My Entry for the Food Network Valentine Guru Cake Challenge

I am a huge fan of Ace of Cakes! So I had to give this a shot... I learned it all here on youtube!!!3 tier Fondant cake, gumpaste was used to decorate the cake. thanks laurapoopie for the 'brokenheart' idea... while we were bouncing off ideas, that got stuck in my head and I took off from there :)

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Howto & Style

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• fondant
• cake
• food network
• challenge
• mayen
• gumpaste
• decorating
• valentine
• heart
• figure

[MommyOf2Monsters20]

aww i live in maryland too and i was born in south baltimore, md i live in pasadena, md right now. im attampting my first big cake for my sons 5th birthday cake. he loves super mario for wii and im going to make a super mario galaxy cake mario VS bowser!! im so excited and iv been watching soo many videos on fondant i was told not to use gum paste for a clids bday party!! but i would love to see if u could help me with some mario cupcakes!!

[09165067633]

hi there. gumpaste will dry hard and will not be good to eat. if someone does, it wont be dangerous though bec it is still made from sugar anyway. what ideas did you have for your cupcakes?

[NATY2811]

THIS WAS A WHILE AGO BUT DID U WIN?

[09165067633]

NO :( you have to see the winning selection... and understand my heartbreak haha.

[RylanTy]

Mayen, how did you attach/stick the petals on fondant? I am going for a similar look on the cake I'll be doing. I'm just not sure if I should use royal icing or the tylose glue. What do you recommend?

[09165067633]

I used the tylose glue-- but if you have royal icing it may work better. the petals in this cake were already dry when i attached it so it was a challenge to attach it. maybe royal icing will have a better chance to attach dried petals

[ArtemisMoon12]

this is really cool!!!

[HenaJunaid]

I LOVE you cakes! im definitely going to try decorating like you do. this is awsome! Thank you

[eversoclear7]

I love love love your cake,espcially the cake message, its a beautiful cake and i hope you win!!!

[MommyOf2Monsters20]

for his cake im going to make a rectangle cake where mario will stand and and cresent moon shape stair going up to bowser hes on a round brick tower in the game so i was going to sit a 3 layer cake on a drum base and fondent it all to look like one big cake, every thing but bowsers tower is white n green checkerd! it the first time mario n bowser fight in the game!!

[miilly20x11]

aww.. your two little figures are sooooo cute :)

[Lilartcakes]

Mayan, I absolutely LOVE all your work... this is so beatifull!!