This is a boxed cake mix made in a 13×9 cake pan. I searched and searched for a Curious George cake pan without any luck so we decided we’d have to freehand one. First I frosted the entire cake in yellow. I then outlined George’s face from a coloring book page and piped that in … Read more
I used several ideas from this site to come up with this Curious George cake. I baked two 9-inch rounds and made two batches of buttercream frosting, one chocolate (some light for his face some darker for his hair) and one vanilla. I use the Wilton buttercream recipe. I used the darker chocolate frosting for … 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 made this Tinkerbell cake for my boyfriend’s niece’s 4th birthday party. She really likes Tinkerbell and princesses so I decided to make a Tinkerbell cake! Since Tinkerbell is sort of a woodsy pixie I thought it would be cool to make the towers into trees. I added grass around the top part and bottom. … Read more
“What kind of cake do you want me to make you for your birthday this year,” I asked my son. “I want a Star Wars cake!” he replied. “Do you want me to pick something and surprise you with it?” I asked. “YES!” was his reply. And so the adventure began. A Google search for … Read more
I made this Rainbow Fish cake for my little boy’s second birthday. He was a huge fan of Rainbow Fish and we were constantly reading an over sized book called Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale. I knew I was going to make a Rainbow Fish cake and after much thought I decided to copy the … Read more
I made this cake for some friends of mine. They just asked me for Hedwig but I got carried away as I am a big fan of Harry potter. So I saw this fantastic cake stand on ebay that looked like a bird cage and that’s when this cake was born. Everything just had to … Read more
I really enjoyed making this Dr. Seuss Hodge-Podge cake with Cat in the Hat smash cake for my nephew’s first birthday party. I have always loved Dr. Seuss books and this is the first cake I’ve made dedicated to his works. There are so many whimsical and fun characters and objects in Dr. Seuss books, so … Read more
Our “Audrey II” cake was made for an actor in the lead role of “Seymour” in a stage production of “Little Shop Of Horrors”. This cake was so much fun to make! The cake board is a wooden disk covered in food grade gold foil. I used a center post attached to the cake base … Read more
My now 6 year old daughter is obsessed with Harry Potter, so she was dying for a Harry Potter party. We (well OK I) tend to go a little nuts with the theme, but this was such fun! As I’m not confident enough in my cake making abilities to create Hogwarts, I decided that Hagrid’s Hut would be … Read more
I was asked by a family member who works for Oxford Publishers to make her daughter a Winnie the Witch cake, in line with Halloween. She and her daughter loves the Winnie books! Alison turned 6 on Halloween this year and so her mom swayed her to go with something a little different to the … Read more