I made this My Little Pony Rainbow Dash Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. We had a My Little Pony party, complete with live ponies for the kids to ride. I played on the Rainbow Dash pony specifically and came up with this cake design. A week before the party my daughter helped me cut … Read more
My daughter wanted a My Little Pony theme cake for her 6th birthday. There were only 9-10 girls invited for the party so I didn’t want to make a big 2 tier cake and hence I decided to go with cupcakes and a 6″ cake to blow candles on. I wanted to incorporate sky, rainbow, … Read more
My mom had a large piece of glass that she would make our birthday cakes on growing up. They were some of the fondest memories. She would decorate the whole glass with what ever theme we picked. Now that I have my own children I have my own glass and have decorated my childrens cakes. … Read more
This Nerfgun CS-6 Recon Cake I made for my son’s 11th birthday. He had a Nerfgun battle party. I made most of the cake out of regular cake mix. The connectors on the back end of the gun are Oreo Cookie straws. I tried my hand for the first time at making my own fondant … Read more
I made this Scrabble Board Cake for a friend of mine for her 50th birthday. She loves playing games and scrabble is always a fun one! It is a 9×13 and another half of a 9×13 to make the square. I made the top out of fondant and drew the lines on with a black … Read more
This is where the “making cakes for a living” idea got going. My son wanted Transformers cake for his 5th birthday so I decided to make marshmallow fondant and make Optimus and Bumblee Bee in ‘vehicle mode’. Optimus’ cab was 10 inches tall and the trailer bed was 12 inches long to give you an … Read more
This is the cake ( and rice crispy treats ) I made my son for his 4th birthday. He wanted an optimus Prime cake….okay. No problwm…my next question to him was….”Which kind? Mine (from the 80’s) or your (the animated version)? Yours Daddy! Okay!…no problem. Do you want him as a Truck or a Robot? … Read more
I got the Autobot symbol online and enlarged it. I used it to sculpt the Transformer Birthday Cake. I colored simple canned chocolate icing with black gel icing color. You can get the icing color at most craft supply stores. It’s best to start with a chocolate base rather than a white icing otherwise you … Read more
I make cakes mostly for kids so when my friend came to me on a Thursday asking to make a Transformer Cake for her sons birthday on Sunday I panicked. I explained Wilton hadn’t yet come out with a pan for “Optimus Prime”. She wanted me to put a birthday plate on top of a … Read more
Our son’s Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake turned out AWESOME! I baked it, and my patient, and talented sister – Cristy iced it! We hated to cut it! It only took 5 hours of baking and 5 hours icing! What fun! The head was vanilla cake, the teal ones was lemon, the red was red velvet, … Read more
This Baby Einstein Cake is a three tier Topsy Turvy cake with hand made baby Einstein character figurines (fondant). Three gourmet flavors. I had to make the figurines a week ahead of time to give them long enough to dry completely through. I used sugar glue to attach everything to the cake. Delicious!
My son loves to watch Baby Einstein so I decided to make the caterpillar cake for his first birthday party. I found this website and looked through all of the examples of a Baby Einstein cake and decided to use the Wilton sports ball pans. I bought two sets (40% off coupons for Jo-Ann Fabrics … Read more