I used a large round cake pan for the shell, and a small round cake pan for the body beneath the shell. The head and feet are mini loaf pans. And the flippers/arms are from a small round cake pan that were sculpted to they fit to the body. I put together the body and … Read more
This Sea Turtle Cake Idea was a ‘Welcome Home/Birthday’ cake for my sister while she was away for 5 weeks in Australia and Fiji. Through an e-mail she had told me her new favorite animal was the sea turtle. And then I had an idea to make a sea turtle cake for her. This was … Read more
I got the idea to make this cake from a cookbook page on how to make several different shaped unique cakes using a glass bowl and a few cupcakes. This cake is incredibly easy to make. It uses only one cake recipe (box mix or homemade) and one batch or frosting. You just have to … Read more
The Zebra cake is made from a conglomeration of sugar cookies, iced, and decorated. The cake is made from 3 boxes of devil’s food cake, 2 chocolate and 1 vanilla marbled to appear like the stripes of a zebra. The icing used is buttercream icing. Everything was store bought other than the food coloring that … Read more
When our 2nd son was born he soon gained the nickname “Xander Panda”. This has stuck and for his first birthday I set myself a challenge to make him a Panda Cake Design. I hired the 3D cake tin and with no instructions came home and made the cake! It took 5 packets of cake … Read more
I am a teddy bear artist and when I saw this lovely Polar Bear Birthday Cake made by Daniella T. I naturally had to make one for my son’s 7th birthday. I baked 2 layers of vanilla cake and put them on top of each other with a butter icing. I left the cake in … Read more
This is a Calico Cat Cake that I made for my daughter’s 8th birthday. I baked several large flat cakes and basically “cut and pasted” pieces together to form the cat’s body. I “glued” the pieces together with homemade cream cheese icing and used skewers to hold the ears in place and legs to the … Read more
I made this Cat Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. It was easy to make and was interesting for her because she used to love looking at all the cats that would hang around outside our house. As it is evident, I baked 3 round cakes – one each for the face and body and … Read more
I made this Homemade Cat Cake for my mother’s birthday! Big Cat Fan! I used 10″ round cake tins for the the body of the cat and 4″ round cake tin for the head! To make the arms and legs I used fondant pieces. The cake is a vanilla sponge with strawberry and butter cream … Read more
My daughter Hannah and I decided to try one of the cat cakes from your site. I wanted to try out something using fondant for the first time and she wanted to help. We picked the Kitten cake with yarn ball we found off this site. Wanting a larger cake we decided to use 2 … Read more
My friend wanted a cat cake for her daughters birthday. I found a website with instructions for a Halloween black cat cake and tweaked it a bit. The template for cutting from two round layer cakes is included. I used white butter cream icing with pink and blue details and added a real bell to … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I did a dog house cake. I wanted him to have his own cake for him to dig into so I created a dog house for him and then a large oval sheet cake for the others. Dog House: I baked the cake in a small loaf pan. Place in … Read more