Sponge Bob Lands on the Birthday Cake

Sponge Bob Lands on the Birthday Cake

Hello, I wish to submit my wife Margarita for the monthly contest.  She put close to 50 hours into making this creation and the results you see here. She is new to decorating, but has a fantastic eye for detail and hands of gold. Everything you see was hand sculpted as there are no molds … Read more

Bob the Builder Construction Cake

Bob the Builder Construction Cake

My son’s 4th birthday was a construction theme and Bob the builder was his favorite show so I tried to incorporate him into the construction theme. The trucks were made from chocolate and it was my first attempt using modelling chocolate. The main cake was vanilla with strawberry and buttercream filling. The little man loved … Read more

1st Birthday Yo Gabba Gabba Cake

1st Birthday Yo Gabba Gabba Cake

This Yo Gabba Gabba cake was created for the 1st birthday of my friend’s grandchild.  He loves Yo Gabba Gabba and so that set the theme. The bottom of the tier is 3 layers of chocolate cake with buttercream icing.  I never did get the color of green that I wanted – even ended up with … Read more

Coolest Dora Scene Cake for a 3-Year Old Girl

Coolest Dora Scene Cake for a 3-Year Old Girl

I had never made a scene cake before and the idea was intriguing. After looking at many photos of scene cakes, I decided that I wanted Dora to have an adventure. I baked 2 sheet cakes and 2 very small round cakes (all chocolate). As luck would have it, the larger of the two rounds … Read more

Bubble Guppie Cake

Bubble Guppie Cake

This Bubble Guppie cake is made from a double layer 10inch chocolate cake. Cakes sliced and filled with blue vanilla buttercream, covered with blue vanilla buttercream dusted with edible glitter. I iped green butter cream ‘seaweed’, yellow and orange sugar ‘starfish’ and hand modeled gum paste ‘Gil the Bubble Guppie’ and bubbles. Made fondant shells … Read more

Cool Dinosaur Cake

Cool Dinosaur Cake

This dinosaur cake is made with two eight inch chocolate cakes sliced and filled (torted) with red vanilla buttercream. I used green vanilla buttercream ‘grass bed’ for the dinosaur and edging on cake. Yellow and teal fondant, dinosaur dusted with shimmer powder. Blue fondant No. 3 and teal fondant name on cake. The trick to … Read more

Dreamy Dora Ballerina Cake

Dreamy Dora Ballerina Cake

I let my grandchildren choose their birthday cake theme.  At first my granddaughter wanted a ballerina cake because she had just started ballet class.  Then she changed her mind as 4 year old’s often do.  She decided on Dora the Explorer…so I made Dora a ballerina. I also made Boots and Swiper ballerinas.  The “boys” … Read more

Awesome Yo-Gabba-Gabba CAKE

Awesome Yo-Gabba-Gabba CAKE

What a fun cake to make, Yo GABBA GABBA for a fist birthday party.  This cake was a challenge since, I never watched the kids show Yo GABBA GABBA, and I was nervous to create the characters. The biggest challenge was watching the show and constructing the characters.  The best part was the same, watching … Read more

Coolest Diego and Dora Birthday Cake for 4 Year Old Twins

Coolest Diego and Dora Birthday Cake for 4 Year Old Twins

This Dora and Diego cake for my twin sons’ 4th birthday was a huge project.  I knew that making Dora and Diego would be extremely time consuming so I decided to use little toy figures for them.  Since they weren’t going to be edible, I wanted the rest of the cake to be really special.  … Read more

Coolest Sponge Bob Birthday Cake

Coolest Sponge Bob Birthday Cake

This Sponge Bob birthday cake was made for a little boy who was living temporarily at a domestic violence center.  I volunteered to make cakes for any of the kids birthdays.  It was a 9×13 cake with fondant covering the whole thing and all accents in fondant. I found an image online and then made … Read more

Coolest Sponge Bob Batman Cake and Patrick Robin Cake

My son asked me to make two superhero cakes for his 4th birthday this month. Well, that seemed easy until he said ” I want Sponge Bob and Patrick as Batman and Robin”. So, I research images of cakes of Sponge Bob and Patrick (but none were superheros). So I looked at pictures of them … Read more

Coolest Spongebob Cake

Coolest Spongebob Cake

This Spongebob cake was my first customer order cake so I was super excited!  I used a full sheet pan and crumb coated the cake before decorating it.  I used a toothpick to draw in the areas of the face and areas to outline.  I then outlined those areas in black icing. I then tinted … Read more