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I made this cake for our neighbor’s son. I have made all of his cakes since he was 4 years old. He brought me over a picture and I can look at a picture and copy it pretty good on to a cake. I used a wilton 13×9 cake pan, a betty crocker chocolate and … Read more
Inspired by another Whirlm cake I saw on this site, I made a Viva Pinata Whirlm cupcake cake for my son’s Viva Pinata birthday party! I planned out on the computer how I would arrange my cupcakes (making sure they’d fit in a sheet cake box for transportation). I then purchased orange-frosted cupcakes from the … Read more
I love this website. I have used it to help me make several birthday cakes for my kids. I have built a train, airplane, and fire engine, but this year my son wanted an Angry Birds birthday cake for his 5th birthday. The cake itself wasn’t the challenging issue, it was designing cake top structures … Read more
I baked the chocolate cake as a single layer in a 10 in square pan. Then, using an enlarged image of the red bird, I made a paper cut out of the shape and cut the cake out using a serrated knife. I also used parchment paper to trace the main features (beak, eyebrows, eyes … Read more
My 5 year old is a very big Sonic fan this year. So of course he wanted a Sonic the Hedgehog Cake. This wasn’t going to be an easy task seeing as the difficulty of making a 3d head of Sonic wouldn’t be easy. So I did some extra research and discovered I could do … Read more
A three-tier wedding cake centered around the theme involving white and pink flowers. I use only butter-cream (Pastry Pride Brand) for the entire cake including the flowers. The top piece is made with mocha cake with mocha mousse, the middle piece is made with chocolate cake and chocolate mousse, and the bottom piece is make … Read more
My friend’s daughter got married to her soldier fiance last summer. She asked me to make a topper for the wedding cake, as I have made a lot of sugar paste models for novelty cakes. I decided to make the bride and groom sitting on a round plaque and used photos of the couple to … Read more
This is my first attempt at a wedding cake. I was asked a few weeks ago to make it for a friend. The cakes are basic sponge as that is what was requested, I used a lemon buttercream for the filling and the crumb coat, then covered them in fondant icing. The flowers and leaves … Read more
This cake was made for a friend’s bridal shower at work. It is a 1/4 sheet cake and is made of ½ yellow cake (with French vanilla pudding) and chocolate cake (with chocolate pudding). I always using pudding in my cake mixes to help add moisture and it also seems to help them retain their … Read more
My friend told me she wasn’t going to have a wedding cake, so I said that if she didn’t mind, I would make one and they could use it for pudding. So I made one chocolate and one plain victoria sponge cake (1 small round one and 2 large sqaure ones of each flavour) and … Read more
I was asked to make a 35th wedding anniversary cake for my sister-in laws parents. We looked at the original cake – and decided to do a modernization of it. I used gum paste to make all the roses and Stephanotis flowers & leaves. The top and bottom layers were made out of Styrofoam dummies … Read more
This floral wedding cake was a lot of work but worth every minute. I made this cake for my wedding in June of 08 and the guests loved it. I will say in advance that the bottom two layers are fake. My guests did not eat this cake, instead they ate cupcakes since I know … Read more