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This cake was for my son’s second birthday. He is crazy for anything that moves- trucks, boats, trains, planes. I tried to incorporate as many vehicles in the cake as possible. For this cake I used a 12×18 two layer sheet cake. I covered it with plain buttercream and then decorated with colored buttercream (that … Read more
I made this Woody cake for my niece Addie’s 2nd birthday. I made a regular sheet cake, and used rolled fondant. I printed an online picture and used it to cut out the fondant shapes. I used an edible marker for the mouth and details on the eyes. I also included some sparkles to make … Read more
This was the first cake I ever made with fondant because I always use cake frosting. It was for my husband’s 40th birthday and he is a volunteer on an ambulance service. He loved it. The tires are mini chocolate frosted donuts, the headlights are hard candy and the “lights” are licorice. The hardest part … Read more
We had a rectangular sponge cake which I made from one of my cake mix recipes and cut out the shape of Noddy’s face and hat. I iced it with butter icing. Used milk chocolate buttons for the nose, chocolate bits for the hair and piped the rest of the detail on with icing sugar. … Read more
A friend wanted to have her daughter a pool party. She asked me to come up with a cool cake decorating idea that would be appropriate to go along with a group of pre-teens at a pool party. We decided on the tapedeck radio idea so then I had to decide how to make it. … Read more
This cake was for my nephew’s 7th birthday. He wanted an army themed party so I started my search for cake decorating ideas. I used the Wilton baseball player cake pan and turned it into a soldier. I turned the baseball helmet into an army helmet, I changed the expression on his face to be … Read more
This cake was easy to make. The larger cactus is three cupcakes stacked on each other and each of the small cacti are cupcakes as well. The small cactus is green and dark green. I put green food coloring inside the decorating back to make it different colors when it came out. The flowers aren’t … Read more
I was asked to make a cake in the shape of a pencil for the coworker of a friend of mine. They were having an office celebration and the lady was known to use pencils quite a bit. I couldn’t even remember when the last time was that I used a number 2 pencil so … Read more
This cake was for a “Day at the Movies” party we held to thank office workers. Although I usually copy/adapt most of my cake ideas from others I find online, I couldn’t find anything I liked for a movie theme. This is the most original cake decoration idea I’ve done. I found this basic movie … Read more
This cake was created by using four stacked sheet cakes with frosting in between each layer. The top part of the cooler (white area) was created by using florasit foam cut and pieced together and placed on top of the cake. The cake was then covered in fondant and airbrushed red. Letters were cut out … Read more
I cut the wings out of sheet cakes. The body was made out of different sized bowls ending with a cupcake. I then frosted the whole thing to make it all blend together. This was a huge cake! Another Dragonfly Cake Cake by Donna R., Groton,VT My friend wanted a cake for her daughter. I … Read more
I made this calculator cake for my bookkeeper’s birthday. I wanted to make something that reflected on what she does. I came up with this idea. She loved it and was surprised. I used a 9×9 square cake pan. Let cake cool. Even off top of cake. Place cake in freezer for about one hour … Read more