Andrea S.
This taco cake was fun to make and not particularly difficult! I baked a round cake, cut it in half and stacked with buttercream icing. Meanwhile, I tinted fondant a yellow/brown/orange to match the color of a corn tortilla. I also added some Oreo cookie crumbs to the fondant to add to the corn tortilla … Read more
Following a video tutorial on “How to Cake It,“ I baked a white cake in a large Pyrex measuring bowl and covered it with a buttercream crumb coat. I covered the cake with a tinted fondant to produce the bowl. I also covered the top with a thin layer of white fondant to provide a … Read more
My 12 year old daughter wanted her birthday cake to be a donut cake. One could choose to sculpt two 8 or 10″ round cakes into the shape of a donut but I chose to buy a donut-shaped cake pan set instead (so much easier!). I purchased the Entenmann’s brand “Jumbo Non-stick Donut Pan” which … Read more
My son asked for a cake that looks like pancakes. Challenge accepted! The cake is 4-layers of 6″ cakes. The ‘pancakes’ are tinted marshmallow fondant ‘rings’ stacked around the cake. I tried to make the rings a little messy to look like odd-shaped pancakes. The top pancake is entirely fondant. I painted the pancakes with … Read more
I made this giant Oreo cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday (her choice). It is a 3-layer cake (middle layer cut slightly smaller) frosted with chocolate buttercream tinted with some black gel. All of the details are marshmallow fondant tinted the same color. I shaped everything freehand and placed on the cake. The OREO letters … Read more
Thanks to CoolestBirthdayCakes.com I looked at many previous guitar cake submissions and came up with a PLAN. Here is what I did: Two days ahead of the party, I made a template by tracing around a Gibson Guitar Hero guitar that we have at home. I needed to reduce the size just slightly so that the … Read more