Laura
I made this Homemade Despicable Me Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday, since Despicable Me is his current favorite movie. As far as cake-carving goes, this one was especially easy (as I actually didn’t have to carve anything), it just involved a good deal of attention to detail and time. The base cake is … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Design (sort of a stegosaurus) for my son’s 2nd birthday. Like many other submissions on this site (that’s where I got my ideas!), I used two 9″ round cakes. One was cut in half and the halves put together and stood on end to form the body. I carved … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s 1st birthday. I got most of my ideas for it from other submissions on this site! It wasn’t too difficult, but it was fairly time-consuming. The leaf was hand-carved out of a large sheet cake, then covered in two different colors of fondant. … Read more
I made this Homemade Underwater Cupcake Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday, because we were doing an “octopus” theme. I made two flavors of cupcakes (chocolate and strawberry), baked in color-coordinating liners for where they would be placed on my cake sheet. Then, after frosting them, I rolled each one in colored sugar/sprinkles to … Read more
I made this 8-bit Legend of Zelda cake for my husband (a life-long Zelda fanatic) for his birthday. The cake (a half-sheet cake) is dark chocolate-bacon flavored with maple-bacon frosting, and the fondant has a touch of bacon flavoring (from a bottle of liquid bacon flavoring) as well (he likes bacon…). It turned out amazingly … Read more