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I wanted to make a motocross cake for my husband’s birthday. He always likes creative birthday cakes so made him this one. This cake was really easy. I made half a sheet cake and iced it with white icing. I then sprayed the green on it. I mapped out a track on paper and then … Read more
My eleven year old nephew was really into Krew skater pants and was hoping to get some (or enough money to buy some) for his birthday. I love making creative birthday cakes, so I made this birthday cake out of a 9×13 cake. I cut a tall triangle out to make the section between the … Read more
My best friend’s daughter wanted a cake having to do with “Money” for her 10th birthday so I found a picture of a money bag on the internet and thought this would be neat to have the chocolate money coming out the top. I used a box cake and butter cream icing. The ties on … Read more
Bake per box instructions. (I used white cake mix and stirred in four tablespoons of red/white/blue decorating sprinkles as cup cake decorations.) Make butter cream icing and tint 1/3 royal blue/, 1/3 white, and 1/3 red. Using decorator # 33, pull out blue “fireworks” around outside edge. Then do a circle of white. Finish with … Read more
My daughter loves animals, so for her 2nd birthday I decided to go with a Barnyard theme. I made a Cow cake and farm animal cupcakes – chicks, pigs and sheep. To make these cute cupcakes, make several regular size and several mini cupcakes. Separate the icing and dye some pink and some yellow. Frost … Read more
This was prepared from a large sheet cake for the bottom layer and two rounds. Arc shapes were cut from the rounds with straight pieces in between for the “bases” of the DNA. Each base (A G C or T) was given its own color. No special icing recipe just your standard Crisco powdered sugar … Read more
My son wanted to have his 4th birthday at “the tunnels” – a local attraction, Inner Space Caverns near Austin. We took the kids on the tour of the limestone cavern, giving each child a spelunker’s helmet. I love to decorate cakes, so I first made a chocolate bundt cake which I then cut in … Read more
My son wanted to have a Tae Kwon Do birthday party and you can’t believe how hard it was to find a martial art image for the cake. I searched for kids birthday cakes but eventually I found this on a kid’s drawing card and scanned it and enlarged it. I use a projector to … Read more
I followed a cookbook recipe exactly on how to make this cake – and only when I was done did I realize that the cookbook is wrong. Basically the right way is to bake a 9″ square cake, frost it in white and then place After Eight mints in a check board pattern. The last … Read more
I enjoy making and decorating cakes and this was a very easy cake to make since I wanted it to look like a rock – the icing didn’t have to be smooth and the cake didn’t have to be level. I started with two 9 by 13 inch cakes, I used chocolate for the bottom … Read more
I did a simple Betty Crocker chocolate cake then I used the ready icing paste and added food coloring by dipping a toothpick first in the coloring then in paste until came the desired colour. Then I formed the shape of Diddlina. I made the print larger to calculate the exact size.
I made a box brand 9×13 Diego birthday cake. Once cake was completely cooled I cut the top corners of the cake. The top two corners were cut so I could make the rescue pack handle. I also cut the inside of the handle out which was a little difficult but would have worked better … Read more