Coolest Christmas Presents Cake

Homemade Christmas Presents Cake

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

Coolest Gift Box Cake Ideas 3

After making a number One cake for my son I was asked to make a number 50 for a friends birthday but I didn’t want to make cakes with curves without time to practice so convinced my friend I would make a gift box cake instead. I looked online for ideas and saw a few … Read more

Coolest Big Bow Cake

Homemade Big Bow Cake

My Big Bow Cake was made for my sister for her birthday, it consists of 2 layers and a lot of time on my behalf since I have really only just started this cake making skill. The bottom layer is a 22” round milk chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream then covered in a purple … Read more

Coolest Gift Box Birthday Cake

Homemade Gift Box Birthday Cake

I had a friend who I just could not figure out how to decorate her cake. I decided since I told her her cake would be my birthday present to her, why not make it literally a Gift Box Birthday Cake. Searching this site, I loved the quilted/diamond shape design and the gift that had … Read more

Coolest Zebra Print Gift Box Cake

Homemade Zebra Print Gift Box Cake

I made this Zebra Print Gift Box Cake for my sister’s 25th birthday. She wanted it to be girlie with zebra and pink. As my family and most people do not like the taste of fondant I always ice it with buttercream really smooth to look as if flat as fondant then add all fondant … Read more

Coolest Bow Cake

Homemade Bow Cake

This bow cake was made for a friend’s 22nd birthday. The cake inside is s butter cake recipe (Duncan Hines and it tasted really yummy). Its iced with a crusting buttercream recipe (then I dyed a soft pink). I then used the paper towel method (Google it) to smooth out my edges (icing a cake … Read more

Coolest Present Birthday Cake

Homemade Present Birthday Cake

This Present Birthday Cake was my second attempt at making a cake with fondant. My husband and my mother-in-law have birthdays close together, so I decided to make a square present for the both of them. The cake was a homemade peanut butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and covered with homemade fondant. The bow … Read more

Coolest Present Birthday Cake

Homemade Present Birthday Cake

I made this Present Birthday Cake for my niece’s 2nd birthday. I got the idea from the book Confetti Cakes for Kids by Elisa Strauss. I began by making the tissue paper out of gum paste that I coloured blue. I rolled it quite thin, cut it into varying sizes of squares and then set … Read more

Coolest Gift-wrapped Box Happy Birthday Cake Ideas 1

I first made two 8×2″ square cakes. After cooling completely and freezing each for a couple of hours I then leveled them both off. I added a filling in the middle and iced them with a white buttercream icing. I rolled my fondant out to a 16″ circle and then covered the cake, smoothing it … Read more

Coolest Birthday Cake

Homemade Birthday Cake

This Birthday Cake is the cake I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday last year. It was the first time I’ve ever done anything remotely like this. I’ve take a couple cake decorating classes at the local craft store, but hadn’t learned anything yet about working with fondant, so I read a lot online and … Read more

Cool Homemade Zebra-Striped Gift Box Birthday Cake

Homemade Gift Box Birthday Cake

My girlfriend asked me to make a cake for her friend’s birthday. All she told me of this friend was that she was a wild, crazy and fun gal. I had creative license with the cake and this Homemade Gift Box Birthday Cake is what I came up with. This was my 3rd time working … Read more

Coolest Zebra Giftbox Birthday Cake

Homemade Zebra Giftbox Birthday Cake

I baked two round cakes for this Zebra Giftbox Birthday Cake. Frosted the top of one then laid the other on top and frosted the top and sides. I used plain white fondant and covered the cake. Then I got some more fondant and dyed half black and half pink. I then rolled out my … Read more