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My daughter’s summer birthday is usually spent at our summer cabin in the mountains. I was trying to think up an interesting idea and looked down and saw an ant! I got a few ideas on this site for birthday cake decorations and here’s how it turned out. It was a chocolate cake and I … Read more
My son in fascinated with Toopy and Binoo so I decided to do a cake of them for his third birthday!! I could not find examples of a birthday cake design for kids online so I had to go it alone! I drew the stencil free hand and transferred it to the cake with the … Read more
Here’s the story behind my camera birthday cake design idea. My brother is a professional photographer and his favorite camera is the Canon 5D and his favorite lens is the Canon EF 100-400 Telephoto. When I thought of birthday cake design ideas for him I decided to make him a cake with this theme in mind. … Read more
This birthday cake is about 18″ long cake and the breath is about 12″. I made it for my student in the church during one of our inter-house sports games, the idea for the cake came from there. The cake is decorated in royal icing and the green field in the middle is shredded coconut … Read more
I love making cool themed birthday cakes for kids. I found a finding Nemo picture (coloring page) online of Dory and printed a copy. Using a regular 9×13 cake pan I cut out the fish shape and frosted the cake in with the correct colors. The kids loved the cake and I received numerous compliments. … Read more
I made this cake for my niece Kacey’s birthday. I used a 16×2 square pan for the base and then the Wilton Fairly Odd Parents pan on top. There were a lot of colors that were made for this birthday cake. First you outline the characters and then fill in the outside. The smaller star … Read more
This cake was easier than I thought. I used two cake mixes, one mix for the sheet cake and used part of the second cake for the mats under the beam. I tried for the first time using Fondant Icing for the beam and the mats as well as the words “happy birthday”. For the … Read more
I searched the Web for cool birthday cake decorating ideas and found this cool flip flop cake idea. For mine, I made this cake for my friend’s daughter’s “Aloha” (backyard water fun) birthday. I got my birthday cake decorating ideas from this site. I made them from two 9×13 sheet cakes and froze them so … Read more
This birthday cake idea was made from an 8″ round (4″ high), and a piece of cardboard. From there, I sculpted the slope on the backside or the hat free hand. I choose to use fondant on the outside because it gave the cake a realistic, smooth finish; opposed to using butter cream (If you … Read more
My daughter’s school mascot is a purple panther and we needed a cake for her teacher’s birthday! No Panther pans around! So, I made this cake with the Animal Cracker’s Wilton cakes pan. I printed a picture of the Pink Panther, blew it up to the size of the pan and trimmed out the lower … Read more
I used the Wilton cruiser pan and cut the top to make it a convertible. Next I covered the cake with buttercream and then fondant. I used a book wrapped in foil to lift the cake up then attached fondant wheels. I used buttercream to decorate the Wiggles logo. I made the Wiggles and the … Read more
My stepson was a huge Toy Story fan from day one. He has had at least 3 Toy Story birthdays that we have thrown for him. This cake was a thrown together cake after the one I was making for my stepson’s birthday sort of melted into goo (the night before I had prepared a … Read more