I baked two huge sheet cakes, one vanilla and one chocolate for this Optimus Prime cake. Then on a large piece of butcher block paper I drew out the body, making sure to use block or robotic type forms. I used fresh whipping cream and crushed Oreos as the filler for the layers. Then I … Read more
My Mom and I made this homemade Optimus Prime birthday cake for my son for his 4th birthday. We backed three cakes, two of them 9X13 and one loaf pan. We took my son’s small Optimus truck as a template. We stacked all the cakes together to see how large we wanted it. Next we … Read more
I created this Transformer Camaro Bumblebee Cake using a Wilton Nascar cake pan. I used two boxes of Wilton creamy white buttercream icing, tinted with “golden yellow” concentrated paste Wilton icing color. I first coated the cake with a thin layer of icing. I then used Wilton ready-to-use rolled fondant tinted with black icing coloring. … Read more
I made this Transformers cake for my son’s seventh birthday. He absolutely loves Transformers and so I thought it would be fun to surprise him with a transformers cake. His birthday was on a Saturday so I baked the cake in 12 inch rounds on the Thursday before and froze them. The cake was a … Read more
I made this cake using an 11×20 base rectangle. The cat was made using the Wilton character cake pan. I just had to carve the ears a bit. The paws were made using 2 cupcakes.
I decided to make this Baby Einstein Catepillar Birthday Cake after seeing pics of all the other Baby Einstein Catepillar cakes on this site. I purchased the Wilton Sports Ball pan from Michaels and used one box of cake mix for every 2 halves. I alternated with Chocolate and Yellow Cake mix, the head was … Read more
I was able to make this Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake for my son’s first birthday with the helpful suggestions of several other people on this website. I used the Wilton Sports Ball pans for the body of the caterpillar and cupcakes for the feet, tail and antenna. I used Cake Doctor cake recipes to make … Read more
My nephew loves baby Einstein so my sister of course chose baby Einstein as the theme for his first birthday party. She had thought about ordering a baby Einstein birthday cake but I decided I would try to make it. I actually put the whole thing together the morning of the party. It took me … Read more
I decorated this cake with mock cream I made from icing sugar, and coloured it with food colouring. A friend drew the outline of the lion from a lion picture. I used grease paper, cut out the shape, placed it over the cake, and cut around the edges. After that I covered it with icing.
We used 2 boxes of white cake mix for the main cake large Wilton sheet pan. The icing we used was Duncan Hines Whipped icing. For the caterpillar segments we used another box of cake mix in Wilton dome pans. To ice the segments we colored the icing w/ Wilton gel colors and used tip … Read more
When my daughter was about 10 months I began to look for ideas for her first birthday party. I saw a Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake and fell in love with it! After the cakes cooled I put the two halves of each ball together using different fillings such as vanilla and chocolate puddings, strawberries, bananas … Read more
To make my Baby Einstein caterpillar cakes, I used the Wilton Sports Ball pan. I iced each ball separately with butter cream and #16 tip stars. I copied the exact colors and order of color from the Baby Einstein logo. For the face I iced the eyes and pink cheeks smooth (finger dipped in cornstarch … Read more