I made this Dora the explorer cake for my daughters second birthday. She is a mad Dora fan. I drew the picture freehand from one of the many Dora items around our house onto some grease proof paper. I had to make two cakes using one large rectangular pan (chocolate cake) and a circular pan … Read more
I made these Easter cupcakes for my four-year old son’s nursery school class. I used some buttercream icing to “glue” the marshmallow bunnies to the top of the cooled cupcakes. Then I used a grass tip to completely cover the top of the cupcake with buttercream icing tinted green. I built up the grass around … Read more
I browsed this site for ideas for dog cakes to make for my son’s birthday party at school. He is very devoted to his school, the Vicksburg Bulldogs! It was made with a 9×13 cake pan. I cut 1/3 of the end off and then cut a two inch strip off of the third (to … Read more
I looked at another dog cake on this website and didn’t have all the resources to copy them so I had to come up with some other ideas. Thanks to the Food Network and brainstorming I had my dog out of Rice Crispies and sat her on top of a double layer rainbow cake covered … Read more
I browsed the Web and found some really cool dog birthday cake recipe ideas. This dog is about 20 inches long, 12 inches wide and about 9 inches tall. It was for my son’s first birthday and we had a Dalmatian that he loved. I stacked three sheet cakes and carved the basic shape, carved … Read more
I was called to create a laptop for a 40th birthday. I did some research and due to time constraints, decided to make his iPad birthday cake. The screen shot is the ACTUAL screen shot from his iPad. It looked so real, his 6 years old son went to grab it right off the cake! The … Read more
My son wanted a police car cake for his third birthday. I didn’t find many ideas on the web so I came up with this myself. Originally I was going to make the whole cake out of two 9x13s, cutting one to be the top of the car. But they came out too thin so … Read more
My daughter was turning five and wanted to be Chef’s, like in Ratatouille so I came up with the only cake that a couple of Chef rats would love, a cheese cake in a form of a big wedge of Cheese. I got the characters at a bakery. I baked three round yellow layer cakes … Read more
My nephew really wanted a crocodile cake for his birthday and we couldn’t find a cake tin. I searched the net to get some ideas and thought this can’t be that hard. I cooked three cakes to make him – two rounds and one rectangle. I drew a pattern out of paper for each section … Read more
My husband and I made this for our four year old daughter for her birthday. We got lots of ideas from other crocodile cakes on this site! What we did was make two 9 x 12 cakes, and then we cut out shapes that reminded us of an alligator. There was a lot of piecing … Read more
This Wishing Well cake is made for a bridal shower. It is made with three 10-inch rounds stacked. The steps are made out of fondant as well as the wishing well. The trees are from chocolate mold, the pine trees are ice-cream cones…. Thanks for all the amazing cakes on this site! Another Wishing Well … Read more
My son is a Lego Star Wars fanatic and so it was no surprise that he wanted a Star Wars Lego cake design for his birthday. But I had no idea that he would ask for Lego Star Wars figures sitting in his grandpa’s HOT TUB! He took his time deciding on which characters he wanted to have on … Read more