This pizza cake (for my pizza-craving husband’s birthday) was inspired by others on this site- thanks! 1. ‘Crust’ = white cake (from the box) baked in a large round pan. I didn’t have a 12-inch cake pan, so I used a large aluminum pie plate, bent the sides so they were straight, and lined the … Read more
My son wanted a Pepperoni Pizza Birthday Cake Design. I looked at the pizza cakes on this site and combined some ideas. I got a pizza box from my pizzeria so it looked real. I bought a 12″ cake pan from Michaels craft store, I used 1 1/2 vanilla cake mixes (used the leftover batter … Read more
I made this Popcorn cake for my daughter’s eighth birthday as she was going to the movies with a few friends for her birthday. I made a rectangular chocolate cake from which I then cut out the shape of popcorn in a box. I then covered the cake with chocolate buttercream icing. I covered the … Read more
We have a movie projector so we decided to do a movie night theme for my daughter’s 5th birthday. I got inspiration for this Popcorn Birthday Cake from this site. Made an 11×15 chocolate cake, it was harder to hide than a white cake as suggested, but my daughter requested chocolate specifically. Found a buttercream … Read more
The tops of cupcakes made to look like popcorn (for a popcorn segment in a 2nd grade class). This popcorn cake came from the Family Fun website. Cut mini-marshmallows in half and immediately squish the sticky sides back together to form a piece of “popcorn”. Place the popcorn marshmallows on top of icing balls that … Read more
I saw other models of Sandwich Cake on the Web but they were mostly made with fondant. I made mine with 2 sheet cakes, iced with buttercream. I used fondant to make the lettuce, tomatoes, pickle and chips.
This homemade S’mores cake was for my nephew’s birthday. He had his friends gather for a “camping” party. The cakes are two, 8 inch square chocolate cakes. The filling is marshmallow creme and vanilla frosting, equal parts mixed together. For this cake I used 3/4 C of each one. The chocolate was 1 C melted … Read more
This is a Spaghetti and Meatball Cake I made for a friend who loves Italian food (don’t we all). I used a oven proof bowl for the “spaghetti” part of the cake and the Meatballs were Candy. The Parmesan cheese was white chocolate grated over the cake. The Parmesan Can was make from Shortcake sponge … Read more
I made these sushi cupcakes for a friend of mine who is a sushi fanatic. I got the idea from this site as well as a few other recipe sites. I actually just used a french vanilla box cake mix and divided the batter into both mini cupcake pans as well as mini loaf pans. … Read more
This was a specialty cake idea I came up with after looking at other sushi theme cakes. The cake is covered in buttercream frosting. Then I used fondant for the wasabi, chopsticks, platter seaweed and sashimi. The sashimi sits on top of molded rice crispy treats. The soy sauce is chocolate syrup with a little … Read more
I made this gumball cake for my sons 15th birthday after we saw Duff make one on Ace of Cakes. The cake is made from 4 Victoria sandwiches. I used a Victoria sponge recipe and added cocoa powder to give my son the chocolate cake he wanted. The cakes were sandwiched together with chocolate butter … Read more
I made this M&M cake for my father-in-law’s birthday. He is crazy about M&Ms, so I thought this would be a good idea. It was also an easy way to do one cake with chocolate frosting, and one with vanilla. I made two 6 inch layer marble cakes (boxed cake mix). Using canned frosting, I … Read more