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I made this Tinkerbell Garden Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s second birthday. It was a three-tiered cake. I used four boxes of cake mix but made the frosting myself. I divided the cake into four sections, each section representing one of the seasons, and this division made it easier to put the various fairies on … Read more
This Garden Birthday Cake was my first attempt at a stacked cake. The cake is vanilla sponge layered and coated with orange buttercream. I then covered the cake in fondant and decorated with gum paste flowers and trees and used some floristry wire to stand the gumpaste clouds and sun on the top. I used … Read more
My daughter Lily had a butterfly theme for her first birthday party so I wanted a cake to create the mood. I thought I was creative until I did a trial run of a butterfly cake for my birthday. It was terrible and had to look for other cake recipes. I couldnt create a butterfly … Read more
This Backyard Pond Cake was so much fun to make. I made it for my sister-in-laws wedding. The wedding took place in her backyard, where she has a beautiful pond. I used a boxed cake mix and buttercream icing (recipe in the Wilton cake books). The trees were made with plastic cones and buttercream icing. … Read more
My dad was 83 this year and as he is a keen gardener and always complaining about his rhubarb. I decided to make him a cake which was all about him. The cake was 10 inches in diameter and made from a Christmas Fruit cake recipe – so that it would last. Over a number … Read more
This birthday cake design was made from my own buttercream recipe and fondant, which I hand-painted all of the fondant. I spoke with the mother and child on what style cake they wanted and the child wanted corn stalks and a pumpkin patch. He also wanted to make sure that a tractor would be incorporated … Read more
This fairy garden cake is a milk chocolate mud cake with buttercream icing. The flowers are all made from fondant with royal icing centers. The mushrooms and figures of the fairy and pixie are fondant. I made the butterfly using rice paper. I painted the image using food colouring paste diluted with water on one … Read more
I started this Garden Lover’s birthday cake with a 1/2 sheet cake and cut it in half and iced it with butter cream icing. I used 2 muffin tins to make the flower pots and iced them. I bought 2 candy flower roses on clearance at a cake decorating store and used those on top … Read more
I made this cake for the end of the year Girl Scout party. You could use it for any occasion, such as a birthday party. Its one of those very simple cake recipes, but the girls really loved it! I baked a double layer vanilla sheet cake and frosted it with light blue tinted buttercream … Read more
Ann-Christine was turning eleven so I made her favorite chocolate cake. She loves being outdoors, and she’ll totally get engrossed in her own little world once she’s got her book to read, her iPod and Kaasy, her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She likes to tune out and we let her be. Based on that, it … Read more
The design of this garden cake is not exclusively mine though, I tend to take bits and pieces of ideas from other online cakes to create mine. The two flower pots were made from a cupcake and a mini-mini-cake pan. The pot of mum’s is my favorite and was so simple to do using a … Read more
I made this “Bugs and Butterfly” cake for my daughter Hannahs 5th Birthday Party. It’s one of those cake recipes that are so easy to make!! I bought small butterfly cookie cutters and rolled out white fondant, then cut out the butterfly shapes. I then “painted” the fondant butterflies with gel food colors mixed with … Read more