Artistic Cakes by Nicole

I've been decorating cakes for about 5 years now and decided to make a place to showcase all the different cakes and cupcakes I've made: this was the result... Top 10 finalist in Cupcake Heaven Magazine's Autumn Cupcake Challenge 2014.

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Unicorn cake. The cake is a chocolate cake with nutella buttercream and decorated with fondant.

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Dog 80th birthday cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream. The dog head is a separate cake as is the dog nose and stacked after decorating.

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Ladybird cake. The cake is a chocolate sponge with nutella buttercream and decorated in fondant.

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Minecraft cake. The cake is a chocolate sponge filled with nutella buttercream and decorated with fondant icing. The two minecraft creepers and TNT box is made from shortbread biscuits and covered in fondant icing. 

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Minecraft cake. The cake is a chocolate sponge filled with nutella buttercream and topped with fondant decorations. The 3D creeper figure is a shortbread biscuit wrapped in fondant and finished with edible pen ink. 

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Ork 40k warhammer cake. The cake is a vanilla rainbow sprinkle sponge filled with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam. It is covered in fondant icing with the ork logo breaking up the number 30. 

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Unicorn cake. The cake is a chocolate sponge filled with nutella buttercream and covered in bright pink fondant icing. The top of the cake has a unicorn with the name aria and the number 4 written in small yellow flowers. The cake is finished with pastel unicorn silhouettes ringing the side of the cake.  

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Forrest Gump box of chocolates cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge filled with raspberry jam and finished with fondant and thorntons chocolates. It was made to resemble a box of chocolates featuring the iconic phrase “life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.”

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Valentines cute cupcakes. The cakes are vanilla flavoured and topped with nutella so that it gives the appearance of the soil especially on the cakes topped with a rabbit peaking out or burrowing in. They are finished with fondant decorations. 

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Pokemon Cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge sandwiched with raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream. It is finished with a fondant icing pokeball and unknown pokemon to spell out the name “Kay.”

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Pride cupcakes. The cupcakes are red velvet flavoured topped with a chocolate Malteser buttercream and finished with a fondant topper. A variety of flags are represented: pansexual, lesbian, intersex, bisexual, gay, asexual, transgender and genderqueer. The last four are designed to celebrate pride month.

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Leaving cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge filled with raspberry jam and finished with fondant icing. The cake plays on the pun of I'll be seeing you by being bee themed and having the bee spelling.

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Halloween Witch Cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge filled with malteser teaser buttercream and decorated with hand sculpted fondant decorations. The cauldron is a vanilla cupcake topped with green glace icing to get a realistic dripping effect of it overflowing while the witch works. 

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Chocolate Box Cake. The cake is a dark chocolate cake layered with nutella and topped with roses chocolates. The cake is then decorated in fondant to resemble an open box.

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Monster Cupcakes. They are a nutella cupcake topped with nutella buttercream and finished with a hand designed fondant monster face. 

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Phlebotomy Cake. The cake is a vanilla sponge layered with raspberry jam and decorated in fondant icing to resemble the scrub top worn by the people that work in phlebotomy. Accessories around the cake are all associated with the job, such as the tourniquet, butterfly needle, plasters, and a long service award in the shape of a heart to represent Papworth hospital.    

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Garden Pond Cake. The cake is a vanilla and dark chocolate marble sponge filled with nutella buttercream. It is finished with hand shaped fondant decorations such as gnomes, frogs, hedgehogs and toadstools.