My friend is a Chiropodist and so I wanted to make a cake relating to her job. I made an orange sponge cake recipe. Then I traced around my own foot to get that shape. I just made slight indentations around the toe area to give the shape once the Royal Icing was covering it. … Read more
I made this Dosette Box with Pills Cake for our graduating class in mental health nursing. It’s a Dosette box with pills! Of course I had to add the coffee cups above it as we almost all had shares in coffee by the time we had finished our training. The base is sponge with butter … Read more
My son Paul is very interested in the human body. So, when it was time for us to plan his 6th birthday party, he said that he wanted a cake of the digestive system. Once I got over the initial shock of his request, I started looking around for photos of similar cakes on the … Read more
These two little beauties were so much fun to make! For each cake I used two round cake pans and put them on top of each other with a layer of frosting between. I found that it helped to put the layers together with the frosting in between and then wrap them and put them … Read more
My nine year old daughter wanted a mad scientist party with an actual scientist cake and this is what I came up with. First I purchased a Bob The Builder pan. I used the pan as the shape for my scientist. I made a regular box cake mix in it and then attempted to decorate … Read more
This was prepared from a large sheet cake for the bottom layer and two rounds. Arc shapes were cut from the rounds with straight pieces in between for the “bases” of the DNA. Each base (A G C or T) was given its own color. No special icing recipe just your standard Crisco powdered sugar … Read more
I made this Homemade Scientist Cake for a friend’s birthday-it’s 2 double chocolate 12×18″ cakes with fresh strawberry filling. The Einstein body and head are made from rice krispy treats and covered in fondant. All the details are made from fondant as well.
This Brain Cake was the inspiration of my wife, we were going to do a Lego cake but this was much more fun, The cake itself is a normal sponge cake coloured with red food colouring so that when we cut it open it will be red inside too, It was baked in a Pyrex … Read more
After some troubling recent bouts of arrythmia, my Dad, who has an oddball sense of humor, requested a birthday cake that would reflect his recent difficulties (including two hospitalizations, a host of EKGs and catheterizations, and the installation of a pacemaker and defibrillator). So, for this cardiac cake I made a one-layer white cake using … Read more
My son was having a Mad Science Birthday party and I wanted to make a Brain cake that really went along with the theme. I started by baking two 14″ wide 3″ deep round layers of red velvet cake. After cooling I leveled them and put them together with a layer of the lime green … Read more
I saw these eye cakes in a magazine and thought I should try it. So easy and really fun! Using unglazed donut holes (holds frosting really well) and M&Ms these are great for a Halloween party. After looking at the grocery stores for weeks I was unable to find unglazed donut holes. So I went … Read more
I made this Human Heart Cake for my oldest brother, he is currently on the heart transplant list in New York. He recently had a procedure done, they had to install whats called an LVAD unit, it assists the flow of blood thru the left side of his heart. This should help him until a … Read more