Cool Homemade Castle Cake Idea for a Boy

Homemade Castle Cake Idea

This Castle Cake Idea I made for my son’s 6th birthday. It’s sponge cake which I made the day before and covered in chocolate buttercream. But a few weeks before, I made the icing walls and turrets out of fondant and embossed them with a stone pattern and left them to dry. Assembly on the … Read more

Cool Homemade Dora Scene Cake Idea

Homemade Dora Cake Idea

This Dora Cake Idea is a fourth birthday cake – only the top two layers are cake, the bottom is a Styrofoam form – we simply didn’t need that much cake! The cakes are covered in fondant with the details and figures made from fondant a couple of weeks in advance (I used cocktail sticks … Read more

Coolest Lightsabre Cake Idea

Homemade Lightsabre Cake Idea

This Lightsabre Cake Idea is a 5th birthday cake for a young Star Wars fan. The cake is made out of homemade Swiss-rolls for the blade rolled to decreasing diameter. The handle is made out of a sponge cake made in a loaf tin and shaped. It was all then covered in appropriate coloured fondant. … Read more