My son is four and wanted a Godzilla Birthday Party. As you know that does not just come prepackaged. Ive used this site in the past to assist me with homemade cake recipes and ideas but this one I had to come up with on my own. I took my turkey roasting pan and three … Read more
I created this family tree cake for our Thanksgiving dessert. It was fun and easy to make. Best of all my family loved it, especially since it was so personal with their “faces” as the main decoration! The 9×13 cake is carrot with cream cheese frosting. I used brown, copper, buttercup, ivory and moss green … Read more
One thing I really try to do when making a cake for someone’s birthday is to personalize it in such a way that is truly unique to their personality. A birthday cake shouldn’t simply be composed of it’s recipient’s favorite combination of flavors, it should speak of what kind of person they are. So when … Read more
I made this cake for my husband’s 30th Birthday Party. I got the idea from a Father’s Day cake I found in a recipe book. I took two sheet cakes and stacked them, cutting some what of a tray out of the top layer. I then applied a crumb coating and covered store bought dark … Read more
My mom loves Russian dolls: she has many in the house. I checked out some easy homemade cake recipes and I used the 3D Winnie cake mold. I cut some pieces to give it the shape of a Russian doll. I covered it with white rolled fondant and painted the entire doll with food colorant … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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