A school friend of mine, asked me to make a “Real Tinkerbell”’ cake for her daughter’s 3rd Birthday! REAL, meaning the girl did not want any fake fairies or dolls (who are not Tinkerbell) on her cake, she wanted a fairy that looked exactly like the Real Tinkerbell! I tried finding a plastic figurine, but this being … Read more
“Fairies and pirates, pixie dust and buried treasures… how do I capture that in a cake?” That was all I could think of in my jet lagged, exhausted head. My daughter’s 4th birthday party was 3 days away, and I had just landed after a 24h flight, and was devising a strategy on how to prepare … Read more
This Tinkerbell cake is a medium oval plus a small oval chocolate cake, split with strawberry jam on top, and the “tree” is half of a chocolate cake roll (cheated-store bought!). Iced with butter cream and royal, I’m not crazy about fondant. The path to the fairy door is candy rocks and fondany pebbles, grass etc. butter cream. I found … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell birthday cake using rice Krispies. I sculpted it to my liking and then made the icing coat. I then made marshmallow fondant and had fun making all the different colors. I then applied the fondant according to the most common colors needed for Tinkerbell. I cut out leaves for her dress and it turned out … Read more
This Tinkerbell cake was donated to an organization called Birthday Dreams. I bought a Tinkerbell doll to put on it. Then I saw that it was for a two year old. Not a good toy for a 2yr. old. So, I rolled out fondant and traced a picture of Tinkerbell, then colored her in with … Read more
I got a 9×13 pan and 2, 8 inch cake pans, used regular cake mix and made the “Pound cake” instructions on the side for the Tinkerbell cake. Used Wilton Butter cream icing mix (3 boxes). The round cake was strawberry with strawberry and bananas in the center. The square cake was marble. I used … Read more
I’ve been doing cakes in my spare time for a long time now. I really feared using fondant and was determined to stick with my home-made from scratch icing recipe (given to me by a friend). I decided it was time to get with the program and go for it. It seems to have worked … Read more
This Tinkerbell cake has a 8” round on top in green fondant with green leaves that I cut out by hand, also done in fondant and yellow swirls done in yellow royal icing. The next tier is a 10” round done in purple fondant with lavender royal icing swirls and gold stars made out of … Read more
This Tinkerbell Cake Design is my first ever marshmallow fondant cake for my daughter’s first birthday cake.
I made this Tinkerbell Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She wanted a Tinkerbell theme so I bought a doll and had a look at some ideas on this site for inspiration. I used my pampered chef small batter bowl to bake the cake and used a tried and tested sponge cake recipe – … Read more
The Tinkerbell teapot cake is made out of rice crispies and covered in marshmallow fondant. All the other decorations were made with gum paste. The cake is a pink, purple and green butter cake sandwiched with chocolate ganache and frosted with buttercream. Then green buttercream was frosted to look like grass and more gum paste … Read more
I brought Tink from Big W, she is tiny compared to Barbie dolls so I used a Pyrex glass jug for the base cake mix. Just sprayed well and cake came out easily. I made an extra little cake to make it that bit taller using a pudding bowl, then just trimmed the cakes to … Read more