I made this Tinkerbell Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She wanted a Tinkerbell theme so I bought a doll and had a look at some ideas on this site for inspiration. I used my pampered chef small batter bowl to bake the cake and used a tried and tested sponge cake recipe – … Read more
The Tinkerbell teapot cake is made out of rice crispies and covered in marshmallow fondant. All the other decorations were made with gum paste. The cake is a pink, purple and green butter cake sandwiched with chocolate ganache and frosted with buttercream. Then green buttercream was frosted to look like grass and more gum paste … Read more
I brought Tink from Big W, she is tiny compared to Barbie dolls so I used a Pyrex glass jug for the base cake mix. Just sprayed well and cake came out easily. I made an extra little cake to make it that bit taller using a pudding bowl, then just trimmed the cakes to … Read more
I really wanted my son’s first birthday cake to be something unique that would wow! both the children and the adults. The birthday theme was Max & the Wild Things. I made a Snickerdoodle batter (Cake Doctor), separated the batter into 6 different bowls and colored each bowl with a different color to create a … Read more
My daughter Lauren chose fairy cakes and a fairy theme for her 3rd Birthday. I found this Tinkerbell doll at the Disney Store and it was the perfect size for the Wilton Classic Wonder Mold pan. I followed the baking directions that Wilton gave; however you really do need two 2-layer box cake box mixes. … Read more
The fairies were meant to be put on top of the main cake, but I had to transport them separately, so I took the picture of the cake with them behind it. It was a 10″ round cake. I traced a large flower on it and cut out the top layer, and some petals/leaves on … Read more
I have only been doing cakes as a hobby for two years, so I’m very happy with how this Alice in Wonderland Cake turned out! It was a gift for my niece’s 8th grade graduation / 14th UNbirthday. When she said Alice in Wonderland for the theme, I was extremely excited. I had been wanting … Read more
I made this Caillou Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday this year, he is enamored with Caillou! This is a layered 9″ white cake. I used professionally made buttercream frosting, because I can never get it smooth enough. I used store-bought colored frosting for the decorations. I just kept it simple and drew Caillou’s … Read more
This Chucky Birthday Cake Idea cake was created for my nephew. He is a Chucky fanatic. Instead of creating the doll cake I thought it would be different to include the good guys box the doll comes in. I wanted to feature as much as I could without it being over the top. I am … Read more
My son Chase begged for a Curious George Birthday Cake for his 3rd birthday, so I gave in and made one from scratch. I tore out a George face from one of Chase’s coloring books and used a copy machine to enlarge the face to the exact size of cake I wanted. First I made … Read more
My nephew was born on St. Patty’s day and he loves Curious George. For his birthday he wanted a monkey cake. The cakes were French vanilla covered in butter cream and then coated in marshmallow fondant. Everything on this Curious George birthday cake was edible except Curious George. I made the bananas with my hand … Read more
I used tan and brown frosting and copied the mouth, nose, and eye placement out of a Curious George book. I was afraid I would screw up the pupils in the eyes so I used peanut m&m’s to solve that problem.