Coolest Homemade Curious George Cakes 6

I filled in the body with chocolate icing using a star tip for texture. For the ears, face and hands I mixed some of the chocolate and vanilla to make a lighter brown. I trimmed the bottom of the cake in the chocolate icing and made lines going from the bottom to the top all … Read more

Coolest The Cat in the Hat Book Cake

Homemade The Cat in the Hat Book Cake

This The Cat in the Hat Book Cake is the first cake book that I made. I made it for my daughter’s class and they celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday. My cake is made of buttercream icing and spray painted it. The character in the front is made out of fondant and colored it with edible … Read more

Coolest Dr Seuss Birthday Cake Photos and How-To Tips 5

For this Green Eggs and Ham Dr Seuss birthday cake, I followed the instructions of the cake listed on this site with the exception of using Girl Scout cookies for the eggs I had those on hand so I cut the edges off and placed two cookies together then frosted them and added the green … Read more

Cool Homemade Frankenstein Cake

Homemade Frankenstein Cake

I made this Frankenstein Cake for my sister in-laws Halloween party, everyone enjoyed it very much. I started with stacking four round chocolate cakes. Then I did a crumb coat on all four layers. Cooled cake in fridge. Then I iced them green, except the top portion of the head. Used chocolate writing pen to … Read more

Coolest Herbie the Love Bug Cake Photos and Tips 3

I started with a double stacked 10 layer cake. Then I used the Wiltons sports ball pan and baked half of the ball. I cut one side of the half ball flat and used this for the base of the car body. I then used the piece I cut off for the base of the … Read more

Coolest Indiana Jones Birthday Cake

Homemade Indiana Jones Birthday Cake

I created Indy with fondant and rice krispies. This Indiana Jones Birthday Cake was my first time using fondant (and second cake ever, which I am sure you can tell!). It took me 90 minutes to get the white fondant brown. The bridge is cake, with pretzel posts, Twizzler ropes and graham cracker steps. Overall, … Read more

Coolest Indiana Jones Cake

Indiana Jones Silhouette in the Sunset Cake

My son wanted to have the full picture and face of Indiana Jones. I searched the web and couldn’t come up with anything that I felt would do justice to Indiana Jones. So while on the “official” Indiana Jones site the silhouette image appeared while the web page was loading and “bam” my cake idea … Read more

Coolest Max and Ruby Birthday Cake

Homemade Max and Ruby Birthday Cake

This Max and Ruby cake was made with 2 cake mixes. They were baked in 3 batter bowls. One large bowl and two small bowls and two cupcakes. (One of the small ones was a little larger then the other.) The tops of the cakes will come out a little domed. I cut them off … Read more

Coolest Miss Spider Cake

Homemade Miss Spider Cake

We created this beautiful, flawless homemade Miss Spider cake in honor of Miss Spider’s Tea Party book. Her lovely children she is holding are cupcakes. Her eyes are M&M’s, legs are black licorice, and freckles are silver edible beads. We also put darker colored yellow sugar on the edges of her adorable body to add … Read more

Coolest Percy Jackson Cake

Homemade Percy Jackson Cake

This Percy Jackson Cake was based on the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Lightning Thief book by Rick Riordan. This was for my son’s 9th birthday. I started with a collage of various images with a piece of wax paper on top and used dark chocolate icing piped with a No. 3 tip for the … Read more

Coolest Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake

Homemade Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake

My husband and I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for our baby’s first birthday. It took about 1 1/2 bundt cakes to get just the right shape to the caterpillar. I made the icing and just tried to swirl in the greens, etc for the body. There is a yellow outline along the … Read more