This was my second attempt at a fondant cake. I had hoped that doing a more square shape would be easier to cover. I made two white cakes and inverted one on top of the other, filling them with buttercream frosting and peach preserves. I layered the gift box cake with a crumb coat of … Read more

This Present Birthday Cake is a Gluten Free cake which I made for my Mother in Laws 50th birthday. It is a Gluten Free Victoria sponge, covered in white fondant. I made the bow out of fondant (I am not very happy with it, but it is my first attempt at one and I know … Read more

I made this Present Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 13th birthday. I used four layers of chocolate sponge cake and the cream was chocolate mousse. Very delicious!! The frosting was whipped cream coloured as light orange. The ribbons and the roses was made with homemade sugarpaste as well as the little flowers on the side. … Read more

This was my first fondant cake. I wanted to do something special for my only niece’s first birthday. My sister in law wanted something cute and girly. I must have looked at thousands of cakes online. I just combined different ideas of a gift box cake with my own. The cake is a yellow cake … Read more

I made this Present Birthday Cake for my Mother and Grandmother’s birthday. Both tiers are dark Chocolate Torte. There is a thin layer of buttercream under the fondant. I put rolled up tissues in the bow loops and left them in there for an hour so the fondant would hold it’s shape as it hardened. … Read more

I made this Homemade Glitzy Glam Present Birthday Cake Design for a friend’s daughter. I had not attempted a cake like this before, but I had so much fun making it and thinking of what to put on it and the hows? One of the cakes was a rich chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge … Read more

This cake was for a graduation party. Since the person graduating loves fashion I decided to do a Coach and Tiffany’s gift box cake. The cakes were 6″ & 8″ squares covered with buttercream and fondant. I drew the Coach symbols on parchment paper and filled them in with melted chocolate (using a #3 tip). … Read more

A friend was having a birthday party for her son turning one, she had plates and napkings with this pattern and I copied them to the cake. Everything on cake is fondant except the sticks to hold up the monkey heads. I also made a individual small cake for the boy. I frosted the cake … Read more

This Gift Box Cake was a cake I made for my best friend’s cousin. It was for a Baby Shower, it was actually just my second fondant cake. I made the fondant with marshmallows & 10x sugar (it taste great) adding pink coloring. I made it days before and also the chocolate fondant made with … Read more

A friend of my daughter’s wanted a black and pink cake and this Present Cake is what I made. I started by making the bow as this needed to be left for a few days to dry out. I colored ½ flower paste, ½ fondant icing in different colored pinks. This was then rolled out … Read more

I made this baby shower cake for my friend’s baby shower. They had purchased a diaper cake and wanted the cake look exactly like it. So I made one of each 10 in cake, 8 in cake, and 6 in cakes and stacked them with vanilla buttercream in between the layers. Then frosted the entire … Read more

My daughter loves Dora and when she turned three I themed her birthday party Dora the Explorer. I had the idea to make her cake in the form of a box birthday cake, so I decided to make it as a big square and a smaller square. The cake was made from a chocolate mixture. … Read more

I made this 70th Gift Box Cake for my mana’s 70th birthday! I used a 10″ square cake tin. The cake is a vanilla sponge with strawberry and butter cream icing middle. I made the pink bow out of fondant and for all the pink detailing I used Tesco’s pink icing in a tube, very … Read more

A friend of mine told me about her Christmas tradition of making a birthday cake for Jesus and since I am always looking for new reasons to make a cake I ran with it. This Christmas Present Cake is just two white almond cakes made in 9″ square pans filled with chocolate ganache and covered … Read more

I started this quilted bow cake by making two white roses out of flower paste. These were left to harden over night. I also made a bow out of icing which needed to harden overnight. I then baked 3 x 8” sandwich cakes and these were left to go cold. I then filled it with … Read more

I made this present birthday cake for my niece’s birthday. It is a four layer devils food cake made with an 8in square pan. It is covered in white buttercream and fondant cutouts, the bow is made from white fondant that was made the day before so it was able to harden.

This Homemade Prettiest Pink Gift Box Birthday Cake was for for my mum’s 65th birthday. I started of with making a 14″ and a 9″ cake. I made almond butter cake and covered with marzipan and then plastic icing (fondant). I cut strips of fondant and placed them on the cake to look like a … Read more

This Christmas Presents Cake is a stack of Wrapped Cakes made to look like the real thing! The bottom tier is white cake with white fondant and a silver dusted bow. I used vodka to apply the silver dusting, it helps it to stick to the fondant and then evaporates leaving just the silver dust … Read more