It was our grandson’s first birthday and the only word he knows is duck. He recognizes ducks in pictures and then he gets so excited, he flaps his hands. We started the cake with our banana cake recipe. We made 2 cakes – 12×8. I made a template of a duck out of cardboard and … Read more
This is one of my favorite birthday cake designs. I had planned on making a rubber ducky cake and some cupcakes, but my daughter invited more than that would feed. I used the Wilton 14″ round as the base and spread on various blue frostings that looked like water, then piped on white bubbles for … Read more
I made this cake for a baby shower. I looked on the internet to find some cake baking tips and this is what I came up with. I used butter cream frosting for everything except the tub feet and the soap bar which are made from fondant, the rubber duckies are made from chocolate. I … Read more
This was for my sons first birthday. He had a thing for ducks and I thought it would be the perfect idea. I found the duck in a coloring book and had my husband enlarge it on the copier at his work. I cut out the duck and after I put my regular icing on … Read more
I looked for kid birthday cake ideas, and found this one. I had a rubber ducky party for my sons first birthday and everyone loved this cake! I used a blue beverage tub and set the box for the ducky cake pan in the bottom and put a cake board on top of that to … Read more
This Homemade Ducks Baby Shower Cake was really simple. I used approx 3 boxes of store bought cake mix. This is a 3 layer cake, each layer being 9 inches. I made frosting according to the Wilton buttercream recipe. I frosted all surfaces and between layers, except for the top. I then colored about a … Read more
I made this Rubber Ducky cake for my good friend’s baby shower. Everything on the cake is edible except for the rubber duckies and the sign. The barrel is chocolate cake with buttercream frosting with marshmallow fondant around the outside. I colored some buttercream frosting blue for the water and painted the outside of the … Read more
This is a Rubber Duckie Cake I made for a friend. Its Ernie and his Rubber Duckie taking a tubby. The tub is the cake carved and covered in fondant with fondant accents and Ernie and rubber duckie are also made from fondant and sugar paste. The cake is on a board with wood pegs … Read more
I made this cake after lots of consideration on duck-shape birthday cake designs. Instead of buying the 3D pan I made this 2 layer cake and used the pattern from the invitations I made for the duck shape. I just printed out a bigger pattern and taped it together. Then, after making the cake, I … Read more
I made this cake for my husbands grandfather. He was a plumber/inspector in his working years. He was turning 84 years old and so I wanted to make this cake for him. I made the tile with fondant icing as well. I applied the tile work with buttercream icing to make it stick. I then … Read more
For my daughters 1st birthday, I decided on a duck theme and searched for cool birthday cake designs. “Duck” was the only word she knew and what to associate it with, so that’s what we did. I’ve never made a 3-D cake before and decided against buying a 3-D cake pan, because I wanted it … Read more
I prepared this cake for my sisters baby shower. I was just trying to make something that would be different and that would make her baby shower something to be always remembered. My cake baking tips are to use two round 8″ pans and one 9″ round pan for the top. I had to sculpt … Read more