It took a  long time, I must say my whole day in this Ramadan with fast, to make my cake. This Tweety cake is my first character cake. The butter cream icing tell me on Sunday how difficult I am to fill your whole cake with tips from the piping bag. Well the success of this … Read more

This method of icing is called the petal effect. It is done by using a #12 tip; make a large dot, take your angled spatula, pressing in and pulling sideways. There are many tutorials out on the web for this method. It really is not hard, just a bit time consuming but fun. Just practice … Read more

My friend was planning on throwing a surprise birthday party for her husband. She wanted to really go all out.. She decided on a Holly theme. She had her guests dress up as if they were going to the Grammy’s. She rolled out the red carpet. Not only were the decorations, the food and the … Read more

My granddaughter picked this cake out of the grocery store catalog, but I didn’t want to pay more than $25 when I knew I could make it myself. I found the Hula Till You Drop decorations online, bought aerosol spray coloring, and simply made it looks like the picture on the decoration package – which … Read more

I made this cake for my grandaughter’s (Breann) third birthday party. My goal was to make something that would be impressive to a three year old. In total, there are three layers: one 8″ round, one 6″ square, and one 6″ round. The cake is strawberry and vanilla layered. I used food coloring in the … Read more

My daughter loves Hello Kitty. I stopped buying birthday cakes several years ago and have been making them ever since. We looked through the pictures on this website to get inspiration. My 13 year old daughter wanted to help with her little sisters cake so this is what we came up with. I baked two … Read more

I searched for a while to try and find inspiration for a 30th birthday cake for a metal head! Creating a proper guitar seemed ambitious for transportation reasons so I decided to make cupcakes instead with set icing guitars and stars. Cupcakes are not typically rock an roll so I was sure to find some … Read more

I made this cake for my husband on my kids behalf. This cake was made for father’s day. I baked a very moist carrot cake with its own cream cheese icing. This cake I baked a day before father’s day which was on a Sunday in June this year. I used the very same cream cheese icing and … Read more

I baked this cake for a friend of mine on her birthday. This is a vanilla flavored cake. I made the 3D butterfly out of fondant. I colored small amounts of fondant in pink, purple and black. I drew a butterfly on a paper and used it as a template to cut the butterfly out of the fondant. I … Read more

A first birthday cake always needs a separate cake for the birthday child. My biggest struggle on this cake was how I was going to give my niece her own little cake. The bottom layer was (2) 10 inch pans one batter colored purple and one colored green. The next layer on top was a … Read more

This small, but oh so cute, cake was a breeze to make. I covered this cake with a marshmallow fondant (melted marshmallows with icing and any colorant). For the flowers I cut out simple circle shapes and placed the petals down on the cake where I liked with the middle part of the flower on … Read more

This started with my housemate getting my kids obsessed with Minecraft. We also have a collection of “keep calm” sayings in the house. So when his birthday came, the kids insisted on a Minecraft cake. I knew I had to incorporate a ‘keep calm’ saying. Cakes are too much around her with the kids; cupcakes … Read more