This is a homemade 1/2-sheet butter cake, covered in white “chocolate plastic” and decorated with meringue buttercream frosting. The design of Mike and Sully is adapted from the movie DVD cover. I made several practice crayon sketches on paper, then sketched in the basic shapes on the cake using an art paintbrush dipped in tinted … Read more
This little first Moose A Moose Birthday Cake idea came from the Noggin website. I printed out the template and free handed the piping. It really was not all that difficult. I use organic cake mix as a substitute and found mint calorie pack cookies to cut for Zee’s wings(only things different from the Noggin … Read more
I couldn’t find this Ni Hao Kai Lan Cake anywhere, so I decided to ask a friend of mine if she could come up with something( she is very creative and bakes cakes for special occasions). This is what she came up with. It was a white cake with strawberry filling. She iced it and … Read more
I made this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Birthday Cake for my son in 2011. I used the Wilton Ninja Turtle cake pan, covered it first with a layer of marshmallow fondant icing colored with a hint of brown. I then traced the figure in brown butter cream icing with strawberry flavor, and filled the details … Read more
I was asked to make a cake for my best friends 24th birthday and I jokingly asked “What do you want on it; teenage mutant ninja turtles?” Well he thought that was a great idea. I pondered over what to use. Fondant…no too expensive – and messy to make. Then I had an idea – … Read more
This Peep and the Big Wide World Cake was really my first attempt at making a 3D cake, it was for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used a Wilton egg shaped pan and cut the bottom off (I used the extra piece for a rock and put candles in it). I used a mini cup … Read more
I made this Peppa Pig and George Cake for my little girl’s 2nd birthday as she is obsessed with Peppa Pig. I molded the figures into Peppa and George and his dinosaur using different coloured sugarpaste. The sofa was made by cutting up an 8″ round cake and sticking the pieces together with jam and … Read more
The idea for this Peppa Pig Birthday Cake came about for a friend’s daughter, who LOVES Peppa! I got lots of ideas from Coolest-Birthday-Cakes – thank you. I made an oval cake and cut the shape out of that. It was a vanilla sponge, filled with Betty Crocker butter cream and strawberry jam. I iced … Read more
This Peppa Pig cake is a chocolate mocha cake with chocolate butter cream icing as filling and on the top. I covered the cake with store bought fondant and made the Peppa with fondant too. I bought just white fondant and then colored it with paste colors. Then I used red, blue, green, yellow and … Read more
I made this Phineas and Ferb birthday cake for a friend’s six year old son. The bottom layer is an 11 x 15 inch homemade marble cake; the next two layers are 9 x 13 funfetti and marble cake, filled with fudge chocolate butter cream frosting. I cut the front right corner of the 9 … Read more
This Pikachu Birthday Cake was really pretty simple. I made it for my son Nick on his 9th birthday. He’s quite the Pokemon fan. I iced the cake in baby blue buttercream. I combed wavy lines into the side and top. I piped the red lightening and smoothed it followed by a black outline. I … Read more
My son wanted me to make a Pokeball for his birthday cake, so here is my attempt!! Used Pyrex bowls to make the pokeball. I only had to use one box of cake mix. Filled each 2.5 quart bowl half way. I also put parchment paper on the bottom of each bowl to prevent the … Read more