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My daughter wanted a Barbie cake for her 6th Birthday this year. I had never done a Barbie cake before, so I got my Google on and settled on some sorta ruffles and pink. My Husband was all ideas of shades of pink although I had settled on just the one pink in my mind. … Read more
I created this cake for my daughters first birthday. She was fascinated by the Minion’s in the movie ‘Despicable Me’ and was going through a banana crazy at the time (Minion’s love banana’s), so it seems appropriate. I would soon regret my decision as the cake was ridiculously challenging to make and I’m worried now … Read more
A friend of mine approached me and asked if I could make a baby shower cake for a friend of a friend. She gave me all the details of what she wanted the cake to look like when finished and I agreed to make it for her and this is how I set about making … Read more
This giant Subway sandwich cake was made for my brother in law who owns and operates a Subway shop. I took on this project when I was still a beginning decorator, so of course this cake took an insane amount of time and effort to create. If I made the same cake now, I could … Read more
This deer hunting cake was made for my brother-in-laws 60th birthday. They were roasting him so I thought I would get my digs in with the cake. He is known to fall asleep as soon as he is still and I planned to capture that in this cake. Steps for Making the Deer Hunting Cake … Read more
I love baking cakes and I only need an excuse to get started. My Husband’s birthday is January 1st and he was 53 and I just had to make him a cake. He likes to go to the pub to relax and I decided I wanted to make a beer barrel cake. This is how … Read more
My favourite hobby is baking cakes. It was to be my son’s friends 30th birthday he works for my son at his electrical business, well I decided to make him a cake that looks like a drum of cable as last time I made him a football cake and wanted to do something different and … Read more
When my 12 yr old asked for a Foosball cake, I didn’t think it would be hard to find some good ideas online. But really there weren’t many out there that I liked and that had the kind of features I thought it should! So I kind of combined a few ideas as well as … Read more
I made this metal detector cake for my son. Yes, my son’s birthday was approaching again. He was to be 32 years old. To me this means a cake and I’m always sure of a challenge. I love surprising him and at the moment he’s into metal detecting. So, I decided to base the cake on … Read more
My lovely granddaughter Brooke was 4 years old on bonfire night. Brooke is my little cake maker in training. She loves baking and I’ve mentioned her before in my featured cake baker profile. Well, she loves the Doc McStuffins programs and asked me to make her a Doc Stuffins cake for her birthday. I told … Read more
These Pirate Treasure cupcakes were for a 4 year old’s birthday party. The desire was for a feeling of pirate hidden treasure. The client wanted Jumbo sized cupcakes to allow decorating and treasure. I learned that sadly there are hardly ANY great decorative jumbo-sized cupcake liners or wraps so I went with gold foil. The … Read more
I had a lady call me up asking if I could make her a Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas wedding cake and 150 cupcakes. I said sure that sounds like fun! she only could afford $400 so I was good with that. I figured I could do it with that and still make money off it. … Read more