This Cars 1st Birthday Cake is made from a normal sponge cake with black and green fondant and little icing Lightning Mcquen cars. I spread butter icing over cake then rolled out the fondant and placed over the cake using royal icing to glue the cars and the stars. You must use food colouring to … Read more
I didn’t do my son’s first birthday justice, so I wanted to do something a bit more special this time around. I got lots of inspiration from this site and decided to attempt a tiered fondant cake. I checked out a few other sites for tips and techniques and decided to give it a shot, … Read more
My daughter wanted a Build-a-bear party for her 7th birthday, which meant a 3D Bear Cake. Because a bear’s tummy needs to be fat and round I used a bowl to bake the cake in. I used a smaller version of the same bowl for the head. I make two large Swiss rolls for the … Read more
This 3D Tow Mater Cake was made from “scrap” pieces of cake, leftover from a wedding cake I recently made. I used fondant to cover cake (also leftover from the wedding cake), and royal icing for accessories. Air brushed the colors needed and brushed on accents w/dusting powders. The sheet cake was the 2nd cake … Read more
I made this Stargate cake for my brother’s birthday. He’s a big Stargate fan, as are we, and so I wanted to make him a special cake, as once you become an adult it seems the number of cool birthday cakes declines! He was absolutely wrapt with his cake and we spent a good 20 … Read more
My best friend’s daughter is mad about cats and the color purple. So when she came to me, asking if I could make her daughter’s 3rd birthday cake, naturally it was going to be a purple cat face. I made a vanilla butter cake and tinted it pink. Baked it in a square tin and … Read more
I made this Cars 2 Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. He is a massive Cars fan and what better than the new Cars 2 movie for his birthday cake? It is a rectangle 12 inch Victoria sponge with raspberry jam + butter cream and covered with white sugarpaste. I placed it on a larger … Read more
I was inspired by other cakes on this website and made the body of the caterpillar with a chocolate chip cake in a bundt pan. For the head of the The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I used a smaller loaf of angel food cake and cut out the shape of the head. To get the … Read more
I made two different sized circle cakes for this Cat Cake. One for the head and one for the body. I used a sponge to cut out the tail, ears and feet. To fit the head snuggly into the body I used the tin of the head as a template to ensure the head fitted … Read more
My son is a big fan of Bob the Builder, so for his third birthday, I decided to make him a Bob the Builder cake design. I knew I wanted it to be a construction scene with all the characters, for which I borrowed my son’s die-cast miniatures. I started with a regular 9″ x … Read more
My niece LOVES the Wizard of Oz so it was time to get creative since finding Wizard of Oz items can be difficult at best and that is what she wanted her birthday party theme to be. Thanks to the fellow contributors to this site I got some great ideas for a Wizard of oz … Read more
This was my first cake I ever made. My daughter had a kitty birthday party when she turned six. I used 2 round cakes to cut the cat cake the way I wanted it shaped. I piped it with different color icing using my Wilton star tips. I outlined the cake with light brown icing. … Read more