Gingerbread boathouse row

For the holiday season I created all of the houses on boathouse row out of gram crackers, candy and nuts. It was featured on row2k!  http://www.row2k.com/potd/12-20-2014/Gingerbread-Boathouse-Row/2706/#.Vi2YyLTtJUQ

Construction of FRA (#2 Kelly Drive):

Boathouse row surrounded by holiday desserts:

FRA Yule Log

For the Fairmount Rowing Association annual holiday party I made a Yule log.  It is chocolate roll cake with a whipped cream-cream cheese filling and a mocha frosting.   The mushrooms are made of meringues and the holy is decorative.

HOSR 2014

I created the HOSR logo based off of the Thomas Eakins "Pair-Oared Shell" painting on a 18x26" chocolate cake.  I added both the Fairmount Rowing Association and Wharton Crew logos on the cake.

Beef and Brew 2014

Cake for the Wharton Crew Team annual Beef and Brew party themed "Classic Hollywood" with red and gold decorations.

Navy Day 2014

For the Navy Day regatta, I made the ram logo from the victory mug onto a large chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. 

Pain in the neck

To celebrate Tom T's recovery from his neck injury, I made him a cupcake that says "No more pain in the neck Tom".  He had previously told me that he likes every cake except coconut -- so I played a prank on him and shaved white chocolate on the top but told him it was coconut!

Fish in the boat cake

Apparently a fish (claimed to be IDed as a shad) jumped into Tom's single one day while he was out on the water.  After providing evidence of a fish smudge and scale on the deck of the shell, I made a cake to commemorate the event.

The boat was made of chocolate melted onto parchment paper and shaped to resemble a shell.  The oars were pretzel rods with white chocolate melted to make the blades (blue food coloring was added to the lower half of the blade before piping it onto parchment paper).  The fish were Sweedish fish and the bow-ball was a white pearl candy.