Knowing that my best friend had eloped and never had the wedding of her dreams.I thought for her 40th birthday that I might give her a little something she would remember for a long time. The wedding cake she never had! The cake turned out perfectly. I play around with decorating cakes and had never … Read more
I decided to make this Iggle Piggle cake for my son’s first birthday as he loves watching In the Night Garden. I used a basic sponge slab and traced around a picture of Iggle Piggle with a knife to make the cake an Iggle Piggle shape. I used butter icing (butter, icing sugar and a … Read more
I got very lucky and found this cake pan on eBay. It’s a mini-cake pan! It’s perfect for a special cake for the birthday child alone. I have made this little Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake several times for friends and for each of my own children. Every time it gets better and better. I would … Read more
My son is a huge Thomas the Tank Engine fan with Percy being his favourite character hence me creating a Percy cake for his 2nd Birthday. The cake is made up of 2 layers-the bottom a simple rectangular madeira sponge and the second a rectangular chocolate sponge.Using the more solid madeira sponge as the base,I … Read more
Here is a very simple Star Wars ship that I made a couple of years ago. I used a basic yellow cake mix adding pudding and milk. Baked in a 9 X 13 pan and then cut off about 1/4 of the cake to stack in three layers on the ship as shown in the … Read more
This was my first attempt at making a fondant cake. I have just completed the Wilton course and decided to go a little crazy. I made this Hogwarts Crest cake for my brother-in-law for his birthday. He is a huge Harry Potter fan. I used just a box cake from Duncan Hines and Wilton Fondant. … Read more
With a little determination, hard work, fondant and a creative mind I came up with this Orca cake. I started with a 1/2 sheet, covered it with blue fondant and did a little air brushing for an ocean effect. I made fondant impressions of shells, coral and trim. For the Orca (he was the real … Read more
I was having a joint party for my 1 and 3 year old boys, and we decided to have trains as the theme. I started looking around online for ideas and ended up on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, of course! I got most of my ideas for the cake on this website. For the base of the cake, … Read more
I have to thank the other people on this site for great ideas. I just did not want to get any ole cake from a store…I wanted it to be special and man was it ever. I used 3 cake mixes and to make them a pound cake recipe I used the box mix with … Read more
i made this cake for my sons 4th birthday it started out as mcqueen but i couldn`t get the red right so then it became king my son and his friends still loved it
My son was having his 4th birthday party and it was all firetruck themed. We had volunteer firefighters come, everything in the house was decked out in firetruck regalia. Plates, cups, balloons, toys walls, fire hats, extinguishers etc. You get the idea. My son Bryson requested a firetruck cake. We were having about 55 people … Read more
MY WIFE MADE ME THIS CAKE FOR MY 31ST BIRTHDAY 6/28.THE BALL IS A RED VELVET CAKE SO WHEN YOU CUT IT YOU SEE RED.THE BASE CAKE IS CHOCOLATE. GO PHILLIES!!