My son is a fanatic about penguins. For his 10th Birthday I wanted to surprise him. This is the first full bird cake I have tried. I searched several stores for a penguin shaped cake pan to no avail so I shaped the top corners of the cake pan with aluminum foil before adding the … Read more

My son is obsessed with monster trucks. He had seen a picture of an El Toro Loco cake and fell in love. I had never even attempted to decorate a cake before. My mother found the Wilton 3D Cruiser Pan in Atlanta (I was unsuccessful in trying to find it in our home town.). The … Read more

My nephew absolutely loves trains, and I made this cake for his third birthday. The engine and cars are all just pieces of a sheet cake I baked, and cut into the shapes I needed. The cars were easy (just rectangles, stacked on each other for height), but the engine took a little more work, … Read more

I made this cake for my son’s second birthday. We had a truck party theme. It was rather an easy cake to make: The pan that I used for the truck is a loaf pan (for banana bread), that I simply cut to shape like a truck. I then stuck the pieces together with a … Read more

My son really wanted a runway and airplane cake. After looking around for ideas I decided to buy a boxed cake mix and follow the directions to make the 9×13 cake. After letting the cake cool, I tinted several scoops of white icing green with 8 drops of green food coloring. I frosted the outer … Read more

Rowan is mad about tractors – his favourite colour is red. I made two slab cakes sliced through with butter icing. I used a picture of a John Deere as a template and a bit of poetic licence. The coloured icing was bought. The bales are left uncovered with a disk of beige icing forked … Read more

I was inspired to bake a football cake after viewing other cakes on this website. I simply used a 9 1/2 x 11 baking sheet and a football mold I had, iced and decorated it… my son loved it!

This is a Pittsburgh Steelers Cake for a Cleveland Browns fan! He took the joke/cake well! LOL! The cake is a double layered Carrot Cake inside (to at least represent the Browns somehow) and the frosting is a cream cheese frosting! The Steelers emblem I made is made on edible paper. The base I made … Read more

Here in Louisiana, Purple and Gold are sacred colors. GO LSU TIGERS! Anyways, as you can guess the recipient of this cake is an LSU fan. I used the Wilton flag pan. The icing is Pillsbury funfetti vanilla. I iced the whole cake with white first. I then mixed violet, red, and blue to get … Read more

When my son insisted on a Sonic cake, I looked all over town for a Sonic cake but did not find one. We went online and copied a Sonic picture from a coloring page online then blew it up to fit a sheet cake size (legal size). I made homemade marshmallow fondant(found recipe online) laid … Read more

This cake was made for a friend’s bridal shower at work. It is a 1/4 sheet cake and is made of ½ yellow cake (with French vanilla pudding) and chocolate cake (with chocolate pudding). I always using pudding in my cake mixes to help add moisture and it also seems to help them retain their … Read more

I made this Topsy Turvy Wedding Cake for a friends wedding. I have made wonky cakes before but had problems balancing them (the middle tiers kept moving!!). For this cake I cut out s section on top of the cake to slot the next tier into. To get the nice shine to it I used … Read more