For my daughters 8th birthday she picked out the “Glamour Girl” party theme. She said she wanted a cell phone cake. At first I had planned to just make the cake look like a cell phone, but then I came up with the idea to make the cell phone out of rice crispy treats. I … Read more
What can I say, it’s an Xbox cake! We make a variety of cakes for the school and this is one of the them. The cake walk is a big deal in our family and a lot of thought goes into which cakes to do. We love it! We use fondant for any of the … Read more
This Wii Birthday Cake Design was my first cake made with marshmallow fondant. I made two square cakes, and layered them, then made a couple more square cakes to carve the remotes and joy stick remote, made the fondant and covered it. I looked at my son’s actual Wii to make all the details. The … Read more
For this Xbox 360 controller cake I found an image of an Xbox 360 controller online, I copied the image into MS Word and blew the picture up to fit a regular 8.5×11 sheet of paper. I then printed the image in color on photo paper (this gave me good and clear details). I cut … Read more
My son is crazy for cleaning. It’s his favorite pastime. Naturally, I want to reinforce this behavior! So he has lots of cleaning-oriented toys, and his favorites, by far, are vacuums. He goes nuts screaming “Vacuum! Vacuum!” when he sees any vacuums at his daycare or in stores. So, when I was planning his 2nd … Read more
With iPods being all the rage, this cake was a lot of fun to do. It’s a good thing I’m detail-oriented. A colleague of mine ordered a cake from me for her son’s Confirmation but she wanted something “non-traditional”. Since I did not have a lot of notice, I didn’t want to commit to anything … Read more