Gaby's Cakes
This gallery shows some examples of the cakes I've created using various decorating techniques.
Cirque du Soleil and Big Apple Circus
These are all
full sheet cakes (15" x 22") which I made for the
premiere parties for
Cirque du Soleil and Big Apple Circus. I made the images in
multiple pieces using
royal icing. After drying, the pieces were assembled to create a
3-D effect.
The designs were then placed on cakes iced in buttercream.
I made this "Dralion" cake for show's premiere party on October 11, 2000 at Tyson's Corner, Virginia. |
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Here's
the first cake I made for the Cirque. |
Cirque du Soleil's "Quidam" show at Tyson's Corner, Virginia in October 1998. |
Cirque du Soleil's "Mystère"
Halloween
party October 31, 2001 at |
The Cirque's "Varekai" show in Washington, D.C., October 2006. |
Cirque du Soleil's
"Corteo" in
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This angled photo of the "Corteo" cake |
This cake was created for the Big Apple Circus' "Jazzmatazz" premiere, September 1995 |
Big Apple Circus' "Medicine Show"z
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Big Apple's
20th Anniversary |
Big Apple's
"Happy On" premier, |
Cocoa Painting Portraits
These cakes were topped with pastillage plaques made from
sugar with portraits rendered in a technique known as cocoa painting.
The "paint" is made by mixing in varying amounts of cocoa into melted cocoa butter to
create different shades of brown.
This cake was created for a Presidents Day |
I made this cake for the National Capital Area Cake Show in March 2009 |
Display for the 1996 Washington area
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Northern Virginia
Therapeutic Riding Program's 30th
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This was a cake to serve 100 created for the dedication of Rosa Parks Elementary School, June 2007. |
Washington Post's Principal of the Year |
School Cakes & Miscellany
Henderson
Elementary School's 2011
Teacher Appreciation Week luncheon.
Henderson Elementary School's 2012 "School of Excellence" celebration event. |
This cake was for Henderson Elementary School's Teacher Appreciation Luncheon, May 2010. The ruler, apple, chalk, eraser and husky "magnet" were created in royal icing with food color paint and luster dust embellishments.
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Henderson Elementary School's |
20th Anniversary cake for Prince William County Schools Special Education Parent Resource Center, November 2012 |
Display for the 1997
International Cake
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Reindeer cupcakes I make every year for |
Baby shower cake for Emmy's teacher, Anamaria Wyatt in May, 2011. |
"Shaun the Sheep," Emmy's 6th Birthday cake |
Annual "Azalea Party" celebration. The bees were modeled with marzipan. |
A Jack-O-Lantern cake for a Hallowe'en party.
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The Carousel
This cake was created in the British "Nirvana" royal icing style for the 2003 "Baker's Dozen" calendar of cakes.
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Gabrielle Goggin
703-590-2966
email:
cakeartist@verizon.net