For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, she wanted a Wiggles party. I wanted to make a Wiggles character cake for her, so I chose a Wags the Dog birthday cake decoration. I started with a Wilton 11x15x2 cake pan, which uses two boxes of cake mix. I also baked a round cake using a Pampered Chef … Read more
My brother was turning 16 and seeing how I recently started making cakes and made everyone else one, I knew I had to make him something great too. I knew he was into music so my idea was an iPod. Then my mom tells me he told her he wanted a Gaga cake for his … Read more
This Taylor Swift Birthday Cake was my very first fondant cake. My daughter is a huge Taylor Swift fan. I just became familiar with marshmallow fondant and have been using it to decorate sugar cookies. I decided to give it a try on a cake. I saw a pink and white “music” cake on bakery … Read more
I used the Wilton cruiser pan and cut the top to make it a convertible. Next I covered the cake with buttercream and then fondant. I used a book wrapped in foil to lift the cake up then attached fondant wheels. I used buttercream to decorate the Wiggles logo. I made the Wiggles and the … Read more
This Metallica Cake Design was requested by a Metallica fan’s wife for her husband’s birthday. She wanted her husbands tattoo of “the scary guy” incorporated into the design of the cake. It was a white cake with chocolate fudge icing. I covered it in black fondant. I suggested to the client that they choose fondant … Read more
My daughter LOVES Taylor Swift, so she wanted to have a Taylor Swift 10th Birthday Cake for her birthday. I used the small and medium paisley shaped cake pan from Wilton for the “Tear drop” design, since ‘Tear Drops on My Guitar’ is her favorite song. I frosted the marble flavored cake with white and … Read more
Henry the Octopus from The Wiggles is our 2-year-old daughters’ favourite character (she even got to meet him at Dreamworld and of her own accord gave him a kiss goodbye!). So when my husband and I started organizing her party we knew what the kid cake had to be. For amateurs it was very challenging … Read more
This Elvis Cake I made for a friend’s mother who loves Elvis. She absolutely loved it. I was quite pleased with the way it turned out also. I baked a two mix chocolate cake and crumb coated with with buttercream. I cut a strip of fondant and sugar glued it around the side of the … Read more
This Metallica Birthday Cake is my son’s 15th birthday cake. He is a diehard Metallica fan and Kirk Hammett is his favorite lead guitarist ever. I wanted to find a way to make a rockin’ cake that he would love and show incorporate his favorite things in life. Music, guitars, Kirk Hammett… So, I searched … Read more
I was asked to make a birthday cake for a friend’s little girl’s 3rd birthday, originally she wanted a Dora one – but then decided to choose a kettle from the “singing kettle”. I started this Homemade Singing Kettle Birthday Cake by making a vanilla sponge in a Pyrex bowl, but when it was cooked … Read more
I used a picture of Captain Feathersword from one of my daughter’s coloring books and I sketched it enlarging it on three sheets of paper and cut it out having three separate pieces. I baked two 9X13 cakes and used my pattern to cut out the pieces to make this Wiggles birthday cake. I used … Read more
I made this Elvis Cake just to try my hand at another view of decorating. I was giving the idea from my Mom, who at the time had other plans for this cake idea.