My youngest son was born on Halloween and I wanted a Halloween cake for his first birthday. To make the checkerboard pattern I used a cake pan set that I purchased at Fleet Farm. You could also make this with 3 8″ or 9″ round cakes of different flavors stacking them one on top of … Read more
This Skull Birthday Cake was made from one rectangle-shaped cakes and one skull-shaped cake. It has a little bit of a “day of the dead” look to it. The picture doesn’t show the sides very well, but the perimeter was decorated with dog bone shaped frosting decorations. The black and white frostings were both homemade … Read more
I made this Hazardous Skull Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 25th birthday. I always teased her about turning a quarter of a century old, so I wanted a toxic cake for her. I used a half sheet cake 2 inch pan. I had an edible wafer made of a toxic skull. Since the cake was … Read more
I used a round 3” cake pan to make this homemade vampire birthday cake, I can’t remember exactly what size, 18” maybe. This was for a 13 year old’s birthday, so I put red food coloring in the cake mix. A red velvet cake mix would work well also. I printed a picture of the … Read more
This is a USMC Sergeant Major Chevron Cake that I made for a friend who recently got promoted and was having a party. It’s a full marbled sheet cake trimmed down to the correct size. The icing is buttercream made with half almond extract and half clear imitation vanilla. I did the red stripes first … Read more
This is a yellow cake with chocolate icing adorned by a pair of combat boots draped with the American Flag. The flag is a full 13 stripe / 50 star flag. I made this to celebrate the sacrifice that our service men and women have made for our freedom. We had the veterans cut the … Read more
My husband is in the Army and while we were stationed overseas we had a party to celebrate the 4th of July. I was asked to make the 4th of July cakes and came up with this design. The cake was baked in an 11×15 pan. I then iced it with butter cream icing, dyed … Read more
My 12 year old daughter needed a cake for her project on the State of California. I decided to carve the shape of California out of two 9×13 sheet cakes (used two boxes of cake mix per 9×13 pan so they were fairly tall). I iced it with buttercream icing and sprayed the green areas … Read more
I made these thanksgiving cupcakes for my daughter to share with her class at school for Thanksgiving. Not too hard to make but they are a bit time consuming. You can choose any cake flavor and frosting you like. The cookies used are Nutter Butters. Mini chocolate chips for the eyes and fruit leather for … Read more
This Thanksgiving Turkey Cake is a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I used 3 rectangular cake pans, frosted the layers and let it sit in the freezer for about an hour. I then carved out the basic shape of the body and covered it with fondant that was tinted with a copper tone. … Read more
This Thanksgiving cake was made by baking two cakes in a round glass bowl and sticking them together with frosting to make the body. Cut the bottom of the rounded pieces flat for it to sit nicely. The legs were cut out of a sheet cake made of spice cake. I cut up more of … Read more
This Homemade Jack Skellington Cake was made for my daughter on her 16th, she is mad about Nightmare Before Christmas and I thought I’d give it ago. I used a 12inch square Madeira cake and a 10inch round. All what you see on the cake is made from fondant icing, Jack was made in sections … Read more