I made this Deer Hunter cake for a customer’s groom’s cake. I started by baking 2 of each: 6″, 8″ and 10″ circles. They were all vanilla cake, and I dyed most of the batter with Wilton moss green and brown (1 batch dark, 1 light) and left some white to make a camouflage effect. I covered … Read more
My son Apollo is currently infatuated with Go Diego Go so that was the theme for his birthday. I love to put in effort for my kids cakes so I made it myself. Chose to make an easy caramel cake for two reasons: the cake itself isn’t like boxed cakes that boast super moist (not sturdy), it … Read more
Let me just begin by admitting that if I had to do this for a living, my family would be eating very infrequently. It took me WAY longer to make these cakes than I am even willing to admit. But it was fun! Well, all except the (first time for me) attempting to smooth the … Read more
Since I have four boys…I never pass up the opportunity to make a girlie cake for my wonderful niece! This fairy world cake was her 5th birthday cake. Since she liked Tinkerbell at the time, we went with a “fairy world” themed cake. It is a two tier round cake, with the top tier set … Read more
This was a cake was based on the TV show Swamp People. Meet tree breaker. This is the name given to the monster gators that break the tree limbs that hold the bait. The phrase choot’em was made popular by Troy. He tells his partner to choot’em as he wrestles the gator into position.
The Boy Scouts Camping Cake was able to feed 80 people. I used gum paste and fondant for the boy scout figures and ginger bread for the house. As for the tress I used rice crisp then piped over them using butter cream frosting. The entire cake was covered in butter cream then sprinkled with … Read more
I made this Camping Birthday cake for my adult niece, who loves to go camping. I baked the one layer in a sheet pan. The trees are upside down sugar ice-cream cones, piped with buttercream. The rocks by the water and around the fire place, the red fish, as well as the snake sunning itself … Read more
I made this Teddy Bear’s Picnic cake for a friend’s daughter – all she said to me was make sure the cake is chocolate. They both loved it, turns out they both collect teddy bears!! Sadly I didn’t get time to completely finish this, I wanted to put some tree shaped cut outs around the … Read more
My nephew wanted a specialty cake and this is what I came up with. The brown icing is chocolate butter cream with peanut butter added (Yumm). I piled the icing in one corner and covered with maple nut goodies to make the “hill” then smeared the blue icing like it was running down and joining … Read more
My daughter had an end of the year girl scout party and so yes..a cake was in order. We decided that for a bigger presentation statement we would make the cake two layers tall. Plus that gives you more of a 3D look and plenty of room to decorate! We made all the fondant badges … Read more
This was a waterfall cake I made for my nephew’s 2nd birthday. I used two vanilla cake mixes in one 9×13 pan and one small oval pan. I made three batches of icing (9 cups), filled both cakes with lemon pie filling and attached the oval cake to one end of the rectangular cake using … Read more
I made this Camping Cake for my son’s 9th birthday camping party. I made four 9″ round cakes, two on top each other. For the trees, I used sugar cones, two or three stacked on top each other to make different heights. Some were placed behind the cakes, some were placed on the cake to … Read more