I made this Tie Dye Peace Cake for my hippyish friend. I decided on this cake, because when I was thinking about what kind of cake would best sum up her funky personality, I had it narrowed down to 2 things – tie dye and peace. So I put the 2 together and walla! An … Read more
My brother is going to art school and so when his birthday came around I knew I had to use some of his art for an art cake. I bake four eight inch round cakes. Two were for the paint palette and one was for the art piece. The fourth one was to be used … Read more
This Box Of Crayons Birthday Cake is for my cousin’s youngest child’s 3rd birthday, all she does is color! It’s a half sheet cake with a ‘chunk’ cut of of one end and a sheet of grayish fondant placed in the hole to make it look like the back of the box. Iced with yellow … Read more
Behind the cake theres a draw-string piñata I made from a box. I cut a trap door in the bottom and attached strings – only one of which releases the trap door. Around the cake are “crayons” made by dipping Twix sticks into candy melts. You could also use pretzel rods, but those aren’t available … Read more
I was asked to make a cake in the shape of a pencil for the coworker of a friend of mine. They were having an office celebration and the lady was known to use pencils quite a bit. I couldn’t even remember when the last time was that I used a number 2 pencil so … Read more
I made this Tie Dye Birthday Cake for my niece. She wanted a retro, tie dye cake for her birthday. Used 10 inch circle cakes and 6 inch for top of cake. I also used fondant to cover cake, to make the tie dye look, and for the peace signs. By mixing several colors of … Read more
My parents are both artists who mainly do watercolors AND their birthdays are 4 days apart. They loved this Artist Palette Birthday Cake. After seeing other cakes like it on this site and the web, I found a clip art picture of an artists palette, enlarged it and cut it out. I baked and stacked … Read more
I got this idea from this website. My niece Katia turned 6 years old and she loves to color everything, so when I saw this idea, I knew I would have to try to duplicate it. My nephews Anthony and Arthur helped me with this homemade Crayola colors box cake. I baked two rectangular cakes … Read more
The cake was made out of a 1/2-sheet cake. The yellow and green frosting on the cake is buttercream frosting. The girl who made the cake for me just measured in a few inches from each side of the cake to cut the open part of the “crayon box”. She made the “crayons” on the … Read more
I made this Van Gogh’s Starry Night Cake for my dad’s birthday. It’s just a plain old chocolate cake from the box with white frosting. I took a couple handfuls of coconut and colored them to match the painting and just decorated the cake to look like starry night.
This Tie Dye cake was tie dyed inside and out! The cake was a white cake mix and I took 1 cup of batter and divided it into 3 bowls and used food coloring to make it pink, blue and green then dropped teaspoons full into the batter and swirled with a toothpick. To make … Read more
My name is Danielle from Manalapan. I am 10 yrs old, and love to bake and decorate cakes like my mom. This Paint Pallete Cake Idea I made for a local cake decorating contest. The first thing I did to prepare this cake is carve out the pound cake that I made into the pallete … Read more