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Running Shoe Cake

Running Shoe Cake

My son is a Comrades marathon runner here in South Africa, Kwazulu Natal.  For his 32nd birthday I baked this cake for him.  It was a chocolate cake decorated as a shoebox with fondant sheets and round circles. This was the easy part.  The shoe gave me grey hair!  I eventually took my own running … Read more

Coolest Garden Bug Birthday Cupcakes and Cake

Homemade Garden Bug Birthday Cupcakes and Cake

I made these garden bug birthday cupcakes and cake for my grand daughter’s 3rd birthday. The theme was flowers and garden bugs. It was a white vanilla cake, lightly frosted in vanilla butter cream and covered with fondant (blue for the sky and green for the garden). I used a flower biscuit cutter to cut … Read more