I made this cake for my moms birthday. As she loves beaches and water I made this palm tree cake. I drew the palm tree free-handed and used piping gel on wax paper and inverted design on the cake. I used stiff butter cream frosting for the decorations. But tried a whipped frosting for the … Read more
I made this Princesses Garden Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. For the Princesses, I used the Wilton Mini Wonder pan, which makes the 4 skirts. I used cookie sticks and cling wrapped them to the dolls to insert them into their “skirts”. The base is a 12 X 18inch sheet cake. This was a … Read more
I was asked to make my Dads 80th birthday cake and as he has his own allotment and been a professional gardener all his life, I decided to base the theme on that. I started with 4 rectangular basic sponge cakes and stuck them together with butter cream and jam. I bought white fondant icing … Read more
I did not have cake recipes for this cake so used the pan from the Betty Crocker bake and fill to bake the ladybugs and for the daisy cupcakes the daisy leaves are made from marshmallows and a brown M&M for the center of the daisy. I used M&Ms for the eyes of the ladybugs. … Read more
This is inspired from Colettes cake decorating tips . This is a sports ball pan from Wilton and covered in star tip in a dusty green royal icing. I used chocolate graham crackers crumbled up for the “dirt” and a gum paste fantasy flower. My cactus flower did not dry in enough time.Of course everything … Read more
I wanted to make a flower cake for my grandmother that she would remember and not knowing to much about decorating I decided to give it a whirl anyway. I saw a picture on Wilton’s cake decorating book that she really loved but I didn’t have the directions for it so I ran with my … Read more
I had fun doing this Bouquet Of Flowers Cake and it was easy. Just bake cupcakes from the box choosing your flavor, I used lemon cake. Bought a 7 dollars flower pot, some toothpicks and some artificial leaves. I put the Styrofoam ball in the flower pot (you can go as big or small as … Read more
This is a cake that I made for my sister’s birthday party. It is a golden butter cake. The filling includes vanilla, whipped cream and strawberry puree. The frosting and the flowers are made of whipped cream as well, and of course the color of the flowers are dust rose (red + brown). The border … Read more
My sister’s love for sunflower was the inspiration for the Sunflower Cake and cupcakes. I looked up sunflower cakes on the internet and copied what I liked here and there and made my own version. The fondant sunflower decors were made a week before my sister’s party. I used the daisy/sunflower plunger which had 3 … Read more
This pretty flower cake was made for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I hired a large flower shaped tin and used 3 packets of Betty Crocker Vanilla Cake Mix to get a lovely high cake. Extra cook time was needed accordingly. I iced the cake with homemade butter cream icing, tinted in pink and yellow colours. … Read more
Since this was our daughters First Birthday we wanted something special and unique. After inviting immediate family and a couple friends we had 30 guests, so we needed to be able to feed everyone cheap. I was able to make these cakes for under $10! (2 cake mixes, 3 frostings, 1 tube of green frosting, … Read more
