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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
I used a white and chocolate marble childrens birthday cake recipe. I used homemade mixes in a 6″ square pan greased well. When cool I cut them in half and filled with icing. Then I iced a thin lair of icing around the cake. I used a rolled fondant for the outer icing. You can … Read more