I made this homemade cherry cake for my own birthday. I love cherries. It is two 6-inch cakes covered in red fondant with chocolate fondant stems. The leaf is made from the top of one of my cakes that I had to cut off to even it out. I covered the leaf with some green … Read more
I made this cake for a friends daughter’s first birthday. It was a Strawberry Shortcake theme and she simply wanted a strawberry. I wrote “A Berry Happy First Birthday” around the base of the cake. I used two boxed cake mixes – one strawberry, one white swirling together. The cake itself was constructed using one … Read more
My daughter loves watermelon so I thought it would be cool to make a Watermelon Shaped Cake for her seventh birthday party. I made it a surprise, she never got to see it until I took the cover off. At first she thought it was a real watermelon sliced up. I took two round cake … Read more
I made this from a heart shaped pan. I bought red coloring at the store and mixed it in to white frosting. I also mixed up some green frosting. I used brown sprinkles (picked out from my mixed colors) for the seeds. I traced the green foliage with green gel icing. Thanks to this website … Read more
I used a 10″ round pan to make this Watermelon Cake. After baking and cooling, the cake was cut in half. For easier crumb coating, place both cake halves in freezer for about an hour. I used about 1’4 inch icing between the layers. Stack, crumb coat, then frost. I tinted butter cream icing in … Read more
This is a cake I made for my sisters last day of a Nursing Course at school. They were having a little celebration and she asked me to make something special seeing as I always make special creative cakes. I thought this cake very special and very elegant.. I made this cake out of and … Read more
My niece’s birthday came up the same day as our bosses day party at work, so I was obligated to make two cakes in one night. I saved time by just making my niece cupcakes. I was looking for design ideas and came across these apple cupcakes on the internet. They were extremely fun and … Read more
I made a Chili Pepper cake for my step-mom’s surprise 35th Birthday! I used two cake mixes. First I baked a cake (dyed green) in a jelly roll pan; I baked the second cake (dyed red) in another jelly roll pan (About 15 minutes for each on 350 degrees). I put them both DIRECTLY into … Read more
I make all the birthday cakes for my co-workers and I always ask them what their favorite flavor is so that they are as happy as possible with the result of my creative cakes. One co-worker would only say “I like peaches”. This is what I came up with. It was a classic white cake … Read more
Kindergarten hosts an Applebration each September to celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday. Also is a great back to school function. All food must either be apple-themed so I came up with this cupcake idea. Great for all back to school events or school bake sales. And this one is easy enough that your grade school child … Read more
I made this strawberry cake for my mom’s birthday this year. I used a spherical baking pan and made two half spheres. I waited for them to cool and cut into the middle so that I could insert some strawberry slices into the middle. I covered them with a strawberry glaze and then pushed the … Read more
I made this for my granddaughters first birthday. They had a strawberry shortcake party. These are made out of cupcakes. I arranged them to look like a strawberry and icing them red, put dots on and then used a leaf tip to do the top. You will notice in the picture there is a small … Read more