It was my friend’s birthday and I decided I would like to make her a cake. She has lots of interests but the thing she is absolutely mad about is running, so what better than to make her a cake of her running shoe. Unfortunately for me she must have the most complicated shoes ever! … Read more
My name is Stephanie and I made this pink Converse shoe cake for a client whose daughter’s sweet sixteen party was fast approaching. We discussed back and forth between making a more traditional cake or a custom design cake, and the daughter finally won. We decided to go with creating a custom design based on … Read more
My son is a Comrades marathon runner here in South Africa, Kwazulu Natal. For his 32nd birthday I baked this cake for him. It was a chocolate cake decorated as a shoebox with fondant sheets and round circles. This was the easy part. The shoe gave me grey hair! I eventually took my own running … Read more
Everything on this board is CAKE! Chocolate mud and ganach to be exact. Everything is edible. Five hours of love went into this Nike shoe cake and another two for the box. I created this cake for a friend that wanted to give his mate the coolest birthday cake ever! I personalized the label on the box … Read more
My good friend Julie was turning 40 and she asked that we all not make a fuss over her birthday. Well, we all know what a milestone 40 is, so, we of course ignored her request. A small dinner party of her closest girlfriends, we took her to an awesome Mexican restaurant.Julie is one of … Read more
This cake was created for my best friend and husband for his birthday. He is a hard core sneaker fanatic. He really wanted a new pair of sneaker that were being released called Breds 11. These sneakers were going to be sold out everywhere, that’s how popular they were so I wanted to make his … Read more
My wife loves to run and got a new pair of shoes for an upcoming half marathon. I wanted to make her a cake for her birthday of the shoes, but she was always wearing them at work when I had time to work on the cake, so I found some images online. It was … Read more
I made this Nike tennis shoe cake for a friend of mine. I was asked to make a shoe cake of the Lebron James blue Diamond tennis shoe, also called the wind chill. This was the first time I tried my cake decorating skills with cake carving. I watched videos of how to make tennis shoe cakes and … Read more
This is a butter pound cake, stacked, and carved in the shape of a converse sneaker (size 10 1/2). Then was frosted in buttercream and covered in fondant, airbrushed in bright yellow with black trim. Holes cut and laces applied. The cake was sitting on the coffee table when she stopped by for coffee. We … Read more
This Basketball Shoe birthday cake is ready to walk out of the fridge by itself. It took a lot of pre manufacturing time to think out a process and get the details just right. My uncle contacted me about making him this cake. It seems that everywhere he went they were charging him at least $400. … Read more
My best friends daughter wanted a cake made in the shape of a high top converse tennis shoe in lime green and orange. After reviewing many tips on cake decorating, I used two 9″ round cakes for the high top and a 13″x9″ cake for the base. I cut the round cakes at an angle … Read more
I conjured up the idea for this Adidas shoe cake when I saw this exact pair my friend was wearing. Oddly enough, it was her birthday, and she loves sporty shoes. This cake took two layers of a 13 X 9 cake, and a 9 X 9 square pan. I carved the shoe shape free … Read more
I made this cake for a friend for his birthday because he wore sneakers that looked like these. Here are my tips on cake decorating: first, I drew a left shoe pattern on a sheet of paper. I cut it out and used it to cut out the base of the left shoe. Then I … Read more