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We celebrated Lucy’s 8th birthday with the ” Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” Theme. The cake was made ahead of time and then frozen until the big day. A sheet cake was frosted, making a chocolate river using chocolate frosting, and Polly Pockets were used as replicas for the characters. The boy inside the … Read more
I baked two cakes, one for the head shape and one for the ears. I frosted Blues spots first and added sprinkles to them. I then used the star tip on my frosting bag to frost the rest of the cake. I then finished the cake of by adding the googly eyes. My daughter loved … Read more
I am a student in a radiology program. Students are required to do clinical rotations in various medical facilities. I was recently at an orthopedic/sports medicine site. Tomorrow is my last day and I enjoyed the staff so much I wanted to do a little something special in appreciation of their warmth kindness and encouragement. … Read more
My son’s 2-year birthday theme will be Boohbah. After a lot of searching I couldn’t find much for these sort of cakes other then a basic cake with the figurines placed on it, so I decided to try my hand at making a Boohbah cake myself. We are all so pleased around here with the … Read more
My son was having a Mad Science Birthday party and I wanted to make a Brain cake that really went along with the theme. I started by baking two 14″ wide 3″ deep round layers of red velvet cake. After cooling I leveled them and put them together with a layer of the lime green … Read more
I made this Brum cake for my friend’s son’s first birthday as he is Brum mad. I used a toy Brum car to copy the cake. I used a loaf pan to bake the cake. I cut the shape of Brum to the best of my ability and then iced this with Fondant icing. I … Read more
I made this Bugs Bunny cake for a co-worker on her last day. The carrot mound was one cake mix made in the Barbie princess pan. The carrots I made out of the buckeye recipe which is 3 lbs. of 10X sugar, 2 lbs. of peanut butter and 1 lb. of softened butter. I used … Read more
I made this for my father-in-law for his birthday a year ago. He loves Bullwinkle and since I could not find a pan for him I just found a picture on the internet I liked, flipped, enlarged it in Paint, and then transferred the pattern to wax paper with chocolate cake icing tinted black. I … Read more
This cake was fairly easy to make! I bought 4 heart-shaped cake pans from the local party shop (disposable aluminum kind for $1). The wings were made from the hearts and each heart was about 1/2 of a cake mix. The body was an oval casserole pan that used about 1/3 of a cake mix, … Read more
This egg was very scary when I was originally asked to do it but turned out to be very simple. The egg was just homemade cake recipe for a yellow cake made with the Wiltons 3D egg pan covered in chocolate ganache. The “foil” around the cake was fondant and the unwrapped foil was just … Read more
We looked all over for ideas on a Caillou cake for our daughters second birthday. When I couldn’t find a cake pan I came up with the idea to buy (on eBay) a 2002 Bob the Builder Wilton cake pan and to make a Caillou cake from it. I purchased colors that I thought would … Read more
This cake actually looks like GranFreddie my friend’s father. He was definitely surprised to see himself in a cake. I was asked to make him a cake so was looking for different cake decoration ideas, when I came up with this idea. I used a Wilton Ball pan to make the head. I froze it … Read more