After waiting thirteen years for my baby, my youngest son turned two today and he is a huge fan of this cut little Caillou! With a small budget and last minute decisions I made this cake for my special little guy. Going on little sleep and after 7hrs of hard work early that day I … Read more
This Charlie and Lola cake was SUPER simple and so well loved by my little Charlie and Lola fan! I had the image on the top made by a company who specializes in this, they have images you can choose from. They can be fiddly to apply, but the result is pretty cool. It’s a shame it was … Read more
I am so glad to have at least a little talent to be able to make cakes for my family. I made these cakes for our grandson Bentley’s first birthday, the Yo-Gabba Gabba cake was his smash cake and the Dr. Seuss was the one for everybody else. I had been planning his birthday cake from the day … Read more
I made this Winnie the Pooh cake upon request from a friend of a friend, it was for her little girl Lyla who was turning 1. I wanted to challenge myself so I went and got the #1 shaped tin and thought, omg, how am I going to incorporate Pooh Bear into such a small space. I went … Read more
This was my husband’s cousin’s baby shower cake. She had a Winnie the Pooh theme so I used the old Winnie the Pooh Wilton cake pan to make it. I dyed butter cream different colors, then just dotted it on the cake then outlined it in black frosting. It was a pretty simple, easy cake. You just need the … Read more
My daughter Lilly was totally obsessed with the PBS Kids show “The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!” just before her second birthday in 2012. I researched and found i could find plenty of decorations on the theme and decided to go with it. I had recently began making cakes for my … Read more
This cool Gruffalo birthday cake was made for a very special little boy turning 3. He is crazy about the Gruffalo so I really wanted to capture the whole story along with the scenery and all the characters. The thing I like most about this cake is the personal rhyme I put on it which was: … Read more
My son’s birthday theme was Curious George and I wanted to do a special cake. He also loves trains so I got the Curious George train kit. I baked a 9×13 chocolate cake, with two 8″ round cakes. I cut the round 8′ cakes in half and stacked three of the halves together with homemade butter-cream in … Read more
Max and Ruby are bunny rabbits. I made these for a friends little girl birthday. I had no idea what Max and Ruby was. I was told it was a cartoon on Nick Jr. So I tuned in to watch Max and Ruby to get some ideas on how to make these cakes. I ended up cutting … Read more
For this Dr Seuss cake I used a 10″ round (3 layers) and decorated it with butter cream. For the tree tops, I used tip 233 making a swirl pattern in pastel colors to look like the trees in The Lorax. I used foam pieces covered in paper to create the Dr. Seuss books which worked as a support to hold the hat. The hat and fish bowl … Read more
This Miss Spider’s Sunnypatch Kids cake was my first attempt at fondant characters. It was much easier than I imagined it would be. My son had his heart set on a Miss Spider’s Sunnypatch Kids cake. I knew it would be a challenge, so I offered other ideas. Well, he wasn’t having it, so I broke … Read more
My son was about to celebrate his 5 th birthday and for the past 18 months he has been a big fan of DR Seuss books which are not as popular in the UK as they are in the USA so any toys and merchandise is quite hard to find. So for Christmas a few days before his birthday he got a Lorax … Read more