My son REALLY wanted a fire truck birthday party and a fire truck cake to go with it. I searched the internet for ideas. I baked an 11×15 yellow cake and cut it in half the long way. Then I cut about 3 inches off the ends of the long pieces. The two long pieces … Read more

I made this cake for my friend who’s a MAJOR Packers fan. It was pretty simple to make and the frosting of the cake only took around 15 minutes or less. First I baked a 9×13″ vanilla sheet cake. When it was all cool I frosted the whole thing with green frosting. I used fondant … Read more

This one I made for a boy who turned seven and had a birthday party at the Put Put course, the whole party had a Put Put theme and that’s why I decided on this cake. This is a basic chocolate sponge, with chocolate and green icing, I used Kit Kat for the bricks around … Read more

My husband Chris is a huge Kansas Jayhawks basketball fan, so I decided to make him a Jayhawk cake for his 35th birthday. I started with baking a cake in a 16 inch cake pan. It required two boxed cake mixes. Since a 16 inch cake is an unusual size, I couldn’t find a cake … Read more

I made this cake for my son’s 7th birthday. First time ever to try decorate a cake and I think this turned out good. I just baked a simple chiffon cake, iced it with homemade buttercream icing. I have used my son’s Mario kart character toy as the topper. I have used glitter gel icing … Read more

This floral wedding cake was a lot of work but worth every minute. I made this cake for my wedding in June of 08 and the guests loved it. I will say in advance that the bottom two layers are fake. My guests did not eat this cake, instead they ate cupcakes since I know … Read more

This was the first wedding cake I’ve ever made! it was made for a dear cousin whose request was “simple and no colour”. Her wedding colours were white and gold . The cupcakes were red velvet, and although I would’ve liked a traditional cream cheese frosting, this wouldn’t have been practical because of refrigeration, so … Read more

This fresh flower wedding cake was one that I made way back in 1989 for a friend. At the time I had a business called Lorelie’s Luscious Cakes. A lot of the cakes I made were more complex than this one, but the simplicity of this cake is what I love about it and is … Read more

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

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