I got my idea from birthday cake ideas for kids on this web site. My son just turned 18 and I wanted to do something really special. The game console was the easiest. Just two layered cakes with buttercream and plain white fondant. I used coloring to get the grey sides and buttons and just … Read more
My dad’s 44th birthday was coming up and he is always glued to his iphone. So I got this idea for a Iphone Birthday Cake pretty quick. It didn’t take that long, 4 1/2 hours roughly. The apps took the longest time, as they were made from fondant, and most were painted with diluted Wilton … Read more
My son LOVES numbers, and one of his favorite toys is a calculator! So, for his fourth birthday, I wanted to make him a homemade calculator cake. As you might imagine, there are not a lot of calculator cake ideas out there. I did find a couple on this site to give me some inspiration. … Read more
I went on Google and did some searches on “circuit board” images to give me some idea of how they look, so I would know what to begin with. I then went to the grocery store and stocked up on different candies to make the resistors (horizontal cylinders) and capacitors (upright cylinders). The best medium … Read more
The keyboard of the Computer Cake is yellow cake mix, the monitor, mouse and mouse pad is pound cake. I cut all the keys separately with a cutter and lettered them by hand. The monitor is on a wooden platform I made to hold it up. Other than the platform, everything else is edible. The … Read more
I used a 2 box cake mixes baked in a half a sheet pan. After cake had baked and cooled I turned cake upside down on board and cut the cake into the shape I wanted, Xbox 360 Controller Cake. The cake was decorated with white icing and I used color gels to color cake … Read more
This is an Xbox controller cake for my son’s 12th birthday. He is an avid xbox player and requested this for his party with friends after getting my iPod cake for his family birthday party. I made a chocolate mud cake from one cake mix because this is my son’s favorite. I found the density … Read more
Just follow the Duncan Hines/Betty Crocker cake mix. I used a loaf pan as well as a 9×9 square cake pan and only poured a small amount of batter in each (approx 1/2″). When they were done I removed them from the pans. the 9×9 cake was cut into three (remotes) and the loaf pan … Read more
A co-worker wanted an IPOD Touch Birthday Cake for her teenage son’s birthday. All together I was very pleased with how the cake turned out. After experimenting with fondant, I decided to use homemade marshmallow fondant for the apps. She wanted a black and red “case” so I tinted homemade buttercream (instead of fondant)for better … Read more
A friend wanted to have her daughter a pool party. She asked me to come up with a cool cake decorating idea that would be appropriate to go along with a group of pre-teens at a pool party. We decided on the tapedeck radio idea so then I had to decide how to make it. … Read more
I made this Calculator Cake for a friend’s husband who was celebrating a big event in his career as an accountant. The bottom cake layer was made in a 9×13-inch pan and the top layer was made in a 6×9-inch toaster oven casserole pan. The cream cheese frosting was tinted with barely a drop of … Read more
This Apple Computer Birthday Cake is the cake that I made for a friend’s birthday who is a big Apple Computer fan. This is a 3 layer Rich Chocolate cake with Chocolate Mousse filling and Whipped cream frosting. The Apple logo and the disc is made of fondant.