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
(48,523 posts)2naSalit
(99,525 posts)Nice work!
Siwsan
(27,793 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
(4,061 posts)Gorgeous. Good luck in the competition.
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)John1956PA
(4,693 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
(6,273 posts)Permanut
(7,911 posts)lamp_shade
(15,336 posts)the quilts. I don't think I've ever seen one as beautiful as yours. Best of luck.
Biophilic
(6,362 posts)dobleremolque
(1,092 posts)judge at our state fair, says to tell you
Alpeduez21
(2,002 posts)anciano
(2,122 posts)Great work, best wishes.
likesmountains 52
(4,248 posts)catbyte
(38,509 posts)Something tells me I odn't need to wish you good luck but I am anyway.
Native
(7,287 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,988 posts)anything about the judging until I go pick the cakes up on Aug. 18.
Native
(7,287 posts)Native
(7,287 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,988 posts)Native
(7,287 posts)barbtries
(31,058 posts)beautiful.
ultralite001
(2,353 posts)I love hummingbirds...
Hope folks at the Fair love them, too!!!
Scrivener7
(58,040 posts)spockeye
(242 posts)sueh
(1,932 posts)Pisces
(6,150 posts)gademocrat7
(11,777 posts)Hope you win 1st place.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,044 posts)You have amazing talent. Best of luck to you!
XanaDUer2
(15,769 posts)yardwork
(68,835 posts)3catwoman3
(28,428 posts)How long does that take you?
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sinkingfeeling
(56,988 posts)dai13sy
(570 posts)I love Hummingbirds and Dragonflies. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing
PikaBlue
(405 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)evolves
(5,718 posts)What talent!
Clouds Passing
(6,767 posts)kimbutgar
(26,637 posts)Great work!
AltairIV
(999 posts)An incredible piece of art. Wishing you the best on both cakes you submitted.
angrychair
(11,624 posts)Beautiful. Well done.
RainCaster
(13,359 posts)You'd get my vote, on looks alone.
patphil
(8,621 posts)I'm lucky if I get more frosting on the cake than I get on me.
iluvtennis
(21,441 posts)dawn5651
(742 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,470 posts)Paz.
LovelyStuff
(40 posts)I hope you win. Good luck!!
PatrickforB
(15,321 posts)That's just absolutely beautiful! Well done.
liberalla
(10,757 posts)Good luck to you!
calimary
(88,758 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
(14,362 posts)Good luck
underpants
(194,405 posts)blm
(114,405 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,512 posts)Good luck!
riverkittenDem
(64 posts)AllaN01Bear
(28,349 posts)i give it 10
CommonHumanity
(338 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
(10,655 posts)Good luck!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)GoldenMezzoDiva
(123 posts)break a leg!!! 🇫🇷🎶🎡
radical noodle
(10,459 posts)You're very talented.
MLAA
(19,647 posts)Fingers crossed.
Figarosmom
(9,489 posts)On both.
Emile
(40,110 posts)AllyCat
(18,443 posts)You win in my book!
FireUpChips10
(24,018 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,306 posts)summer_in_TX
(3,988 posts)I can't even imagine the skill that takes to create both of those designs.
wendyb-NC
(4,568 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
(63,737 posts)Congratulations! I hope there is a blue ribbon for you.
HeartsCanHope
(1,497 posts)Good luck to you! Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent with us.
applegrove
(129,798 posts)C Moon
(13,401 posts)33taw
(3,279 posts)anniebelle
(914 posts)It is a stunning work of art.
Kali999
(289 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
(2,258 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
(18,706 posts)Pepsidog
(6,353 posts)lark
(25,823 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
(40,570 posts)electric_blue68
(25,429 posts)Love the colors, and the tricky detailed work of the humner and dragonflies!
twodogsbarking
(17,357 posts)Fiddlelady11
(99 posts)Best of show!
stollen
(1,033 posts)So artistic! Never have I ever!
Marthe48
(22,573 posts)It's art!
Both cakes are beautiful!