This Elmo birthday cake was a hit, I sat and managed to do Elmo in an hour. The cake is a double layered chocolate cake with chocolate butter-cream. Elmo is crafted completely from fondant, he has a lollipop stick in the center to hold him up. I gave Elmo his fur look with an icing tip with … Read more
I have always loved Cookie Monster and knew he had to be the theme of my child’s 1st birthday, with or without the approval of daddy. Ha ha! Making the Cookie Monster Cake I wanted to do everything myself (short of making the dough from scratch), so I purchased cake mixes in the box from … Read more
This In The Night Garden birthday cake was made for my niece’s little boy who is 22 yrs. Because of broken marriages I hadn’t seen her for about 18-20 yrs. Facebook brought me to see her mum Ruth again. Then I saw them both at a carnival. They had seen a few of my cakes on … Read more
I started making the Teletubbies and the Nunu cake toppers 2 weeks before the party. I colored my fondant in the different colors and made the body part individually, and let them dry properly before I assembled them. I made the Teletubbies favorite things and the Nunu. I’d say my Nunu came out the best … Read more
On March 22, 2012 my grandson was born. His parents and the family had long awaited his arrival. The next day he was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect that would require open heart surgery at the age of 6 months. The date for surgery soon came and Praise the Lord all went well and … Read more
I enjoy making character cakes for the kids. This Elmo birthday cake was for a close friend of mine’s little boy for his first birthday. He was all smiles when he saw Elmo. I used white cake mix, my homemade butter cream frosting mix and food color paste. It only took me about 2 hrs to make Elmo, … Read more
I couldn’t believe how easy it was to balance 3 cakes! I was expecting a lot worse!! For this In the NIght Garden cake I used a good solid sponge, a good layer of icing and hey presto! The top was lemon with cream filling, the chocolate, fudge then vanilla cake and tabs, berry jam … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my friend’s niece who was turning 2, and she LOVES Elmo! I baked 2 square 8″ cakes and 2 round 6″ cakes, all chocolate and layered with chocolate icing. The bottom tier was covered in homemade fondant tinted with Wilton Rose, and the top tier was covered in … Read more
I just made this Sesame Street Band Birthday Cake for our little man Nathan’s birthday party tomorrow. It consists of six layers of Triple Chocolate Fudge, Strawberry, Lemon Poppy seed, Cherry Chip and Funfetti. The bottom tier is 1/4 sheet cakes of one layer of Triple Chocolate Fudge and one layer of Lemon Poppy seed filled with chocolate fudge butter cream. The … Read more
This 3D Cookie Monster birthday cake is for my grandson turning 1yr old, at the time. This was my first 3-D cake I made and was really an experience! I started by making a large chocolate cake that I doubled and put in a oven cooker and it turned out just the size for the bottom. … Read more
Baby Elmo was made for my grandson. I used a large sheet cake pan, doubled the cakes and for the baby Elmo, I used Pyrex bowls medium and small for the head a small square cake pan was used for the gift he had in his hands and lots of icing was made ahead to supply this Elmo. I … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my great nephew’s first birthday party! I used a Wilton cake pan then I put 1,13×9 cake underneath to make sure I could feed everyone at the party. The cakes I used were chocolate and yellow then decorated it with homemade butter cream icing using a star-tip and icing bag. .Everybody thought I … Read more