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Take a look at these cool Spider Man cake ideas and find inspiration for making your own! I made the cake from a packet vanilla cake mix, which I make all my kids’ birthday cakes from. Mostly they don’t call for eggs to be added or butter, but I always add it and people always … Read more
Here’s the story of our Postman Pat cake. My little daughter is in love with postman Pat. He is her all time favorite. So when I could not find a postman Pat cake in the shops or a recipe on the net I decided to have a go at it myself and I think it … Read more
The Jerry Garcia cake I made was for a dear friend of mine. We were friends in high school but we went our separate ways in life until recently when I found her again. See my friend was a huge fan of the Grateful Dead. And I will never forget the day Jerry Garcia died … Read more
Needed – 2 Choc cake mixes (and eggs oil and water as directed) – 5 packages Cake Mate Easy Squeeze Icing – White – 1 package Cake Mate Easy Squeeze Icing – Red – 3 Blue Fruit Rollups – 4 Red Life Savers – 1 Package Black Twizzlers. I mixed up 2 packages of chocolate … Read more
Our featured cake maker, Heather from Napier, New Zealand, won our $50 Cake of the Month prize for her awesome “Chainsaw Forestry Birthday Cake”. You can see all of Heather’s cakes below. Heather’s cake was selected thanks to her awesome execution and concept (of baking something and then “destroying” it), her great process photos, and especially … Read more
I wanted to make something special for my Mom’s 74th birthday party with the family. Mom loves her hummingbirds at her riverfront home. There are hundreds of them that swarm her porch! I started out by sketching out the size hummingbird that I wanted looking off of a coloring book page I found on the … Read more
This is a monkey cake I made, from scratch, for my 1 year old’s birthday party. The inside is chocolate cake. The monkey’s face is two 8-inch rounds. I put chocolate icing in the center to hold the cakes together. The monkey’s ears are made from 2 tart pans. I cut the tart pan cakes … Read more
I made this monkey cake for my son’s first birthday. I made it to look like his favorite stuffed animal that he brings everywhere! I used a buttermilk birthday cake recipe from Nigella Lawson and Ricks buttercream frosting from Allrecipes(made with 3/4 butter, 1/4 shortening). I baked the cakes in a 10 inch round, a … Read more
For my son’s 8th birthday we had the honor of having his party at our local toy store. The store was having a Yugioh dueling day so I went with the theme and made a Yugioh character cake. For the cake I always use Duncan Hines. It seems to be the moistest on the market. … Read more
This Lion Birthday Cake was made for my youngest grandson for his first birthday. It was a plain sandwich cake baked in a 9″ tin. It is made of 10ozs self raising flour/10ozs caster sugar/10ozs soft margarine/1 teaspoon baking powder and approx 5 eggs or 10ozs of egg all mixed together with an electric mixer … Read more
This horse cake was for a girl named Emily’s 8th birthday. I got the inspiration for this cake from this website. I too received an invitation and thought it was a great idea for a cake. Here’s how I made it: I started off by making 2 9×13 sheet cakes, one yellow one chocolate. I … Read more
My daughter Amberlie was turning 3 and wanted a special cake for her party. She is easy to please and didn’t ask for anything in specific so I used basically what I had at home. My mother-in-law and I went to the store to get basic ingredients and then while we both scratched our heads … Read more