Coolest Homemade Pumpkin Cake Ideas and Photos 1

I made this pumpkin cake for my sons primary Halloween party made with a bundt pan covered with orange frosting. I covered a flat ice-cream cone with chocolate frosting and stuck it in at a tilt and gave it texture with a knife making lines to represent the groves on the pumpkin. I used green … Read more

Coolest Homemade Pumpkin Cakes 5

These cakes are for my daughters two different classrooms at school. They are two bundt cakes (one upside down on the bottom and then the other on top) to make the pumpkin and then a cupcake for the stem. I used a box mix for the cakes and just stole some of the batter to … Read more

Creepy Homemade Skull Cake

Homemade Skull Cake

I made this Skull cake for a friend’s Halloween party. It consisted of a few round cakes, stacked and then sculpted, with slightly yellow tinged icing, black food colouring in the eyes, nose and mouth, and a generous sprinkling of chocolate cookie crumbs, chocolate rocks, and gummy worms.

Free Cake Decorating Idea for a Skull-Shaped Cake 2

I made this friendly girly skull cake for my nieces 12th birthday. Shes a little eclectic yet feminine (much like her aunt) and I wanted to make her a cake that reflected that. This is a two layer round. All I did was trim off small sections from the bottom to create the skull shape. … Read more

Coolest Witches Pot Cake

Homemade Witches Pot Cake

I made this Witches Pot Cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday. The theme was Halloween. I made three large spring form cakes. I cut them so that I had six layers. I trimmed the cake to be rounded at the bottom and I cut out some of the center of the cake for the green … Read more

Coolest Zombie Cake

Homemade Zombie Cake

This Zombie Cake is my fiance’s favorite cake I have done. It was for his 21st birthday two years ago. It was also one of the most difficult cakes, because I carved the entire head out of sheet cakes. The base is a small sheet cake, chocolate with Bavarian cream filling. I iced it in … Read more

Coolest Flag Birthday Cake

Homemade Flag Birthday Cake

I made this Confederate Flag cake for my sister-in-law Shawna’s 38th birthday. This was the second cake I had ever made but I must say now I am hooked! She personally requested this theme cake but, let me make it quite clear, we are not in the least racist. I started with a normal chocolate … Read more

Coolest Homemade Stars and Stripes Patriotic Cakes 4

This cake was made from three complete white cake mixes to form three layers, two of which I added red or blue food coloring and one was left white to give the inside a red, white, and blue effect. I got the idea from a magazine cover with patriotic cakes, published during my husbands deployment … Read more

Coolest Patriotic Cupcakes

Coolest Cupcake Recipes, Photos and How-To Tips

Bake per box instructions.  (I used white cake mix and stirred in four tablespoons of red/white/blue decorating sprinkles as cup cake decorations.)  Make butter cream icing and tint 1/3 royal blue/, 1/3 white, and 1/3 red. Using decorator # 33, pull out blue “fireworks” around outside edge.  Then do a circle of white.  Finish with … Read more

Coolest Homemade Turkey Cake

Homemade Turkey Cake

I made this Turkey cake for Thanksgiving and quite a few people had to look twice. I made it out of pound cake and covered it with fondant.

Coolest Homemade Reindeer Cake

Coolest Reindeer Cake Photos and How-To Tips

I started with a large and a medium round pan for this reindeer cake. I carved the deer head out of the large round pan (including the ears)and pieced the antler together by cutting strips from the small cake pan and connecting them with chocolate icing. make sure to keep all of the cutting scraps … Read more