Original Birthday Cake Idea: Drive-In Theater Cake

I usually like to get ideas from other cakes, but this time there weren’t very many drive in theater cakes to look at….so I had to come up with my own ideas!   The theme of the party was “movie star/red carpet event” for a 7 year old girl.  Activities included face painting, lots of … Read more

Cool My Little Pony Castle Cake

Cool My Little Pony Castle Cake

This My Little Pony castle cake is made of 2 10″ layers; 2 5″ layers, 7 turrets, and a set of stairs.  The cake layers themselves were colored pink and yellow to match the outside. The turrets are made of rice krispie treats; the turret roofs are sugar cones covered with a thin layer of … Read more

Awesome (But Easy) Care Bears Cake

Awesome (But Easy) Care Bears Cake

The first thing I always do when designing a birthday cake is to look at lots of ideas and then put together my favorite parts and sketch out my design.  Then I make a plan….for this Care Bears cake I needed a way to support the fondant rainbows, so I asked my husband to cut and bend … Read more

Cute Homemade Carved Buzz Lightyear Birthday Cake

Homemade Buzz Lightyear Birthday Cake

I put together several ideas I saw in Google-images and came up with this cake for my grandson’s 5th birthday. This was my 3rd attempt at using fondant and my first attempt at making a “sculpted” cake completely covered with fondant. I used homemade marshmallow fondant– very easy and inexpensive to make and it also … Read more