts)Great work, best wishes.
likesmountains 52
(4,176 posts)catbyte
(35,772 posts)Something tells me I odn't need to wish you good luck but I am anyway.
Native
(6,561 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,993 posts)anything about the judging until I go pick the cakes up on Aug. 18.
Native
(6,561 posts)Native
(6,561 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,993 posts)Native
(6,561 posts)barbtries
(29,792 posts)beautiful.
ultralite001
(1,139 posts)I love hummingbirds...
Hope folks at the Fair love them, too!!!
Scrivener7
(52,745 posts)spockeye
(242 posts)sueh
(1,871 posts)Pisces
(5,827 posts)gademocrat7
(11,166 posts)Hope you win 1st place.
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,633 posts)You have amazing talent. Best of luck to you!
XanaDUer2
(13,872 posts)yardwork
(64,357 posts)3catwoman3
(25,441 posts)How long does that take you?
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sinkingfeeling
(52,993 posts)dai13sy
(478 posts)I love Hummingbirds and Dragonflies. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing
PikaBlue
(262 posts)Think. Again.
(17,983 posts)evolves
(5,593 posts)What talent!
Clouds Passing
(2,268 posts)kimbutgar
(23,280 posts)Great work!
AltairIV
(660 posts)An incredible piece of art. Wishing you the best on both cakes you submitted.
angrychair
(9,741 posts)Beautiful. Well done.
RainCaster
(11,545 posts)You'd get my vote, on looks alone.
patphil
(6,951 posts)I'm lucky if I get more frosting on the cake than I get on me.
iluvtennis
(20,864 posts)dawn5651
(653 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,457 posts)Paz.
LovelyStuff
(18 posts)I hope you win. Good luck!!
PatrickforB
(15,109 posts)That's just absolutely beautiful! Well done.
liberalla
(10,018 posts)Good luck to you!
calimary
(84,331 posts)That's not a cake. That's a sculpture! It's ART! WAY too beautiful to merely eat. That belongs in a well-known public garden or in an art exhibit! Or at least shown off in a high-end bakery or confectioners display. You could even have cards made with this on the front. After all, Christmas is coming. It'd make a great gift - either picture-postcards or the folding kind with envelopes. If I owned a bakery, that's what I'd do with it.
DAYUM!!! Absolutely exquisite! Glad you took photos!
MustLoveBeagles
(12,562 posts)Good luck
underpants
(186,650 posts)blm
(113,820 posts)Deep State Witch
(11,254 posts)Good luck!
riverkittenDem
(64 posts)AllaN01Bear
(23,047 posts)i give it 10
CommonHumanity
(286 posts)So beautiful. I hope you win! Even if you don't, many people will be in awe! What a work of art!
ZonkerHarris
(25,275 posts)Greybnk48
(10,395 posts)Good luck!
Bluethroughu
(5,779 posts)GoldenMezzoDiva
(105 posts)break a leg!!! 🇫🇷🎶🎡
radical noodle
(8,587 posts)You're very talented.
MLAA
(18,602 posts)Fingers crossed.
Figarosmom
(2,671 posts)On both.
Emile
(29,832 posts)AllyCat
(17,104 posts)You win in my book!
FireUpChips10
(23,987 posts)Seinan Sensei
(698 posts)summer_in_TX
(3,213 posts)I can't even imagine the skill that takes to create both of those designs.
wendyb-NC
(3,804 posts)You are doing a fine job on those cakes. It definitely fits the wedding anniversary category, like a glove. I hope you win 1st place.
The 1st cake is also lovely, it is very cartoon. Best wishes, let us know how it goes.
Ilsa
(62,239 posts)Congratulations! I hope there is a blue ribbon for you.
HeartsCanHope
(736 posts)Good luck to you! Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent with us.
applegrove
(123,129 posts)C Moon
(12,558 posts)33taw
(2,810 posts)anniebelle
(909 posts)It is a stunning work of art.
Kali999
(50 posts)Both of your cakes are great. Hope it's as fun to do as it looks. Best wishes for a ribbon.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,159 posts)For me, it shows simplicity in that the lines of the cake itself are clean, yet the design is so complicated and the glaze so perfectly imitates stained glass. It definitely deserves to win. Congratulations!
BlueTexasMan
(179 posts)That is mind blowing! What fun! Good luck in your contest. I always love checking out the vast displays of canning and crafts at our state fair here in Texas. I go every year. Happy cooking!
samnsara
(18,282 posts)Pepsidog
(6,311 posts)lark
(24,162 posts)If they taste as good as they look (a very high bar) you will do very well, I predict. Good luck to talented you!
mamacita75
(118 posts)that looks like stained glass in so creative!! It is beautiful. 1st Place Ribbon!
CrispyQ
(38,266 posts)electric_blue68
(18,013 posts)Love the colors, and the tricky detailed work of the humner and dragonflies!
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)Fiddlelady11
(40 posts)Best of show!
stollen
(538 posts)So artistic! Never have I ever!
Marthe48
(19,023 posts)It's art!
Both cakes are beautiful!