My son loves to “read” look at books and one of his favorites is the VHC. He loves all Eric Carle books, which is why I wanted to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for his first birthday party. I do not do much baking. I am guessing this will change because I have many … Read more
My nephew asked for a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake and so I went on a mission to make the perfect one. I figured I needed something that would make a curved cake with ridges, bundt cake tin! I tried a couple, none were ridged enough until I shelled out for the (very expensive) Nordicware one. … Read more
A friend asked me to make a Twilight New Moon Cake for a movie party she was having. Here is the short version: It was a 9″ round cake, 2 layers, filled with buttercream icing and covered with black fondant, wrapped with a strip of red fondant. The ruffled tulip is was cut from gumpaste … Read more
This year my son is really into Winter the Dolphin, star of the movie “Dolphin Tale”. He saw the movie, has the book and has visited her at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, which is where he got a stuffed animal version of Winter and where I got my inspiration from. I traced and cut out … Read more
My daughter’s birthday party was all about following the yellow brick road, so I designed and created this Yellow Brick Road Cake myself. I found the emerald city light up on eBay for the topper. Used white cake with rainbow confetti, and lemon filling. Green buttercream frosting, and used fondant for the yellow brick road. … Read more
I made this Elphaba from Wicked Cake for my daughter’s fifth birthday. I used a sheet cake, placed a wicked printout directly on the cake, poked small holes in the outline with a toothpick to create the shape. Very simple. My biggest challenge was coming up with black frosting as the stores had already closed … Read more
I made this Harry Potters Books cake for my son’s birthday; he loves Harry Potter. The owl was made from a 3D bear cake that I sculpted into the shape of an owl, then covered with fondant. The books were made from a 1/2 sheet cake, cut in half, covered with buttercream and then with … Read more
My friend’s son wanted a cake and he is a fan of the Monster book. So I thought I would go for it. I haven’t done anything like it before. I have two girls. This Homemade Harry Potter Monster Book Cake has three layers of chocolate sponge with Nutella filling and then more chocolate as … Read more
I made this chocolate cake in a star shaped tin and iced it in purple. I then made all the decorations out of coloured ready-made icing and marzipan – and placed these in the corners of the star and the middle of the cake. The children had lots of fun spotting things from the books … Read more
My kids wanted a combined Star Wars birthday this year. After much deliberation I decided on this Stars Wars birthday cake which pleased them both. I used chocolate frosting mixed with black food coloring for the actual cake. The stars were made with fondant dusted with Wilton silver pearl dust. I wrote the birthday message … Read more
I did this Chewbacca Birthday Cake for a friend of mine and was supposed to be Chewbacca although it ended up being a mixed up breed between Wookie, gorilla and the Yeti. At least it was yummy! And also a little bit scary! Process: I used an oval and a rectangular baking pan to do … Read more
My son loves Star Wars and when he asked for a homemade Star Wars death star cake for his 9th birthday I nearly fell over!! I baked 2 cakes using a soccer ball cake tin, then trimmed and used Betty Crocker ready made choc icing in the centre. Then covered in plastic icing and decorated. … Read more