Shannon S.
My daughter wanted a puppy party for her birthday, and we aren’t “pink” or “poodle” people, so I took the basic idea of using two 9-inch cake rounds to make the popular poodle cake, but just altered the shapes slightly for this dog cake. We then frosted the entire cake in white vanilla, and then … Read more
For this Mystery Van cake-Scooby Groovy, I started by baking two cake layers in loaf pans, dividing the batter beforehand and tinting it several different colors to create a rainbow effect when the cake was baked. Then, to assemble, we wrapped a Rice-a-Roni box with tinfoil, and stacked the leveled cake layers on top. After a … Read more
My son is a HUGE Ratatouille fan. At the time I made this cake, we had just moved into a new house, there weren’t a huge number of resources for Ratatouille cake ideas (why didn’t I think of the Cheese Block???), so this Ratatouille cake is what we came up with, using what we had on hand. I baked my … Read more
I love to make my kids’ cakes and see how their eyes light up when they see the finished product. I generally gather several ideas from others that I’ve seen and shoot for simplicity and easy execution. I went for a tank birthday cake. Working up from the bottom, we layered a cereal box covered … Read more