For the ladybug’s body I made a simple ganashe with semisweet chocolate and heavy cream (8 ounces of chocolate to 1 cup of heavy cream worked beautifully) in my blender. I chopped the chocolate, added 1 cup of very hot cream, and blended until the chocolate completely melted. While the ganashe cooled a little I … Read more
I made these cakes for my daughters 1st birthday. I have dreamed about this day for so long so I really wanted to make that “special cake”. I got the idea from a ladybug birthday cake that I saw online. It was so easy to make. I made two 12″ x 2″ deep butter cakes. … Read more
My idea for this cake came from several other ladybug birthday cakes but I knew I wanted the ladybug to be a separate cake on top of the foundation cake. The foundation cake is two boxed cake mixes prepared several days before the party and frozen. The ladybug cake is a 6″ round cake that … Read more
My daughter has a Halloween birthday so we sent this fun millipede cake to school with her. I covered the tray with green frosting and pulled it up in tuffs to simulate grass then added a little chocolate sprinkles for accent. 21 chocolate cupcakes were lined up in a winding millipede body. I cut the … Read more
This Halloween spider cake was one of the easiest cakes I have ever made. I used 2 Pyrex bowls to make the head and body. I froze the cakes overnight because it helps keep the crumbs packed down so you don’t have a mess. I cut just a small amount off one end of each … Read more
I made this Spider Halloween Birthday Cake for all the October Birthday’s in the family. We’ve always had the traditional birthday cakes and I wanted to do more of a Halloween theme cake this year. I kept it simple using homemade buttercream icing (recipe found on internet)with an easy web design and spider. The cake … Read more
I copied this from cake designs for kids birthdays on your site. Thanks!
My son wanted a “Miss Spiders Sunny Patch” birthday. As of this write-up, there is nothing out there with regards to party favors, party supplies, etc. with the Miss Spider theme, so I was on my own. We decided to use a theme called “Bugs Everywhere” for the tablecloth, blow outs, napkins, and hanging decorations. … Read more
This Ants Cake and Cupcakes was made by a family friend for my 4 children who share their birthdays in June. The triplets turned 1 and my oldest daughter turned 3. My husband and I decided on the theme, because they are always under our feet, busy carrying something around, eating, and just moving about, … Read more
For my daughter’s 1st birthday I decided to do a Bumble bee theme party and like always I got ideas from this website for a Bumblebee Cupcake Cake and also from a Youtube video titled “How to make a fondant bumble bee”. I bought a big cupcake mold and decided to make the top part … Read more
I used a combination of butter icing (yellow) and pre-coloured black fondant for this Homemade Queen Bee Cake. The wings were done with melted white chocolate done in a tear shape. I popped them both in the freezer to make sure they were super rigid. The wings were inserted prior to serving with the pointy … Read more
I used the Wilton Butterfly pan for this butterfly cake. The party Colors were lavender and green so I used the Violet coloring and made a light purple and dark purple, some yellow icing and then black for the butterfly body. I used a star tip for the whole thing except for the eyes, mouth … Read more