This Tie dyed birthday cake was actually tie dyed inside and out! (sorry, the lighting wasn’t very good where I took the picture!). I baked two 12″ round vanilla cakes. I tinted portions of the vanilla batter violet, rose, leaf green and lemon yellow, leaving some white as well. Then I randomly spooned them into the … Read more
This Smiggle birthday cake is a simple but effective cake. The cake is a butter cake and the birthday girl asked for the inside to be colored aqua for more impact when the cake was cut. This is great idea as it is a surprise to the guests ! I used orange colored butter cream between … Read more
This sewing machine cake was a bugger to make but with persistence and the good Lord I was able to make an awesome cake for a great grandmother. The top horizontal portion, the vertical end and the case of the the machine are made of cake. The underneath of the head of the cake is made of ricekrispies. There is … Read more
Our 1 year old just loves chewing on crayons that her big sisters leave lying around so when it was her birthday I had this idea of making a Crayon cake – but with no idea what it would actually look like or how to do it! So I googled it and of course scores … Read more
I made this knitting and sewing cake for my mother-in-laws birthday. It consists of a two 10 inch layers of butter fudge chocolate cake and two layers of lemon poppy seed cake filled with lemon butter cream filling. I put it on a silver platter to make it easier to transport to their home. I then … Read more
I made this crayon box birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. We were having the party at a campground so I had to make the cake/cupcakes the night before and then travel with them, this is why I went with cupcakes instead of the cake. First I took ice cream cones, cut them … Read more
This Crayola Crayon box cake was really fun and easy to make. I made three 10×10 cakes and stacked them for a 4″ tall cake, then with the third cake I cut it in half and then in half length wise so I had a 5x10x1 cake to put under the crayons to hold them up. While the … Read more
I made this cool Quilters cake for my mother-in-law. I knew I wanted to incorporate pink as much as possible (she is a breast cancer survivor). She LOVES to quilt and even holds classes on it. Her idea of a fun time is driving all over Southern California looking for “fat quarters”. The cake is made … Read more
I used a 9″ x 13″ cake pan to start this Crayon Box cake. When the cake was cooled I cut out a section at the top, like a step. I then dirty iced the cake with butter cream icing. Trying to get the color of the crayon box just right to forever! I finally got close enough and covered the cake in … Read more
The cake is a chocolate sheet cake. I made two 11X17 and cut them down a bit. The paper is made from Wilton ready-to-use fondant. It is hard to see in the photo but I curled up the corners a bit to make it look like paper. The crayon box is made from graham crackers … Read more
I was asked to make a knitting cake for a lady who knits – a lot. So I decided to make her a basket of yarn. I stacked 8 inch cake rounds for the basket and carved them into the basket shape. The basket was then covered in marshmallow fondant which I cut into strips … Read more
My daughter loves play-doh, so I really wanted a play-doh theme for her birthday but couldn’t find any cakes to match that theme so I thought of this Homemade Play Doh Birthday Cake. I used 4 9inch round layers of vanilla cake and vanilla frosting tinted with Wilton lemon yellow icing color. I used the … Read more