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This is my candy corn-shaped homemade cake recipe idea. This cake is made of one cake mix and 2 cans of store-bought frosting. I found a picture of a candy corn on the internet and enlarged it to the size I wanted my cake to be. I baked the cake in a 13×9 pan. I … Read more
Here’s our Squirt cartoon birthday cake. We found a picture of Squirt the turtle from Finding Nemo on the internet. We printed off the picture and resized it to fit the cake. We then traced the picture on waxed paper and outlined it on the back side with gel icing. We transferred the picture onto … Read more
This is the Rainbow Brite cartoon birthday cake I did for my niece Davonny. In our family we have a tradition that on a child’s first birthday they get their own cake so hers was a Sprite. I searched many cartoon birthday cakes for this cake. I used the actual Rainbow Brite cake pan made … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday, we chose the Madagascar movie theme. I used a Betty Crocker cake mix, and a round cake pan. For Gloria, the Hippo’s face, I did not use a stencil. I free-hand drew the face, by looking at the Madagascar character picture. I drew the outline of her face first, then … Read more
I was asked for a baby shower to make Snoopy and Peanuts cartoon cakes. The mother sent me this image of the snoopy baby linens she bought and wanted the football snoopy and little flying Woodstock. This cake is a full sheet cake (18×24). Half is chocolate, half yellow, iced smooth with butter cream. The … Read more
My husband loves poker and gambling so I thought a casino cake and gambling theme would be fun for his 35th birthday (notice the three and five on the top of the cake). This casino cake is very simple to make. Make 4 four round cakes (two boxes) and once they are cooled place on … Read more
My son turned 3 this year. He is crazy for the Alien Baby in Chicken Little (Disney). To make this cake I turned a rectangle cake pan over and free hand cut the shape of the character (teardrop shape body with legs). I frosted it and added some grooves to look like fur. I also … Read more
This cake is for my five year old niece. She is having a Hawaiian Party so of course she would have to have a Lilo and Stitch cake. This is my first attempt at a character cake. I thought I would just find a pan of Lilo and Stitch’s face and follow the directions. That … Read more
Here’s my Madeline child birthday cake. On my daughter’s real Birthday I simply baked a chocolate cake, iced it and added raspberries around the edges. To make it a Madeline cake I printed off an image of Madeline from a Madeline website and cut out the image and placed it in the center. It looked … Read more
For this Madam Blueberry cake I used a standup pumpkin cake pan. I attached her by putting a hole in the large square cake and frosting it heavily; then I put it in the cooler to harden. I used frosting for everything except the hat; I used an ice cream cone for that. I used … Read more
We had just adopted a family of chinchillas so of course when my husband’s birthday came around the kids said “let’s make dad a chinchilla cake!”(I think they like coming up with impossible tasks for me). I hunted everywhere and there was nothing to reference other than the furry little critters in our family room. … Read more
I used a homemade cake recipe and a rectangle baking container to bake this cake. I melted chocolate in ice cube trays and then covered the cake with melted chocolate. Drew a giant label on the computer and wrote the name of the birthday person.