Coolest Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

Other Cakes Submitted by Visitors During the Month of July, 2008

Click below to see cakes submitted by visitors during the months of July, 2008...

Coolest Sesame Street Cake 13 I made this Sesame Street cake for my son's first birthday. It is three tiers of 2 layer cakes, 2 vanilla and 1 chocolate. I used the pre-colored fondant ...

Coolest Tractor Cake 26 I made this tractor cake for a Father's Day celebration. We were on a farm in St. Paul, Oregon, so I thought it would be fitting to put a tractor on the ...

Coolest Jungle Cake 26 This jungle cake was for my daughter's second birthday The cakes are chocolate with chocolate butter cream. Then I used marshmallow fondant to cover each ...

Coolest Dirt Bike Cake 2 This Dirt Bike cake is a simple sheet cake. I used two boxes of cake mix, chocolate and vanilla. Colored my homemade buttercream icing green and tan and ...

Coolest Space Shuttle Cake 7 For my son's 9th birthday,I made him a Space Shuttle cake since he likes NASA and space exploration so much. I made the tip out of card stock paper that ...

Coolest Roller Coaster Cake 26 My granddaughter, Kayla, loves the Double Loop at Geuaga Lake in Ohio and she was so surprised with this roller coaster cake.

All of the little people ...

Coolest Father's Day Cake 5 I made this cake for my husband's 30th Birthday Party. I got the idea from a Father's Day cake I found in a recipe book. I took two sheet cakes and stacked ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 99 This Spongebob cake was easy and it was all edible. Spongebob was a single chunk of cake cut into a Spongebob shape and covered with rolled fondant sitting ...

Coolest Sword Cake 1 My nephew wanted a sword cake but when I went online to get ideas there weren't any sword cakes. So for those of you looking for ideas here's one.

I ...

Coolest Ben 10 Cake 1 I made this Ben 10 cake for my nephew's birthday as he is mad on Ben 10. I used a rectangular cake tin to make the sponge which had a buttercream filling ...

Coolest Axolotl Cake 1 Here's a cake I made for my friends birthday. More information and photos can be found on my blog here...

The cake was a 20cm round white chocolate ...

Coolest Guinea Pig Cake 1 I made this Guinea Pig cake for my one of my best friends birthday! We both work at a pet store and love animals but she is absolutely crazy about guinea ...

Coolest Aqua Teen Hunger Force Cake 1 My husband and I love Aqua Teen Hunger Force so for his 37th birthday I made them in their favorite place - Carls' pool and I took it from the robot from ...

Coolest Supergirl Cake 1 My little girl wanted Supergirl as the theme for her 6th birthday party. I searched far and wide only to find out that there are no Wilton molds. She ...

Coolest Teacher Appreciation Day Cake 1 I was asked to make the cake for our school's teacher appreciation day. The vanilla globe cake (using Wilton sports ball pan) sits on top of a 14" round ...

Coolest Pokemon Cake 17 My son wanted a Pokemon cake for his 7th birthday. I printed off a picture of the Pikachu trio and made a royal icing plaque.

To make the plaque, I ...

Coolest Guitar Cake 50 For my grandson's 11th birthday I decided to make a guitar cake as he is taking lessons and enjoys it so much. When he wasn't home I took a picture of ...

Coolest Tidmouth Sheds Cake 3 Here's a Tidmouth Sheds cake that I made for my 3yr old train lover. I am a total novice at fondant, but wanted to give it a go! It's inspired by Thomas ...

Coolest Treasure Chest Cake 34 For our Treasure Chest cake we started out with a cake baked in a small bread/loaf pan and cut it in half diagonally through the center from the top corner ...

Coolest Sponge Bob Cake 98 This Spongebob cake was made for my friend's son's birthday. This is quite an easy cake, I got the idea from my son's key chain.

Baked two rectangular ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 43 After looking fruitlessly at bakeries to find that special cake for my dino-loving soon-to-be 2 year old, I stumbled across this site. I decided to make ...

Construction Vehicle Cake 27 I made this construction vehicle cake for our son's second birthday. He loves everything to do with construction right now!

It was fairly simple ...

Pirates Cake 8 I made this Pirates cake for a friend. It was just a chocolate cake with milk chocolate icing and I drew the movie logo.

I think it turned out pretty ...

The Little Mermaid Cake 46 I used the Wilton Ariel pan for my Little Mermaid cake. it was my first attempt at using the star tip technique and I have to say it was very easy.

I ...

X Wing Cake 2 My dad and I made this X Wing cake for my little brother's seventh birthday as he is a massive Star Wars fan. We wanted to make one with its wings open ...

Army Tank Cake 41 This army tank cake was our son's 4th birthday as he wanted an army themed party. My husband baked 3 cakes and then layered and carved them with a knife ...

JoJo The Clown Cake 17 This Jo Jo the clown cake is my first attempt to a cake this size, mixing buttercream and fondant to finish. I was asked to create a birthday cake for ...

Train Cake 75 My son wanted a train cake for his fourth birthday and after looking everywhere I decide to just bake a rectangular shape cake and cut it in shapes that ...

Candle Cake 25 My youngest sister's birthday was coming up. I had gotten several Wilton cake decorating with fondant books. I decided to be brave and try to make one ...

Pregnant Belly Cake 13 This is the second pregnant belly cake I have made for someone. This one I used the Wilton Soccerball pan for the belly and the Pyrex ingredients bowl ...

Guitar Cake 49 I got the idea for this guitar cake after my son asked for a cake that looked like a "real" guitar. After looking for cake pans, I decided to look "real"...

Spongebob Cake 97 This Spongebob cake I made last year for my nephew, when he turned 5 years old. It is actually a recipe from Argentina, and is a very delicious cake.

A ...

Frog Cake 40 For our baby girl's first birthday we wanted to make a cake that she would be excited to see. She is in love with her stuffed froggy so on a whim we did ...

Coolest Princess and the Pea Cake 1 I made this Princess and the Pea cake for my daughter's first birthday party, last year. I used a boxed cake mix and baked it in a 1" cookie sheet pan....

Police Car Cake 4 I used the Wilton 3-d cruiser cake pan to make my police car cake. I frosted it all over with white crumb-coating icing and then went back and using a ...

The Incredibles Cake 7 My daughter wanted and Incredibles themed birthday. I thought the red was a little much, but she loved the Incredibles cake and could not figure out ...

Curious George Cake 34 My son, Aidan chose a Curious George theme for his third birthday. I found all of the supplies at the party store, but was stumped on how to make a Curious ...

Elmo Cake 50 My son was turning 2 and loves Elmo. I have never made a decorative cake before so I was nervous about making this Elmo cake!

My red frosting didn'...

Pirate Treasure Map Cake 3 My son was having a Pirates of the Caribbean birthday and wanted a cake to match. We like some of the pirate cakes and we liked the treasure map cakes,...

Coolest Monkey Birthday Cake 31 My daughter wanted a monkey birthday cake to go with her birthday party theme. We decided to do the monkey head only with luau flower on the monkey's ...

Race Track Cake 40 My Son loves Lightning McQueen and Mater and just had to have a "Race Track Cake"

I made the cake the easy way: I used 2 Duncan Heinz cakes. I used ...

Guitar Cake 48 This is a guitar cake I made for my daughter's 8th birthday. She, like every other 8 year old girl in the world, loves Hannah Montana. I searched the ...

Coolest Christmas Snow Cake 7 Snowmen and ice skating penguins! Such fun. This Christmas snow cake was for my sister in law's annual Christmas bash. It was huge(16x16) and weighed ...

Coolest Christmas Ornaments Cake 3 I love this cake! I made the Christmas ornament balls from rice krispie squares. I made all of the pine needles from gum paste, rolling it out very thinly ...

Spongebob Cake 96 One of my son's favorite shows is Spongebob. So of course out of the list of cakes to have, Spongebob cake is the one he chose for his 3rd birthday.

I ...

Coolest Eve from Wall E Cake 1 My niece is head over heels for Wall E and Eve from Disney's new movie. She turned 3 last weekend, so I decided to make a cake for her party.

Because ...

Fairy Cake 25 This fairy cake was made for my niece's first birthday party. Her mom(my sister in law) gave me a plate that she had picked for the party theme and I ...

Tractor Cake 25 I baked two loaf cakes, and bought some chocolate covered donuts in two sizes. I sawed off the tops of the loaves (the rounded parts) with a serrated knife,...

My Little Pony Cake 31 My daughters wanted My Little Pony cakes for their birthdays (plus one to bring to kindergarten) and I had neither a Wilton cake pan (live in Germany so ...

Diaper Cake 49 I looked online for a few days to try to get ideas on how to make a diaper cake. I found this site by browsing images. Then I compiled tips from various ...

Flower Cake 39 One of our friends is getting married this summer and I offered to do her bridal shower cake. I really liked the look of fondant flowers and wanted to ...

Ladybug Cake 58 A friend of mine asked me to make a ladybug cake for her daughter who was about to turn one. Her directions were simple, that the cake have a ladybug theme....

Skate Cake 2 I had the shoe cake pan from Wilton, used icing to decorate and donut holes for wheels.

I used a piece of thick poster board for the base of the skate ...

Butterfly Cake 47 I used a strawberry cake mix for this butterfly cake because I wanted the inside to be pink, in a 9 inch round cake pan. After cooling I put it in the ...

Castle Cake 173 Originally I was going make cupcakes with bows for my daughter's 5th birthday party. When I was searching around for cupcake ideas on the web she saw ...

Golf Cake 15 I made this Golf cake for my husband and his friends. They all have birthdays within a week of one another and all love golf.

I baked a double layer ...

Strawberry Shortcake 29 I made this Strawberry Shortcake for my daughter's 5th birthday - she fell in love with this cake after seeing pictures on this site.

I kept the cake ...

Golf Birthday Cake 14 I made this golf cake for a friend's party who loves golf.

Just a plain white cake with homemade butter icing cream.

Bee Cake 12 My daughter had a fascination with bees last year and I don't buy into the licensed character stuff so I thought a bee theme would be perfect for her 2nd ...

Jungle Cake 25 This Jungle cake was made for a friend's little girl who just loves all kinds of animals. I made the cake right from the invite, which happened to be a ...

Barbie Doll Cake 103 I used a box a Betty Crocker cake mix for this Barbie Doll Cake and made my homemade icing using 1 cup shortening, 1 stick of butter, 1/4 cup milk, ts ...

BBQ Cake 7 This BBQ cake is a three layer 9" layer cake. I used buttercream icing for the icing. The grate is make from gumpaste, charcoal are reshaped chocolate ...

Tractor Cake 24 My dad was a John Deere engineer for 30 years and my family has been delighted that my now two-year old son loves John Deere tractors. For my son's birthday,...

Dinosaur Cake 43 Given my son's love of dinosaurs I decided to attempt to create a stegosaurs birthday cake. I searched a lot of sites and found great ideas - especially ...

Shark Cake 14 This shark cake I made for son's 7th birthday party.He loves sharks and has read an awful lot about them.

The cake has been carved out of two 13x9 ...

Pokemon Cake 16 My son requested this Pokemon cake for his 10th birthday. It was all store bought ingredients. I found the picture that I was going to use and placed ...

Ocean Scene Cake 27 My son designed this ocean scene cake for his sixth birthday. He wanted coconut "Luau Huts" for five crabs (he has seen hermit crabs in the pet store ...

Cowboy Cake 2 This is the third cake I've done so I'm no master at it but it was a lot of fun making this cowboy cake. This cake was inspired for my son's 2nd birthday ...

Baby Cake 23 Well it all began by volunteering to make the baby cake to bring to my good friends baby shower. Its her second child and its a boy
this time (she already ...

Little Einstein Rocket Cake 10 My DD, Ava Marie wanted to have a Little Einstein's party for her 3rd Birthday. Since they are yet to make a "Rocket" cake pan, I got some ideas from ...

Piano Cake 6 This piano cake was made by me for a friend of my daughter in elementary school. This girl ended up getting a masters in piano. One of my favorites!

Very ...

Webkinz 2 I make Webkinz cake for triplets every year. This year it was Webkinz designs. I got pictures off the internet and cut them out and traced them on.

These ...

Teddy Bear Cake 24 I used the stand up bear for this teddy bear cake. I used a lot of coco to make the chocolate icing. I love butter cream icing. I used cinnamon hearts ...

Rock Climber Cake 3 Don't you hate it when someone's favorite flavor is German Chocolate? Probably the ugliest combination of frosting on cake that I've ever seen. Fortunately,...

Crayon Cake 11 I made this crayon cake for my daughter's Pre-K graduation. I used two boxed cake mixes and canned icing. I baked two rectangle sheet cakes the day before ...

Scooby Doo Cake 20 I hired a Scooby Doo tin and used two packets, one a butter cake and one chocolate cake and swirled them together. I used buttercream icing to ice the ...

Pirate Ship Cake 69 I made this pirate ship cake for my son's 4th Pirate Birthday Extravaganza. I spent a lot of time reading about the other pirate ships on this website....

Cat Cake 14 I had originally got this idea for a cat cake from this completely awesome website! I love it and I let my daughter pick from the cakes on here what she ...

Slumber Cake 13 I made this slumber cake for my daughter's 8th birthday, a sleepover party. I got the idea off this website and a few others doing a search for "slumber ...

Betty Boop Cake 2 I made this Betty Boop cake for a lady at work. This was for her daughter's birthday. Her daughter loves Betty Boop and she wanted a small cake to feed ...

High School Musical Cake 5 This is a High School Muscial cake I made for my son's 6th birthday. He loves High School Musical, strange for a little boy I know but what can i say!...

Little Pet Shop Toys Cake 6 This Little Pet Shop Toys cake was my daughters 7th birthday cake. I made this cake from two homemade pound cake recipes. I used real Pet Shop characters ...

Motorcycle 7 This motorcycle cake was made for a friend's husband, and we all know that a Harley is the only "true" bike.

The cake was a great yellow cake, baked ...

Phone Cake 3 My boss is always glued to her iphone, I really wanted to do something nice for her so I tried to recreate a phone cake.

I made a sheet, regular vanilla ...

R2D2 Cake 16 My son wanted a Star Wars party for his 5th birthday, and was requesting that I make an R2D2 cake. I Googled "R2D2 cake", and the search led me to this ...

Luau Cake 16 I bought a pineapple flavored cake for this Luau Cake. I baked two round cakes and layered it with frosting I added coconut extract to. I then cut a small ...

Jack Skellington Cake 6 I started this Jack Skellington cake by making one 1/4 sheet vanilla and 1/4 chocolate and iced them together with buttercream icing to make a flat surface....

Elmo Cake 48 This was the cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday party. She was very into Elmo and I was nervous about making the Elmo cake because I am not great at using ...

Baby Bear Cake 4 I made this baby bear cake for a co workers surprise baby shower. She didn't know if she was having a boy or girl so I used green and yellow.

I used ...

Dora Cake 59 This is my first attempt at making and decorating a cake. I made this Dora cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday party.It took about 4 hours to decorate ...

Darth Vader 12 For my nephew's seventh birthday both cakes were done using the image transfer method. I just printed out a picture of Darth Vader that I liked online ...

Fishing Cake 2 My boyfriend's favorite summer activity is fishing. I resembled the pond where he fishes at. I made two cakes to make it one big cake.

The first cake ...

Sandwich Cake 4 I made this sandwich cake for my husband's birthday. He is a huge fan of the sandwich, but likes it with three slices of bread, hence "triple decker".

I ...

Skull Cake 8 I made this skull cake for my boyfriend's 21st birthday. He is really into skulls and has a dark sense of humor. Inside the cake is one box of fun-fetti ...

Train Cake 73 I made this train cake for my son's second birthday. Thanks to this website I gathered up many ideas on making this cake. It was a huge hit and everyone ...

Tinkerbell Cake 19 My daughter's favorite colors are light blue and purple. When I realized that was the colors of her favorite Tinkerbell backpack I ran with the idea to ...

Shoes Cake 25 My client's friend is a long distance runner so I suggested a pair of sneakers. For each sneaker, I stacked two 11x7 chocolate layers, filled with raspberry ...

Hamburger Cake 48 For this hamburger cake we just used two yellow 9'' round cakes and one more out of devil's food cake. We frosted the bottom "bun" with frosting that we ...

Swimming Pool Cake 22 My mom and I made this swimming pool cake for a "double birthday bash" for my two little boys. We used an 11 x 15 pan for the base, iced it with white ...

Guitar Cake 45 My husband loves the video game Rock Band for his PlayStation 3. His friends were coming to visit from out of state for his birthday, and we decided to ...

Volcano Cake 17 My son wanted a dinosaur and volcano cake for his third birthday. The base is a rectangular cake iced with brown icing that had cookies broken up in it ...

Madagascar Cake 7 My four year old girl had been watching repeatedly the Madagascar DVD a few weeks before her birthday and so no doubt she said she wanted a Madagascar ...

Diaper Cake 47 For my friend's baby shower I made this diaper cake because I thought it would be cheaper than purchasing one pre-made. I started with 72 size one diapers ...

Skull and Crossbones Cake 7 This Skull cake is a great cake for any Pirate fan. This was my five year old son's choice of cake this year. Nice easy design and only two colors of icing....

Strawberry Cake 13 This Strawberry cake was made for my new sister in law to be who is marrying into the Berry family. To bake the strawberry shape I used a heart shaped ...

Baseball Cap 5 My friend Julie and I made this hat cake for our supervisor who adores the Red Sox. The base is a 10" square iced and covered in white fondant. The hat ...

Diaper Cake 45 I was supposed to make a real edible cake for a baby shower so I was searching to get ideas. Somehow I ended up on this site. Well I never got to do the ...

Pirate Ship Cake 67 Using my son's Playmobile pirate ship as a model I made this pirate ship cake for my son's fourth birthday. The cake was made from a boxed mix enough ...

Slinky Cake 1 My husband collects slinkies so this was the perfect cake for him. But it'd also be good with some "retro" toys around it for someone born during its ...

Shamu Cake 8 My niece wanted a Shamu cake for her birthday. I mentioned this to someone I know who told me that her friend made a killer whale cake for her sons' birthdays ...

Cocoa Potato Cakes 1 I had some free time one day and decided to try out a recipe that had been lying around the house.

The cake batter (vanilla egg-white-based) is squeezed ...

Spongebob Birthday Cake 91 This Spongebob birthday cake was really simple to make. I baked an 8x8 cake and then drew Spongebob's face, shirt and tie, pants and belt with a toothpick ...

Belle Cake 7 This Belle cake was made using the Wilton's wonder mold pan. Because I used an actual Belle Barbie, I also had to put a 8 inch cake under the wonder mold ...

Elmo Cake 47 Here's my attempt at a 3D Elmo Cake.

Body: I used the Wilton 3D teddy bear cake mold. I shaved off the ears and muzzle. Carved out a mouth where black ...

Circuit Board Birthday Cake 4 I was inspired by the circuit board designs on this site, and made this cake for my fiance's birthday. He builds high-end audio as a hobby, and I based ...

Giraffe Birthday Cake 10 This is my son’s first birthday cake. I was inspired by one of his cute bibs (as seen in the photo) and made a template for the cake by enlarging the picture ...

Easy Butterfly Cake 44 I made this butterfly cake for my daughter's first birthday. It was super easy! It is a caramel mud cake with caramel icing and pink butter-cream decorations....

Camping Cake 7 I used fondant for the people on this camping cake. I melted chocolate for the tent and for the grass I used #233 icing tip and also #67 icing tip. I got ...

Disney Castle Cake 169 I had an "Everything Disney" party for my daughter's fifth birthday party. Kids came dressed up as any Disney character they like! We had Nemo, Snow White,...

Pink Race Car Cake 27 I was helping host a baby shower for a friend at work who loves Nascar and had to come up with a cool idea for a race car theme for a baby GIRL! I came ...

Fairy Cake 24 My daughter loves fairies, so for her 3rd birthday - a fairy cake it was! This was a double layer cake with vanilla cake on the bottom (with red food ...

Finding Nemo Cake 54 This Nemo cake was for my son's 2nd birthday. My son loves Nemo, so my sister and I decide to make this Nemo cake for him. We decorated the top of the ...

Hannah Montana Guitar Cake 44 I made this guitar cake for our neighbor's 7 year old daughter (my 5 year old's best friend). I researched so many cakes and Hannah Montana products until ...

Jack Skellington Cake 5 For this Jack Skellington cake I took a Barbie castle cake from Wilton and painted it black and silver. I was trying to get a haunted house effect. My ...

Frog Cake 39 The frog cake is a lemon Madeira cake using a six egg recipe. The head is a 0.5 liter Pyrex bowl, the body is a 2 liter Pyrex bowl - half fill the 0.5 ...

Elmo Alphabet Cake 46 Like most 2 year old's, my son is an Elmo fanatic. So what else could I do for his birthday but to make an Elmo's Alphabet Cake? I got the idea for this ...

Tri Tip Dinosaur Cake 42 This dinosaur cake was done for my son on his third birthday, I did this completely by hand, I used the fondant, for the the bone structure, painting it ...

Pokemon Ball Cake 15 Well I tried to make a ball cake, that didn't work, it broke, so I had to make two cakes, half balls. I iced each cake with homemade buttercream icing,...

Dorothy the Dinosaur Cake 7 I make character birthday cakes for children's birthday parties and someone asked for a Dorothy the Dino and, well, this is what I came up with.

The ...

Princess Castle Cake 167 For this princess castle cake I made three strawberry cakes the night before and froze them. This made it so much easier to move, cut, and ice. I used ...

Monkey Cake 29 I was desperately trying to find a cute but age-appropriate cake for a 37-year-old. My husband's nickname is "Monkey Boy" so I thought it would be funny ...

Tow Mater Cake 13 This was my first attempt to carve a Tow Mater cake from scratch without molds. I used some of the ideas from others on this page. I used a 12x18 sheet ...

Princess Barbie Cake 101 This birthday cake was a challenge for me, as I don't often bake and I am definitely not a 'cake decorator'! I wanted to do this princess cake for my ...

Mario Brothers Cake 11 My friend Will is an avid video gamer, so I made this cake for his birthday. I made vanilla cake and used food coloring to tint some of it blue. I then ...

R2D2 Cake 15 I made this for the 30th birthday party of three boys who never grew up and they all absolutely loved it!

I baked five sponge cakes in Victoria Sandwich ...

Football Cake 32 I decided to go with the first birthday "Little Quarterback" birthday theme from Party Express for my son's first birthday in the Fall. The colors of ...

Transformers Cake 11 My son's party was at the zoo, but he LOVED the Transformers... so I let him have his Optimus Prime cake rather than a zoo themed cake.

I used an old ...

Graduation Cake 14 This is the cake I made for my daughter's preschool graduation. I got the ideas from this website. It is a 9 inch cake made from cake mix.

I made the ...

Girly Ladybug Cake 56 My daughter's second birthday party had a ladybug theme but since she is a little girl, we didn't want it to be red & black so we used greens & pinks and ...

Disney Princesses Castle Cake 166 For my daughter's 4th birthday, she wanted a princess cake. I decided to attempt a castle for the princesses. Before making it, I did a google image search ...

Easter Bunny Basket Cake 8 The Easter basket cake was made from a white cake mix that I extended with extra flour, sugar, sour cream, etc. It was baked in two 9" round pans. The ...

Slumber Party Cake 12 My niece, Jordin, wanted a slumber party cake for her birthday, so I came up with this.

The bed, tv and nightstand are all made of rice krispie treats ...

Surfing Cake 5 This was a cake I did for my son Max's 7th birthday. The large wave is actually styrofoam covered in frosting, as there was no way I could get cake to ...

Horse Cake 37 I made this horse cake for my niece's 1st birthday. I downloaded the rocking horse picture from Wilton's website and cut the shape on a polystyrene sheet....

Fish and Ocean Cake 24 For this Ocean cake, I started with a Costco cake with simple blue and white border, but I wanted blue frosting. Wilton's makes a food coloring spray in ...

Wrestling Ring Cake 5 To create this wrestling ring cake, I made a 4 layer cake, with a pineapple cream cheese and custard mixture in-between each layer. I used buttercream ...

Dora Cake 56 I made this Dora cake for my stepdaughter's birthday. It was a last minute decision to have a little party for her and she loves Dora so I figured I would ...

Frog Cake on Giant Cookie 38 I made this frog cake from Wilton's Teddy Bear cake pan. We were having a Webkinz party and I was making it to look like the Birthday girl's favorite Webkinz....

John Deere Tractor Cake 23 I made this for my son's 4th birthday. The detail on the tractor cake was done with colored chocolate (white and milk chocolate). For the hay bales I ...

Pot Plant Cake 7 My dad is an avid gardener, so I made him a pot plant cake. I used new terracotta pots from the garden center. I washed them well and then dried them ...

Mickey Mouse Train Cake 71 My son couldn't decide between a Mickey Mouse cake and a train cake, so I decided to combine them. This site was a huge help.

I bought 3 frozen pound ...

Tweety Cake 5 I made this cake for my graduation. It was a 4kg marble cake. I drew Tweety on grease proof paper, then used a toothpick to draw Tweety on the cake.

Divorce Cake 1 I had this idea from the famous Shanna Moaker divorce cake but specific to my friend's ex-husband, who was a musician. I was bringing it to a restaurant ...

3D Nemo Birthday Cake 52 This was my first attempt at a 3D cake, and my first attempt in working with Marshmallow fondant.

I was inspired by the cakes I saw on this site, and ...

Princess Castle Cake 165 My great niece wanted a cake with "all the princesses", so a castle was the logical solution. I got the Polly Pocket decorations on eBay.

This cake ...

Thomas the Train Cake 77 This is the train I made for a co-worker's son's 2nd birthday. For the face I used rolled fondant. I used small balls of fondant under his nose and cheeks....

Hello Kitty Cake 44 I baked this Hello Kitty cake for my next door neighbor. For the frosting I used the buttercream recipe and tips #16 and 18.

It was fun to decorate ...

Cranky the Crane Cake 1 For this Cranky the Crane cake (from Thomas the Train...), you'll need:

*Three cake mixes (I used chocolate)
*One square cake tin (20cm x 20cm) and ...

Pick Up Truck Cake 9 I used a 9 x 11 pan to make the pickup truck cake. The wheels are chocolate frosted doughnuts! The headlights are a type toddler cookie and the "dirt" in ...

Speed Race Car 26 For this race car cake, use a 9"x13" pan, cut 2 "V" shapes in the front, cut a square half way through the cake for the seats.

(If I did this cake ...

Corona Bottle Cake 18 A friend needed a cake for her brother's 30th birthday. She wanted a corona bottle. We made the bottle separate from cake. It is the exact size of the ...

Princess Castle Cake 163 This princess cake was for my daughter's 5th birthday. I found the idea for this cake on this website, and then added a few things of my own.

I started ...

Strawberry Shortcake Hat Cake 7 This Strawberry Shortcake Hat cake was very easy to make. I used a half a sports ball pan and a round cake pan. Then I put them together and iced them....

Owl Cake 5 A friend asked me to make a cake for his mother's birthday. He told me she loved owls and had 3 grandchildren. So I started looking for ideas and found ...

Motorcycle Cake 6 I made this Motorcycle cake a while back for a bride looking to surprise her groom with a replica of his motorcycle. It serves 50+.

First, my husband ...

Pokeball Pokemon Cake 14 I used the Wilton ball cake pan to create the ball shape of this Pokeball cake. I then used tip 16 to star the top and bottom portion of the ball. I ...

Golf Ball Cake 13 I made this Golf Ball cake for my golf enthusiast husband's birthday.

I used the Wilton sports ball pan and a 10x10 square pan. I used white cake mixes ...

Rattle Snake Cake 21 I made this Rattle Snake Cake for my nephew who was bitten by a rattle snake in 2006. It was a HUGE hit!

I made a white cake (from a box)in a bundt ...

Texas Holdem Cake 11 I made this cake for my husband's surprise 25th birthday. he loves poker, especially Texas Holdem.

I made a chocolate pound cake, and a vanilla pound ...

Abby Cadabby Sesame Street Cake 1 Here's my attempt at making Sesame Streets newest edition Abby Cadabby. It's 3D and everything you see is edible.

All together I used 2 cake mixes....

Burmese Python Snake Cake 22 I looked all over for a snake cake idea for my son's 7th birthday. Then I found this site and was rewarded with SO many cool ideas that inspiration hit ...

Tinkerbell Cake 18 I made this cake for my daughter's 6th Birthday. I baked the mushroom cap in a pyrex 2 quart bowl about 3 cups of cake mix and baked for about 45 min....

Corn Hole Birthday Cake I made an 11x15 cake and then cut it in half to make 2 rectangles. To make it look more like a corn hole board I angled the tops of the cakes. I then ...

Little Einsteins Rocket Cake 8 My son is really into The Little Einsteins, so for his birthday my wife decided to have that as the theme. She bought all the party favors then looked ...

My First Barbie Cake Well, after making a couple of these cakes now, this was the first attempt at it that I ever had done. I ordered from the Pampered Chef, the standard glass ...

Dorothy the Dinosaur Cake 6 I made a Dorothy the Dinosaur cake for my little girl's 2nd birthday. It was my first time making a cake like this. It turned out fantastic and was really ...

Skatepark Birthday Cake 10 This cake was for my son Loki's 6th Birthday at the skatepark. He is into skateboarding so I figured a skatepark cake would be awesome for him.

I started ...

Cat Cake 13 My daughter loves Kittens and cakes. I got the idea for this cake from a children’s cake book. It was relatively easy.

I made the cake from two 1 liter ...

Chocolate Cabin Cake 11 I used chocolate icing, coconut sprinkles, Cadbury flakes, malt sticks and a double square sponge cake. I cut one sponge in half and then set aside with ...

Wolf Cake 3 I made this Wolf cake for the end of the year party for Wolf Cub Scouts. I used the Wilton animal crackers pan and cut the ears off then moved the higher ...

Coolest Creek Cake 4 I found this picture in a State Park coloring book we got while camping at our local state park.

Traced the picture and filled with icing. I used ...

Coolest Baseball Cake 40 I made this baseball cake for my son's baseball team end of the year party. The base ball is a pile of icing!

The boys and parents were fighting ...

Coolest Dora Cake 61 My daughter is a huge Dora the Explorer fan. For her 2nd birthday I knew we would have a Dora theme and a Dora Cake. I went to several grocery stores ...

Coolest Dinner Plate Cake 3 This dinner plate cake was made as a birthday cake for someone who loves pie and chips. She has it most nights (and is still as thin as a rake!).

This ...

Coolest Scooby Doo Cake 21 My granddaughter, Kayla, loves the Double Loop at Geuaga Lake in Ohio and she was so surprised with this roller coaster cake.

All of the little people ...

Coolest Hat Cake 6 For my daughter's 9th birthday, we had a tea party with her friends and their mothers. I made her a hat cake.

I used scalloped butter cookies dipped ...

Coolest Jungle Cake 27 This Jungle cake was my first attempt at sculpting anything. I am taking a class and this was my final project. There are two versions so you can see how ...

Coolest Spiderman Cake 52 My four year old birthday boy described to me the Spiderman cake of his dreams. He wanted a "big, big, big building with Spiderman on top, spiderwebs,...

Coolest Thomas the Train Cake 82 I had made a Thomas the Train cake before but my friend wanted a Thomas cake. I made this from 6 mini loaf pans. Cut the one loaf in half to make Thomas ...

Coolest XBOX Cake 11 I made this XBox cake for my, at the time, boyfriend. He really liked playing video games, and he's favorite console was the XBOX 360 so I decided to bake ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 32 I made this monkey cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I used two 8" round pans, stacked them up and cut the shape out. I got the idea from the plates ...

Coolest Lion Cake 17 I made this lion cake for my 2nd son’s 1st birthday. It was inspired by the Martha Stewart “monkey cake” that was featured on her television show a few ...

Coolest Barbie Cake 107 I created this Barbie Doll cake for my friend's birthday party. Knowing that it was a large event and that I had only made one Barbie cake previously, (the ...

Coolest Castle Cake 174 For my daughter's 6th birthday I got adventurous and decided to do a 2 tiered cake. The base of the cake is a 12 x 18 sheet cake pan, it took 3 box cake ...

Coolest Barbie Cake 108 My daughter wanted an island princess party for her 5th birthday and I wanted to make her a special Barbie cake that reflects who she is instead of a ...

Coolest Mermaid Cake 47 I have never done anything like this before, but it turned out great! I found the instructions on this website for a Little Mermaid cake, along with a ...

Coolest Swimming Pool Cake 24 We just got a swimming pool, so I decided to try the jello pool cake for a 12th birthday party. This swimming pool cake was a huge hit! This is the first ...

Coolest Spiderman Cake 51 I know that there are a lot of similar cakes on here, but I was proud of how this Spiderman cake turned out so I'm submitting it anyway.

I used the ...

Coolest Surfboard Cake 7 I had a Surf's Up themed joint birthday party for my son's first birthday and my dad's 49th birthday since their birthdays are only one day apart.

I ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 60 I used the buttercream transfer idea from Kellie A. on this website (Toy Story Cake)for this Finding Nemo Cake.

I made the Finding Nemo characters ...

Coolest Hi Ho Cherry O Cake 1 My son loves playing the game Hi Ho! Cherry-O so that was the inspiration behind this cake.

I started by baking a 2 layer 12" square cake and iced ...

Coolest Fish Bowl Cake 9 I saw this Fish bowl cake on this site and loved it so much I changed my sons theme from race cars to Under the Sea.

I used boxed cake mixes and canned ...

Coolest Swimming Pool Cake 23 My niece was having a pool party for her sixth birthday and she had two specific requirements: purple and chocolate. I've seen the jello pool cake (http:...

Finding Nemo Cake 58 My daughter Imogen, is in love with Nemo so I decided to have a go at making her a cake with her favorite fish! I made a chocolate cake in a 30cm round ...

Coolest Crocodile Birthday Cake 39 I made this crocodile birthday cake for my son who requested (when asked) a crocodile cake for his third birthday.

I baked a rectangular chocolate pound ...

Coolest Wiggles Big Red Car Cake 27 I got the design for my Wiggles Big Red Car cake from the other wonderful cakes on this site. I used the standard star tip technique, which is no-where ...

Panda Bear Cake 6 This Panda bear cake was made for a little girl's birthday party. She really likes Kung Fu Panda so her parents decided give her a Kung Fu Panda themed ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 59 For my Finding Nemo cake I used a basic 9x13 cake and put it on a foiled board. I dyed white (store bought frosting) with food color to a light blue and ...

Butterfly Cake 48 My dad and I made this butterfly cake for my mum's birthday as she likes butterflies. We made it using two square cake tins. We then cut around wing ...

Baby Bear Cake 5 I used the Wilton Mini stand-up bear pan for these little baby bear cake. I recommend filling it up slightly below where their tummy ends so when it raises ...

Luau Cake 17 I made this Luau cake for my daughter's second birthday - a Luau Party. A large rectangular cake ( I used Funfetti) and large cupcake, top cut off to ...

Monkey Cake 30 I made this monkey cake for our daughter's 6th birthday. We had a monkey party. I got the idea from Martha.

I baked the cake in a bowl and the ears ...

Cow Cake 11 I made this cow cake for our daughter's 5th birthday. We had a barnyard theme. I got the idea for the cake from familyfun.com.

I used a one 8" round ...

Ocean Cake 28 I made a buttercream frosting and tinted it different color blues. Then I frosted the ocean cake first with one color, then another and swirled them together....

Jasmine Cake 5 I am proud of this Jasmine cake because I can not draw on paper. Give me a piping bag and apparently I can draw.

Anyhow I made two 9x13 inch cakes ...

Thomas the Train Cake 81 I used 2 Twinkies for this Thomas the Train cake, one for the train and one for the car. I covered it up with fondant and painted it with blue icing dye ...

Coolest Race Track Cake 41 I made this race track cake for my boys' 2nd and 3rd birthday. They are both July babies and each car's number was for the day in July they were born.

I ...

Construction Scene Cake 33 This construction scene cake was done for my son's 1st birthday. It was very easy. I just made a sheet cake and iced it brown. It has been awhile but ...

Coolest Fire Engine Cake 28 I made this fire engine cake for my son's 3rd birthday. I used 2 loaf pans for the fire engine and cake that is holding the candle. I cut one of the loaf ...

Volcano Cake 18 This was a Volcano cake for my son's 4th birthday. He was so excited about his dino cake. I made the base of the cake out of an 11x15x2 cake pan which ...

Barbie Doll Cake 106 This is my second attempt at a Barbie Doll cake. It was for my friends twenty-fifth birthday party. My friend and I made it for her.

I already had ...

Barbie Cake 105 This Barbie cake was made for my seven year old niece. My sister-in-law made it for her and it was our first attempt. It turned out so good we had to ...

Coolest Train Cake 76 My son wanted a train cake for his 4th birthday. I have a mini loaf pan that is similar to a cupcake pan because it makes 8 cakes at a time. I baked ...

Fire Truck Cake 27 My son insisted on a fire truck cake for his 3rd birthday. I found some ideas here, then figured out how to do it myself.

I used one box of chocolate ...

Thomas the Train Cake 82 I made this Thomas the Train cake for my sons 4th Birthday, he is a huge Thomas the Train fan. I made 3 different flavor cakes, I let him pick the flavors,...

Clifford the Dog Cake 12 I made this Clifford the Dog cake for a friend's daughter's 3rd birthday. The little girl loved it! It was fairly simple to make. I baked the cake in the ...

Coolest Pirate Ship Cake 71 This is a Pirate Ship Cake for my son's 4th birthday. It was made of a round cake cut in half. The cannons were Rolos, and I also put the candles by ...

Thomas the Train Cake 80 I made Thomas the Train cake for my son's 2nd birthday. I baked everything the day before, mixed icing colors that night and iced/decorated the day of ...

Treasure Island Scene Cake 26 The party theme was pirates, but I couldn't find any cool decorations so I decided to use my son's Playmobil pirate toys and just make the Treasure Island ...

Space Shuttle Cake 6 My son wanted a space shuttle cake for his 4th birthday party, so I did some research on-line and combined a few ideas to make this cake.

I took a ...

Cars Cake 42 This Crs cake was made using the Wilton Car's pan and 2 10" round Wilton cake pans. I had taken the basic Wilton cake decorating class and decided that ...

Graduation Cake 16 To start out with this graduation cake, I made one 10" round cake and one cake in the wonder mold cake pan. After the cakes were cooled, I placed the round ...

Elephant Cake 7 To make this 3D elephant cake, I used the Wilton 3D bear cake pan. After the cake was cooled, I cut off the bear ears. Then I iced the cake smooth with ...

Coolest Race Car Cake 29 My son is obsessed with NASCAR, and in particular, Jeff Gordon. I took the Wilton cake pan that looks like a VW bug and baked my race car cake in it.

After ...

Baby Cupcakes 6 I made these just using a box cake in regular cupcake pans. To decorate I used melting chocolate in yellow and peach color and regular milk chocolate....

Dinner Plate Cake 2 I made this dinner cake for my family's Christmas dinner. It is completely edible. I thought the melted butter looks the most real. My sister in law ...

Golf Cake 16 For my brother in-laws 30th birthday we decided to re-create the 3rd hole from a famous golf course.

So for the golf cake we used fondant for the fairway ...

Coolest Paintball Field Cake 1 My two sons and husband have been involved in paintball for almost 3 years now. I looked and searched for ideas for a paintball field cake but really ...

Coolest Barnyard Cake 28 My daughter loves horses and wanted her barnyard cake to look like a horse ranch. I just started making cakes for a hobby and thought I could do that.

My ...

Power Rangers Cake 16 This was an easy Power Rangers cake to make: just did a double-layer round cake with icing between layers for flavor and decorated cake to look like a ...

Shrek Cake My step-daughter Lacie asked for a Shrek cake for her birthday. I got the general idea for the face from the napkins,plates, and cups I had purchased for ...

Little Mermaid Cake 45 This Little Mermaid cake was specially made for Alecx, my great niece. It was a beautiful one. It was a vanilla and chocolate swirl cake with strawberry ...

Ninja Turtle Cake 15 I made a double-layer 11x15 cake and iced it with home-made buttercream icing for this Ninja Turtle Cake. Between the layers I iced with the bright Ninja ...

Turtle Cake 16 I made this turtle cake for a lady's birthday who loves turtles. It really is pretty easy to make. First, I baked and stacked 3 round cakes and then ...

Cars Cake 39 My son loves the Cars Movie and asked for a McQueen Cars cake. I searched the flat pans and didn't like what I saw. So, I bought the Wilton's Cruiser ...

R2-D2 Cake 17 We wanted to make an R2-D2 cake, but we didn't want it to be huge, but it still had to look good. So we used two 9x13 pans, and one round Cake pan.

The ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake 6 I made The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my grandson's 1st birthday. He has loved the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle since he was ...

Coolest Curious George Cake 35 My daughter celebrated her 3rd birthday on the 4th of July. Her favorite character is Curious George. When I checked out the local stores for a Curious ...

Spongebob Cake 95 I used a box cake mix for this Spongebob cake. I used white but you can use any flavor you want. It took me awhile to perfect the coloring. That was the ...

Princess Barbie Cake 104 I made this princess Barbie cake for my daughter's 4th birthday party. I used some ideas from this website and some tips I learned in the Wilton books....

Coolest Racecar Cake 30 This race car cake was made from Fondant.

Racecar Cake 28 This race car cake is the first time I hand-carved a cake.

Guitar Cake 47 Since my 2 year old is mad about playing the guitar, I decided to make that theme for his birthday party.

I used the Wilton guitar cake pan and then ...

Surfing Cake 6 This surfing cake was a neighbour's grandson who loves the beach and surfing.

Just a 9" round double layer cake with pudding in the center of the cake ...

SpongeBob Cake 94 This cake was inspired by a SpongeBob cake that I saw on this website! My nephew has been asking for a Mr. Squarepants cake for months now, so I thought ...

The Little Mermaid Cake 44 This Little Mermaid cake was created on the request of my five year old daughter who specifically wanted a Bratz Mermaid Cake. The cake mixture is the ...

Max & Ruby Cake 5 I got the idea from this site from another Max & Ruby cake submitter. First I made 2 13x9 cakes. Then I made butter cream frosting, and frosted the whole ...

Treasure Chest Cake 33 I made this treasure chest cake for a friend. Her son was turning one and her uncle was also having a birthday. The party was pirate-themed, and the main ...

Pirate Ship Cake 70 I made this Pirate ship cake for a friend. She was having a pirate-themed party for her uncle and her son. Using a cake mix and ready-to-spread frosting,...

Tank Cake 40 I am a 15 year old boy and I was trying to decide what to get my little brother for his birthday. He told me that he wanted a tank cake. So I got on this ...

Onesie Cake 13 This onesie cake was made for a friend's baby shower. Actually on this cake I made 2 cakes, one done for a boy, one for a girl. I baked 2 half sheet cakes ...

Rainbow Cake 8 For my youngest daughter's 5th birthday she wanted everything to be rainbow. So I went to your website and got a few ideas, combined a few and some of ...

Cat Cake 15 I needed to make a birthday cake for my uncle (57) and cousin (11). With the huge age gap and a gender gap I had a hard time thinking of a theme until ...

Train Cake 74 This train cake was made for my sons 3'rd birthday. He is gaga over trains right now, but not Thomas, he likes the train from the Polar Express.

After ...

Lion Cake 16 This is the lion cake I made for my daughters 3rd birthday party (I also made a giraffe cake for the same party). The theme was safari. We made a lion ...

Giraffe Cake 12 My daughter wanted a giraffe cake for her birthday, so I went with a safari theme. A giraffe and lion was made. The giraffe cake was a french vanilla ...

Diego Cake 6 This Diego cake was made for a person I work with. It was for her son's birthday. She gave me the Diego pan, which I thought would make my life easier....

Police Car Cake 3 I was asked to make my brother-in-law's birthday cake. He recently became a police officer so I wanted to make a police car cake that celebrates his hard ...

Castle Cake 172 After browsing this web site for a castle cake, I was inspired! I started with 4 nine-inch, square cakes, 2 chocolate and 2 vanilla because my daughter ...

Nemo Cake 56 This was a Nemo cake I made for my 1 year old boy who loves Nemo. It is made from two Betty Crocker pound cake mixes. I used bowls for cake pans in different ...

Curious George Cake 33 I made this Curious George cake for our niece Hayden’s first birthday party. I used a few of the ideas from this very website and designed my own version....

Angel Cake 2 My goddaughter was born premature and we have come to think of her as a miracle, so when I decided to do her baptism cake, I decided that an angel cake ...

Gift Box Cake 17 This was a gift box cake I made for my friend's 25th birthday. The cake was red velvet with a cream cheese frosting, which I colored with brown icing ...

Mushroom Cake 8 This mushroom cake I made for my 2 daughters birthday at preschool. The idea was from a birthday cake cook book.It was very easy to make.

I used two ...

Backyardigans Cake 6 I started with the green for the grass and the base color for the Backyardigans cake. I used 80 drops of green food color for it. Then I mixed the colors ...

Winnie the Pooh and Friends Cake 10 I made this Winnie the Pooh and friends cake for my son's first birthday. He loves Pooh! It was pretty easy.

I used 2-8 inch round pans to make the ...

Spongebob Cake 93 My son decided he had to have Spongebob cake for his birthday. I searched around and decided not to buy a one-time use pan. A little odd for a 22 year ...

Hello Kitty Cake 48 I made this Hello Kitty cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I found a picture I wanted to use on the internet and just enlarged it to fit on a 9 x 13 ...

Pregnant Lady Cake 12 I made a sheet cake and iced it, then used 1/2 of an egg pan for the belly and the small molds of doll cakes for the breast of the pregnant lady cake.

I ...

Lightning McQueen Cake 41 I needed a Cars cake that served about 75 people so I bought the Lightning McQueen cake pan and baked it using a boxed cake mix. I also baked a 12 x 18 ...

Little Mermaid Cake 43 My daughter was turning 3 and wanted a Little Mermaid cake so I did a couple of searches and found one to copy. This cake so so easy and turned out so ...

Nemo Cake 57 My 4 year old son is obsessed with Nemo and when it came to making his cake I had no worries when deciding what cake to make.

This Nemo cake turned ...

Dora the Explorer Cake 60 I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my daughter, Julia, on her 2nd birthday. My sister also helped in the frosting of the cake. I baked a 9 x 13 cake ...

Elmo Cake 49 While this Elmo cake didn't turn out exactly as I had pictured in my mind, I was still pretty happy with the end result.

You need:
1. A triple recipe ...

Nemo Cake 55 My daughter loves fish so for her 2nd birthday we decided to go with the Finding Nemo theme. I was debating whether or not to get a store bought cake, but ...

Clock Cake 2 I made this clock cake for my daughter's first birthday.

I made it using a basic chocolate sponge in a large rectangular tin. I shaped it by simply ...

Football Cake 33 This football cake was made for a nine year old little boy who's favorite sport is football.

This cake was made with (2) 9x13 flat sheet cake and the ...

Train Cake 74 I began with a standard 11x15 sheet and a photo of the rail engine that George is engineer on. His mother asked for something that would commemorate not ...

Castle Cake 171 This castle cake I made with a lot of cakes. I used a ten by ten pan. I used a eight by eight pan. Then I used a few cupcakes. I used ice cream cones ...

Baby Einstein Caterpiller Cake 51 I used the baseball cake pan and made five different flavors. I used bamboo skewers for the support for the head. I had a lot of fun with this Baby Einstein ...

Lightning McQueen Cake 39 After looking through this website I got inspired to make this Lightning McQueen cake! I got the Wilton pan from Michael's and the corresponding food ...

Butterfly Cake 46 This butterfly cake was prepared using Wilton's Butterfly Cake Pan and then freehand etched the design. I used #3 and #16 tips with lemon yellow, orange,...

R2D2 Cake 18 This is a cake I did for my son's Star Wars themed 7th birthday party, Just by chance my mom had a Wilton R2D2 cake pan from when my brother was little....

Little Mermaid Cake 42 I love this site and got the idea for my daughter Tamar's Little Mermaid cake from it so I really wanted to show the cake as a way of saying thank you....

Shark Cake 13 I made this shark cake for my son's 5th birthday. I used a regular boxed mix and made two 9in circles. After placing them on top of one another, I cut ...

Treasure Chest 32 I made this treasure chest cake for my school library's cake decorating contest. I forget how I made the bottom but (I made this two years ago, I can tell ...

Cow Cake 10 I got to make this impromptu cow cake after looking at some of the other submissions. My 2 year old loves cows and says "moo" all the time.

I didn'...

Popcorn Cake 8 I made this Popcorn cake for my son's 8th birthday. We took him & his friends to the movies and afterwards we had cake, juice and a pinata.

I got ...

Graduation Cake 15 For this graduation cake I made a three tiered cake and decorated it with buttercream frosting.

I made the cap out of fondant.This was made for my son'...

Hamburger Cake 49 There are several July birthdays in my family, so I decided to make a cake for my family members. I decided on a Hamburger Cake and got many ideas from ...

Blue's Clues Cake 39 I made this Blues Clues cake for my son's third birthday. It was my first attempt at fondant. I looked here at Coolest Birthday Cakes to get some inspiration....

Pregnant Belly Cake 11 I made this pregnant belly cake from a sheet cake cut into a body then used cupcakes for the bust and a ball pan for the belly. I Iced it then covered ...

Shoes Cake 26 My niece was in her first ever ballet recital and I wanted to make ballet shoes cakes. I got this idea from a book I was flipping through as I couldn'...

Horse Cake 36 This horse cake was for my sister's 22nd birthday. She loves horses so I knew I had to make it with a horse.

I used a Wiltons rectangular cake pan 11x18....

Moose Cake 5 A lady I work with was moving and leaving her job. She loves moose and the color green. I baked this Moose cake from a sheet cake the day before and stored ...

Haunted House 9 I made this cake for my daughter's Halloween party for her grade 1 class party at school.
The house is made out of homemade gingerbread that I made and ...

Cinderella Cake 33 I made this Cinderella cake from a Barbie my daughter had and used homemade pound cake for the base. The dolls dress was made of regular white cake and ...

Belle Cake 8 When my granddaughter was born and named Isabelle I already knew what cake I would make. I used the Wonder cake pan by Wilton for the skirt of the Belle ...

Fish Bowl Cake 8 This fish bowl cake was easier than I thought. Start with two 8" round cakes and frost them together. Wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in the refrigerator ...

Tank Cake 39 My son wanted a tank cake for his 10th birthday. I looked at several ideas directly from this site and modified to come up with the final creation.

I ...

Guitar Cake 46 I used a Wilton guitar pan for this guitar cake. I already owned and matched the icing colors to the party pattern (teal and hot pink).

The Hannah ...

Pirate Scene Cake 25 My son wanted a Peter Pan party for his 4th birthday, so my husband and I decided to make him a cake of Neverland.

We formed the island in to a pirate ...

Castle Cake 170 I started out really ambitious, and probably would have done better if I'd allowed for more time (story of my life). The beautiful thing about this castle ...

Dr. Seuss Cake 9 This was a Dr.Seuss cake I made for a school cake decorating contest and I won first prize. To make the cat I prepared rice krispie treats following the ...

Little Einstein Cake 9 It's the first Little Einstein cake I have made. I just took a measuring cup (really big) and put my cake batter in it and baked it.

When done I put ...

Dora Cake 58 I wanted to make a Dora cake for my daughter's second birthday and I found this Dora cake. I got the template from Nickjr.com and just put it on top of ...

Baseball Cake 39 It was my son's first birthday. We decided to give him a baseball themed party. He loves balls and baseball bats so made him a baseball cake.

I decorated ...

Ladybug Cake 57 My daughter loves lady bugs. For her second birthday we decided on a lady bug theme, so this is the final product of the ladybug cake for our little lady....

Construction Vehicle Cake 26 My son is your typical digger/truck/tractor mad kid and for his second birthday I decided to get creative and make him a cake reflecting that.

I had ...

The Simpsons 9 This cake was made for a friend's 30th birthday. It is the character Ralph from The Simpsons which is my friend's favorite character.

To start with ...

Spiderman Cake 49 My grandson, Chandler was born on July 4th! Now, that is a special birthday on it's own, but for his 5th birthday it had to be Spiderman.

The cake ...

Pirate Ship Cake 68 My son has a love of pirates so what better cake for him other that a pirate ship cake. I made two cakes in a loaf pan, cut one in half and stuck it on ...

Monster Truck 19 I made this Monster Truck cake for my son's 4th birthday and it was very easy to make. He loved it and got to keep the truck and cars to play with. This ...

Train Cake 72 I got the basic idea for this train cake from your fantastic site but made a few adjustments.
My little boys third birthday clashed with other work commitments ...

Hello Kitty Cake 47 My dad is an artist and made this cake for my birthday last year. He used regular store bought funfetti cake mix, made two layers putting frosting in between....

Swiper Cake 2 I saw a photo of this Swiper cake, made with the Partysaurus pan, on the site and made it myself.
Swiper is known for being a kleptomaniac, so he is swiping ...

Crown Cake 3 This crown cake was made using 22 cupcakes put together to look like a princess crown. I put icing on the bottom of each individual cupcake to hold them ...

Giraffe Cake 11 We decided for my son's second birthday to have a Jungle Theme. I found the Wilton Animal crackers pan which takes one regular store bought cake mix for ...

Diaper Cake 46 For this diaper cake I used one pack of diapers, a tall plastic clear canister with a lid, rubber bands or pretty hair ties, yarn, ribbon and silk flowers....

Diaper Cake 44 I got a large pack of diapers, ribbon, rubber bands, silk flowers, and yarn to make this diaper cake. I rolled each diaper and put a rubber band to hold ...

Sports Cake 1 My nephew was having a sport themed birthday party. So he asked me to make a sports cake that would go with the theme.

I made a large rectangular ...

Pirate Ship Cake 66 I made this for my 26th birthday. I got the idea from this sight. I baked three 8in cakes and after they cooled down, I cut them in half and put frosting ...

Winnie the Pooh Cake 26 I made this Winnie the Pooh cake for my daughter's first birthday. I have never taken a decorating class but I saw the other cakes on this site and decided ...

Spiderman Cake 50 My autistic son really likes Spiderman so I looked on this site to get an idea.I did this one with cupcakes.

The cupcakes are so easy, I used 2 boxes ...

Tank Cake 38 I looked at the other cakes made on this website and used ideas I saw here (thanks everyone!). The bottom layer is 9X13 and the top is an 8X8 (cut in proportion ...

Diaper Cake 48 For my friend's baby shower I made this diaper cake because I thought it would be cheaper than purchasing one pre-made. I started with 72 size one diapers ...

Barbie Cake 102 I made this Barbie cake for my daughter's first birthday. It took two cake mixes, one chocolate mix went into two 8 inch round pans and a white mix went ...

Butterfly Cake 45 I made this Butterfly cake for my 22nd birthday. I'm practicing my cake making skills. I hired a Wilton's butterfly cake tin from my local cake shop greased ...

Star Wars Cake 3 I baked this Star Wars cake for my son's fifth birthday. He wanted "Star Wars" figurines and "Mos Eisley Cantina" is his favorite scene. The cake has windows ...

Spongebob Cake 92 This cake was made for my son's eighth birthday party. The cake was made from Duncan Hines' pound cake mix. I used two mixes and baked in a 9x13 sheet ...

Monster Truck Cake 18 Finding a monster truck is hard so I took the car pan and cut off the back to make a truck shape. Wasn't that hard then took mini bundt cakes to use as ...

Caterpillar Cake 29 I made this Caterpillar cake for my daughter's first birthday, and it was a big hit. I used the Wilton ball pan and made 3 different batters and then laid ...

Pony Birthday Cake 30 This is a Pony birthday cake that l made for my daughter's 5th birthday. She loves ponies, it was just a basic mud cake and iced normally and then decorated ...

Thomas the Train Cake 79 This is the cake I made for my daughter's second birthday. I got all the inspiration from this website so thanks to everyone who submitted their cake ...

Ninja Turtle Cake 14 I did this Ninja Turtle cake for my nephew's fifth birthday. This is his favorite turtle (Leonardo I think). It actually was not hard to do. I used instructions ...

Pirate Cake 7 My three year old wanted a pirate for his birthday. This was made using the Wilton Pirate Pan and iced with butter cream icing. Chocolate coins were ...

Elephant Cake 6 For my daughter's 1st birthday, I had bought a teddy bear pan and a 3D mini-bear pan from eBay and this was my plan. I wanted something original so I looked ...

Hot Wheels Cake 39 This Hot Wheels racetrack cake was made from 2 9" round cakes. Each cake was three layers and made to look like a checker board when cut. This was done ...

Barney the Dinosaur Cake 11 My daughter was crazy about Barney so I decided to make her a Barney the Dinosaur cake for her 3rd birthday. I used 2 boxes of Moist Orange Cake Packet ...

Wild West Scene Cake 4 My son had a cowboy and Indian party for his 5th birthday. I made the tee pee cake using a Dolly Varden Cake Tin. The cake was a Moist Orange Cake Packet ...

Construction Birthday cake 32 We did a construction theme party for my son's third birthday. I looked at a lot of different construction birthday cakes from the wonderful bakers on ...

Butterflies Cake 43 My daughter and I came up with this Buttterlies cake design, two butterflies in a flower garden after I realized I did not own a large enough round cake ...

Finding Nemo Cake 53 I made this Finding Nemo cake for my daughter's first birthday.

My oven wasn't working so I couldn't bake her cake but I was determined to do her a ...

Bugs Cake 4 My son wanted a bug party. I decided to make an ant bed. I made a rectangle flat cake for the bottom. I then took a bowl and flipped it upside down. I ...

Blues Clues Scene Cake My Aunt wanted me to make my cousin a birthday cake for her 2nd birthday. She wanted to have a 'Blues Clues' theme. I searched EVERYWHERE for anything ...

Pink Castle Cake 168 I made this pink castle cake for my niece's 6th birthday party, but it was a hit with all the adults as well as the kids! As you can see it is pink.

The ...

Tank Cake 37 I made this Tank cake for my son's 8th birthday, he loves army and pretending to be a soldier so what a great idea for a special unique cake which i got ...

Army Tank Cake 36 My 6 year old son, Brandon, wanted to have an Army party. Originally, I was going to make a 9x13 inch cake with chocolate icing and simply sit army figures ...

Hello Kitty Cake 46 I was searching for a sweet Hello Kitty cake for a friend (a rocker - should be more a joke than a serious present)

So I saw some cakes on this website ...

Blues Clues and Megenta Cake 38 My 3 year old wanted a Blues Clues Birthday Party. I have a Wilton pan, but I'm not a fan of having to star tip the whole cake. So I started searching ...

Lion Cake 15 We made this Lion cake for the May and June birthdays of the children at my Sunday School - ages 3 and 4. The lesson for the day was Daniel and the Lions ...

Bananas in Pajamas Cake 2 After browsing cakes on this site, I saw the original Bananas in Pajamas cake and thought yep my little two year old daughter loves them too, so this would ...

Spongebob Birthday Cake 90 We made this cake for my nephew's first birthday, we were slightly worried at first but it turned out to be very easy.

What we used - we made a rectangle ...

Fish in Ocean Cake 26 I got the idea for this cake from a Creative Cooks cookbook. It was called "Deep Sea Cake." I made two 9 x 13 cakes. I trimmed the edges and tops so ...

Dora Birthday Cake 57 My mom made this cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was the assistant. She used the Wilton Dora cake pan which used a box cake mix – easy. She used ...

Elmo Birthday Cake 45 My friend's little girl loves Elmo so I found a picture out of a coloring book and traced it on the cake with piping gel.

I used Wilton's buttercream ...

Barney Cake 10 I made this Barney cake for my Son's 2nd Birthday. We used 10 inch and 6 inch pans. We tinted the cake purple using food coloring and used store bought ...

Under the Sea Nemo Cake 25 I made this cake for my Son's first birthday. We used 10 inch, 8 inch, and 6 inch pans, Layering them using cardboard support.

We used store bought ...

Jurassic Park Cake 26 My 5-year-old son, obsessed with dinosaurs, specifically requested a "Jurassic Park Cake" for his birthday. I scoured the internet, looking for something ...

Strawberry Shortcake 28 I made this Strawberry Shortcake cake for a baby shower. My first attempt at doll cakes. This one used a soft rag doll. One box of yellow cake mix made ...

Basketball Cake 17 This basketball cake was very easy to make. My husband and I took two cake mixes and used a cake pan and flipped it upside down side by side each other ...

Hello Kitty Birthday Cake 45 I made this Hello Kitty cake for my sister's seventeenth birthday. She's the biggest Hello Kitty fan ever! :) I used the idea of the Hello Kitty cake already ...

Thomas the Tank Engine Cake 78 This Thomas the Tank cake was for my son's second birthday. I got the idea from a friend's cake book (can't recall the name of it).

I used a 13x9 glass ...

Elmo and Friends Cupcakes 5 I made Elmo's head out of cupcakes. I figured since his head is mostly round it wouldn’t be to hard to do.

I used just one regular devils food cake ...

United States Map Cake 4 This cake was made for my brothers summer school history class he was teaching. We figured simple yet effective was the way to go since there was little ...

Barbie Princess Cake 100 For this Barbie Princess cake I started with two heart shaped pans and made the base (small heart on top of large heart). I then used a small dress pan ...

Flip Flop Cake 24 For this giant flip flop cake, I started with two boxes of regular yellow cake mix. I then baked two different cakes, each with their own rectangle pan....

Diaper Cake 43 My nieces and I made this diaper cake for my son and daughter-in-law's baby shower. They are having a girl and have named her Brooke. She will be my ...

Barnyard Cake 27 I made this Barnyard cake for my son's 1st birthday. This cake was so easy and FUN to make!

I made two 8" round cakes (I used yellow cake) and frosted ...

Beach Cake 31 I made this cake for my son's 1st birthday.

When I found out I was pregnant we went with an underwater fish theme for the nursery and figured to stick ...

My Little Pony Cake 29 I made this cake for my daughter, Viena, for her 5th birthday. She asked me to make a My Little Pony cake, so I decided to give a toy pony to her as a ...

Garfield Cake 7 I Tried to follow one of the previous Garfield plans and failed badly so I hand drew on the cake and painted with buttercream. It gave a really good effect ...

Princess Castle Cake My princess requested a castle cake...for her fifth Birthday...here is what we made! We used blue jello for the water, graham crakers for the bridge and ...

Caterpillar Cake I made this cake for my daughter's 1st birthday party. The theme was "a garden party" so the caterpillar was a perfect fit.

The cakes were vanilla,...

Tiki Luau Cake 15 I created this Tiki Cake for a Father's Day celebration but it would great at any Luau Party. It was pretty simple to put together:

1. The cake is ...

Owl Birthday Cake 6 My son was turning one and he goes crazy for owls. quirky huh. I tend to go over the top for my kids birthdays. But owls aren't that popular, so we had ...

Louis Vutton Bag Cake I made this cake for my sister-in-laws 30th birthday. I covered a sponge cake with sugar paste icing and made the bow and handle using marzipan. She really ...

Flip Flop Cake 23 This is a 1/2 choc, 1/2 white cake. It's the first time I have ever cut a cake into the shape of something but it was so easy. I just drew the shape onto ...

Bratz Cake I made a buttercake then made some icing and added drops of colouring in them and just used a black writing gel for the outlines.

This cake was for ...

Pretty Pink Castle Cake 164 I made this cake for a friend's daughter's sixth birthday. She was having a Princess Party and wanted a Castle Cake.

Not having ever made a Castle ...

Fish Cake 29 I threw a fish-themed party for my son's third birthday and I wanted to make his cake myself this time. I used a round pan for the body and a heart-shaped ...

Sand Castle Cake 6 I made this Sand Castle cake for a wedding reception. It is a three layer cake and I just cut out the steps and doors. The icing is buttercream with brown ...

Pirate Ship Cake 65 My son wanted a pirate ship cake for his third birthday.

I found this cake in my womens weekly cake book (everyone's birthday bible). I changed a bit ...

Firetruck Cake 26 This Fire Truck Cake took FOREVER!!!

For the truck... I made my own marshmallow fondant frosting and used the fondant for the white cab, the black ...

Duckies in a Pond Cake 35 My cousin needed a cake for her baby shower. Her sister and I were recruited to make one. Her nursery theme was "little pond" so we thought a pond cake ...

Caterpillar Birthday Cake 28 I decided cupcakes was the best way to go with my daughter's first birthday cake. She has a picture in her room of a caterpillar that we used as a guide ...

Birthday Castle Cake 162 I got the idea for a castle cake for my daughter's 5th birthday from the movie "Knocked Up". I thought it would be a fun project. I searched castle cakes ...

Peanut Graduation Cake 13 A friend of mine's daughter was graduating from High School and he asked if I could make a cake shaped like a peanut (because that is his nickname for ...

Dora Cake 55 My daughter is crazy about Dora the Explorer, so I had to make her a Dora Cake for her 3rd Birthday.

First I downloaded a printable of Dora from Nick ...

Webkinz Cake 1 This is my daughter's Wheel of Wow Webkinz Cake for her 10th birthday party. With the right supplies, it is easy to make. If you can 'paint by number'...

Hello Kitty Cake 43 For my daughter's third birthday she requested a Hello Kitty party. I got online and was inspired by this website to create my own Hello Kitty cake because ...

Dr. Seuss Cake 8 For this Dr. Seuss cake, used a full cake sheet and filled it with three cake boxes of batter. I made the cake red velvet so it would be a fun color when ...

Ladybug Birthday Cake 55 This Ladybug cake was for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I shaped a 2 layer sheet cake to look like a "grassy knoll" with rolling hills.

I used a grass ...

Monster Truck Cake 17 I made this Monster Truck cake for my son's fifth birthday party. He LOVES Monster Trucks!

The cake is made in 5 pieces. Front and back of truck ...

Ariel and Seashells Cake 41 I made this cake in addition to an Ariel doll cake for my daughter's fifth birthday. I think the best part of the cake was the yummy Cool Whip frosting:...

Ariel Sits on the Beach Birthday Cake 40 I made this Ariel cake for my daughter Kaylie's fifth birthday.

I first made a 9x13 cake in a glass cake pan. I cut the cake in half and used the ...

Pirate Birthday Cake Ahoy Matey 24 For this pirate cake, I baked a regular sheet cake first and then used a small disposable bunt cake pan for the ship and a small round pan for the island....

Snake Birthday Cake 20 We used the ideas from the other photos to make our first cake for our 2 year old son. Made 2 bundt cakes - one chocolate and one vanilla. Cut the tail ...

John Deere Tractor Cake My son loves all sorts of trucks. Last year he requested John Deere. I used a Wilton 1/2 sheet cake pan. Colored frosting brown and green and made a ...

Sneaker Cake 22 My dad is in a group of guys that run every morning and they were all coming over for dinner so we thought it would be super fun to make a cake in the ...

Snake Cake 19 My son Jacob asked me for a snake and reptile party and asked if he could have a snake cake. I thought the bundt cakes would be good for the shape and ...

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