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
(46,964 posts)2naSalit
(97,191 posts)Nice work!
Siwsan
(27,610 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
(3,857 posts)Gorgeous. Good luck in the competition.
Demovictory9
(36,514 posts)John1956PA
(4,244 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
(5,830 posts)Permanut
(7,231 posts)lamp_shade
(15,234 posts)the quilts. I don't think I've ever seen one as beautiful as yours. Best of luck.
Biophilic
(5,817 posts)dobleremolque
(1,020 posts)judge at our state fair, says to tell you
Alpeduez21
(1,943 posts)anciano
(1,888 posts)Great work, best wishes.
likesmountains 52
(4,225 posts)catbyte
(37,207 posts)Something tells me I odn't need to wish you good luck but I am anyway.
Native
(7,174 posts)sinkingfeeling
(55,758 posts)anything about the judging until I go pick the cakes up on Aug. 18.
Native
(7,174 posts)Native
(7,174 posts)sinkingfeeling
(55,758 posts)Native
(7,174 posts)barbtries
(30,552 posts)beautiful.
ultralite001
(1,825 posts)I love hummingbirds...
Hope folks at the Fair love them, too!!!
Scrivener7
(56,199 posts)spockeye
(242 posts)sueh
(1,902 posts)Pisces
(6,045 posts)gademocrat7
(11,534 posts)Hope you win 1st place.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,228 posts)You have amazing talent. Best of luck to you!
XanaDUer2
(15,756 posts)yardwork
(67,007 posts)3catwoman3
(27,004 posts)How long does that take you?
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sinkingfeeling
(55,758 posts)dai13sy
(562 posts)I love Hummingbirds and Dragonflies. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing
PikaBlue
(347 posts)Think. Again.
(22,330 posts)evolves
(5,615 posts)What talent!
Clouds Passing
(5,314 posts)kimbutgar
(25,442 posts)Great work!
AltairIV
(890 posts)An incredible piece of art. Wishing you the best on both cakes you submitted.
angrychair
(10,796 posts)Beautiful. Well done.
RainCaster
(12,959 posts)You'd get my vote, on looks alone.
patphil
(8,038 posts)I'm lucky if I get more frosting on the cake than I get on me.
iluvtennis
(21,285 posts)dawn5651
(711 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,462 posts)

Paz.
LovelyStuff
(32 posts)I hope you win. Good luck!!
PatrickforB
(15,239 posts)That's just absolutely beautiful! Well done.
liberalla
(10,585 posts)Good luck to you!
calimary
(86,864 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
(13,420 posts)Good luck
underpants
(191,217 posts)
blm
(114,194 posts)Deep State Witch
(11,951 posts)Good luck!
riverkittenDem
(64 posts)AllaN01Bear
(26,003 posts)i give it 10
CommonHumanity
(304 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
(10,563 posts)Good luck!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)GoldenMezzoDiva
(123 posts)break a leg!!! 🇫🇷🎶🎡
radical noodle
(10,287 posts)You're very talented.
MLAA
(19,331 posts)Fingers crossed.
Figarosmom
(6,563 posts)On both.
Emile
(35,573 posts)AllyCat
(18,025 posts)You win in my book!
FireUpChips10
(23,996 posts)
Seinan Sensei
(1,036 posts)summer_in_TX
(3,645 posts)I can't even imagine the skill that takes to create both of those designs.
wendyb-NC
(4,368 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
(62,990 posts)Congratulations! I hope there is a blue ribbon for you.
HeartsCanHope
(1,096 posts)Good luck to you! Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent with us.
applegrove
(126,507 posts)C Moon
(12,969 posts)33taw
(3,195 posts)anniebelle
(914 posts)It is a stunning work of art.
Kali999
(207 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
(2,218 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
(18,561 posts)Pepsidog
(6,340 posts)lark
(25,162 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
(169 posts)that looks like stained glass in so creative!! It is beautiful. 1st Place Ribbon!
CrispyQ
(39,918 posts)electric_blue68
(22,101 posts)Love the colors, and the tricky detailed work of the humner and dragonflies!
twodogsbarking
(14,214 posts)Fiddlelady11
(75 posts)Best of show!
stollen
(861 posts)So artistic! Never have I ever!
Marthe48
(21,045 posts)It's art!
Both cakes are beautiful!