This Homemade Harry Potter Monster Book Cake has 2 layers of chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and hazelnut mousse filling. I carved the book shape after filling the cake and covered it with buttercream. Later, I covered the cake with ivory fondant. I painted the sides of book with edible antique gold paint in vanilla. … Read more
There is a Harry Potter movie and book coming out this month so my son wanted a marble cake with a Harry Potter character and decorations. After taking the Wiltons Cake decorating course last winter I thought I could handle it. First I found a cake online that my son liked at. My son wanted … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter cake for his birthday, and I thought a Homemade Harry Potter Cauldron Birthday Cake would be fun. Originally the cauldron was going to be top-half only, since I didn’t think cake would support itself for a full cauldron. When I was thinking about what to use to make the … Read more
For my son’s 6th birthday, he wanted a Star Wars party with a Star Wars cake. We got the idea for this x-wing fighter cake off this same website, with only a few small changes. We made two 9×13 vanilla cakes. Each cake was cut in half length-wise. I used these long pieces to make … Read more
My son wanted a Star Wars cake where the blue and green light sabers were fighting, and the blue was winning. I made a box cake 9×13 pan and cut 4 equal horizontal pieces to make into the light sabers. I iced one blue (on the top so it was winning) and one green. I … Read more
My 5 year old insisted on a Star Wars Storm trooper cake so I searched the internet and only found two examples that I liked. It looks more difficult to do than it actually was to make. This cake was made with two chocolate cake mixes and a rice krispie treats. I cooked one cake … Read more
I made this R2D2 3D cake for my son’s 7th Birthday. I got the idea from other R2D2 cakes on your web site. I started with store bought cake mixes. I used 4 boxes of cake mix. I made 3 9×13 cakes 2 chocolate and one yellow. I made 2 8inch round cakes yellow. I … Read more
First I’d like to say thanks to all the people who gave their ideas on this site. I made this Darth Vader birthday cake after looking at your lovely cakes for my son Jake on his 6th birthday. I borrowed his Darth Vader helmet and placed 3 layers of tin foil over it to make … Read more
I decided for my boy’s 5th birthday party to attempt a homemade cake of his choice, why was I surprised then when he said R2-D2. As I used this site for inspiration I thought it was only fair to share my attempt of my Homemade R2-D2 Birthday Cake. I used four 6 inch cakes tins … Read more
This Darth Vader cake was made free hand. This is a microwave chocolate cake using a 9×13 pan. The frosting is a chocolate and black cream cheese frosting. I used plastic spoons for the eyes. I used marbles for the mouth and covered with tin foil.
This R2D2 Cake was so much fun to make! And surprisingly easy, but definitely time consuming. I used a six inch round cake pan to make R2D2’s body. I stacked 3 six inch cakes with lots of butter cream in between each layer and all over the cakes with 4 dowels inserted through all three … Read more
My son is right into Star Wars and asked for a General Grievous cake for his birthday. The idea from the cake came from an image I found for a cookie jar. I used this image with a little less detail for the cake. This was definitely a fun and challenging cake to make, and … Read more