Coolest Twilight Saga Cake

Homemade Twilight Saga Cake

I personally do not like the Twilight saga at all. However, my 14 year old sister is very much obsessed with it. So here you have it a cake inspired by the covers of the 4 twilight books. The apple is made of chocolate (I used candy melts) and is actually hollow and has two … Read more

Coolest Twilight Birthday Cake

Homemade Twilight Birthday Cake

This Twilight Birthday Cake is the cake I made for my daughter’s 14th birthday. I knew I wanted to do a Twilight themed cake, but didn’t have a specific plan. This cake is modeled after a beautiful cake I found on Miss Catty’s Cake. Thanks Ms. Catty! It is a two layer, single tiered red … Read more

Coolest Wizard of Oz Birthday Cake

Coolest Wizard of Oz Birthday Cake

This Wizard of Oz Birthday Cake was made entirely with buttercream icing and candy. It was filled with a whipped chocolate genache and was made with both butter yellow and devil’s food cakes (made side-by-side so people could choose their cake flavor). First, I did a crumb coat. Then, I made the yellow brick road … Read more

Coolest Wizard of Oz Cake Photos and How-To Tips 5

I made this Wizard of Oz cake for my daughter Annies 8th birthday party. Wizard of Oz party stuff is hard to find. I had to be very creative. After trying to find figures for my cake I gave up and found some cardstock stickers with the characters. I put them on skewers and decided … Read more

Coolest Hogwarts Castle Birthday Cake

Homemade Hogwarts Castle Birthday Cake

This Hogwarts Castle Birthday Cake is a fruit cake covered with chocolate Ganache. The fruit cake is one of my mom’s recipes. What gives this cake a really nice taste and aroma are the canary/cake seeds. The chocolate Ganache was made with equal proportions of chocolate and cream. I made the castle roof with ice … Read more

Cool Homemade Harry Potter Gryffindor Birthday Cake Design

Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design

I based this Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design off the movies and had a great time making it. The bottom is a chocolate cake with Oreo cream cheese filling and the “book” cakes are red velvet with cream cheese filling. All the objects are plain old fondant and then painted. The golden snitch has … Read more

Cool Homemade Hogwarts Birthday Cake

Homemade Hogwarts Birthday Cake

I made this Hogwarts birthday cake for my sister’s 16th birthday. The whole thing is edible, no cardboard or foam. The base is made of 6 rectangular cakes and the castle and Hagrid’s hut are carved from another 2, the lake is made from blue caramel, the towers are cake with fondant towers and the … Read more

Darth Vader

Star Wars Cakes

For my nephew’s seventh birthday both cakes were done using the image transfer method. I just printed out a picture of Darth Vader that I liked online and used clear piping gel to outline the image on wax paper and transfer it onto the cake, then filled in the image. I was happy with how … Read more

Coolest R2D2 Cake

Homemade R2D2 Cake

This R2D2 cake was for a ten year old’s birthday. He is/was a huuuuge Star Wars fan and this was a surprise cake. I had open range on characters but decided to go with R2 because he seemed to be the coolest to me. I constructed a wooden base with the legs made out of … Read more

Coolest Chewbacca Star Wars Cake

Homemade Chewbacca Star Wars Cake

My sons and I decided to make my husband a Chewbacca Star Wars cake since they are into that now. I got the basic shape idea from other photos online and various Star Wars books we have at home. I used 2 sheet cake sized pans and then put them together and carved the outline … Read more

Coolest Yoda Birthday Cake14

Homemade Yoda Birthday Cake

I made a 1 egg chocolate cake x6 in a roasting dish for this Yoda birthday cake. When cold cut in half and cut to shape, layering 3D. Then I molded icing mixed with food coloring and molded it to shape with more food coloring and using a paintbrush filled in gaps etc. What a … Read more