Kari Z.
My husband turned 40 recently and I wanted to surprise him with a big cake for his surprise party. I ordered two cake pans from The Lakeside Collection that allows you to make any number or letter, by rearranging the separator blocks. I used these pans to bake two number 4’s and two number 0’s. … Read more
My son wanted a Lightning McQueen cake for his third birthday. I figured the only way to get the full effect of the car was to carve it. I made three chocolate fudge 9×13 cakes and filled them with hazelnut buttercream, and then froze the cake slightly to make it easier to carve. I cut … Read more
I made this Homemade Flower Cake for my mother’s 60th birthday. It is a 2 layer 8″ round vanilla cake filled with chocolate fudge buttercream and fresh strawberries. When filling the cake, I found it easier to put a layer of frosting on both cakes (top of the bottom layer and bottom of the top … Read more
My son’s daycare was having a luau themed 2nd anniversary party, and they asked me to make the Homemade Luau Cake. A week before the party, I made all of the decorations that are on the cake out of royal icing (palm leaves, flowers, chairs, sign, surf board); the palm leaves were taped to an … Read more
My son is really into the PBS show, Dinosaur Train, so for his 4th birthday he wanted his cake to be Buddy the T-Rex from the show. All of the cakes were made from scratch. The base was a marble, the body was chocolate, and the head was vanilla. I filled all of the layers … Read more
This Homemade Wizard of Oz Cake was for my daughter’s 6th birthday. She was really into The Wizard of Oz, and she wanted a theme cake. I started off by baking two 9×13 cakes (one confetti, and one strawberry). I filled both bakes with vanilla buttercream and placed them side by side on a cake … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my father last year when he retired, and also for his birthday. He loves golf so I decided on making a golf cake for him. Since my father loves Boston Cream Pie, I made one using a 9×13 pan and divided it into three layers and filled it … Read more
Since my daughter was having her 8th birthday party at an indoor trampoline park, she wanted an Angry Birds themes cake and party. I started off by baking 4 9x13x2 cakes (2 vanilla, 2 chocolate) to make a two layer 18x13x4 cake as the base. I alternated the cake layers so that one half was … Read more