Cool Homemade Sock Monkey Cake Design

Homemade Sock Monkey Cake Design

This Sock Monkey Cake Design was a first on many levels! 1st birthday cake, first time to work with fondant, first Topsy-Turvy cake, first baby – okay, maybe I was crazy from oxytocin poisoning from all that breast feeding! The cake was a banana cake (Martha Stewart website for recipe)with chocolate butter cream icing (traditional … Read more

Coolest Fairy Cake Idea

Homemade Fairy Cake Idea

As you can see this Fairy Cake Idea was my first foray into making flowers and mixing colours! Fortunately my niece thought it magical. She wanted fairies and Unicorns, I found several colouring books that had the subjects in them. I also can NOT draw, so I traced using tracing paper, transferred on to water … Read more

Coolest Skull Bride Cake Design

Homemade  Skull Bride Cake Design

My 7 year old niece is really into Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)…and Princesses….and corpse brides…..and well, bones in general. She wanted all of this at her 7th birthday in January thus the Skull Bride Cake Design. I used a skull cake pan and added the roses for a princess feel and … Read more