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
(48,932 posts)2naSalit
(101,307 posts)Nice work!
Siwsan
(27,827 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
(4,185 posts)Gorgeous. Good luck in the competition.
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)John1956PA
(4,897 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
(8,169 posts)lamp_shade
(15,417 posts)the quilts. I don't think I've ever seen one as beautiful as yours. Best of luck.
Biophilic
(6,482 posts)dobleremolque
(1,109 posts)judge at our state fair, says to tell you
Alpeduez21
(2,027 posts)anciano
(2,226 posts)Great work, best wishes.
likesmountains 52
(4,270 posts)catbyte
(38,891 posts)Something tells me I odn't need to wish you good luck but I am anyway.
Native
(7,333 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,528 posts)anything about the judging until I go pick the cakes up on Aug. 18.
Native
(7,333 posts)Native
(7,333 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,528 posts)Native
(7,333 posts)barbtries
(31,240 posts)beautiful.
ultralite001
(2,438 posts)I love hummingbirds...
Hope folks at the Fair love them, too!!!
Scrivener7
(58,938 posts)spockeye
(242 posts)sueh
(1,945 posts)Pisces
(6,186 posts)gademocrat7
(11,858 posts)Hope you win 1st place.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,331 posts)You have amazing talent. Best of luck to you!
XanaDUer2
(15,770 posts)yardwork
(69,124 posts)3catwoman3
(28,989 posts)How long does that take you?
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sinkingfeeling
(57,528 posts)dai13sy
(570 posts)I love Hummingbirds and Dragonflies. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing
PikaBlue
(479 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)evolves
(5,788 posts)What talent!
Clouds Passing
(7,592 posts)kimbutgar
(27,029 posts)Great work!
AltairIV
(1,018 posts)An incredible piece of art. Wishing you the best on both cakes you submitted.
angrychair
(11,946 posts)Beautiful. Well done.
RainCaster
(13,495 posts)You'd get my vote, on looks alone.
patphil
(8,860 posts)I'm lucky if I get more frosting on the cake than I get on me.
iluvtennis
(21,481 posts)dawn5651
(750 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,471 posts)Paz.
LovelyStuff
(44 posts)I hope you win. Good luck!!
PatrickforB
(15,387 posts)That's just absolutely beautiful! Well done.
liberalla
(10,956 posts)Good luck to you!
calimary
(89,375 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
(15,337 posts)Good luck
underpants
(195,683 posts)blm
(114,501 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,668 posts)Good luck!
riverkittenDem
(64 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,009 posts)i give it 10
CommonHumanity
(354 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
(10,700 posts)Good luck!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)GoldenMezzoDiva
(123 posts)break a leg!!! 🇫🇷🎶🎡
radical noodle
(10,516 posts)You're very talented.
MLAA
(19,694 posts)Fingers crossed.
Figarosmom
(10,731 posts)On both.
Emile
(41,543 posts)AllyCat
(18,677 posts)You win in my book!
FireUpChips10
(24,019 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,461 posts)summer_in_TX
(4,072 posts)I can't even imagine the skill that takes to create both of those designs.
wendyb-NC
(4,644 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
(64,078 posts)Congratulations! I hope there is a blue ribbon for you.
HeartsCanHope
(1,577 posts)Good luck to you! Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent with us.
applegrove
(131,227 posts)C Moon
(13,547 posts)33taw
(3,307 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
(2,270 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
(18,744 posts)Pepsidog
(6,357 posts)lark
(25,972 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
(173 posts)that looks like stained glass in so creative!! It is beautiful. 1st Place Ribbon!
CrispyQ
(40,837 posts)electric_blue68
(26,485 posts)Love the colors, and the tricky detailed work of the humner and dragonflies!
twodogsbarking
(18,063 posts)Fiddlelady11
(101 posts)Best of show!
stollen
(1,095 posts)So artistic! Never have I ever!
Marthe48
(22,891 posts)It's art!
Both cakes are beautiful!
