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This was a cake I made for a Halloween last year! I drew up outlines for both Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein and used that as templates for the shape of the cake. Then I found some pictures and used those to help me ice them. With Frankenstein, I wanted to make his outfit … Read more
For this scarecrow cake, I took two 8″ round cake pans, white cake mix and vanilla icing. Then I rolled out white fondant and hand cut the pieces of the scarecrow with an exacto knife and cookie cut the leaves. Fondant rolled into an oblong ball made the pumpkins which are held on by tooth … Read more
This cake took a lot of thought! Our son loves the movie “Robots” and especially the character ‘Madame Gasket’. I copied a free cake design from a book. I baked a 9″ double layer cake and frosted it with chocolate icing. I also baked a 6″ round cake (used a large ramekin) which became Madame … Read more
We had a birthday potluck at work with a salad theme-pasta, potato, green fruit, egg etc. I didn’t want to feel left out by making an ordinary cake. This was so much fun to make and so much fun placing it on the table next to all the other “real” salads. Thanks to this website … Read more
I found a picture of Piglet for my birthday cake ideas that I liked on the internet and enlarged to fit my cake board (wanted as big as I could). I then baked two sponge cakes, 12″ x 8″, and placed them into a back to front L shape. I then cut out the piglet … Read more
My daughter wanted a frog themed party for her third birthday. I tried to buy a retired Wiltons frog pan from EBay but the prices just got ridiculous. Then I was browsing through my mother-in-laws old Wiltons yearbooks for a frog birthday cake recipe and saw a frog cake made using a bell pan. The … Read more
I used two 8″ round pans for this cake. Use one for the head and cut the other one in half. Take the first half and use for the body and the second half cut in half again. Use the wedges to give Raggedy Ann some shoulders. I used butter cream icing for decorating with … Read more
I copied this Robot cake from a gallery of cake designs on this wonderful site. I used an 8×8 for the head, 9×13 for the body and Twinkies for the arms and legs. I connected everything with Red vines, decorated with gray frosting (looked like metal) and decorated with candy. We named the robot after … Read more
This is a regular cake mix cake. I frosted it liberally with light blue buttercream. For the bee I found a cute bee online and printed out the picture. I cut the bee out and used a toothpick to trace around him. I frosted him with various colors of royal icing. The flowers were freehand. … Read more
After making my son a train cake for his first birthday which he loved I wanted to come up with something that was really different and that he could relate to as soon as he saw it. He loved his toy lawn mower so I thought I’d give it a go making the same mower … Read more
What a cake order! A little five year old wanted a Ghost Rider cake for his birthday? It was a challenge because there were no ideas on the web for such cakes. So this is what I came up with. I made a full sheet cake and iced with yellow tinted icing then made a … Read more
My friend’s son wanted a Glow in the Dark party. So for the unique birthday cakes I made a round and square two layer cake and put glow in the dark moon and stars on it. It lit up like the night sky after the candles and the lights went out!