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
(47,295 posts)2naSalit
(97,410 posts)Nice work!
Siwsan
(27,631 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
(3,890 posts)Gorgeous. Good luck in the competition.
Demovictory9
(36,884 posts)John1956PA
(4,319 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
(5,905 posts)Permanut
(7,393 posts)lamp_shade
(15,258 posts)the quilts. I don't think I've ever seen one as beautiful as yours. Best of luck.
Biophilic
(5,912 posts)dobleremolque
(1,037 posts)judge at our state fair, says to tell you
Alpeduez21
(1,946 posts)anciano
(1,910 posts)Great work, best wishes.
likesmountains 52
(4,235 posts)catbyte
(37,416 posts)Something tells me I odn't need to wish you good luck but I am anyway.
Native
(7,200 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,008 posts)anything about the judging until I go pick the cakes up on Aug. 18.
Native
(7,200 posts)Native
(7,200 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,008 posts)Native
(7,200 posts)barbtries
(30,614 posts)beautiful.
ultralite001
(1,903 posts)I love hummingbirds...
Hope folks at the Fair love them, too!!!
Scrivener7
(56,541 posts)spockeye
(242 posts)sueh
(1,904 posts)Pisces
(6,072 posts)gademocrat7
(11,587 posts)Hope you win 1st place.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,376 posts)You have amazing talent. Best of luck to you!
XanaDUer2
(15,763 posts)yardwork
(67,343 posts)3catwoman3
(27,262 posts)How long does that take you?
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sinkingfeeling
(56,008 posts)dai13sy
(564 posts)I love Hummingbirds and Dragonflies. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing
PikaBlue
(361 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)evolves
(5,616 posts)What talent!
Clouds Passing
(5,430 posts)kimbutgar
(25,681 posts)Great work!
AltairIV
(911 posts)An incredible piece of art. Wishing you the best on both cakes you submitted.
angrychair
(10,921 posts)Beautiful. Well done.
RainCaster
(12,996 posts)You'd get my vote, on looks alone.
patphil
(8,112 posts)I'm lucky if I get more frosting on the cake than I get on me.
iluvtennis
(21,318 posts)dawn5651
(713 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,462 posts)

Paz.
LovelyStuff
(32 posts)I hope you win. Good luck!!
PatrickforB
(15,254 posts)That's just absolutely beautiful! Well done.
liberalla
(10,620 posts)Good luck to you!
calimary
(87,201 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
(13,504 posts)Good luck
underpants
(191,738 posts)
blm
(114,256 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,051 posts)Good luck!
riverkittenDem
(64 posts)AllaN01Bear
(26,709 posts)i give it 10
CommonHumanity
(308 posts)So beautiful. I hope you win! Even if you don't, many people will be in awe! What a work of art!
ZonkerHarris
(25,577 posts)Greybnk48
(10,578 posts)Good luck!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)GoldenMezzoDiva
(123 posts)break a leg!!! 🇫🇷🎶🎡
radical noodle
(10,305 posts)You're very talented.
MLAA
(19,367 posts)Fingers crossed.
Figarosmom
(7,268 posts)On both.
Emile
(36,182 posts)AllyCat
(18,094 posts)You win in my book!
FireUpChips10
(23,998 posts)
Seinan Sensei
(1,079 posts)summer_in_TX
(3,717 posts)I can't even imagine the skill that takes to create both of those designs.
wendyb-NC
(4,419 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
(63,064 posts)Congratulations! I hope there is a blue ribbon for you.
HeartsCanHope
(1,167 posts)Good luck to you! Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent with us.
applegrove
(127,110 posts)C Moon
(13,042 posts)33taw
(3,211 posts)anniebelle
(914 posts)It is a stunning work of art.
Kali999
(239 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
(2,221 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
(18,591 posts)Pepsidog
(6,340 posts)lark
(25,303 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
(169 posts)that looks like stained glass in so creative!! It is beautiful. 1st Place Ribbon!
CrispyQ
(40,032 posts)electric_blue68
(22,692 posts)Love the colors, and the tricky detailed work of the humner and dragonflies!
twodogsbarking
(14,655 posts)Fiddlelady11
(83 posts)Best of show!
stollen
(929 posts)So artistic! Never have I ever!
Marthe48
(21,379 posts)It's art!
Both cakes are beautiful!