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		<title>Water Polo Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made this cake for a pair of high school graduates who were both on the school&#8217;s water polo team.  They requested a water polo cake.
To start with, I made a simple 2-layer 12&#215;18 white cake with a strawberry flavored buttercream filling.  Then I cut out the middle of the top tier about 2/3 the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2010/06/water-polo-cake/</link>
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		<title>Fairy Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This cake was for a 5 year old girl&#8217;s birthday party.  The criteria given were: Fairy theme, pastel colors, sparkles, and feed 20 people.  Okay.
I bounced around quite a few ideas before I came up with the final design.  I was going to have two or three fairies having a tea party using vegetation as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2010/05/fairy-cake/</link>
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		<title>The Bunny Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My older brother called and asked if I could make a cake his girfriend&#8217;s birthday party.  One of her friends was going to celebrate a birthday around the same time.  One of the girls likes bunny rabbits and the other likes butterflies.  I don&#8217;t remember which one likes which.  But that&#8217;s okay.  Neither one is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2010/02/the-bunny-cake/</link>
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		<title>Snowmen celebrating New Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my New Year&#8217;s Eve party, I came up with an idea for a cake depicting snowmen celebrating the new year.  It&#8217;s a simple cake with the most complex part being a sled that a kid snowman (a snowkid?) was riding.
I put a tree in the background and the tree, along with the sled, was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2010/01/snowmen-celebrating-new-years/</link>
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		<title>Winged Running Shoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This cake was for a 13-year-old&#8217;s birthday party.  He is on his school&#8217;s cross country team and we decided it would be neat to create a cake to mimic the team&#8217;s logo.  To give you an idea, here is what the logo looks like:

The cake design was to be a sneaker with wings sitting atop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2009/12/winged-running-shoe/</link>
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		<title>Ambulance Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made this ambulance cake for a 7-year-old&#8217;s birthday party.  His parents volunteer with the local ambulance service.  This cake is based on an actual ambulance in the fleet.  I took some artistic license with the scale and some of the details.
To start, I made a base out of foam board.  A base made out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2009/12/ambulance-cake/</link>
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		<title>Baby Carriage Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This cake was for a baby shower.  It&#8217;s basically a 3-layer rectangular cake with a basket weave pattern around the sides&#8230; with a hood and some wheels.
A week earlier, I started on the hood.  A basketball worked for the form.  I wrapped it in plastic wrap, then some felt padding, then some more plasting wrap, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2009/11/baby-carriage-cake/</link>
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		<title>A1 Steak Sauce Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the birthday kid really likes A1 Steak Sauce.  I mentioned I could make that into a cake for his birthday.  He said that was a great idea.  So I did.
I started with a 12&#215;18 sheet cake and cut it in half length-wise.  Then I stacked the two pieces.  The actual bottle, laid down, is as tall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2009/10/a1-steak-sauce-cake/</link>
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		<title>Princess Castle Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made this cake for a friend&#8217;s 6-year-old daughter&#8217;s birthday.  My instructions were: Pink princess castle cake.
I had a general idea in mind, but the big problem was how to make the towers.  I&#8217;ve seen the Wilton castle kit and it would have made a nice cake.  But it just felt like cheating to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://x.tracyprobst.com/blog/2009/08/princess-castle-cake/</link>
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		<title>Softball Field Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This cake was made for my church&#8217;s softball team&#8217;s end of season picnic.  I had in mind to do a 14-inch square cake, but I don&#8217;t have any 14-inch square pans.  So I used 16-inch square pans instead.  After baking, the tops of the cakes were already pretty flat except for a bit of rounding [...]]]></description>
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