I had made an Elmo cake for a friend and was then asked to make another one, a week before I was asked if I could do a Mickey Mouse instead! Panic stations, lots of sad looking Mickeys later and this was the end result. This a double layered vanilla cake, filled with chocolate butter-cream. … Read more
My granddaughter commissioned me to bake her a Hamster cake for her 7th birthday. I’ve made all the cakes for my three grandchildren – a 17 year old, a 7 and 3 year old – dogs, snakes, swimming pools, race cars, Unicorns, but I was a bit intimidated by the hamster cake. This website helped give me … Read more
My 2-year-old daughter is recently obsessed with Minnie Mouse, so I whipped this one up for her. I baked two separate cakes — one cherry chip and one yellow — in an 14.5x11x2-inch pan. I layered the cakes with icing in the middle. Then I placed a 5-inch circle in the top corners and used a … Read more
I made this Minnie Mouse cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday party. This is my 5th cake to make. I Googled Minnie Mouse images and used one for a template. Since it was a small template, and I couldn’t get it to print out any bigger, I just used the picture as a guide. I … Read more
Who wouldn’t like a Minnie Mouse birthday cake for their 2nd birthday? The recipient of this cake was over the moon! She is a girly girl and this mouse needed to rock a pink dress. I made Minnie completely out of fondant covered in rice krispie squares that were molded into shape. It took several … Read more
This was my first outside order that wasn’t a family member. She asked for a Minnie Mouse birthday cake so this is what I came up with. It’s a chocolate cake with a strawberry preserve filling and then filled and covered with a simple butter cream frosting. Then it’s all covered with home made marshmallow … Read more
I made this Minnie Mouse cake for my daughter’s 7th birthday. About 5 days in advance, I made the black gum paste ears so they would be dry in time. The bottom tier is two 10″ yellow cakes, and the top is two 6″ strawberry cakes. The yellow cakes were layered with white butter cream filling and the strawberry … Read more
Last year I catered a sweet Mickey and Minnie Mouse themed birthday for my friend’s set of twins first birthday. The party was enjoyed by all and the Mickey and Minnie Mouse cakes were a big hit. I made Mickey a red velvet that was moist and the icing was colored cream cheese icing. Yaaaaaaaaaaass I colored the cream … Read more
This coolest Minnie Mouse dream cake was the tallest cake I have made. I rolled the fondant out a few times before I got it right. The ears kept flopping back but I put dowels through the hole of the bow and rested them onto the bow and it worked out. Everyone loved the cake. I was going … Read more
My step mother has always liked Pinky and the Brain so I decided to try to make a cake for her in that theme. The cake is an apple cake with butter cream icing colored with Wilton’s sky blue coloring. The writing and the earth were all drawn free-handed. The figures are made out of fondant. The cake was … Read more
My son is a HUGE Ratatouille fan. At the time I made this cake, we had just moved into a new house, there weren’t a huge number of resources for Ratatouille cake ideas (why didn’t I think of the Cheese Block???), so this Ratatouille cake is what we came up with, using what we had on hand. I baked my … Read more
A friend from church asked me to make this Micky Mouse birthday cake for her nephew’s birthday. I wasn’t sure I could do it but it was really fun once I got started. I used 2 12″ layers for the face and 2 6″ cakes for the ears. The ears are chocolate and the face … Read more