For every birthday my daughter picks a cartoon or movie character and we do a theme party upon her choice. For her eighth birthday she was so in love with Bear in the Blue House (and I have to admit that I was nuts about this cuddly bear too!!) so I decided to do a … Read more
This is Herbie the Love Bug cake is a picture I just drew on the cake and hoped it would turn out! My son loves Herbie and really wanted a Herbie the love bug cake. I baked a simple 8×8 cake and practiced drawing a car on a piece of paper! Then I drew it … Read more
I made this Handy Manny birthday cake for my son’s 3rd Birthday. For this cake I focused on the tools. My son got the Handy Manny Toolbox with tools for Christmas. I used the removable tools as my stencils for my cake. After cooling an 11×15 inch sheet cake, I iced the sides of the … Read more
I love making cool themed birthday cakes for kids. I found a finding Nemo picture (coloring page) online of Dory and printed a copy. Using a regular 9×13 cake pan I cut out the fish shape and frosted the cake in with the correct colors. The kids loved the cake and I received numerous compliments. … Read more
My stepson was a huge Toy Story fan from day one. He has had at least 3 Toy Story birthdays that we have thrown for him. This cake was a thrown together cake after the one I was making for my stepson’s birthday sort of melted into goo (the night before I had prepared a … Read more
My friend asked me to make a Handy Manny cake for her twins 2nd birthday. I felt it was important that each boy had his very own cake so I decided to do two smaller cakes as well as a larger sheet cake to feed the guests. I used a 6″ round pan and decorated … Read more
I baked a sheet cake and covered it in white icing for this Homemade Handy Manny Birthday Cake. I traced Handy Manny out of a coloring book onto wax paper. I laid the wax paper down on the cake and used it as my guide to decorating Handy Manny. I read that you could use … Read more
I made this Woody cake for my niece Addie’s 2nd birthday. I made a regular sheet cake, and used rolled fondant. I printed an online picture and used it to cut out the fondant shapes. I used an edible marker for the mouth and details on the eyes. I also included some sparkles to make … Read more
My son was in a Handy Manny phase when he turned 2, so the theme of the cake was easy. I shopped the web for ideas and came up with this version of Manny’s toolbox for my son’s cake. I baked a 10×15 inch cake (vanilla) for the bottom, which I cut to look like … Read more
Here’s our Squirt cartoon birthday cake. We found a picture of Squirt the turtle from Finding Nemo on the internet. We printed off the picture and resized it to fit the cake. We then traced the picture on waxed paper and outlined it on the back side with gel icing. We transferred the picture onto … Read more
I got a lot of ideas for my grandson Brayden’s 2nd Handy Manny Birthday Cake from this site. Thank you to all who always share such great ideas.
I made my son’s two tier cake from white and chocolate cake and marshmallow fondant. The marshmallow fondant actually tasted better than the regular store bought stuff. I carved out the middle and added jam to each layer also. I then covered the bottom layer in the fondant and then added the second layer and … Read more