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