I made a simple, yet pretty cool Lazy Town cake for my daughters second birthday. She loves Lazy Town and she even thinks she is Stephanie! For this Stephanie cake I made two round yellow cakes (8×8) and filled it with whipped cream and “dulce de leche”, which is similar to caramel. After that I … Read more
I was asked by a friend if I would make a Homemade Power Ranger Birthday Cake for her little boy’s 4th birthday. I have never attempted anything of the sort, but I always love a challenge! After doing some searching on this site and the internet in general, I came up with this idea. I … Read more
For this Power Rangers cake I started here on this site for suggestions. My son is crazy about the Power Rangers SPD and I wanted to create that theme for his birthday. I purchased a Wilton Mighty Morphin Power Rangers cake pan on eBay and decided to decorate it myself as an SPD Blue ranger … Read more
We made two cakes (lemon and poppy seed) to create this Star Trek Voyager Cake. We baked one in a casserole dish to make the oval shape of the body, and another in a loaf tin, which we sliced into pieces for the wings. We assembled the whole thing on the tray before we decorated … Read more
This Wipeout Obstacles Cake was a huge challenge and requested by a friend of mine for his 3 year old!, yes 3 yr old who loves this show. I started the night before by baking the cakes and freezing them. I made the obstacles from rice krispie treats and covered them with fondant. I always … Read more
This In the Night Garden Birthday Cake was a cake that I was asked to do for a friend. I’m no professional, but I said I’d have a go, as she couldn’t find one anywhere and didn’t want to pay the £70 quoted by a cake shop in our town. I must admit, I’m rubbish … Read more
I am a mum of 2 little In The Night Garden fans so it was an easy choice to make an Igglepiggle Birthday Cake. It really is easy to do ~ start by making a few basic sponge cakes! I used 3. Recipes on blog: http://somethingcakey.wordpress.com/ Then its just a case of cutting out the … Read more
In the Night Garden is an extremely popular TV program the UK for very young kids. My daughter loves one of the main characters, Upsy Daisy, so I decided to make her an Upsy Daisy cake for her second birthday. I downloaded an image of Upsy Daisy from the BBC website and then enlarged it … Read more
I made my cakes a week before and froze. The icing is the marshmallow icing that you melt the marshmallows in the microwave for 40 seconds until they are puffy. You can add your color now or after you add the icing sugar. Add equal parts of mellows to icing sugar. Kneed as you would … Read more
My Elmo cake is really 72 cupcakes positioned on a giant piece of cardboard in the shape of Elmo’s head. It was a lot of planning. First I made a blueprint design using circles to represent each cupcake and I shaped these circles on paper to make the shape of Elmo’s head. I started baking … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake is my first Wilton cake mold I’ve made! It was for my nephew Elijah’s 1st Birthday. I was pretty excited doing it. It took about 45 minutes to decorate. Since then I’ve done other Wilton moldings like , Tinkerbell, Princess crown, Cupcake, and a Cars.
I started this Elmo Cupcake with your basic Cupcake. Decorating was very simple. Icing mixed with coconut for texture, large marshmallows cut in half for the eyes, with black frosting center. For his nose I used Orange Marshmallow Peanuts by Brach Candy. His mouth is a Oreo Cookie, just the cookie though. My nephews who … Read more