Cake Summary for August, 2008

(Below you can view all the cakes added to the site in August, 2008)

Total cakes on the site: 5,378

Total cakes added in August: 259

New categories added in August:

American Idol	Bruce the Shark	Go-Karts
Gossamer	Halo	Happy Tree Friends
In the Night Garden	Indiana Jones	Kung Fu Panda
Millenium Falcon		Yo Gabba Gabba

Cakes Submitted by Visitors During the Month of August, 2008

Click below to see cakes submitted by visitors during the month of August, 2008...

Coolest Rocket Cake 13 My inspiration for this Rocket cake is from Little Einsteins. I made a larger round cake and a smaller dome cake for the top. I iced the bottom cake ...

Coolest Frog Cake 45 This frog cake is carved out of 2 layers of 1/4 sheet cakes. I had never heard of a red eyed tree frog before this project! I researched images on the ...

Coolest South Park Cake 3 My parents made this South Park cake for my birthday as I love South Park - especially Cartman! My mum made her special chocolate cake (secret recipe!...

Coolest Train Cake 80 My son just turned 3 and he told me he wanted a choo-choo train cake but he did not want Thomas. Which was really odd cause he loves Thomas, but that was ...

Coolest Little Einsteins Cake 12 I really didn’t think I could do this Little Einsteins cake but after three hours, the cake was complete and I learned a lot.

To make this cake, I ...

Coolest Backyardigans Cake 7 I made this Backyardigans cake for my twin Niece & Nephew's 2nd B-day. I made a chocolate & vanilla marble cake 12"x18" & iced it with butter cream.

The ...

Coolest Transformers Optimus Prime Cake 13 I made two different cakes for my sons 4th birthday. One cake in each mode of Transformers Optimus Prime cake.

The first is just a large sheet cake....

Coolest Puppy Cake 34 My niece received a Malteshon (half Maltese, half Bishon) puppy earlier in the year, so when she got ready to have her fifth birthday party she wanted ...

Coolest Teddy Bear Cake 25 This teddy bear cake was for our daughter's first birthday. I got the idea from another submission on this site but altered it a little because it was ...

Coolest Spiderman Cake 53 This Spiderman cake is two 8 1/2 inch layers, Red velvet cake soaked in Raspberry Jello and covered with butter cream icing (yellow) and royal icing (other ...

Coolest Ladybug Cake 61 I made this ladybug cake for my daughter's second birthday. Initially, I planned a different ladybug cake, but couldn't find a ball shaped pan required ...

Coolest Lion Cake 18 This lion cake was my first attempt and I was quite impressed with the results.

I used a mould from Bulk Barn and made a marbled cake. I left the ...

Coolest Carousel Cake 11 This is the Carousel cake I made for my son's circus themed 3rd birthday. I used a few ideas from cakes on this site and combined them into one cake.

The ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 107 This Spongebob cake was a birthday gift for my niece. I wanted to try something a little different. So I sat him up. Everything on him is edible except ...

Coolest Cow Cake 12 I made this Cow cake for my friend's daughter's 5th birthday party. The cake needed to serve 30-40 people, so a 9" round cake wasn't going to be big enough....

Coolest Little Mermaid Cake 49 This is a Dora Little Mermaid cake that my wife made for our daughters 2nd birthday. It is her first attempt at making a theme cake and I think she did ...

Coolest Candyland Cake 12 I made this Candyland Cake for my daughters 4th birthday party. I used butter cream frosting and various candies and just copied the board game as close ...

Coolest Pregnant Belly Cake 15 I saw a picture on your web site and decided to try to make this pregnant belly cake from scratch just by looking at it. I also used the Wilton's Soccer ...

Coolest Thomas Cake 83 I was excited to make a Thomas cake for my son's 3rd birthday. I got so many great ideas from this site, but didn't think I was ready to try a 3-D cake....

Coolest Go Gators Emblem Cake 6 I have had a set of twins babysitting for years now and have known them since they were 2! They are moving up to Gainesville, FL this year to attend University ...

Coolest Barbie Cake 115 First I found the most perfect Barbie for my sister in law because she loves fairies! This is a Mariposa Barbie but her wings were so beautiful I thought ...

Coolest Present Cake 17 I saw a present cake similar to this one and I made it for a book club I ran for young children. I also made it for my daughter's 1st birthday. It is ...

Coolest Didelina Cake 2 This Didelina cake is chocolate fudge cake made with real chocolate, 70% cocoa solids. It is baked in 2 round, 20cm sponge tins. They are cut and layered ...

Coolest Pirate Ship Cake 74 After a lot of online research (including this website), I made this Pirate Ship cake for my son's second birthday.

Using two boxed marble cake mixes,...

Coolest Bratz Cake 41 I made this Bratz cake as a joke for a friend's 24th birthday. I thought it would be nice to have "one of those doll cakes we used to have when we were ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 47 I made this Dinosaur cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday, as she is totally dinosaur mad! I made this cake, from a lemon drizzle cake mix. I think it ...

Coolest Veggie Tales Cake 11 I made this Veggie Tales cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday. Bob is made from a Wilton ball pan, while Larry is made from Rice Krispie treats. I first ...

Coolest Crocodile Cupcakes 41 My son turned 1 in July and we decided to have a crocodile theme. I made a crocodile cake but knew that it wouldn't be near large enough to feed the crowd ...

Yo Gabba Gabba Cake 2 To make this Brobee cake (from Yo Gabba Gabba), I made a square cake using a simple packet mix. The cake was then cut half, one half being Brobee's body,...

Coolest Pregnant Belly Cake 14 Oh my, I am just too excited about how this Pregnant Belly cake came out. I have absolutely no fondant experience.

I took the first 2 Wilton classes ...

Coolest Gumball Machine Cake 9 This Gumball Machine cake is an original creation I made for my son Zayden's 5th Birthday. The day he was officially allowed to start chewing gum!

I ...

Coolest Veggie Tale Cake 10 Larry the Cucumber was baked in a regular half sheet cake pan (vanilla). We then trimmed the edges with a knife until the desired cucumber shape was achieved....

Coolest Diego Jungle Cake 9 My son loves Diego, so I made him this Diego Jungle cake because I just didn't want to make a body or head cake. The cake is 2 9x9 with green frosting....

Coolest Dora Cake 63 For my daughter's birthday I made this Dora cake. I used a mold from a Barbie cake but used a Dora doll instead. I used frosting and added red food coloring ...

Coolest Incredible Hulk Cake 5 I made this Incredible Hulk cake for my husband's birthday. Every year we do a birthday theme and this year it was the Incredible Hulk.

The cake is ...

Coolest Hawaiian Luau Birthday Cake 19 I got this cake idea for a Hawaiian Luau birthday cake from Cake Central. When I first saw it I thought that it would go great with the theme. I made this ...

Coolest Construction Site Cake 34 I made this construction site cake for my son's fourth birthday. We designed it together after I perused many, many pictures of construction site cakes....

Coolest Moon Cake 3 I made this moon cake for a baby shower. The cake was made from a box of cake mix (yellow cake) as were the cupcakes. I used a round pan for the cake and ...

Coolest Guitar Cake 54 I made this guitar cake for my dad's birthday. He loves to play and trade guitars and his name just happens to be Les Paul, so I thought this cake would ...

Coolest Flower Cake 41 I baked this flower cake for a friend of mine's niece. It was her 16th birthday. At first my friend had asked me to bake her a butterfly cake (one from ...

Coolest Football Cake 37 I made this Football cake for an '07 Superbowl party. My brother-in-law is a fan of the Patriots so I chose to use their helmet.

This is a three (9 ...

Coolest Guitar Cake 53 This was a guitar cake for my brother on his 24th birthday. We all enjoy playing Rockband and guitar hero so I made a template based off of a guitar he ...

Coolest Indiana Jones Cake 1 I used one of the new Indiana Jones play sets as a model for this for this Indiana Jones cake.

The cake is iced in buttercream. The back wall is a ...

Coolest Mad Hatter Cake 16 This Mad Hatter cake was made for my best friend who just turned 18. I was really excited to start this cake because it was my first time ever doing a ...

Coolest Castle Cake 183 I made this castle cake for my friend's little girl who is 2. The whole cake is made from my own home made sponge, plus Swiss roll for the towers.

I ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 23 I made this Finding Nemo cake for my son's 1st birthday. Ahead of time, I made frozen buttercream transfers of Nemo, Pearl and Squirt. (If you Google ...

Coolest Diego Cake 8 I baked three chocolate, two inch round cakes for this Diego cake. I placed one on top of another with butter cream frosting in the middle. The third ...

Coolest Train Cake 79 This train cake is the first cake I have ever made and it was so much fun. It isn't beautiful but everyone loved it.

I used Supreme Moist chocolate ...

Coolest Turtle Cake 17 I used a large round cake pan for the shell, and a small round cake pan for the body beneath the shell. The head and feet are mini loaf pans. And the ...

Coolest Make Up Table Cake 4 Looks complicated but it is simple. This make up table cake is a 4 layer jelly roll cake. I built a wood platform with gorilla glue and a plywood board ...

Coolest Master Chief from Halo Cake 1 My neighbor's son wanted a Halo party for his 6th birthday. He wanted Master Chief's helmet for his cake. We looked at a few pictures from the game and ...

Coolest Hannah Montana Guitar Cake 51 I made this Hannah Montana Guitar cake for my niece's 10th birthday. I used 3 chocolate cake mixes, two Betty Crocker whipped butter cream frosting cans,...

Coolest Dog Cake 33 I made this dog cake with cupcakes and grass tip. Idea from Cakecenteral.com

Coolest Water Slide Cake 6 I made this water slide cake for my son's third birthday and he absolutely loved it! I got the idea from the the Wilton website.

To make the towers ...

Coolest Bruce the Shark Cake 1 I started making birthday cakes for my kids when my firstborn daughter turned one. I wanted to start a tradition of making them a homemade birthday cake ...

Coolest Frog Cake 43 I was asked to make a house warming cake by a co-worker. After giving it some thought, I came up with the frog cake idea. I baked a 9x13 chocolate cake ...

Coolest Candyland Cake 11 I saw this Candyland cake in a magazine a week after my daughter's 2nd birthday. I was so bummed, but determined to make it for her third. With a little ...

Coolest Teenage Nutant Ninja Turtle Cake 16 I have twins and this year for the first time, they didn't agree on what they wanted on their on cake. Landon wanted a Ninja Turtle, Grayson wanted SpongeBob ...

Coolest Tractor Cake 27 After doing a Google search for 'Tractor Cake' I came across this site and got some fantastic inspiration for our son's 1st birthday. Being farmers I really ...

Coolest Bull Dozer Cake 28 I made this bulldozer cake for my son's 2nd birthday party. It was a hit. The cake consisted of 2 9x13 cakes stacked on top of each other. The blade and ...

Coolest Lightning Mcqueen Cake 10 I made this Lightning Mcqueen cake for my son's 3rd birthday. I bought some mini cars from the Car movie and added it on my cake. It was a full sheet ...

Coolest Candy Land Cake 10 I made this Candy Land cake for my granddaughter's 2nd birthday. She had a Candy Land theme and I wanted to make something special. I got the idea partly ...

Coolest Army Tank Cake 43 I did this tank cake for my son's 4th birthday party. I took ideas from different cakes from this website. What really made the cake and impressed the ...

Coolest Baseball Bat Cake 43 My son loves playing baseball so I decided to throw him a Phillies baseball birthday party. I made tickets on the computer and used them as invitations....

Coolest Christmas Tree Cake 5 Upon some prodding, my father shared that for his December birthday his mother always made him a Christmas tree cake. For my version I made a chocolate ...

Coolest Bob the Builder Cake 15 I created this Bob the Builder cake for my son's 3rd birthday party by using some similar ideas from pictures on this site. I baked a chocolate cake using ...

Coolest Lego Cake 5 For my husband's 30th birthday, we threw a "block party" for him with a Lego theme! I created Lego invitations and we had Lego Block ice cubes for drinks....

Coolest Skull and Cross Bones Cake 9 I had a good time making this skull and crossbones cake. I used one round pan and one square pan for the design. Then just buy looking at a photo of a ...

Coolest Jeep Cake 5 This is a Jeep cake my son wanted last year. This cake is a bunch of Jeep hotwheels cars out having fun in the mud.

I used a chocolate cake mix in ...

Coolest Castle Cake 180 My daughter wanted a castle cake for her birthday party that had an Enchanted theme. We looked on line at this web site to get a few ideas and we put ...

Abby Cadabby Cake 2 I made an Abby Cadabby cake for my daughter, Abby's, First Birthday party. I used 3 boxes of cake mix. I set it up kinda like Mickey Mouse - her head and ...

Millenium Falcon Cake 1 For my husbands 26th birthday I decided to make him a cake as usual... this time I wanted to go for something fun. I got him the DVD release of the original ...

Coolest Diego Cake 7 I made this Diego cake for my son and nephews 2nd birthday, there only 3 weeks apart. I didn't want to do just a simple Diego pan cake so I got brain storming....

Coolest Fire Truck Cake 29 This is my first fire truck cake. I used the 12x18 sheet pan - I made 2 cakes (4 cake mixes). I cut each cake in half and filled it with buttercream. The ...

Coolest Waterfall Cake 5 I made this waterfall cake for my friend's son who wanted a green cake and likes turtles. This cake is a combo of ideas from the cakes in the "Safari ...

Coolest Cookie Monster Cake 15 I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son's 1st birthday party. He loves Cookie Monster! The base is a 2 layer 16 in round iced in buttercream with royal ...

Coolest Castle Cake 181 I got the idea for a castle cake after seeing the turret kit in a craft store and decided that I had to make this cake for a friend's daughter. I have ...

Coolest South Park Cake 2 I made the shape drawn out on foam core, and used it as the cake board. These are basically round cakes, all covered in fondant. They are cut out to ...

Coolest Skull Cake 10 This was not a Halloween cake, but rather a birthday cake. My son is obsessed with skulls, so this is the cake I made. It is an ice cream cake I made with ...

Coolest Fishbowl Cake 10 This fishbowl cake was made with 2 8inch cakes, layered, trimmed at the bottom and laid on it's side.

For the lip of the bowl, I used a fruit by the ...

Coolest Bridal Doll Cake 10 I have always liked to play around in the kitchen with cakes. For Mother's day my two oldest children, Joshua and Melissa-Ann decided that they would get ...

In the Night Garden Cake 1 In the Night Garden is an extremely popular TV program the UK for very young kids. My daughter loves one of the main characters, Upsy Daisy, so I decided ...

Coolest Cookie Monster Cake 14 I used the Wilton 3D cuddly bear cake pan for this Cookie Monster cake. I used the extra batter to create the large chocolate chip "cookie" he is sitting ...

Coolest Rocket Cake 8 I made this rocket cake for my son's 4th birthday as he was mad on rockets! For a black space background I just used a black baking tray with little glittery ...

Coolest Horse Cake 38 Thanks so much for the pony cake ideas! I cheated a little bit with my daughter's 6th pony party birthday cake. I just bought a giant chocolate slab ...

Coolest Little Einstein's Rocket Cake 11 My inspiration and planning for this Little Einstein's rocket cake came entirely from the cakes I found on this website. For my son's 2nd birthday, we ...

Coolest Cosmopolitan Cake 19 My friend wanted a birthday cake in the shape of a Cosmopolitan in honor of the Sex and the City Movie.

Another friend and I baked a chocolate cake ...

Coolest Air Force Emblem Cake 5 I made this Air Force emblem cake when my husband tested Master Sargent in the Air Force. He did not make Msgt, but others in his Shop did so we still ...

Coolest Cars Cake 9 For my son's 3rd birthday he wanted a "Cars" cake with McQueen, Mater and the tractor on it. I saw a Cars cake on this site with the number for a road ...

Coolest Monster Truck Cake 19 My son just loves monster trucks and since I had just finished the Wilton classes I wanted to see what I could really do! I checked this site which gave ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 102 This Spongebob cake was my son's 3 year birthday cake. It was a blast to make - I just used chocolate cake and buttercream frosting for the main body....

Coolest Sombrero Cake 4 I made this Sombrero cake for a friend's 29th birthday party. I was asked to make a cake to suit a Mexican themed surprise party that would feed 60 people....

Coolest Hello Kitty Cake 49 My friend loves Hello Kitty. So for her birthday I decided to make her a big Hello Kitty cake. I made a three tier, six layer cake. She is just like a ...

Coolest Waterfall Cake 6 My daughter and I decided to make a cool Luau cake for her birthday. I made a three tier cake with six layers so we could add a long waterfall.

We ...

Coolest Harley Davidson Cake 8 My husband's cousin was getting married and his wife-to-be really wanted something original for the groom's cake. Of course they are really big into Harley ...

Coolest Army Tank Cake 42 My son asked for an army party with an army tank cake. I got some great ideas from this website, then added some of my own touches.

To get the tank ...

Coolest Baseball Field Cake 41 My son turned 5 this year and just finished his first season of baseball. He specifically asked for a baseball field cake, so this is what I came up with....

Yo Gabba Gabba Cake 1 I made this Yo Gabba Gabba cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday. She LOVES the show, and Foofa is her favorite character. I'm actually quite proud of this ...

Coolest Kung Fu Panda Cake 2 This Kung Fu Panda cake was made for a friend's 5 year old son. I have not seen the movie, so I searched online for pictures from the film. After settling ...

Coolest Barbie Princess Cake 109 My grand-daughter Mya wanted a Barbie Princess cake for her 5th birthday because that's her favorite doll. Using 3 different size of cake pans, I baked ...

Coolest Castle Cake 178 My daughter wanted a Belle cake and I didn't want to try to draw Belle, so I decided to attempt a castle cake.

I baked two 9x13 cakes, one for the ...

Coolest Candy Land Cake 10 This Candy Land cake is 8 inch square cakes iced smooth. Cut out square fondant pieces for path.

Added butter cream and fondant accents.

Coolest Football Cake 35 I made this football cake for a little boy turning 5, who is a mad Hawthorn Football Club fan. It is a milk chocolate fudge cake.

I used the Wilton ...

Coolest Wall.E Cake 2 I made this Wall.E cake because every time my 2 year old son saw the previews to the movie Wall.E he would say Wawe! I was in Hobby Lobby a month ago and ...

Coolest Purse Cake 25 This purse cake was made for my niece, Victoria. She is a big fan of the coach collection, so the perfect cake for her was the summer coach bag.

It ...

Coolest Minnie Mouse Cake 12 I first took a small picture of Mini Mouse that I liked, cut that out, took to print shop and blew up to a little less than the size of a half sheet cake ...

Coolest Rubber Ducky Cake 36 My Rubber Ducky cake was for my sister in law's Baby shower. I wanted a duck but didn't want to buy a specialty pan because I didn't think I'd use it again ...

Coolest Transformers Cake 12 When my son said he really wanted a Transformers cake, and we looked at the grocery store, we were both disappointed at the "store bought" one. I love ...

Coolest Campout Cake 8 This campout cake was made for my niece who was in JROTC in her high school. It was her 16th birthday.

The cake was just a box mix. I did one rectangle ...

Coolest Arkansas Razorbacks Cake 5 This Arkansas Razorbacks cake was for one of our local Arkansas Razorback fans! They are kind of scarce here in LSU country!

Coolest Candyland Cake 9 My daughter has a Dora the Explorer Candyland game which is where this idea for a Candyland cake came from. It was very simple to make.

I have a ...

Coolest Happy Tree Friends Cake 1 I made this Happy Tree Friends cake for my friend's birthday. She is a huge fan of the show "Happy Tree Friends".

I made two 9"x13" cakes and cut out ...

Coolest Red Dragon Cake 28 I made this red dragon cake for my son's fourth birthday. It is a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, and tasted better than it looked.

The ...

Coolest Castle Cake 176 After seeing a small castle cake in an old Betty Crocker kids cookbook, my daughter asked for a "pink castle cake" for her 3rd birthday. I used this site ...

Coolest Cars Cake 44 I just started making cakes and a friend requested the Cars cake. Well, you know us cake decorators don't back down from a challenge. This is how we ...

Coolest Army Tank Cake 45 I made this tank cake the night before & refrigerated it. For the base I used a 9x12"glass casserole dish. For the top part I used a loaf pan.

I made ...

Coolest Snoopy Cake 3 Our family has a tradition of giving Snoopy & Peanuts Gang cards on special occasions such as birthdays and holidays. So when my son turned 1, nothing ...

Coolest Train Cake 81 I made the train engine out of white cake mix, 2 of the cars with chocolate and 2 with strawberry. I used buttercreme icing on all.

The logs in the ...

Coolest Bob The Builder Cake 16 I made a vanilla sponge for base of the Bob the Builder cake, iced it with butter cream (lime green) made Bob the builder out of Marshmallow Fondant, had ...

Coolest Nemo Cake 63 I covered the Nemo cake board with blue coloured fondant which I coloured myself and then placed the cake on top. I used a football shaped cake tin which ...

Coolest Hello Little Kitty Cake 52 This Hello Kitty Cake is on a 1/4 sheet crumb coated and frosted first. I bought a cheap Hello Kitty coloring book and found the perfect image to place ...

Coolest Football Cake 38 An adult 50th Birthday cake for an ex-Carlton AFL Referee. This Football cake is a three tier chocolate mud cake with chocolate icing. The top tier is ...

Coolest Soccer Field Cake 23 This soccer field cake is easy to make and great for soccer fans! It's just a square cake, made in 2 baking trays.

Home made icing with green food ...

Coolest Car Cake 19 This car cake is a couple of sponge layers, cut to shape. Standard frosting with colouring for the icing. The background was a metal tray with butter ...

Coolest Ladybug Cake 62 This ladybug cake is a homemade cake with a raspberry swirl mixed in a cooking bowl to get the bump, and then a muffin shape and chocolate sprinkles for ...

Coolest Simpsons Cake 10 This Simpsons cake is the very first cake I did. It was done for my brother on his 15th birthday. My dad actually gave me the idea and sort of set me along ...

Coolest Tea Party Cake 35 We had a Tea Party for our daughter’s 4th birthday. I wanted to make a tea pot for the cake. I baked the body of the tea pot in a large bowl. The other ...

Lightning Mc Queen Cake 43 This Lightning Mcqueen cake was for my son's 2nd birthday, he is obsessed with Cars. This is a 18x13 in pan and a Wilton car mold on top. I used the Wilton ...

Coolest Ladybug Cake 63 The theme for my daughter's first birthday was pink and green ladybugs. I made this ladybug cake with inspiration from ladybug and garden cake pictures ...

Coolest Surfing Cake 8 Every year we have a pool party for our daughter's summer birthday. This year we had a surfing theme so therefore the surfing cake.

The surf board ...

Coolest Tank Cake 44 After looking at some of the tank cakes on this site I thought I'd give it a try. Basic 9 x 13 bottom and a bread pan for the top. Used half the cake from ...

Coolest Pink Bunny Cake 21 I made this pink bunny cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday to look like her "lovey", a stuffed pink bunny (that is about as flat as the cake now because ...

Coolest Straw Hat Cake 7 This was a Straw Hat cake for my niece's birthday (which falls near Easter.) She had no special requests, so I just did one that I wanted to try. This ...

Coolest R2D2 Cake 19 My nephew was having a Jedi training party for his 5th birthday. My sister-in-law requested whatever cake I thought I could do to match the theme. After ...

Coolest Hello Kitty Cake 51 I made this Hello Kitty cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday. I used a regular sheet cake for the whole cake. I then iced the entire cake with regular store ...

Coolest Hula Girl Cake 11 This Hula Girl cake was inspired from this website. I got a lot of good ideas from here so thank you!

I used a small Pyrex bowl for for the dome and ...

Coolest Fish Cake 31 This Fish cake was really quite easy to make. To make the fish I cut plastic craft canvas into a triangle and then tied 2 corners together to make a modified ...

Coolest Barbie Cake 113 I made a chocolate fudge cake in a 15cm tin and also one in a Pyrex pudding basin for this Barbie Cake. I then layered the cakes with chocolate gnashe ...

Coolest Gymnastics Cake 3 This Gymnastics cake is a homemade chocolate fudge cake with four layers of cake and three layers of chocolate fudge filling. Chocolate filling is chocolate ...

Coolest Castle Cake 185 This Castle cake was for my daughter's 3rd birthday. It was easy to make but time consuming. I made 3 layer 9" round cakes. After they were cooled and ...

Coolest Darth Maul Cake 2 This Darth Maul cake was for my grandson's 8th birthday. I used a Halloween mask as a mold for the face. The face is covered in red fondant and all the ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 48 This Dinosaur cake was a request from my granddaughter for her birthday. I've been making cakes for them for some time now, and they get more and more ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 46 For this Dinosaur cake I drew a few sketches of the dinosaur shape that I wanted. After a few trial cakes I discovered that the best way to use the most ...

Coolest Princess Jasmine Cake 6 My daughter asked for a Jasmine Cake (from Aladdin) and she wanted to wear her dress up costume to match. Well, I'm no baker, but borrowed the tin from ...

Coolest Barbie Island Princess Cake 114 When the movie "Barbie Island Princess" came out last year my daughter freaked out whenever she saw the singing Barbie at the store. I decided to buy ...

Coolest Fish Cake 30 I was turning 19 this year so I decided that for my last year as a teenager I wanted a party! Not just any party but a "little girl frilly" party. After ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 49 My son wanted a dinosaur party this year, so I came up with this Dinosaur cake. I searched the net looking at various pictures of other cakes, and gathered ...

Coolest Sponge Bob Cake 106 I never made a Sponge Bob cake so I spent hours on the net looking for pictures and ideas. I finally came up with this cake. Pretty impressed with myself....

Coolest Strawberry Shortcake 31 I made this Strawberry Shortcake for my daughter's 3rd birthday. The tiers are 6 and 10 inches, 2 layers each. The cakes are frosted in strawberry flavored ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 38 My daughter wanted a zoo theme for her 2nd birthday and loves monkeys, so with the help of this site and my Mom, I created this monkey cake.

It started ...

Coolest Volcano Cake 19 My 4 year old son wanted a volcano cake with dinosaurs for his birthday. So, I stacked several cakes together to make it big enough. I used 10 inch, 9 ...

Coolest Little Mermaid Cake 50 I made the Little Mermaid cake with Betty Crocker cake chocolate marble cake mix. I also added a handfull of multicolored chocolate beans to the sponge ...

Coolest Little Mermaid Cake 51 I made this really cool Barbie Little Mermaid cake for my daughter's third birthday - what a hit!

Starting off with the Wilton Cake Form, 2 White Cake ...

Coolest Sponge Bob Cake 105 I made this Sponge Bob cake for my nephew's 3rd birthday, when looking around the shops and found that they did not do a big enough cake for 20 people ...

Coolest Crocodile Cake 40 My son turned 1 in July and we were having over 30 family members for the bash (my hubby has a VERY large family). This crocodile cake was too small to ...

Coolest Barbie Doll Cake 112 My daughter turned 3 this year and was very excited. Before bed she said to me "I'd really like a Barbie cake for when Grandma and Grandpa come tomorrow"...

Coolest Hamburger Cake 51 This Hamburger cake was made for my son's 5th birthday. The theme was Spongebob Squarepants and his birthday atmosphere was set in "Bikini Bottom" (Spongebob'...

Coolest Race Car Cake 31 This was done for my little brother's 15th birthday. This is the first cake I tried using a pan. I just didn't think it possible to get the look I wanted ...

Coolest Baby Block Cake 12 I made this Baby Block cake for my daughter's first birthday. I used 4 square cakes, layered. I did use a cake leveling tool to ensure the cakes layered ...

Coolest Castle Cake 184 I got the idea of a Castle Cake out of a book. This is my first time at making a birthday cake like this, normally make cakes with butter icing piped on,...

Coolest Bride of Frankenstein Cake 15 I made my mother-in-law a Bride of Frankenstein cake for her birthday since her birthday is around Halloween and we were having a Halloween theme party....

Coolest Princess Belle Cake 9 I made this Belle Cake for my friend who loves Princess Belle. The cake was 3 tiers of chocolate cake! I made the bottom 2 in 8 in. pans and let them cool....

Coolest Espresso Cup Cake 20 I made this Espresso Cup cake for a friend. He loves espresso so I thought this would be fitting. The cake took 1 box of funfetti cake mix. I made it in ...

Coolest Looney Tunes Gossamer Cake 1 I made this Gossamer cake for a friend's birthday! Gossamer from Looney Tunes is her favotie character so I made it for her.

I made a yellow cake (from ...

Coolest Sunflower Cake 43 I made this sunflower cake for my cousin. She is in love with sunflowers. I have to say this was sort of difficult to do; being a sunflower is round ...

Coolest Baby Block Cake 11 This Baby Block cake could be used for either a baby shower or a birthday cake. The bottom cake is a 1/2 sheet pan that I frosted flat and put a star ...

Coolest Cat Cake 16 I made this cat cake for a co-worker's birthday. I used a bread pan as the body, and made two round pans, one small one for the head, and one large one ...

Coolest Pacman Cupcakes 4 These Pacman cupcakes were inspired by the arcade game. I wanted to include all elements of the arcade game for my husband's birthday. I have seen a ...

Coolest Race Track Cake 43 I got the idea for this Racetrack cake from this website! Thanks so much! I used an 18 x 2 cake pan and 2 yellow butter cake mixes! My oven is a little ...

Coolest Frog Cake 44 This frog cake was a surprise for my daughter's seventh birthday. I used two cake mixes (but had a good bit of cake leftover). I am a major amateur. I ...

Coolest Hello Kitty Cake 50 I made this Hello Kitty cake for my 6 year old sister. She really wanted a Hannah Montana cake, but I had no idea how to do that! So I made her this one,...

Coolest Sunflower Cake 42 A few months before her third birthday my daughter, Kaitlyn, and I started discussing themes. She decided on a flower party, which could not have been ...

Coolest Beach Cake 33 I made this beach bug cake from a Wilton 3d cake pan, using a combination of icings.

Meringue icing for the water and details were made with marzipan ...

Coolest My Little Pony Cake 32 This My Little Pony cake was huge. ( I have a large family and a close network of friends, needed a big cake for at least 30 adults and their kids).

I ...

Coolest Fairy Cake 26 Each year my daughter challenges me by coming up with a creative theme for her birthday cake. This year it was Barbie Mariposa and Wilton doesn't make ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 37 I made this cake for my daughter's second birthday, to go along with a trip to the Rainforest Cafe.

To make this cake I started with a boxed mix baked ...

Coolest Nemo Cake 22 I made this cake for my son's 1st birthday. Ahead of time, I made frozen buttercream transfers of Nemo, Pearl and Squirt. (If you Google "frozen buttercream ...

Coolest Sweet Pea Cake 4 I made this cake for my niece's baby shower. Since she was having twins, the theme was 2 peas in a pod. For the base of the cake I baked 2 9x13 chocolate ...

Coolest Mini Golf Cake 17 This mini golf cake is a 14 inch round covered with marshmallow fondant. I used additional fondant for the golf greens and flags and candy for the 'stone'...

Coolest Flip Flops Cake 27 I made this flip flops cake for my sister-in-law's 30th luau-themed surprise birthday party. I made a cinnamon chocolate cake and white chocolate cream ...

Coolest Magicians Cake 7 This magicians cake was made for my boyfriend's 30th Birthday. The sponge cake was made by my friend Valerie and was filled with butter cream and jam.

As ...

Coolest Motorbike Cake 9 I made this motorbike cake for my friend Phil on his birthday as he is a motorbike fanatic. I printed an image of another cake and a motorbike so that ...

Coolest Strawberry Short Cake 30 I had vintage Strawberry Shortcake miniature dolls from when my daughter was young, plus I bought some of the newer version dolls from Kmart. I created ...

Coolest Butterfly Cake 49 I made a butterfly cake for my daughter's 6th birthday party which was a butterfly party. I received lots of inspiration from this website. Thank you!...

Coolest Dinner Plate Cake 4 This dinner plate cake was made for my Pastor's 40th birthday. Everyone at our church decided to throw him a surprise party and to have a Italian theme ...

Coolest Picnic Table Cake 5 This picnic table cake is a cake that I made for a birthday party. Everyone loved it and it was dee-lish!

Coolest Swimming Pool Cake 25 This is a great cake for those that swim on a team. I found this swimming pool cake on this web site and re-created it to fit my needs. I wanted to make ...

Coolest American Idol Caterpillar Cake 1 Here is an American Idol cake I made for a friend's birthday.

These American Idol caterpillar cakes have evolved from being loaded with candy to piped....

Coolest Kung Fu Panda Cake 3 This idea for the Kung Fu Panda cake came from my local supermarket. My son had his heart set on this cake but, they wanted so much $$$ to make it, I decided ...

The Coolest Elmo Cake 51 I had to bake an Elmo cake for my son's second birthday because he was so crazy, I mean crazy about Elmo. He knows how to sing the songs, and always scream ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 36 I made this monkey cake for my daughter Olivias' first birthday party. I made two and a half banana cake recipes for the actual cake. I used a 16 inch ...

Coolest Dog Cake 32 This dog cake is a 1/4 sheet cake. Frosted in white buttercream frosting. I printed out a picture of my daughter favorite stuffed dog on the computer....

Coolest Tiki Mask Cake 18 For my son's 2nd birthday party we did a Luau theme. For his Tiki Mask cake and cupcakes I used 2 boxes of Duncan Hines cake total and about 4 lbs of ...

Coolest Easter Bunny Cake 20 This Easter bunny cake is so easy to make. All you need is the round cake pan. Bake 2, one for the head and the other for the ears and the bow.

White ...

Coolest Lego Cake 6 I baked this Lego cake for my son for his 10th birthday party . I just used a regular 9x13 and cut it into 3 equal parts , the 3rd part I cut in half , used ...

Coolest Pirate Ship Cake 73 I created a "Pirate Ship" cake for my son's 6th birthday. It was my first attempt at a cake other than a traditional layer cake. I got the main idea from ...

Coolest Dora Cake 62 My auntie wanted me to make her daughter a birthday cake and I had made my daughter a Dora cake so my auntie liked the cake I made for my own daughter ...

Coolest Log Cutters Cake 28 My mom and I made this log cutters cake together for my step dad on Father's Day.

My mom made the cake itself using two Betty Crocker Chocolate Cake ...

Coolest Football Cake 36 I made this football cake for my best friend's son's birthday. The bottom piece is a half sheet made of vanilla and chocolate. I covered it with home ...

Coolest Drama Theater Cake 27 For a friend of mines sister's sweet 16 she didn't want a girly sweet sixteen cake. She is in the drama club. So I put this drama theater cake together....

Coolest Little Mermaid Cake 48 This was my first non-rectangle cake. I was inspired by many similar cakes on the web.

My Little Mermaid cake took it's shape from a 10" round pan ...

Coolest Incredibles Cake 8 My son wanted an Incredible birthday party and I decided to make one Incredible cake for him. I used the Wilton stand up teddy bear as a start and carved ...

Coolest Little People Farm Cake 5 After seeing the Little People farm cake decorating kit, I decided I could do something similar using the Little People Farm I was thinking about buying ...

Coolest Pirate Island Treasure Cake 27 My son's party was a pirate theme party. I had seen some pics online, and he had some ideas (a small pirate set we got at the dollar store he wanted on ...

Coolest Race Track Cake 42 My son wanted a birthday cake with Mustangs on it. So, I got some hot wheel cars and made a plain racetrack cake.

Decorated it with butter cream ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 104 I made this Spongebob cake for my friend's son. I made 4 9 in. square cakes and cut them accordingly. I made two vanilla and two chocolate.

I covered ...

Coolest T-Rex Cake 45 Two 9x13 cakes were used for the shape of this T Rex cake. Covered with buttercream and draped with fondant.

Drape and create wrinkled flesh and ...

Coolest Camping Cake 9 I made this camping cake for my nephew. A simple sheet cake which I iced green. I borrowed the vehicle and the "hunter" from my son.

The tent is ...

Coolest Castle Cake 179 This Castle cake was such a fun cake! It is a Pillsbury Funfetti cake. The bottom is a half sheet, and the two "towers" are another half sheet, cut into ...

Coolest Veggie Tales Cake 9 My son absolutely loves the Veggie Tales so this year, I wanted to give it a shot. I looked everywhere for Veggie Tale cakes and no one knew how to make ...

Coolest Lady Bug Cake 60 I had just bought the soccer ball cake pan and had to try it out so I made a lady bug cake for my nieces 8th Birthday.

I made the lady bug body from ...

Coolest Batman Cake 14 I made this Batman cake last month for my nephew. I could not find anything but a Batman candle to place on top the cake, so I used a hanging decoration ...

Coolest Flower Cake 40 I wanted to make a flower cake for my grandmother that she would remember and not knowing to much about decorating I decided to give it a whirl anyway....

Coolest Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake 52 These Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes were done for my boss's son Hunter, for his 1st birthday in 2008. His party was the Baby Einstein theme.

I used ...

Coolest Train Cake 78 This train cake was for my son's 4th birthday. I have a cake pan for the loco-motive and used small bread pans for the freight cars. Butter cream icing ...

Coolest Graduation Cake 17 This graduation cake I made for my sister's graduation party. The cake is a 2 layer 16in round iced in buttercream. The roses are royal icing that I made ...

Coolest Superman Logo Cake 11 The whole cake was iced in blue fist, then iced in red free handed over the blue. The Icing was lightlly heated to then cooled again. The yellow icing ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 103 I made this Spongebob cake for my son's 4th birthday, who is a total Spongebob fanatic. This cake was so easy to make because Spongebob is...well...square....

Coolest Pirate Ship Cake 72 My daughter loved the cake and her friends too. She helped me with the pirate shop cake but we didnt know if the cake will look good.

She loved it and ...

Coolest Picnic Table Cake 4 I made this picnic table cake for a family camping weekend after seeing similar cakes on this site and other websites. It was my first attempt at this ...

Coolest Castle Cake 182 I made this castle cake using several ideas I obtained from this site and created my own original.

It was really easy using a 10" and 6" round. Ice ...

Coolest Mickey Mouse Cake 10 This Mickey Mouse cake I made for my sons 4th birthday. I just got 2 round cake pans and baked it and then cut/leveled off the top of the cake.

I found ...

Coolest Barbie Cake 111 I made this Barbie cake for my cousin's 6th birthday as she loves everything princess and pink! I cooked the cake in a Pyrex bowl, as we didn't have a ...

Coolest Curious George Cake 36 My husband joined me in the kitchen to make this fun Curious George cake.

I began with a printout of Curious George's face, enlarged to fit the pan....

Coolest Beach Ball Cake 5
I made this beach ball cake for my son's 2nd birthday party and wow, was it the talk of the party. I also made a mini one "just for him". I used the ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 34 I took my inspiration from Kerry-Sue B. in Ontario, Canada. Thank you for submitting your cake to coolest birthday cakes. However, I did not have the ...

Coolest Ladybug Cake 59 For my daughter's first birthday we went with a ladybug theme. I used a Wilton Ladybug cake pan. I used Wilton Buttercream homemade icing. I found the ...

Coolest Train Cake 77 My son absolutely loves trains. For his second birthday I decided to attempt the task to make him an amazing train cake.

The day before I made 3 loaf ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 33 My little sweetie was turning 5 and she collects monkeys, everything she can get her "paws" on has to be monkey. So she asked of course for what else? Mummy ...

Coolest Frog Cake 42 This frog cake was inspired by a pin I found. I baked two sheet cakes, one 9x12 and another 8x8. I then set the 9x12 lengthwise (horizontal)and placed ...

Coolest Monkey Cake 35 This monkey cake was made for my daughter's 15th birthday. It was a basic yellow cake with buttercream filling and chocolate buttercream exterior.

I ...

Coolest Baseball and Bat Cake 42 We did a baseball theme for my four year old's birthday party this year, so naturally we needed a baseball and bat cake. I used a 2 qt Pyrex dish for the ...

Coolest Jack O Lantern Pumkin Cake 27 I made a Jack O Lantern pumpkin cake for my friend's anniversary party, married on Halloween! I wanted to make something original but recognizable.

I ...

Coolest Piggy Cake 13 We used a regular box of chocolate cake mix and filled an 8-in round cake pan for this piggy cake. We used the remaining batter to fill small loaf pans ...

Go Kart Cake 1 I made this cake for my son's 6th Birthday . We were going Go-Karting for his party so he decided that he wanted a Go Kart Cake.

I bought a little ...

Coolest Hello Kitty Cake 48 This was my first attempt at doing a birthday cake for my daughter Leah. I made this Hello Kitty cake using 5 Victoria sponge mixes from Tesco. I put it ...

Coolest Dinosaur Cake 44 For my son's first birthday, I planned to make him a small sugar free cake. That turned into a more elaborate dinosaur cake to go along with the dino theme ...

Coolest Frog Cake 41 My son wanted a frog birthday cake. I looked at your site with him and he came up with this frog cake idea himself. I was ready to do the frog shape ...

Coolest Beach Cake 32 I made this beachcake for a friend who loves the beach. I made a rectangular sponge cake then iced half with blue buttercream and the other half with plain ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 61 I found a cake similar to this Finding Nemo cake on your site and thought I could probably make it. I used the sports ball pan with a 6 inch cake in the ...

Coolest Barbie Doll Cake 110 I used the Wilton doll dress pan and then placed that on top of a 9x13 cake to give the dress of the Barbie Doll cake more height. I wrapped a Barbie ...

Coolest Kung Fu Panda Cake 1 I made this Kung Fu Panda cake for my nephew Noel's 7th birthday. He wanted Kung Fu Panda but there are not many ideas out there yet so I decided to do ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 100 I doubled the recipe for this Spongebob cake and made a large carrot cake, and baked in a 30x30cm square tin. When cake was cooled, I sliced the side ...

Coolest High School Musical Cake 6 This High School Musical cake is for my daughter who is 5. She wanted a High School Musical party and since I have always made her cakes I was struggling ...

Coolest Hambuger Cake 50 This hamburger cake is slightly different from most of these recipes. Used a dome pan for the top, 9" cake pan for the bottom. White cake for buns. Brownie ...

Coolest Monkey Cupcakes 5 I made these monkey cupcakes for my daughters 9th birthday! She loves monkeys!

I used the Wilton animal cake pan. I cut off the ears and placed them ...

Coolest Spongebob Cake 101 I made this Spongebob cake for my son's 7th birthday! He loved it! It looks a lot harder than it really is!

I used a 9x13 pan with one cake mix. It ...

Coolest Castle Cake 175 For this castle cake I started with two 10x13 cream cheese pound cake layers as my base with a strawberry filling. My second layer was a single 7x10 lemon ...

Coolest Cars Willy's Butte Dirt Track Cake 8 I wanted to do a Cars cake for my son's 3rd birthday, but ended up with not a lot of time. I used the Willy's butte idea from another submitter who submitted ...

Coolest Sand Castle Cake 7 I made this sand castle cake for a little girl's 10th birthday pool party. I thought this was a great twist on the regular castle cake and it was really ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 21 I was naive enough to let my kid browse through this site when he was about to turn three. We looked at all the beautiful Nemo-cakes, and he pointed at ...

Coolest Wookie Cake 3 I made this Wookie cake after a girl friend of mine requested it for her birthday. I had made a 3D R2D2 cake for my son’s birthday after getting great ...

Coolest Snake Cake 23 My nephew loves snakes (and all things 'creepy and gross'!) so for his 5th birthday we searched for ideas and found this site for a snake cake. So many ...

Coolest Waterfall Cake 4 I made this waterfall cake when I was 13 years old for my neighbor's 11th Birthday Party! I asked if he had any perforations, and he ask if I could do ...

Coolest Ski Cake 3 I made this ski cake for a cake auction and it won the highest bid! The auction was for my son's boy scout troop. I used a round ball cake pan and another ...

Coolest Finding Nemo Cake 62 My son was so into Nemo that I made him a huge theme Nemo Party. I made the Finding Nemo cake for him and he was so excited. He didn't want us to cut ...

Coolest Castle Cake 177 Deciding on a theme for my daughter's second birthday was the easy part because she loves anything with princesses. Designing and creating the perfect ...

Coolest Football Cake 34 My Family are hardcore Raider Fans and they Loved this Football Cake!

Coolest Barnyard Cake 29 The barnyard cake can be any size you want - depending on how many you are feeding. I made the barn brown due to a mishap with the icing but red would ...

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