I made this Indiana Jones Birthday Cake for my grandson’s eighth birthday party. He couldn’t believe it neither could anyone else. I started with five layers of cake from large to small pans. I put butter creme inside and outside. I used one big dowel down the middle and a couple more on the sides … Read more
This is a cake that I made for my 25th birthday party, a Kill Bill Themed birthday cake with yellow and black fondant. It’s a three layer red velvet cake, with marshmallow butter cream frosting and marshmallow fondant. The cake itself was made entirely from scratch, and the frosting was almost entirely from scratch (I … Read more
Like others, my son is a huge Max & Ruby fan. For his birthday, he wanted a Max And Ruby Birthday Cake. After much searching on the web, I found this site. I got inspired. I printed out an image of Max & Ruby that I found online and made it “cake size.” I toyed … Read more
I was asked to create a Miss Spider birthday cake, from Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, for a five-year old girl. I used several online images for my inspiration. The birthday girl requested strawberry cake. The base is a 9×13 sheet pan, decorated with buttercream icing, tinted green. Green sparkle sprinkles were added to the … Read more
I made 4 loaf tin shaped sponge cakes. I cut a slot one third of the way down in the first and placed it in the centre of the board (for the driving seat). I cut two angled pieces from the second cake, one shorter (for the boot and the other longer one for the … Read more
My good friend Jackie was having an Antique High Tea theme for her baby shower and wanted a cake that would fit into the theme. After much thought I decided what better classic theme for the arrival of a bouncing bundle of joy than Beatrix Potter and her mischievous Peter Rabbit! (I still have my … Read more
I love this book especially for the art by Eric Carle and used this Homemade Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake making as an opportunity to play with some new techniques. First, several weeks ahead of time I made the gum paste fruit. I first colored the white gum paste the color of the fruit but … Read more
I got the idea of doing the cupcakes and the head of this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake separately from a cool website like this. I used my photocopier to blow up the picture of his head (from our book) to the right size and used that to make the right shaped head. The eyes … Read more
My son loved the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. So, for his first birthday my husband and I wanted to make an amazing cake using the theme. We made two bunt cakes. For the body, we cut one bunt cake in half and turned one half to make the body. We used the second … Read more