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I made this building blocks cake for my niece and nephew’s first birthday. I am a self taught cake maker and knew it would be a challenge. But wanted to give them the best cake ever. My sister in law found a picture of some building block cakes and said can you make something like … Read more
I made the ‘first birthday cake’ from “What to Expect the First Year”. It is carrot cake made with wheat flour, raisins and apple juice concentrate for sweetening. The brown frosting is cream cheese/raisin sweetened with apple juice concentrate. It was dense and fruity and enjoyed by carrot cake lovers. The white cake is buttercream … Read more
A friend asked me to make this Baby Shower Cake Design, the only thing I had to go on was that it needed to be pink! I had a rough idea in mind, but it actually took two weeks to make all the little squares, which are made from sugar paste. I also made individual … Read more
I made this Baby Blocks cake for my Godson’s Christening. I baked a large sheet cake of yellow cake from scratch and also a 13×9 sheet cake to cut up and use for the blocks. Once the cakes had cooled I cut the 13×9 into squares and then froze them both. When it came to … Read more
This alphabet blocks cake provided my first experience with using royal icing to cover a cake. It took 10 hours from the time I started preparing the cake until I put the last little worm on it. It took A LOT of effort, but I really wanted to bake something special for my daughter Aliya’s first birthday. … Read more
I always use packet mix – Betty Crockers Chocolate Fudge, because you can freeze it a couple of days prior, then carve and slice out the shape. And the kids LOVE the cake – seldom any leftovers! I froze the cake, and cut out the trolley shape. I used off cuts to ice as the … Read more
I baked two double round cakes in different sizes and cut a cake board to the size of the top tier so I could work on it separately before stacking on the bottom layer using wood dowels for support. Each cake is filled and covered in butter cream then covered with fondant. Using the flat side of … Read more
I made this homemade name alphabet cake for my son Zachary’s 1st birthday. I wanted something different from the giant #1 cake I’d done for his sister’s 1st birthday but that was still a “little” kid cake. Plus we wanted to keep the decorations relatively simple and weren’t really going with any particular character theme. … Read more
These seemed easy enough but I used whipped cream (which made them delicious but not very pretty.) They were tall and heavy so every time I tried to straighten one side they slide off the other. I used a chocolate childrens birthday cake recipe with whipped cream, raspberry and chocolate ganache. The cakes get a … Read more
This Baby Blocks Shower Cake is 1/2 sheet cake. I made it a basic yellow two mix cake but I added banana extract for a great surprising flavor. I made buttercream frosting and also added some banana extract to it to. I used fondant for the flowers. The filling is just a banana custard I … Read more
This Baby Blocks Cake is a 3 ingredient cake that taste AMAZING! Here is what you need to make it; graham crackers, heavy whipping cream and Hershey’s chocolate syrup. No measuring required, all you do is beat the heavy whipping cream until it turns to a nice whipped thickness (before it turns to butter) add … Read more
I made a large rectangle cake from a childrens birthday cake recipe and cut it up into nine individual squares. Each square is covered in a thin layer of buttercream icing then wrapped in colored fondant and decorated with royal icing sprinkles etc. It was pretty easy and can be altered slightly if you know … Read more