Making the Bubble Guppies characters: I Googled pictures of each character, then with parchment paper on top of the character I traced it. Then I cut out my drawing, piece by piece ( hair, etc) . I then placed it on top of the color fondant I needed and cut around my parchment paper. I sometimes will take my parchment … Read more
My husband and I decided to try our hand at marshmallow fondant, so for our son’s 2nd birthday we rolled up our sleeves and dove in. And what better character to start with than SPONGEBOB! We stayed up until 3am perfecting our masterpiece and are still shocked at how well we did. Maybe in another … Read more
This Yo Gabba Gabba birthday cake was a monster of a cake that I prepared for my 3 year old niece who loves Yo-Gabba-Gabba. This cake took a total of two days to make. The entire cake is vanilla with vanilla butter cream icing. Each tier is decorated after each character. The top tier was molded by taking … Read more
This Dora backpack cake was my first attempt at a fondant cake. In fact I’m pretty ambitious and decided to make the fondant from scratch (something I had to try but wouldn’t recommend nor would I attempt it again!). I started with a standard yellow cake recipe (from scratch of course!) in two 9″ round … Read more
For this Spongebob Patrick cake, just make a plain sponge cake. Then print off the internet a picture of a Patrick the Star (but stretch the picture in word to fit A4 or whatever size you choose). Cut him out and place it on top of the cake and cut around the cake. With the … Read more
These are Diego and Dora cupcakes that I made for my co-worker’s daughter’s party. The theme is apparent but she wanted both Dora and Diego (Dora for the girls and Diego for the boys). The hair for both characters was made from regular chocolate that I melted and created on parchment paper (excuse the Diego … Read more
My cousin Celeste wanted a Spongebob cake and it was hard to find a place to make a character cake, so I offered to make it for her. I made a trial Spongebob and we weren’t sure if it was going to feed everyone so for the big day I ended up making a Spongebob … Read more
I made this Tyrone cake for my neighbor’s little girl on her third birthday. I started with two 9×13 cakes (with edges cut off), placed end to end and then cut out the shape of Tyrone which I got from a coloring book she had. For the icing I used white store bought and colored … Read more
This Uniqua cake was extremely easy and fun. We used a round cake pan for Uniqua’s head. After the cake had cooled we placed it in the freezer to make it easier to handle. Add a drop or two of red food coloring to vanilla icing to make Uniqua’s light pink color. Ice the cake … Read more
This Nickelodeon cake was for my Godson’s ninth birthday. He loves Nicktoons so we decided to make a TV with the Nicktoons symbol. The icing is all buttercream. For the Nick slash symbol I outlined it by piping icing then I warmed some thinned icing in the microwave for about five seconds and spooned it … Read more
I cut out the characters from a separate cake. I printed pics from the internet and used wax paper to transfer the lines to my cake. I used the star tips for all of them.
This is my Backyardigans cake. I outlined all the characters from a picture of them and used the cake pens. Then filled them in with all the different colored icing I made. More Backyardigans Cakes Backyardigans cake by Katie S., Pinewood, Ontario, Canada My two year old daughter loves the Backyardigans so what better than … Read more