This Homemade Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake was my first attempt at making a “home-made” cake. I had inherited a couple of metal tips from my mother-in-law and when the time came that I could not find a cake that I liked for my daughter, Emelia’s, 1st birthday, I thought I would attempt to make one … Read more
I made this Baby Einstein cake for my son’s 1st birthday. He had some Baby Einstein books which he loved and I thought the characters and colours were so much fun and very suitable for a first birthday party. The cake itself is carrot cake (which is nice and dense to hold up all that … Read more
I made a birthday cake for my little girls 2nd birthday. We were going for a jungle theme plus she loves lions. I decided to put a lion on the top which I copied from a lion picture. It’s about my fourth or fifth attempt at decorating a cake like this. I thought I did … Read more
Heres an idea for a Baby Einstein caterpillar cake to add to this great cake gallery. You can use half of the Wilton’s sports ball cake pan, Betty Crocker’s White frosting, Wilton’s food coloring in blue, red, yellow, purple, green, black tube frosting, tip #16, 2 red pipe cleaners, 2 red puff balls, wooden cooking … Read more
For this Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake we made five half balls from the Wilton Sports Ball pans. We filled and iced each one and then divided a five pound bag of Wilton white fondant and colored each yellow, red, bright blue, purple, and teal. Color each section of fondant one at a time; it dries … Read more
I used the sports ball pan to make the Baby Einstein caterpillar cakes. I made one whole cake for each section but cut off the bottom to make it flat. I made one lemon, one banana (baby friendly), one vanilla and two chocolate sections and five batches of buttercream (but that iced all the cookies … Read more
We made this Lego Batman Cake for a friend’s son’s birthday. We cooked 1 x 8” and 1 x 4” round orange flavored Madeira cakes. The square cake was for the body and the 4” round cake was for the head. The arms and legs are made of rice crispy mixture. The cake has internal … Read more
My brother is an avid gamer and, for his birthday cake this year, he asked for a replica of his Nintendo NES. I baked a sheet cake and then cut and built it to resemble the NES. I used a scrap piece of cake to make the controller and then I made mini cupcakes to … Read more
This Xbox Controller birthday cake was my first attempt at a sculpted cake and it was a lot easier than I had feared. Took two pan cakes and stacked them on top of each other and then I had printed a picture of an Xbox controller out on my printer and used it as a … Read more
My son requested a Lego cake well before the big day and later added that it had to be a Star Wars Lego cake! I was very apprehensive about doing one until I saw a Lego Landspeeder one on the internet, so thanks to Val from Val’s Custom Cakes for the inspiration for this Star … Read more
I made this Princess Tiana Doll Cake for my daughter’s fourth birthday. We had a princess tea party. We had elements from all the Disney princesses at the party. We also had iced tea (Texas in the summer requires cold beverages) and lemonade in plastic coffee/tea cups. This was my very first doll cake and … Read more
I love baking but had never tried anything adventurous until I found this site and decided to attempt a Princess Belle Cake Design for my princess-mad daughter’s 4th birthday, taking loads of inspiration from the cakes already on this site. I used 6 boxes of chocolate cake mix and made my base cake, two 7ins … Read more