This cake is so easy. Seriously. A 12 year old did it. My neighbors daughter wanted to come learn how to decorate a cake, to enter into the local country show. She had an idea of a Cookie Monster cake. Within 2 minutes of showing her how to pipe (with a grass tip nozzle), she was … Read more
This Cookie Monster cake was fun to make. We used a round cake pan and colored vanilla frosting blue. I put a crumb frosting layer down first. Then I used a frosting tip to make hair. I pushed down on marshmallows to make them larger and created eyes with black frosting sure to make the … Read more
This cake was made for my 8 year old son Jonathan. He happens to be a huge fan of the hit show The Walking Dead. My biggest inspiration on making this cake was making my son happy. I planned for weeks on ideas for his cake. After looking up so many different ideas I just couldn’t find something that … Read more
I made Hoot for my son’s 1st birthday so I had to do Hootabelle. I used the puppet we have of her to get sizing right. I used a a ball cake pan for her head and cut up a 20 cm round cake for the body. Everything else is made up with fondant. I … Read more
My sister asked me to make a cake for her sons 2nd birthday party. He is not really into many things yet, but his favorite cuddly toy is a large Sweep from Sooty & Sweep make that’s what she wanted. I felt a bit daunted as not made anything quite like it but I was … Read more
My kids love Sesame Street. In fact, it was a hideous Elmo cake I bought for my daughter’s 1st birthday that got me to start decorating their birthday cakes myself. I figured I could do better than that…or at least if I didn’t it would be more sentimental and cost way less. And so I remain … Read more
This Oscar birthday cake was a challenging cake. When I was asked for an Oscar cake in a bin I thought great, I love to make cartoon characters. The first hurdle was to make the bin look old. I covered the cake with black fondant then mixed silver food coloring very weak then did a … Read more
This is one of my favorite cakes. It was for a first birthday – all gumpaste figures. The example cake that the client gave me had plastic figures. We changed everything up a bit and we ended up with gum paste baby Elmo and Cookie Monster. I included a jumbo crayon for the number one … Read more
Our son was turning 12 so we asked him about two weeks beforehand, what kind of cake do you want for your birthday? Like any 12 year old he had other stuff to do and he forgot about the cake. He couldn’t think of anything and was really leaning towards one from the local supermarket. … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was for my youngest’s 2nd birthday. At this point I was just doing simple cakes. Boxed cake mix and tub frosting. Making homemade cakes became a necessity as the price of store bought cakes became too expensive. I used an 11×15 sheet pan and made 2 cakes (4 boxes of mix). … Read more
This Sesame Street birthday cake is for my son’s 2nd birthday. It took me 2 days to make this birthday cake. I had to bake 10 boxes of cake at work where I work as a direct care worker with clients. So I was on my feet all day running back and forth, back and … Read more
This 2-tier Duck Dynasty cake is made for a ‘red neck’ themed birthday for a police officer. Everything is edible. The grass is green butter cream, the old guy, rifle, ducks, whistle, and sign are all fondant. The water is a blue colored piping gel. On a separate piece of fondant, I drew the duck and … Read more