40th Birthday Cake for Party Girl

40th Birthday Cake for Party Girl

I spent weeks finding the perfect birthday cake for a crazy party girl who was turning 40 this year. So after weeks of research I found the prefect cake! I make achohol flavors in Malibu coconut rum, margarita, and hot damn. Being a party girl I also found the perfect martini glass that was light enough to set on … Read more

Cool DJ Birthday Cake

Cool DJ Birthday Cake

For my husbands 40th birthday I wanted to give him something unusual.  So I decided to make his birthday cake, and decorate it with everything he is into.  To start out it hit me that him being into music, selling vintage vinyl and being a DJ make it look like a stack of records.  Being … Read more

Coolest Mafia Birthday Cake

Coolest Mafia Birthday Cake

I made this Mafia birthday cake and cup cakes for my son in law on his mafia themed birthday. I am not a professional baker. I do it for my family only. I work as a school principal and get very less time to make themed cakes. My daughter asked me to make this cake. … Read more

Native American Themed Birthday Cake

Native American Themed Birthday Cake

This Native American themed birthday cake is a cake that a friend requested for her mother that is an Native American Elder. She wanted a raspberry cake with maple sugar frosting. I got a recipe off line and used it to make the raspberry cake, I used real raspberries with recipe. With the frosting, I used real maple … Read more

Coolest Old Man Knobby Birthday Cake

Homemade Old Man Knobby Birthday Cake

It was one of my regular customer’s birthday. So I decided to make a cake in his likeness. His name is Knobby and he’s been eating at our restaurant for years. So I made an Old Man Knobby Birthday Cake. I made 2 9″ rounds and stacked and frosted them. I made sugar cookies in … Read more

Coolest 40 Years Young Spinner Cake

40 Years Young Spinner Cake

This Spinner cake was for my son in law Scott. He turned 40 which is a hard age for some. He took it very well and really liked the cake. The cake is a yellow cake with blueberry filling. It has two ten inch rounds tarted and filled. It was frosted with butter creme icing. … Read more

Coolest Pot Of Gold Birthday Cake

Homemade Pot Of Gold Birthday Cake

This Pot Of Gold Birthday Cake is my grandson’s first birthday cake. I made this from a 9″ cake, layers piled on top of each other. Sometimes I had to use wooden dowels to hold together if cake is tall. I iced between each layer and around sides to give a nice coating then rolled … Read more

Coolest Homemade Cake Recipes and Ideas for Birthdays 6

For lack of a better idea for my sons 10th birthday I came up with a “Timeline” cake. It was a very long cake, each 10th of it with decorations reminiscent of each of his previous birthdays: first-dogs, second-baseball, third-carousel, fourth-fireman, fifth-fishing, sixth-airplane, seven-rockets, eighth-science, nineth-“camo” bike-ride, and 10th-his “Golden Birthday” as he turned 10 … Read more

Coolest Daycare Birthday Cake

Homemade Daycare Birthday Cake

I baked one 9 x 13 chocolate cake and cut in 4 pieces because there were 4 kids celebrating this Daycare birthday cake, 3 boys and one girl. I decided to try out the marshmallow fondant recipe, it was easier than I though it would be, though I did have to combine a few recipes … Read more

Coolest Mens Birthday Cake

Homemade Mens Birthday Cake

My dad was turning 60. He is a fencer by trade. I wanted to do something special for him as a cake. I had a friend introduce me to modeling paste (Fondant and Gum Tragacanth) and after I started to have a play around with it and realized what I could do, the idea for … Read more

Coolest Muppet Birthday Cake

Homemade Muppet Birthday Cake

This Muppet Birthday Cake was made for my brother in law on his fortieth birthday. He’s a big fan of the Irish Times cryptic crossword and also of the Muppets. The toilet was added as a family joke. A lot of time is spent there completing the crossword! All of the models are made from … Read more

Coolest Sock Basket 40th Birthday Cake

Homemade Sock Basket 40th Birthday Cake

I was asked to make a cake in the shape of a basket filled with socks as a joke for someone’s 40th birthday celebration. I started making the socks a few days prior. I used a gumpaste/fondant mixture. I colored some of the mixture with a few colors. I cut out some mini flowers out … Read more