Cool Cookie Monster Cake

Cool Cookie Monster Cake

This cake is so easy.  Seriously.  A 12 year old did it. My neighbors daughter wanted to come learn how to decorate a cake, to enter into the local country show.  She had an idea of a Cookie Monster cake. Within 2 minutes of showing her how to pipe (with a grass tip nozzle), she was … Read more

Cute Homemade Cookie Monster Cake With a Mouthful of Cookies

Coolest Cookie Monster Cake

This Cookie Monster cake was fun to make.  We used a round cake pan and colored vanilla frosting blue.  I put a crumb frosting layer down first.  Then I used a frosting tip to make hair.  I pushed down on marshmallows to make them larger and created eyes with black frosting sure to make the … Read more

Coolest Hootabelle Cake

Coolest Hootabelle Cake

I made Hoot for my son’s 1st birthday so I had to do Hootabelle. I used the puppet we have of her to get sizing right. I used a a ball cake pan for her head and cut up a 20 cm round cake for the body. Everything else is made up with fondant. I … Read more

Sweep Birthday Cake from Sooty TV Show

Sweep Birthday Cake from Sooty TV Show

My sister asked me to make a cake for her sons 2nd birthday party. He is not really into many things yet, but his favorite cuddly toy is a large Sweep from Sooty & Sweep make that’s what she wanted. I felt a bit daunted as not made anything quite like it but I was … Read more

The Un-Grouchiest Grouch Cake

My kids love Sesame Street. In fact, it was a hideous Elmo cake I bought for my daughter’s 1st birthday that got me to start decorating their birthday cakes myself. I figured I could do better than that…or at least if I didn’t it would be more sentimental and cost way less. And so I remain … Read more

Best Oscar Birthday Cake

Best Oscar Birthday Cake

This Oscar birthday cake was a challenging cake. When I was asked for an Oscar cake in a bin I thought great, I love to make cartoon characters. The first hurdle was to make the bin look old. I covered the cake with black fondant then mixed silver food coloring very weak then did a … Read more

1st Birthday Cake with Baby Elmo and Cookie Monster

Sesame Street Cake

This is one of my favorite cakes.  It was for a first birthday – all gumpaste figures. The example cake that the client gave me had plastic figures. We changed everything up a bit and we ended up with gum paste baby Elmo and Cookie Monster. I included a jumbo crayon for the number one … Read more

Simple Sesame Street Cake

Simple Sesame Street Cake

This Sesame Street cake was for my youngest’s 2nd birthday. At this point I was just doing simple cakes. Boxed cake mix and tub frosting. Making homemade cakes became a necessity as the price of store bought cakes became too expensive. I used an 11×15 sheet pan and made 2 cakes (4 boxes of mix).  … Read more

Awesome Sesame Street Birthday Cake for a 2 Year Old Boy

Awesome Sesame Street Birthday Cake for a 2 Year Old Boy

This Sesame Street birthday cake is for my son’s 2nd birthday. It took me 2 days to make this birthday cake. I had to bake 10 boxes of cake at work where I work as a direct care worker with clients. So I was on my feet all day running back and forth, back and … Read more

Cool Mr. Squiggle Birthday Cake for My Hubby

Cool Mr. Squiggle Birthday Cake for My Hubby

As I was overseas for my husband’s birthday, I decided to make him a late birthday cake. With some encouraging words from my husband we decided to make the old TV favorite, Mr Squiggle. I wanted to try something completely out of my comfort zone, a standing cake. I made the whole thing in 2 … Read more

Bertha the Toy Making Machine Birthday Cake

Bertha?!?! I had never heard of Bertha the toy making machine and had been asked to do a birthday cake with a Bertha theme. I trawled through Google and found few pictures that showed the full image. I had an idea of what this toy making machine was like, so I let my imagination run … Read more

Easy Cookie Monster Birthday Cake

Easy Cookie Monster Birthday Cake

I made this Cookie Monster cake for my daughter’s 12th birthday. Everyone loved it!  I used a Wilton ten inch round pan for the cake, and just did one layer. I made butter cream for the frosting, and used Wilton royal blue to get the Cookie Monster color. For the outline, eyes and mouth I … Read more