My son loves Blue’s Clues so I looked everywhere to try and find a cake pan of Blue herself. Having no success, I decided to do the next best thing and bake him a Blue’s House Birthday cake. I used the house cake pan and then decorated the cake like the house in Blue’s Clues. … Read more

This is only my second novelty cake. I got my inspiration from a really old Cake Decorating book borrowed from the Library. I called it “Cabin Fever” as i made it during recent bad snow and ice where nobody in the country was able to leave their houses and travel anywhere safely. It’s a victoria … Read more

I used layered chocolate and orange cake and cut to shape this Homemade Cottage Cake. The walls were part butter icing and part fondant icing. Roof is fondant icing and so are the paving slabs. The grass is dessicated coconut coloured with green paste food colouring.

I used chocolate icing, coconut sprinkles, Cadbury flakes, malt sticks and a double square sponge cake. I cut one sponge in half and then set aside with the other cut in half then cut diagonally so you have two long triangular prisms. Mix up the icing, the stick, stack the two halves on top each … Read more

This was done as a groom’s cake for my wedding. The cabin is three Wilton house Cakes put together and using the resulting “sides” as the front. The chimney is butter cream and candy stones on a cereal treat chimney and the stream is blue piping gel with a border of random rocks. The chopping … Read more

I baked this Cottage Cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday, since she loves the idea of living in a house surrounded by a garden. I used my favorite sponge cake recipe (eggless since we are vegetarians) to make 2 rectangular cakes, one was used as the base (the garden) and the other for the cottage. … Read more

This Log Cabin Birthday Cake is a 1/2 sheet cake and a 1/4 sheet cake. The cabin was cut into squares and the the top was carved into a roof. The logs were cereal straws with chocolate buttercream iced behind them. The roof was made out of graham crackers. There is a garden and fondant … Read more

When my 3 daughters had a combined Alaska themed birthday party, my 5 year old wanted huskies on her Igloo cake, as they are her favorite dog! I made a box cake mix and made my own buttercream icing. I baked the cake in a rectangular pan that I have which is about 10 x … Read more