This Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate cake was a chocolate cake baked in a 32m x 22cm pan. I enlarged a copy of the chocolate wrapper to fit the cake and traced over most of the lettering and Cadbury logo. I then turned the tracing over and laid a piece of polished edge glass over the … Read more
This gumball machine cake was made for my son’s 6th birthday. I love making creative cakes and so this one was something I had wanted to try for sometime. I purchased the glass bowl from Michael’s craft store for about $5 and then built the base from various sized circle cakes, trimming and carving, then … Read more
I started this Bacon and Eggs Cake with a normal yellow cake, with chocolate frosting. I made the bacon and eggs with a store bought white fondant. I hand dyed the fondant to look like marbling in the bacon by barely kneading the frosting. The eggs were incredibly easy to make by just adding the … Read more
I started this Beer Birthday Cake by baking one cake in a 1pint pudding bowl, and another cake in a 7inch tin. I used :- 10oz self raising flour 10oz caster sugar 10oz butter 2 tbs milk 1tsp vanilla essence 5 eggs This is the mixture for the two cakes! It took the pudding cake … Read more
This Beer Bucket Cake is a 5 layer yellow cake with chocolate filling. I used 2- 8 inch rounds for the bottom and 3- 10 inch rounds for the upper layers. I froze the cakes overnight then shaved to create the bucket look. I covered the whole cake with fondant. I used crushed graham crackers … Read more
Found this cake in a cake decorating book for fun cakes and made it for my husbands welcome home return from active service in Iraq. I used store bought marzipan and fondant icings. Make or buy fruitcake. Cut out circles the size of a champagne bottle (the higher the cake the less circles you will … Read more
My husband works for RC Cola so I decided to do an RC Cola cake. I used three round cake pans. Then cut them in half and placed them curve up on cardboard covered with foil. All three cakes were different flavors. The entire cake was done with fondant that I colored with food coloring. … Read more
I baked one 2/3 sheet cake and carved the bottle shape, then iced it with buttercream icing, wrapped the bottle neck in black fondant, then created the label with gumpaste. I then drew on the specifics with edible markers. Everyone loved this Ketel One Vodka Birthday Cake Design!
This Wine Bottle Cake was a little bit of a challenge. It is 6-2″x6″ layers on a dowel screwed to a 12 inch board. They were put on 2 layers at a time with a cardboard circle in between each set. The top and cheese were rice krispy treats and the grapes were made from … Read more
My daughter Lily adores “Georgie”. So for her second birthday party I baked her a four layered banana cake with cream cheese frosting. I decorated the sides of it with homemade banana flavored ladies finger cookies “spray painted” yellow. It was topped off with a figurine of Curious George sitting in green coconut “grass”. As … Read more
Carrot Cake has always been my favorite kind of cake. I decided to be silly and make it carrot shaped! I made half a recipe for carrot cake from a cookbook and baked it in an 8″x8″ pan. Once cooled I cut the cake in half and stacked it to make it 2 layers. I … Read more
For these types of creative cakes I use an airbrush to achieve this look.