Prepare the cake using any cake mix or cake recipe you want. You will need the following pans for the unique cakes: -Ball Cake Pan -Large muffin pan -mini muffin pan. For each turtle use the large muffin top and cut a small triangle out of it for the tail. Frost all unique cakes with … Read more
We decided to do a zebra themed party for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. This Baby Zebra Cake is a double layer cake with the top layer being smaller than the bottom. I used white icing on the entire cake and added fondant stripes to the sides. I prepared a topper using black icing and wax … Read more
The Panda Birthday Cake is made from a Wilton upright baking pan mold. It’s a Pound cake frosted with black and white buttercream frosting with stars using a #18 tip on the body. The fingernails were made with a #102 tip and the grass with a #233 tip. The “hill” it sits atop is a … Read more
My best friend’s daughter is mad about cats and the color purple. So when she came to me, asking if I could make her daughter’s 3rd birthday cake, naturally it was going to be a purple cat face. I made a vanilla butter cake and tinted it pink. Baked it in a square tin and … Read more
I made this Cat cake for a friend’s daughter’s birthday. She turned ten and she was in the middle of reading the ‘Warriors’ series by Erin Hunter. The cake was a hit on her birthday!
I baked up 3-8″ round rich chocolate cakes (family recipe). After cooling I leveled them (except for the top layer), stacked while filling with vanilla butter cream, then dirty iced the whole cake. I saran wrapped then foil wrapped the cake and popped it in the freezer over night. Once it was solid I removed … Read more
I made this Dog Agility Birthday Cake for the dog trainer at my agility dog club for her birthday. Just like my horse cake it is two layers of 11 x 13 Pyrex casserole pans ( I use Pam on the pans so cake doesn’t stick). This cake is all buttercream (I made in August … Read more
I made this Chihuaha Cake for my nephew’s birthday. He wanted his Chihuaha dog as a cake. First I stacked two cakes on top of each other and carved the body design out of cake. Then I frosted the entire cake lightly with buttercream. Then I went over it with a no. 47 tip to … Read more
I started this Homemade Pug Dog Cake by baking a 9” x 13” x 2” cake. I wasn’t sure what mixture to use so I used the mixture for a 8” round lemon Madeira cake recipe twice. The recipe I used is below: 12 oz self raising flour 10oz caster sugar 10oz soft margarine 5 … Read more
I made this Homemade Doggie Birthday Cake for my sister in law who loves dogs. The cake was 8in cakes deep with ganash between the layers. I had to use lots of dowels so it didn’t fall over or sink. The head was made with rice crispy cakes and covered in fondant icing. The cakes … Read more
My son asked for a dog for his forth birthday. I love animals but with him and his twin (at the time-two year old) brothers I just couldn’t give him what he wanted so instead he ended up with this Homemade Carved Doggie Birthday Cake. It’s one of my favorite cakes I’ve created. I sculpted … Read more
These cute puppies for our dog birthday cake are made by placing two cupcakes together and using the star tip (#21 I think) to make long hair. Use tip #3 to make bows and add the eyes and nose. Warning: Loads of icing! I suggest maybe trying to make these out of mini loaf pans … Read more