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I started to make my own cakes because my kids always chose themes you could not buy in the supermarkets. For this Teletubbies I just used a basic sponge recipe and baked it in a round Pyrex pudding bowl. Covered with green sugar paste and made some Teletubbies to sit on top. Cake by Amanda … Read more
I made these thanksgiving cupcakes for my daughter to share with her class at school for Thanksgiving. Not too hard to make but they are a bit time consuming. You can choose any cake flavor and frosting you like. The cookies used are Nutter Butters. Mini chocolate chips for the eyes and fruit leather for … Read more
A son of a long lost friend was having his birthday so I volunteered to make the cake. To get the image on the cake I went to a party store and got The Incredibles paper plates and traced Dash’s image from the plate onto parchment paper. Using gel I traced the image on the … Read more
My daughter chose the picture for her theme birthday cake from Disney’s Lion King Book. I made a basic cake from a mix in a 9×13 pan. I spread a thin layer of white butter cream frosting over the entire cake first. Then I mixed royal blue for the top layer of skyline followed by … Read more
This is a theme cake from a fiesta that I made for my niece’s birthday. I first baked two 9 x 13 cakes and put them in the freezer for one hour. I found a coloring page with the fiesta man on it and enlarged it on my computer so that it would cover most … Read more
This cake was really simple, two 13×9 cakes trimmed to make the top and bottom of the shield and then “glued” together with frosting. The piping was free hand (can’t you tell?) but I’ve heard of people using chocolate or fondant to be more detailed. You can get more ideas from this site for theme … Read more
A friend of mine’s son loved the movie “the Lord of the Rings” so for his birthday I created this theme birthday cake. I used a picture I found on the internet and used it as a guide to create this copy of the “White City”. I baked and lightly iced a faux three tier … Read more
A friend of mine and me made this cake for a church women’s retreat. The theme was survivor. I found the idea for theme birthday cakes from this website. We used pretzels for the fence, graham cracker crumbs for the sand, pretzel rods and fern leaves for the palm trees, whoppers for coconuts, fruit snacks … Read more
I made this Tidmouth Sheds cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It is a chocolate mud cake covered in Marshmallow Fondant. I made all figurines e.g. train lighthouse, tracks, trees and rocks from fondant. I used the flooding technique to make the bridge and piped the sheep with royal icing. The sea is blue gelatin. … Read more
My seven year-old son is a BIG Star Wars fan and he obviously chose that theme for his birthday party. Since he was one year old I have done almost all of his birthday cakes and this year was not the exception. I had no idea of which character would be better for his Star … Read more
Here are my tips on cake decorating. This cake for was made especially for a summer birthday. The cake was a 12×18 sheet cake which I cut out in the shape of the flip flop sandal. It was white cake with strawberry icing with a layer of strawberry icing in the center of the cake. … Read more
My husband loves birds particularly exotic ones so I decided to make a Toucan cake for his birthday. I couldn’t find any bird cakes on your website so I kept it pretty simple. I found a picture of a toucan that I liked and enlarged it to suit the size of my cake tin. I … Read more