The grandson is CRAZY about Indiana Jones and Lego Indiana Jones. We (grandma, mom, and dad) baked two 12″ cakes, 2 9″ cakes, and cupcakes for our Indiana Jones Cake. We layered the cakes and topped it with 8 cupcakes leaving room for the water to flow. We then made homemade chocolate buttercream icing and … Read more
I made this Kipper the dog cake for my daughters second birthday. I got the idea from the Kipper cake on this site. Instead of tinting the icing green I sprayed it with the aerosol color. I made Kipper Tiger Pig and Arnold out of fondant. I also made the duck blanket picnic basket out … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday, I made her a cake of Tallulah Bird, who is a character in the Lucy Cousins Maisy the Mouse series of books and videos. I started by screwing a structure with a 4-inch circle on 2 legs to the board on which I would put the cake. Then, I used … Read more
I made this Easy Miffy Cake for my daughter’s first birthday since she loves Miffy the bunny from the show “Miffy and friends”. I made a classic yellow, sour cream based cake with an eight inch round pan and ten cupcakes. The round cake makes up the head of course and I placed the cupcakes … Read more
My daughter loves Nancy Drew books and wanted a homemade Nancy Drew book mystery cake for her 10th birthday. The book cake itself was easy enough to make. I stacked 2 sheet cakes and carved one edge just a little to make it slightly rounded. I then frosted it with buttercream icing and covered it … Read more
I made a cake mix in two 8-in round pans. I cut the ears and nose from one round cake. Olivia’s ears are uneven (which was easy to work with!) and she has a long rounded triangle nose. The icing used was vanilla pudding whipped with whipping cream and a few drops of red food … Read more
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