This happy birthday cake is by far the most popular type cakes I make for birthdays. I sent a couple of variations but all with the same technique and design. Not sure how this came about. I was talking to a mom and she had brought a napkin or something in and I came up … Read more
I saw a present cake similar to this one and I made it for a book club I ran for young children. I also made it for my daughter’s 1st birthday. It is actually not that hard to make. Prior to making the cake, a day or two before, you will need to make the … Read more
I made this Present Birthday Cake for my niece’s 8th birthday. It was the first cake I made with fondant. She and all her friends loved it!! I used Wilton fondant, 1 small box. I baked the cake in a 8in round pan, 1 layer of chocolate and 1 layer of yellow. I put strawberry … Read more
My daughter had a small turquoise ring box on her dresser that I decided to copy for her Gift Box Birthday Cake. I used square tinfoil cake pans and made two cake mixes, one strawberry and the other yellow. I used canned vanilla frosting between the layers and as a crumb coat. I made marshmallow … Read more
This is a happy birthday cake for my partners 50th birthday. I combined a bunch of different ideas for decorated box-like cakes. The cake is first covered in white fondant. Then I did the quilting pattern on the sides. After that I did the fondant “box top.” This I found to be not as simple … Read more
This is how I made this Gift Box Cake. I iced both cakes with buttercream icing and sat in the fridge to chill while I worked on fondant circles. I made the marshmallow fondant and cut out circles in different sizes to add around edges. I also cut out a piece of fondant in the … Read more
This First Birthday Gift Box Cake was surprisingly easy to make. This was also the first time I decorated with fondant. It was however, somewhat time consuming. The fondant decorations can be made a day in advance, but since I never seem to remember to be that prepared it took about 4 hours. For the … Read more
I made this gift box cake for my friend’s mom’s 50th birthday party. The decorations were all in red, black, purple, and turquoise but since I couldn’t figure out how to make turquoise with food paste I left that color out. This is my second fondant cake and I used marshmallow fondant instead of the … Read more
My girlfriend was turning 30 and her husband was having a surprise party for her. I just recently started cake decorating and wanted to try using fondant icing. I had never done it before and was really pleased how it turned out. I often look on the internet to get ideas and thats how I … Read more
I made this present cake for a baby shower that was polka-dot themed. I used 6 cake mixes and made layers of 9×9 square pans, and then stacked them all up. They were given a coat of buttercream. I made fondant from marshmallows and water and rolled it out and put it on the sides. … Read more
A friend asked me to do a cake for her daughter’s 4th birthday and she found a Gift Wrapped Cake similar to this one on this site. I used 3 different size square pans and baked a vanilla cake. I made buttercream frosting which I divided and colored. I frosted each cake. I then used … Read more
I made this gift box cake for a friend’s wedding shower. It is made from regular Duncan Hines Butter recipe cake mixes which I baked in three 9-inch square pans (making it a triple layer cake). I then frosted with homemade buttercream frosting. I colored 1 box of prepared fondant brown using Wilton icing gel … Read more