I made this cake for a lady who wanted to surprise her father-in-law. I baked two quarter sheet cakes, iced the layers and stacked them, and carved the shape of the cake out of the block. The fins on the back were a bit more challenging than I had anticipated, so I just carved the … Read more
My son LOVES motorcycles, and wanted a motorcycle themed party. I love to create fun cakes, it was something my mom always did for us as kids. Now that I found this great website, it will be even easier to come up with more great ideas for the kids! To make this dirtbike race cake, … Read more
My daughter decided my son would like a truck cake for his birthday, and after looking at the great ideas on this site, I decided a fire engine would be the way to go. I baked two cake using recipes that were orginally for bundt cakes, so very sturdy. One was in the 13×9 pan, … Read more
This Construction Truck Birthday Cake is a simple cake to make. I baked two 13 x 9 inch cakes and leveled them with a cake leveler. I used canned chocolate frosting for the filling between the two cakes. I crumb iced the entire cake with canned white frosting and then dyed more white frosting with … Read more
My son Dilyn was dying to have his 7th birthday at the local bowling alley with a bowling party birthday cake. We found really cute party invitations with a bowling ball striking the pins and knocking them around. Our cake was based around that image. The bowling pins and ball are made out of rice … Read more
This was the second cake that we made for our son’s 1st birthday “boy” themed party! My husband was so proud of this cake and we worked on this one for a total of 2 hours (not including time to make icing and cake). This is just a run of the mill white cake (11 … Read more
I made this Animated Ski Slope Birthday Cake for my little sister who loves to snow board! I got the brilliant idea to have moving parts on the cake, of course that took a lot more work than I expected. If you want to do this, I recommend hacking a kids Kenx set and using … Read more
My son loves Super Mario Bros, so it was a no brainer to give him a Mario themed party. This cake was so much fun to make. I looked at a lot of others on here and used what I could find to make this cake. I used a 9×11 cake pan for the bottom … Read more
I made this Bridal Shower cake for a friend of mine. I took a 16″ round pan and cut out an almond shaped piece to create the top of the umbrella. With the remaining cake I made the handle and rain drops. I iced the raindrops, using a star tip for their sides, then put … Read more
This is not an edible bridal shower cake, but it was still a big hit! We used three bath towels rolled up together for the base. They were tied with ribbon. The second tier was four hand towels, each rolled and tied with ribbon separately. The final tier was six face cloths tied separately. We … Read more
My sister Joan and I made this cake for my nieces Snow Flake themed wedding. The largest tier was a chocolate cake with white chocolate ganache filling, the second tier was a white cake with milk chocolate ganache filling and the top tier is chocolate cake again with white chocolate ganache filling. It was completely … Read more
