I made an 11×15 cake and then cut it in half to make 2 rectangles. To make it look more like a corn hole board I angled the tops of the cakes. I then iced them smooth white using the Wilton recipe icing. I cut the holes using a measuring cup as a guide and … Read more
My girl request a 5th birthday with everything unicorn and rainbow… so off to Google, pinterest and all about to find some inspiration to make a Homemade Rainbow Unicorn Cake. The final product was a blend of about 5 or so different cakes I’d seen photo’s of with touches of my own desire. The base … Read more
The base is a 12″ round, and the “tower” is three 5″ rounds. Its all decorated with buttercream. The skyscrapers are made of royal icing, which I had made on waxed paper the day before, and they were extremely breakable. Luckily I made several extras because they kept breaking! Wilton said to make them with … Read more
I made this Vinyl Records cake for my father-in-law’s 60th birthday party. I started with an 8″ round cake with a 3″ depth from Wilton, which is used to bake an entire cake mix. I baked two cakes, one a confetti party cake and the other is a chocolate fudge cake. (Each cake takes about … Read more
My daughter loves myths so for her 10th birthday she asked for a Mount Olympus cake. The cake itself wasn’t hard; I made two chocolate cake recipes and divided the batter between 4 decreasing size cake tins. Then I stacked them – filling between each layer, and only splitting the smallest, as it was the … Read more
This Turntable Birthday Cake Design was made for a friend’s birthday who is also a DJ. It is a yellow cake with a 21×10 size bottom and a smaller circular portion on top. The cake is covered in white chocolate fondant which was dyed and then painted silver. The cake also has many different candies/cookies … Read more
This cake was made for my twin nieces on their first birthday. I searched this site for child birthday cakes when I came across a Noah’s ark cake. The top of the ark is made of cookie and held together with royal icing. The animals were all made of royal icing. The boat of the … Read more
Firstly, thanks for your site, I regularly check in to see what’s new. Now about this cake, I think it may be the first iPhone cake posted on this site. I used chocolate cake with a vanilla buttercream icing for the filling. I used chocolate buttercream icing for the outside of the cake, tinting it … Read more
I made this Drum Birthday Cake for my son’s 20th birthday. The snare drums are just round cakes cut into smaller circles (I didn’t have a small cake pan), the larger is an 8″ double layer turned on its side. I used black buttercream frosting for the sides and regular white buttercream for the center. … Read more
This Over the Hill cake is a chocolate cake with a chocolate gnashe filling. Iced with ‘plastic’ chocolate icing. This is made by just combining melted 70% chocolate with liquid glucose. I made a 25cm base cake and another cake in a pudding bowl for the top of the hill. I made the figure out … Read more
This cake was for my father-in-laws birthday party. I got this idea from the Wilton web site for over the hill cakes and improvised a little. The over the hill tombstone is a candle purchased from my local grocery store. The cake is a two layer 10 in cake iced in butter cream. The drop … Read more
I used a homemade strawberry cake with buttercream frosting for this guitar cake. The fretboard is caramel icing, the strings, are cut licorice whips, the tuning keys are strawberry marshmallow candies, and the Hanna Montana “picture” is an iced graham cracker. I really enjoyed making this cake for my granddaughter. The way her eyes lit … Read more