This Darth Maul Cake was for my son’s 5th birthday party. I found a picture of Darth Maul online, printed it and used an opaque projector to enlarge it. Then I traced the outline of the image onto wax paper and used gel icing on the reverse to go over the trace lines. I put … Read more
This Lightsaber Birthday Cake could be the easiest Star Wars cake to make – ever! I took candies that I found at my local candy shop to make lightsabers around the cake (strawberries and raspberries cables)and I matched them with assorted coloured gummies. The lightsabers handles are made from fudge mummies. The action figures used … Read more
Every year I partake in the motherly task of creating the birthday cake of choice for my boys. This year it was all Star Wars so I made this R2D2 birthday cake! I baked four 8 inch round cakes for the body and I baked the dome using a Pyrex bowl. The legs I created … Read more
This Commander Cody Cake is my third fondant cake. I got the idea for this cake from a picture of a helmet my son wanted. I was really nervous carving out the helmet out of cake, so I bought a Styrofoam block at my local crafts store and carved out the helmet, using sand paper … Read more
The icing is buttercream and the blue is fondant I rolled out and cut to the shape I needed. The fondant is adhered to the buttercream with clear vanilla. The silver details are white candy melts “painted” with silver highlighter dust mixed with pure lemon extract. I am happy to help anyone thru one of … Read more
Prepare a couple of sponges (tea cake is best as it is firm) and when cool, cut in to pieces that roughly match the shape of the mask. Line them inside of mask with plastic cling-wrap. Then layer the inside of the mask with the sponge, pushing it down as you go. I added a … Read more
I had this Star Wars Birthday Cake idea when we decided to make a surprise party for my boyfriend and his best friend. Since they’re both best friends since they were 5 years old and they have one day difference, I decided to make a cake for both and they both love Star Wars! I … Read more
My daughter is absolutely in love with Tinkerbell. I enjoy making cakes, so I just made this Tinkerbell fairy cake from a bundt cake! She’s sitting on a cup cake!
This is only the second cake I’ve ever made. It was made with lots of love (and lots of time!) for my little girl’s 8th birthday which is in August and we don’t have AC! To make Tinkerbell’s dress I used the Betty Crocker BAKE AND FILL cake pan (one of the pieces is half … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell cake for my 3 year old’s birthday. She is such a huge fan of Tinkerbell, and thought it would be a lot of fun to try, even as a first attempt at making 3-D cakes. I made a strawberry cake in the Wilton Barbie cake pan and used butter cream frosting … Read more
Well I was looking online at cool cakes for some ideas for my daughters birthday. She saw a homemade Tinkerbell cake (a snow globe cake) and oh just had to have one. She ran to daddy and told him she wanted a Tinkerbell snow-globe cake. It was real easy to make. The fondant was the … Read more
A good friend of mine’s little girl is turning 2 and is obsessed with Tinkerbell. She loves everything Tink and for her birthday she asked her mum for a Tinkerbell Cake. When we went looking for a Tinkerbell doll for the cake we could only find an Esmeralda doll. We took it home and the … Read more