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This is all cake except the stand that my husband welded. This was made from 10 13×9 cakes and sugar cones for the shuttle exhaust cones or whatever they’re called. My husband sculpted and frosted this with a filet knife and star tip; the lettering, Nasa symbol and flag are made from edible rice paper. … Read more
I made this sleepover cake for my daughter’s first sleepover on her 6th birthday. There were six girls total. I found the idea on your website for decorated cakes! I used vanilla wafers for the faces. All the girls are blondes so I used the same icing for each but tried to copy their style … Read more
For this kids cake I used two chocolate Duncan Hines mixes baked in a large heart shaped pan. I trimmed the cake at the top to rid it of the bumps. After smoothing the buttercream icing with a paper towel (allow icing to set for a few minutes then go back with a paper towel … Read more
I got the idea for this cake for my daughter’s fourth birthday from a cake book for creative cakes from the 70’s. I adapted it a little and it turned out better than I had hoped. It takes one round cake to make it and since we have a lot of family that come to … Read more
I followed the Women’s Day magazine directions online for this Jello cake recipe. However I needed a larger cake. I used a 9×13 pan and made two layers of white cake. I was nervous about keeping the cake cold and needed to do most of the decorations the day before so I prepared the blue … Read more
This Dora the explorer birthday cake was for a friend’s daughter’s first birthday. It is made up of three layers and two types of filling: plain white cake and raspberry filling, lemon cake, custard filling and vanilla cake. The cake is masked with buttercream icing and sides are coated with lightly toasted coconut flakes. Dora … Read more
The top portion was created in a 9×13 cake pan. I freehanded a drawing from other Nemo cakes on this site. Cut the shape to fit and pieced together. Frosted orange and added white and black piping and used brown M&M’s for the eyes. The bottom portion was prepared with two boxes of cake mix … Read more
My son loves Nemo so I thought why not make him a Nemo cake? I used a mold for the shape of the fish and baked two cake mixes in it. I made butter cream icing and colored it with professional food colors. The professional colors gave me the bright vivid colors I needed. I … Read more
After looking at all the cakes on this website I came up with the idea of doing the Tall Mountain of Dora birthday cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. My daughter loves Dora and I didn’t feel comfortable doing an actual Dora. I had so much fun making the cake! First I baked four cakes … Read more
For my daughter’s 2nd birthday I made this Dora the Explorer cake using a Wilton Dora cake pan. It was only my second cake ever and I’m not very experienced with piping…the directions from the pan seemed overwhelming so I just piped her hair and the outlines and spread the rest. I mixed the colours … Read more
I got a lot of inspiration for this cake from Finding Nemo picture cakes I saw on the web. Make two 10″ cake layers. I used 1 cake mix per layer. This gives a nice high-layered cake. I used a basic butter-cream frosting recipe. I made the background a darker aqua than the light blue … Read more
This Finding Nemo cake is really a whole ‘under the sea’ theme….though it contains Nemo and The Little Mermaid. I made the number three by making two ring cakes & cutting out appropriate pieces. I used these leftover pieces to make the ‘sea bottom’. The Icing for the bottom & surrounding water is buttercream tinted … Read more