Bottom cake (16×16) of this Winnie the Pooh picture cake is half white/chocolate with fresh strawberry filling and buttercream icing. Pooh is a yellow pound cake. Removable “SMASH” cake is placed on a MMF tablecloth and the party hat is a cone with MMF. The presents are rice crispy treats covered with candy melts and … Read more
Because my son went everywhere with his Pooh Bear I picked this theme several months before he turned one years old. I searched through many books and video covers until I found a Winnie the Pooh pic that I could work with. I then practiced drawing it freehand almost daily until I felt that I … Read more
For my son’s first birthday we threw a Tigger Party and I came up with this cartoon cake to match the theme. I baked a 9×13 vanilla cake (vanilla cakes are easier to ice than chocolate because the crumbs don’t show as much!) and made icing with shortening and icing sugar. I iced the cake … Read more
I made this celebration cake by cutting an 8″ round in half to make a half circle then I stuck it together with whipped cream icing. The nose and legs are wedges cut out of a second 8″ round. I used a grass tip and whipped icing to make the fur. The ears are Graeme … Read more
I searched the Web for kids birthday cake ideas as inspiration and came up with this Veggie Tales cake. I used the sport ball pan from Wiltons, followed the directions in the box on how to make the cake used the Wilton decorators buttercream icing for the decorating. I frosted once, let crust and then … Read more
My 2-year-old son is a big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine. So the mission was to create a Thomas birthday cake for his birthday. I got some guide and tips from a cake book by Debbie Brown that shows steps by steps how to make the Thomas birthday cake. I added additional items to … Read more
My son wanted a Thomas the Tank cake for this third birthday. I used store bought cake mixes and frosting with Wilton’s Coloring. Thomas Tank is created by cutting up two loafs of pound cake in various geometric pieces (i.e. square, rectangle etc.)and then glued with frosting. His face was printed in color mounted on … Read more
My son loves Thomas the train so I decided to make him a Thomas cake for his birthday. I wasn’t sure about the cake since this was my first cake ever so I got some ideas and came up with this. I used a 1/2 sheet cake for the body and a round cake for … Read more
I used four loaf pans for the Thomas the tank cakes. The last two trimmed to square and the tank engine was formed using an electric knife (a great cake carving tool) and held together with skewers. You will need to use a pound cake recipe or the cake will fall apart when building. The … Read more
My son Theo loves trains in general and Thomas the tank engine in particular. So I decided to prepare a Thomas the tank engine cake for his 4th birthday. This train cake is a plain butter cake with chocolate chunks that I made for the engine and carriage. I tried to incorporate ideas of train … Read more
My niece was having a Sponge Bob party for her 3rd birthday, so my sister and I had to come up with the perfect cake. I checked out the internet and from the ideas on this web-site came up with this Sponge Bob cake. It was a big hit! I printed out the picture of … Read more
This was Sponge Bob cake was made for my son’s fifth birthday party. He wanted a SpongeBob playing soccer theme birthday. So I decided to make him a SpongeBob cake to go with the theme. After I was done baking the cakes I put them in the freezer over night. It gave me better cutting … Read more