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This Baby Shower Block Cake started with about three yellow cake rounds, one yellow 8″x13″, and one devil’s food 8″x13″. This was for a friend of mine, her son’s name is Layne so I spelled his name in the blocks. I made a batch of Italian buttercream with less butter than it should have, so … Read more
These cakes were for my daughters naming ceremony. Her name is Macy. The cakes were 6″ cubes with 2″ letters on each side made from a childrens birthday cake recipe. I made a large sheet cake that was 2″ deep and then cut it 6″ by 6″. Then I piled three of them on top … Read more
I made this homemade name alphabet cake for my son Zachary’s 1st birthday. I wanted something different from the giant #1 cake I’d done for his sister’s 1st birthday but that was still a “little” kid cake. Plus we wanted to keep the decorations relatively simple and weren’t really going with any particular character theme. … Read more
These seemed easy enough but I used whipped cream (which made them delicious but not very pretty.) They were tall and heavy so every time I tried to straighten one side they slide off the other. I used a chocolate childrens birthday cake recipe with whipped cream, raspberry and chocolate ganache. The cakes get a … Read more
This Baby Blocks Shower Cake is 1/2 sheet cake. I made it a basic yellow two mix cake but I added banana extract for a great surprising flavor. I made buttercream frosting and also added some banana extract to it to. I used fondant for the flowers. The filling is just a banana custard I … Read more
This Baby Blocks Cake is a 3 ingredient cake that taste AMAZING! Here is what you need to make it; graham crackers, heavy whipping cream and Hershey’s chocolate syrup. No measuring required, all you do is beat the heavy whipping cream until it turns to a nice whipped thickness (before it turns to butter) add … Read more
I made a large rectangle cake from a childrens birthday cake recipe and cut it up into nine individual squares. Each square is covered in a thin layer of buttercream icing then wrapped in colored fondant and decorated with royal icing sprinkles etc. It was pretty easy and can be altered slightly if you know … Read more
I made this Baby Blocks Cake for my son’s first birthday. It was so easy!! I made a large rectangular cake, then cut off a section for the 6 squares, leaving a large square for the base. Each little cube was decorated in royal icing, with royal icing letters and butter icing down the sides. … Read more
This Blocks Baby Shower Cake was for my sister-in-law’s baby shower. The theme was baby blocks. I wanted to incorporate the blocks as well as make it personal. The letters on the blocks are my nephew’s initials and the objects on the blocks are both typical items you might find on baby blocks with a … Read more
I made 2 square cakes using my own special childrens birthday cake recipe. I stacked them and frosted with one color. For decoration I used M&M candies and colored sugar. Each side had one of my sons initials or his age. The top was a picture of a balloon.s initials or his age. The top … Read more
I got this idea from seeing so many cool baby blocks cakes on this site (thanks to you all! This site rocks!). At first, I started with the blocks. I knew I wanted 4 blocks to spell out the word “BABY”, so I chose an 8″ square pan and baked two layers (it may take … Read more
I made this ABC Blocks Shower Cake for my daughter in law’s baby shower. I made 3 13×9 sheet cakes, cut them into squares and stacked them into the block shapes. I placed the bottom two blocks and iced, then placed the 3rd block on top before icing it. I used homemade buttercream frosting (my … Read more