I love baking cakes and I only need an excuse to get started. My Husband’s birthday is January 1st and he was 53 and I just had to make him a cake. He likes to go to the pub to relax and I decided I wanted to make a beer barrel cake. This is how … Read more
This chocolate chip cookie cake was made for a dear friend’s 30th birthday. Her favorite dessert is chocolate chip cookies. I used a 12″ round and split it once to fill with chocolate ganache. Then, I just rounded the edges, slapped a couple coats of buttercream on, and covered with fondant. After that, I added … Read more
Whenever I get to make a cake for someone, I go through the process of a lot of thinking before deciding what the final product should look like. This time it was different. I was making a cake for my dear own husband. First of all, I am not a professional baker, but we can … Read more
I have fallen in love with making food look like other food. Being invited to a friends cookout, I decided to bring the “burger” for dessert. The cheeseburger and fries cake was a blast to make. The top and bottom layers are yellow cake. The burger is chocolate cake with cake crumbs pressed around the … Read more
For my birthday I had a zombie luau party. I did not want a gory cake so I decided to make a cute little “ready to roast” pig birthday cake! How I Made This Roast Pig Birthday Cake I found a vintage Betty Crocker pan set on ebay for $10. Once it arrived I went … Read more
Well, let me start by saying that this pumpkin patch cake had to be one of my most favorite cakes to make ever! I absolutley love fall and pumpkin season. This cake was made for my cousin’s daughter’s 1st birthday party at… where else, but a pumpkin patch. The Cake Everything on this cake was … Read more
I made this remembrance cake when our dear friend David passed away. He and his wife, Linda, are well known in the expat community here in France. His death was a shock and when Linda asked me to make a cake for the wake I was very honoured. We wanted to give David a good … Read more
I made this Cooler Cake for my husbands birthday and it was a blast to make! I started with sheet cakes I baked and let the fun flow from there, I stacked them and covered them in icing and fondant and had some painting fun with my airbrush, but the most crazy fun and a … Read more
I made this anti gravity cake for my son-in-law who loves Stowford Cider. It was for his 40th birthday and I wanted something with a WOW factor. Designing the Barrel Cake The cake was made from a 6 layer checkered cake using a Zenker 24cm set of 3 checkered cake tins (which I bought for … Read more
This M&Ms anti-gravity cake was a practice run for me to see how it would turn out. To make the cake, I used a balloon stick with the plastic clip “glued” to the cake board with melted chocolate. I placed 3 pieces of floral wire in the upside down balloon stick and trimmed to length. … Read more
I made this anti-gravity beer mug cake for my father’s birthday and he LOVED it! It was a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache coating. The fondant was marshmallow fondant and the suds were buttercream. Everything was made from scratch and I can provide recipes if anyone is interested. To make the cake I used a … Read more
I was asked if I would make my favorite cousin in law a cake for her 4? birthday. I automatically knew what I wanted to do. She is a big Miller Light fan, and this party was going to be at a bar, so a big Miller Light beer can was perfect. I thought this … Read more