My son wanted a puppy/doggy party. I wasn’t sure what kind of dog I had the skill to draw/copy onto a cake. We decided on a Kipper the Dog Cake. An animated dog was easier for me. I covered the cake in chocolate buttercream frosting. Allow it to dry a little and then smooth out … Read more
A friend called and asked me to do a 50th birthday cake for his wife, and wanted to know if I could do Tyler Perry’s character “Madea”. I found a picture on the internet, sculpted it out of gumpaste that I colored using Wilton gel colors, and laid it on a sheet cake. I used … Read more
I got the idea from this site from another Max & Ruby cake submitter. First I made 2 13×9 cakes. Then I made butter cream frosting, and frosted the whole cake. I let it set and then took paper towel and used it to make the frosting even. I then printed a picture of Max … Read more
My son wanted a “Miss Spiders Sunny Patch” birthday. As of this write-up, there is nothing out there with regards to party favors, party supplies, etc. with the Miss Spider theme, so I was on my own. We decided to use a theme called “Bugs Everywhere” for the tablecloth, blow outs, napkins, and hanging decorations. … Read more
I made this Noddy cake for my sons second birthday. I used a Noddy figurine lamp as the figure and placed it in a cake car. The car shape was made of bits of a square cake which I made from one of my many cake mix recipes. I made the wheels a day or … Read more
I made this Sound of Music Cake for the closing night party of a production of The Sound of Music. It was a rich, chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. For the Maria figurine, I cut out a picture of Julie Andrews’ body and pasted on the face of the Maria from our cast. She … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake cake for my partner’s grandson. The cake is made on a base of Victoria sponge cake (homemade) and covered with soft icing. The caterpillar is made from soft icing and hand painted. Recipe for cake as follows: 8 oz each eggs, sugar, margarine, self raising flour. In … Read more
I just made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday for my son’s first birthday. I used 1.5 bundt cakes and a 20cm round cake (although should have trimmed the head a little more). I used packet vanilla cake mix for all the cakes, but made my own icing using icing mixture and butter to create the … Read more
My 12 year old niece is really into the Twilight books so for her birthday I decided to be super creative and try to make the hands holding the apple from the cover of the first book in the series. To make this challenging Twilight Birthday Cake I made two bundt cakes and froze them … Read more
My daughter is really into the Twilight Saga, and wanted her cake to reflect her invitations and party ware. The plates were black and red with pictures of Edward and Jacob, so I just took that and went with it and made this Twilight Edward and Jacob Cake. My base cake is a medium square … Read more
My daughter wanted a Wizard of Oz party for her 8th birthday party. I found a few ideas for rainbow cakes and Wizard of Oz cakes from this and other cake sites and decided to combine a few ideas together. The base of the Wizard Of Oz Cake is a simple 9×11 cake pan with … Read more
This Wizard of Oz Cake was my first attempt at making this cake. I have since made many more! This one, which was half white half chocolate 1/2 sheet, was made for my husband’s coworker’s 6 year old daughter. I started by base icing in butter cream. I then took cans of green and blue … Read more