This first birthday cake was made with a chocolate packet mix (x2) in 2 square pans. When I started to cut and put together I decided it wasn’t high enough so I made 2 more cakes, this time vanilla. I cut out the number one and stuck it all together with Betty Crocker Chocolate frosting. … Read more
I carved the shape of the body out of a 9×13 cake and used 2 6 inch cakes for the ears of this Mickey Mouse Cake. I just used a star tip for the black and star tip for the flesh tone icing.
I have a pair of boy/girl twins and I try to always make them their own birthday cake. This year, for their 4th birthday, we did a theme of Pirates and Princesses. This is the pirate ship cake that I made for my son. The cake recipe is an eggless, dairy-free chocolate recipe that I … Read more
This Welcome Baby Cake is our first attempt at fondant (Mom and daughter project). Bake 2 round cakes, cut around the edge of one to make it smaller for the head. Save the cut edge to make the arms out of. The cake was iced first, then left to set for 10 mins before rolling … Read more
Love using this site for ideas! I was looking for a Madagascar cake. I needed something simple. I was trying to make all the figures and found I wasn’t so good at it but did get Alex out of Marzipan. That turned into Alex on the wall of the Zoo. The Alex the Lion from … Read more
I made this double chocolate Cowboy Roundup Cake cake for my nephew Tyler’s 6th birthday tomorrow. I made a 9×13″ for the bottom and a 6″ round for the top. It’s frosted with buttercream icing. I piped the fence around the side first with Wiltons #47 tip then applied the grass with the #233. The … Read more
This baby block cake is ideal for a baby’s first birthday. You can make any number of blocks. These instructions will produce 9 blocks that are each 3 inches square. Bake a cake in 2 9×9 square pans. When the cakes are baked and cooled, remove them from the pan, and slice off the top, … Read more
I made this cake from scratch for my daughter?s 2nd birthday. She has been a Mickey Mouse fan from the time she was a baby so I decided to make this cake for her. Since this was the 1st time that I was making this cake I looked up this site for some ideas. I … Read more
I learned a lot from this Homemade Lego Star Wars Cake Design but mostly about Star Wars. I started by researching the movies, characters and famous scenes that played out. I started with the fondant characters a week in advance because I knew they would take a while. I find MMF doesn’t dry hard enough … Read more
I made this First Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s first birthday. I used 1/2 sheet cake pan and carved the cake myself. I attached the leftover cake at the bottom to create the “legs” of the 1. It was marble cake. For the heart I used a 6″ cake ring and used white cake. The … Read more
This cake was for a combination party for my daughter and her cousin. A week ahead of time I made the ears out of fondant and let them dry so they would stand up. To make the cake, I made one cake in a 10” spring form pan (the whole cake mix), and another mix … Read more
My daughter’s favourite In the Night Garden Character is Makka Pakka. Therefore for her 2nd birthday I decided to attempt to create a Makka Pakka birthday cake. First of all I drew a rough sketch of what I wanted it to look like. I decided I would need two square cakes (approx 20cm tins). From … Read more