This terrific Teddy Bears Picnic cake was my daughter’s 2nd birthday cake. I’d not had much experience with cake decorating, so I was pretty pleased with the result. I was also pretty pleased with people’s reactions to it at the party! We don’t like our child having too much food coloring, so we decided this was a … Read more
A girl at my job was having a baby shower and this karate themed baby shower cake was fun to make! I tried to make the head out of actual cake at first but it didn’t turn out well at all! So I just balled up a lot of fondant and presto a nicely shaped head. … Read more
I was tasked with making a baby doll cake for a 6 year old little girl’s birthday. Easy right? WRONG! My first idea was to use the Wilton 3D teddy bear pan, only make it a doll and not a bear. Then I had an image of hacking up a doll pop in to my … Read more
This was the duckling cake that I made for the kids of my apartment. Exams were over and they wanted to celebrate. Completed the entire thing in flat 3 hours. The kids loved it. It was an emergency order and all that I could think of was to make the cake simple and sweet ….something … Read more
I was so excited when my daughter in law asked me to make a Christening cake for my grandson’s christening. She sent me a picture of how she wanted it to look so the next day I started to make the models for the top of the cake. I made an elephant, 3 small blocks in … Read more
I made this Teddy Bears Picnic cake after seeing a picture similar and liked it. The grass is piped icing using nozzle number 233. The bears and creatures are made using a mix of 50/50 sugar paste and flower paste. I created a blanket for them to sit on and food. To make the bear heads, … Read more
I was asked to do a cake for a lady having a little girl and after seeing and getting inspirational ideas from here, this baby bump cake is what I came up with. Using a Pyrex bowl for the belly, heart shaped tin for the boobs, although after thought on this one would have used the off cuts … Read more
I baked a red velvet cake and covered it in yellow and green fondant. I had envisioned a beautiful diaper bag. I cut it to where it would look realistic and ended up on night 1 disappointed at the fact that it looked like a horrific glob of ugly yellow and green-ness. I had worked … Read more
I was asked to try and make a submarine under the sea diaper cake. I had only done 3 tier diaper cakes and diaper bassinets, so this was something I really had to think about. I had to find something that could help me form the diapers into a submarine shape. I used stackable round hat boxes … Read more
I made this Baby Shower cake for my friend Lisa’s baby shower. The cake had four color layers and two flavors. I used vanilla and yellow Betty Crocker cake mixes and separated the batter from each cake into two. I used food color to color the batter before I baked it. The flowers and the … Read more
This is the Baby Shower Cake I made for someone my husband works for. The first thing I had to do was decide what I wanted to put on the cake as I knew that those pieces would need time to dry and there would be several so there would be surprises all the way … Read more
This 1st birthday cake was done for a one year old who loves flowers and butterflies. I had done this little girl’s baby shower cake before she was born, so it was a labor of love. This is a two tiered 10″ and 5″ round butter cream chocolate cake with a whipped chocolate ganache filling. … Read more