I made this Army Tank Birthday Cake for Ben’s 6th birthday. It’s a simple jam and cream sponge cake iced over and then camoed by painting food coloring. The gun is a chocolate flake wrapped in icing, supported by a kebab skewer. The tracks are chocolate fingers and digestive biscuits sticks. The hole for the … Read more
I made this Handbag Birthday Cake for a carer who looks after my mum-in-law at a local nursing home. It is a 6inch butter Madeira spongecake and I sliced a piece off one side to give it a handbag shape, then split it and filled it with jam and buttercream and turned it on its … Read more
My daughter wanted and Incredibles themed birthday. I thought the red was a little much, but she loved the Incredibles cake and could not figure out how I got the logo on the cake. I made a white box cake mix in a 9 X 13 pan. I used buttercream icing and iced the cake … Read more
I made this Blue’s Clues cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She requested a “Blue” cake even though she doesn’t watch the show. I looked at a lot of cakes online and this is what I came up with. I found a picture of Blue’s head in a story book and enlarged it on the … Read more
I was worried when I got this request for a 50th Birthday Cake, a 5 is an odd shaped number. It was actually easier then I thought to cover in fondant (homemade MM fondant). The bow is molding vanilla (same as molding chocolate). It was fun to make and got to try some new things. … Read more
This homemade Barbie birthday cake was made for a friend who wanted “Barbie & pink!” The top tier was inspired by a Barbie cake I saw online, and I really wanted to try the quilting technique so that’s what I did on the bottom tier. These are 5” & 8” tiers, covered in pink and … Read more
This Totally Edible Spy Cake Idea was requested for a fan of the Cody Banks Secret Agent movies. He gave me specific directions as to the items and placement of items on his cake. He wanted everything edible so I did it! The bomb is solid chocolate that I made with a ball mold. The … Read more
This Handy Manny Cake took me about a week to make. All of the tools and Handy Manny are made from fondant. The cake is iced with buttercream and then I let it crust. I took viva pater towel and smooted it out. It makes it look like the cake is covered in fondant. Thanks … Read more
I made this Baby Shower cake for my friend Lisa’s baby shower. The cake had four color layers and two flavors. I used vanilla and yellow Betty Crocker cake mixes and separated the batter from each cake into two. I used food color to color the batter before I baked it. The flowers and the … Read more
This dinosaur cake was made for my friend, her little boy wanted a Triceratops cake for his birthday. She also wanted to learn cake decorating. This post goes out to Stephanie G. a great future decorator who helped a ton with this cake. The cake is a chocolate butter recipe, with cookies n cream filling … Read more
This flower birthday cake I made for my birthday this year. I made 2 cakes in a pan, 13x9x2. One was my own recipe and other was the lemon cake. Between cakes it was the Bavarian cream. The cake is covered with fondant and the flowers are made from gum paste.
This Curious George cake is my 2nd fondant cake. My nephew wanted a Curious George cake for his 4th birthday. I have seen cakes made as the “big yellow hat” and I thought that would be cool as a cake topper. So that was made out of a 2 layers of a 4″ pan and … Read more