I made this Dr. Seuss 1st Birthday Cake Design for my nephew’s 7th birthday. This was only the third time I worked with fondant so I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The books are two 13 x 9 funfetti cakes. I used two boxes for each cake. I covered them separately and then … Read more
I used a Cinderella doll from Walmart to put in this Cinderella doll cake. Because of the height of this doll, I had to bake a doll cake and an additional 9 inch round cake. It almost fitted together perfect when I put them together. I set the doll cake on top of the 9 … Read more
My preschool class was having a graduation party. We decided Dr.Seuss was the theme. I looked for a long time for a Dr.Seuss Cake Idea and while I found many of the other cakes cute I wanted something a little different. I love Cat in the Hat and the fish. I wanted to incorporate Thing … Read more
My mom and I took on the task of making this Cinderella Birthday cake for my daughter. We used strawberry cake on the bottom, chocolate on the next tier, and on the very top an eggless chocolate cake. We used store-bought icing and used food coloring to get that perfect shade of pink. We used … Read more
My 6-year-old daughter wanted a Fancy Nancy themed party, so we made a Fancy Nancy Birthday Cake Design which was colorful, glitzy, and covered with all things girly. This cake was three tiers displayed on the Wilton Graceful Tiers stand. The stand was decorated with pink boas and flowers and butterflies from Hobby Lobby’s floral … Read more
I used the wonder mold pan for Cinderella’s dress and used a real Barbie Cinderella for this Cinderella Birthday Cake. I wanted to use the real top part of her dress so I tightly wrapped the bottom part of her dress in press ‘n seal wrap so it would not get messy while inside the … Read more
I made this cake making a double layer 11”x15” cake and frosting it white on the sides and under the water area, I tinted the frosting a very light brown and covered the rest of the cake to look like sand. I tinted piping gel blue for the water. I made Toothless out of a … Read more
This cake was super easy! Get three step cake pans, can be bought at local craft store. Bake whatever flavors in each pan. Layer like you would any other cake with icing to hold together. We bought sugar cubes to make the steps and little “tiers”. You can also purchase “sparkles” sprinkles. We used extra … Read more
I had a lot of great tips from this site for making a Cinderella birthday cake so thank you all! This was the most fun cake Ive ever made. I purchased the Cinderella Barbie which my daughter wanted as a birthday gift so it was a 2-for-1 cake decoration and toy! For her dress I … Read more
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 Indiana Jones … Read more
For this Kipper the Dog cake, a simple heavy mixture of cake was created approx 12inches by 14 inches. I copied a Kipper the dog picture onto A4 paper and enlarged it to approx A3 size. I cut the individual segments out and once the cake mixture was ready, cut around the segments (body, head, … Read more
This was my daughters 3rd child birthday cake – Madeline, from the Ludwig Bemelman’s storybook character. I used an old Wilton pan from the 80’s that was strawberry shortcake (much larger than the new ones). It had a girl face with hat and she was originally holding a large strawberry. I just modified that to … Read more