I found a picture of Piglet for my birthday cake ideas that I liked on the internet and enlarged to fit my cake board (wanted as big as I could). I then baked two sponge cakes, 12″ x 8″, and placed them into a back to front L shape. I then cut out the piglet … Read more
I got the idea from Stephanie L. but with my cake I chose to make her dress two shades of green. The bottom cake was a 12 inch round and since my friends little girl was having a green and purple Tinkerbell party then I thought that cake should be purple. For Tink I used … Read more
I have been known to make unusual cakes so when my friend approached me asking if I could make him a Godzilla Birthday Cake for his birthday, I was more than happy to take up the challenge. I began my looking up pictures of cartoon dinosaurs on the internet to give me inspiration. When I … Read more
My son wanted a Captain Underpants cake for his birthday. I actually found the idea from the coolest-birthday-cakes website and tweaked it a bit to work for us. Making the Captain Underpants Cake We made a 9 x 13 chocolate sheet cake and decorated it with homemade butter cream frosting. The recipe for the frosting … Read more
For my sons first birthday we decided to do a Clifford Theme because he loves the PBS show so much. I searched all over for Clifford the Big Red Dog cake ideas and never really found what I was looking for so I designed my own. I used the Wilton 3D stand up teddy bear … Read more
My daughter celebrated her 3rd birthday on the 4th of July. Her favorite character is Curious George. When I checked out the local stores for a Curious George cake, all they would do is place plastic characters on an ordinary cake of your choosing – which I thought was pathetic. I finally located a store … Read more
I made this Curious George cake for my son’s first birthday. At first, I wanted to make the cake red, yellow, and blue. However, after much research and several attempts at making red fondant, I decided it would be best to go with blue and yellow as my red fondant was more fuchsia, even though … Read more
This Homemade Curious George Cake seems to be the most common to build. I made it for my niece’s son who turned 1. The hat is vanilla sponge with what else, banana filling. Then a buttercreme crumb coat and covered in yellow fondant. The monkey was harder because I didn’t want to use too much … Read more
I made the cake out of the Wilton yellow cake recipe and baked a 11×18 sheet pan and one 6″ round pan. I had to double the recipe to be sure I had enough. The decorating was done in the Wilton butter frosting for the base coat on the main and small cake. I then … Read more
For Curious George I enlarged a party napkin on a photocopier, traced it onto a piece of parchment paper and when the yellow frosting had crusted a bit used a sewing needle to poke the outlines onto the cake. When I lifted up the paper there was a very delicate dotted outline of George that … Read more
I made this Cat In The Hat cake with my lab partner, Megan, for a school project. We took the idea of the Hat from others on the website, and added Thing 1 and Thing 2, and the Fish, to give it a little more character. The Hat’s base is made of 5 layers, after … Read more
I use the Wilton “Animal Crackers” pan to make the head of the Dr Seuss birthday cake. This pan can be used to make a bear, pig or kitten. This pan uses one cake mix. you could also use a single round pan. The ears were created by my 8 year old. I baked 1/2 … Read more