I made this for my son’s 10th birthday. I made the fondant Terminator/Arnold face a week in advance, using a cartoon image that I traced onto parchment paper. Using toothpicks I traced each individual element (hair, face, metal face, shirt, jacket) onto fondant colored accordingly and then cut it out. I made the flesh face … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I decided on the “Very Hungry Caterpillar” theme. I actually used this site to get an idea of how to make this cake. I purchased everything I used from Hobby Lobby. They have a great cake making department. I made two bundt cakes. Not the smooth bundt pan but the … Read more
I used a recipe for a chocolate-marble-cake and scaled it up as I needed to bake 3 cakes for the Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday Cake. 2 x 25cm bundt cake rings 1 x 15cm round cake tin (you could use a 10cm one, I just had a 15cm one so had to cut a bit … Read more
This Twilight Cake was difficult and didn’t quite turn out how I had expected, but everyone tells me they loved it. The roses I did a few days before hand, its all buttercream icing, and I found a picture of the eclipse and printed it out, traced it on wax paper and used a toothpick … Read more
I made this Twilight Birthday Cake for my friend’s daughter who was turning 11. I started out with four 13×9 cakes. I used buttercream frosting, iced the top of two cakes, layed the other cakes on top and butted them up against each other. This made the 26×13 cake. Then I colored the icing black … Read more
For my niece’s 4th birthday she wanted a Wizard of Oz cake. I just made a Spiderman cake for her brother so I thought I’d give this one a shot. I used the marshmallow fondant and made the tornado and witches hat with it as well. This picture actually isn’t the finished product, I added … Read more
I threw a Wizard of Oz birthday for my little girl’s first birthday. I knew I wanted the cake to be the Emerald City and after searching relentlessly for different ideas, I came up with the idea of pulled sugar. I read up on how to do this and bought a 25 lb. bag of … Read more
I made this Monster Book of Monsters Birthday Cake for our son’s birthday. The eyes, gums and lettering on top were made from chocolate (CK Sculpting Candy Kote). It comes in a small tube, so it’s easy to control. I have a small disk mold I used for the eyes. I put down the black … Read more
This Harry Potter Cake was for a young lady, Jordan’s birthday. I simply used two 9×13 cake pans. After layers the two cakes, I cut off about three inches off the length of the cake. I iced the sides which were the “pages” with white icing and used a fork to strike the lines for … Read more
My son is a big Harry Potter fan and really wanted a cake with a hippogriff! Having no clue how to draw a hippogriff I went in search on the web for Harry Potter characters. I found a few but none really fit the bill. So I sketched my, own using a few others as … Read more
My nephew was having a Jedi training party for his 5th birthday. My sister-in-law requested whatever cake I thought I could do to match the theme. After looking on this site, I was sure that I could do the R2D2 3-D cake. I used half a Wilton ball pan for top and then four 6-inch … Read more
I was asked to make a Star Wars cake for a friends daughters birthday. I got my inspiration from the other cakes on this site – thank you. I made 2 oblong sponge cakes using the fabulous Lakeland multicake tin. I lay these in a line and trimmed to make the ‘sabre’ shape. I sliced … Read more