I made this butterfly cake for my daughter’s first Birthday. I baked two heart shape cakes that turned into the wings, the center is made of cake using the small pans used for cornbread, cut it to shape it into a body. Used gum balls for the eyes, m&m’s for the decoration of the body … Read more
My son loves monster trucks, so a few years ago, for his 4th birthday, we decided on a Monster Truck theme. The Monster Truck Cake was super easy. I baked an 11 x 14 cake in butter recipe yellow. I iced the the cake top with home made chocolate icing, and iced the side with … Read more
I made this butterfly birthday cake for a meeting at my work, the staff loved it so much I had to cut it first or they wouldn’t eat it! I made another one just like it for my mother’s birthday and she just adored it. They tasted as good as they looked too! I enjoy … Read more
For my sons monster truck birthday cake I doubled a regular 9×13 cake recipe and baked one 9×13, one brownie cake pan size and used 4 small round pans for the wheels. It makes it easier to look at a monster truck picture while making this cake. Once they had cooled I cut them to … Read more
I made this Butterfly Birthday Cake for my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday. I made the chocolate cake using a cake mix. I added nuts and fruits to the cake batter to make a rich Chocolate cake. This was the first time I tried icing. I applied chocolate frosting to the round cake that I baked, cut … Read more
This Butterfly Crazy Cake was made up for my daughter’s 4th birthday. The size was 28cm wide and 7cm deep (roughly). And it was heavy. I started on the butterflies about 3 to 4 months ahead of time as with there being so many different sizes I wanted a good mix of each one, plus … Read more
My brother’ girlfriend wanted to make a Harley Birthday Cake for his 34th birthday. She found a picture of a cake she liked on the internet and me, her, and the children worked together as a family to make a cake made from love that would be as special to my brother as he is … Read more
This Butterfly 1st Birthday Cake was for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I had found the cutest plates and cups with butterflies on them, but could not find a butterfly cake pan so I made my own. I used 2 8-inch rounds, 2 6-inch rounds, and a small loaf pan (this was a LOT of cake!) … Read more
This homemade birthday cake was made for my dads work friend. It is dark chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream filling/crumb coat. Black fondant covers it. The Harley Davidson logo is all hand-cut fondant with a silver dragees border. The flames on the side were first drawn with a blue food-color marker. Then I went over … Read more
I got the inspiration from a birthday cake party book. I made this Farmyard Truck Birthday Cake using 2 loaf size pans. One loaf was shaped for the front and the second loaf was used as is. The icing is chocolate flavoured butter icing. I used simple ready made biscuits: Oreo biscuits for wheels and … Read more
The little girl I baby-sit for wanted a butterfly cake and this is what I came up with. Very basic – make two round cakes and split them in half. Angle them to make them look like wings of a butterfly. I used a pink snowball cake to make the body and red rope candy … Read more
This butterfly cake is made by cutting a round cake in half, then cutting a triangle out of the middle of each half (flat side). Then put the two triangles together as a square to make the head, then make the wings from the two halves, back to back.