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
My daughter wanted a Fancy Nancy cake for her 6th birthday and I couldn’t find anything! I came across an article on frozen butter cream transfers, which is how I created the character for this cake. The first thing is to find a picture you want to use and blow it up if necessary. Keeping … Read more
I was asked by the manager at my son’s nursery to make a Homemade Gruffalo Cake for them to raffle off for comic relief. I’d never made anything that complicated before but said id give it a go. I made 3 plain 8 inch round cakes and piled them up, tinted some buttercream green for … Read more
This How To Train Your Dragon Birthday Cake posed a bit of a challenge! The head is made of 2 – 6 inch round cakes that I put frosting in between and then cut the sides off so it wasn’t round. I then used the cut off pieces to add dimension and facial features. I … Read more
I made this Lego Indiana Jones Birthday Cake Design for my son for his fifth birthday. For the Indiana Jones figure, I used a Lego man silicone cake mold. I didn’t want him laying down, but I didn’t think I could make him stand up. So, I had him leaning against a boulder, which I … Read more
I made this Indiana Jones on the Run Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He was really into Indiana Jones. I made two 9×13 cakes. One chocolate and one vanilla. Placed them side by side with icing in between long sides touching to make bigger cake. Iced with homemade crisco icing tinted brown except one … Read more
My daughter loves Kipper the Dog videos (it used to be a cartoon series on Nick Jr.) so I decided to make her a Kipper cake for her second birthday. But since Kipper is a British creation you cant really find much Kipper stuff here in the US–no cake pans or party favors. I got … Read more
Although you can buy Maisy Mouse cake transfers I made this Maisy myself by just enlarging a picture I had of Maisy and using it as a stencil on rolled out icing. This cake was very easy and only took me a couple of hours to complete. I layered the icing to give it a … Read more
I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced the cake using butter cream icing.