My daughter told me she wanted a birthday cake with a ghost and fall harvest. I’m not a professional baker. I’m a stay home mom but I like to bake different kind of stuff for my family and friends. The cake was from scratch, just a regular chocolate cake. I frosted it with chocolate ganache … Read more
I had a specific request for this Halloween graduation cake; it had to be text books because it was for a graduation. It had to have a knife stabbed into it and it had to have what was written on the ‘sheet of paper’ . The girl was graduating with a Social Work degree around … Read more
My name is Teresa Newton and I work as an EMT on an ambulance. I have been baking for friends and family most of my adult life and began doing cakes after taking a Wilton basic course in 2000. This skeleton cake was for my friend whose son turned 17 on Halloween. The cake itself … Read more
I made this cake for a toddlers Halloween party. I used 3 layers of pound cake covered in butter cream then black fondant. I made the witch from a mixture of fondant and flower paste and the green in the cauldron is butter cream. (The skeleton and spiders are plastic toys)
The base of this cake is a 16×2 cake pan. As I did make mostly everything on this cake, however my two sons did put together and decorate the gingerbread haunted house, so they will get the credit for that. Now the ghosts are made of white and brown modeling chocolate. I started with a … Read more
My 8yr old wanted Swamp Monster scary good birthday cake, so here it is. I was inspired by the Lego’s Monster Fighters. I baked 2 round cakes, and 6 cupcakes. I froze them for better frosting later! (trick I learned on this site). I cut out a hole and put a bowl for the “swamp”. I dipped … Read more
This Halloween Cauldron Cake was quite an experience to make, it was my first time using fondant and we didn’t quite get along. It stated as a three layer 8’ cake. I frosted between the layer and stuck it in the freezer for about an hour. I then shaped it with a serrated knife, gave it a good crumb coat … Read more
I had a lot of fun with this scariest big 50th birthday cake. I figured you only turn 50 once in your life, my birthday just happens to be the day before Halloween, so this is what I did. I made the cake from scratch, yes chocolate.I used chocolate frosting for the entire cake. Then I made … Read more
I created this pumpkin cake for a girl’s 5th birthday party. I baked a half sheet cake then made rice crispy treats and cut out the cake where the pumpkin was going to sit and inserted a section of the rice crispy to hold the weight of the pumpkin. I baked cake in two bundt … Read more
This cake was made for a 10 tear old ,it is chocolate with chocolate buttercream covered in orange vanilla fondant,the work on the cake is fondant and piped fondant,the top of the cake is a Rice Krispie form covered in fondant,the face is hand painted with edible silver,the tombstone is a Rice Krispie slab covered … Read more
I created this silly Monster Cake + Monster Cupcakes for my daughter’s 3rd birthday! This cake was made from two 6″ cakes (each cut in half to make 4 layers) and I used one half of a ball cake pan for the top of the head. I used yellow cake and a milk chocolate cream … Read more
I decided to try to make a cake for the 1st time in my entire life. I have been watching so many cake shows I wanted to try fondant. I made 2 round (Duncan Hines moist and delicious red velvet) cakes of different sizes. Sorry, can’t remember the exact cake sizes, but I think it … Read more