This Wedding Bells cake is the cake that I made for my co-worker’s wedding party. I used a few different techniques and designs that I’ve never tried before and I was pretty happy with the results. I had to use 4 slab cakes for this. One half was a lemon filling and the other half … Read more
This Nickelodeon cake was for my Godson’s ninth birthday. He loves Nicktoons so we decided to make a TV with the Nicktoons symbol. The icing is all buttercream. For the Nick slash symbol I outlined it by piping icing then I warmed some thinned icing in the microwave for about five seconds and spooned it … Read more
My kids decided that for their birthday the baby should have a ducky cake and my six year old should have a Little Mermaid cake, at least they’re both water themes! I wanted the cake to be big enough to serve 30, and to be individual for both of them. A flat cake just would … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter’s first birthday and I got the instructions from Woman’s Day magazine at http://www.womansday.com/Recipes/Mom-Cat-and-Kitten-Cakes I used 3 family-size frozen pound cakes and cut the pieces out according to the directions on the website. I found it easiest to put each cat on it’s own foil-covered foam sheet so that … Read more
I bought the Wilton monkey cake pan, but decided to use the rice krispie idea instead of making the actual cake. It was so easy and people went on and on about the rice krispie cake! All you do is make a batch of rice krispie treats using cocoa krispies. You press it down into … Read more
This is a cake I made for a friends grandson. He was really into snakes frogs and bugs. Everything on the cake is edible. Including the rat hanging out of the snakes mouth. I used Dougnuts to make the snake. I stacked 3 and then I cut one into 3rds and used a 3rd for … Read more
To do this Frog Cake I found a picture I liked on the internet doing a “frog prince” search. I traced it on wax paper, cut it out, laid it on the cake, and outlined with dark green icing. I filled in the details free hand. I star tipped in the 2 shades of green … Read more
This cake is one of my favorite ones… I love the color combination. All the animals are make of gumpaste and the add-ons on the cake of fondant and the grass with buttercream.
A good friend of mine is having a baby girl, and her name will be “Robyn”. I wanted to make a very special and memorable cake for her baby shower, so I decided to use the baby’s name as the theme for the cake! I sculpted a baby “Robyn” asleep in a robin’s nest complete … Read more
I used wiltons #1 shaped pan…. thinned decorator icing with 2 TBSP of light corn syrup… #18 star tip for border and #3 tip for Molly’s name…. I added the pastel colored confetti.
My princess requested a castle cake…for her fifth Birthday…here is what we made! We used blue jello for the water, graham crakers for the bridge and ice cream cones for the towers.
This Homemade Princess Castle Birthday Cake took me ages and was the first attempt I have made at decorating a cake of any sort. I started about three weeks in advance, planning it on paper and in my head. I even made a model of it to see how it was going to look. I … Read more