For the last few years I’ve made my nieces their birthday cakes, every year I ask them what they want their cake to look like. One year my younger niece said she would like a butterfly birthday cake, so I dug out my seldom used butterfly shaped cake pan, and after looking at it for a good … Read more
My daughter just turned 6. We can barely believe it, the years have gone so fast, yet they also seem to have been a loooong 6 yrs – lol. She asked for a “Worm Party”. Given that this is probably the last year we’ll get away with something non- pink-sparklie-girlie, I took the ball and … Read more
This Homemade Butterfly Birthday Cake was a chocolate mud cake with chocolate buttercream – bottom tier, and the top was vanilla sponge with pink buttercream. I crumb coated both tiers with buttercream and covered them with white fondant. Butterflies and flowers were made from flower modeling paste and attached to the cake with royal icing. … Read more
This Halloween spider cake was more of an engineering challenge than cake decorating. The legs were gum paste over coat hangers cut and bent to fit. The base was spray painted cardboard with a built up cardboard pedestal (four layers) for the cake). For the top layer of the pedestal I used a piece of … Read more
My brother-in-law reaches out to me and plans with me to make a cake for my youngest sister whose birthday falls on it April Fools Day. She has always hated roaches. Because when we lived in Puerto Rico when we were younger she got a huge cockroach stuck in her hair. She laughed so hard … Read more
I baked one round and one oval chocolate cake. Then I hollowed out the centre and filled it with homemade Boston cream filling. Next, I covered with a buttercream icing crumb coat placed in fridge for a bit. I made marshmallow fondant and rolled out and covered the cake. I added a few extra strips … Read more
What Will Baby BEE? Gender Reveal Cake I made this gender reveal cake for a baby shower and I had the most fun making it. It got great reactions. The actual bee hive was a blue colored cake so that when the mom-to-be would cut into it, it would reveal the gender of the baby as being … Read more
I made this ladybug birthday cake for my granddaughter, Catie. Ladybug Birthday Cake Instructions I started by making two ten inch round French vanilla cakes. Then, I bake one dozen cupcakes. When the cakes were cool I frosted them with buttercream frosting. Then, I covered the round cake with fondant. I covered the cupcakes with … Read more
This mommy to BEE baby shower cake was inspired by my daughter who asked me to make a cake for her friend’s shower. The theme of the shower is bumble bees, so this is the cake I came up with. Bee Baby Shower Cake Details This is a 3 tier cake made with 12″, 10″, and 8″ round pans. All … Read more
My daughter and I made this ladybug and dragonfly cake for her grandmother’s birthday. Her grandma loves dragonflies! We used this site for inspiration. Ladybug and Dragonfly Cake Directions We made the equivalent of 3 cake mixes to create and assemble this cake. We used two Pyrex bowls, a 9×13 cake pan, and a 10×15 … Read more
My twin girls wanted a butterfly themed cake. I found a couple years ago, cake decorating is a lot of fun so I have been making their cakes. My imagination was all over the place however it stopped with a two layer cake covered in green & white marble fondant. I rolled a small amount … Read more
This ladybug and flowers cake took me many hours to make. I made it for a sweet lady in our church. For the base of the cake I used 9×13 cake pans. The ladybug was made from two different glass bowls, one small pyrex and one medium round bowl. The smaller one for the head … Read more