Well , my grandchildren always allow me to make their birthday cakes. Alexis wanted a dog with lots of friends. So a big yellow dog was designed. I am not a pro so I gather ideas everywhere but mostly from your site. It took 3 dh butter box mixes. One for a 13x 9 base, … Read more
This Pug birthday cake was made to look like the birthday girl’s pet pug. It was also a mustache party, which is why there is one on the pug! I baked two 11″x15″ cakes and layered them with white butter cream icing. I smooth iced the top 2/3 of the cake with butter cream icing tinted sky blue, and … Read more
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 Father’s Day two years ago, I decided to bake my husband a special cake. You see, he is a cancer survivor and through it all, his best canine friend has been by his side. We got Bunker just a couple weeks before my husband’s diagnosis. Bunker has been there through three surgeries and several … Read more
Love at first sight! That is how I describe the feeling when I first laid eyes on our little Mashi, Tillie. Those big, black eyes against her white cotton pelt were just heart melting. This was no dog, she became our baby. As her first birthday was approaching, I knew we had to have a … Read more
This awesome Yorkie cake was baked in the teddy bear stand up pan. I trimmed the ears to be pointed and cut the belly down a little. I put some icing on the ears so they would be smooth and made black eyes and nose. I used rolled/filled wafer cookies and measured them for the front legs. I … Read more
When making this Boxer dog cake for a little girl that loves dogs, it was a joy to see her face upon arrival. I made a chocolate sheet cake double layer, on top was the dog which I made a 8x9x2 rectangle cake, froze both and carved the dog out of the smaller cake. Icing: was … Read more
The head of this dog cake was made from rise krispy treats. The body is sponge and butter cream fondant icing. The ears I made separate with gum paste, hard to put on his head, it kept falling off. I sprayed with edible spray. The fur was made by pricking and pulling and scraping the fondant icing. As I … Read more
Conner’s stuffed animal friends are very important to him and we wanted to find a way that they could share in his special day, but since he has quite the crew taking them all to the bowling ally was out of the question – so we did the next best thing. The custom topper is … Read more
I came up with this Puppy Roller Skate Cake after a friend’s daughter decided to have a Skate Party with a Diva Puppy theme. I was reasonably certain I could make a roller skate cake, but wasn’t sure about a free form puppy. I started with a 9×13 cake. I found a boot print online and … Read more
I made this Chihuaha Cake for my nephew’s birthday. He wanted his Chihuaha dog as a cake. First I stacked two cakes on top of each other and carved the body design out of cake. Then I frosted the entire cake lightly with buttercream. Then I went over it with a no. 47 tip to … Read more
I made this Pug Dog cake as a belated birthday present to myself. I adore pugs but getting my own one is a long way away as I’m about to start graduate school. This cake is very easy and I imagine can be modified for any kind of dog. I used a 4-egg sponge recipe … Read more