I made this Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly Cake for my daughter’s fifth birthday. The cake itself is two layers of a 10 x 10 square vanilla cake (one cake mix per pan). I frosted the cake with white buttercream frosting. The Fancy Nancy topper was purchased from a local cake decorating supply store. I star-tipped … Read more
My little girl and I were captivated by the Gruffalo book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. So when she asked for a homemade Gruffalo cake for her birthday, I had to give it a go. I got the template for the cake from www.gruffalo.com, but actually decided to use the paper mask as a … Read more
This How To Train Your Dragon Cake was a challenge! When I was asked to make a cake with this theme, the movie was so new that I didn’t really have much to go off of or examples to use. So in fear of messing up a 3D Dragon cake, I chose to make the … Read more
This Indi Birthday Cake was made for one of my friend´s son’s (Bruno), he is only 4, but he loves Indi, you cannot imagine how much he loves him. The idea came one day, when his father asked for a cake of Indi, but I´m not a real fan of Indi, so he sent to … Read more
This Indiana Jones birthday cake was my son’s 5th birthday cake. He wanted two Indiana Jones cakes, one with a bad guy and one with a good guy. I was like, Oh My Goodness, how am I going to pull that off! After some brain storming, this was the final product. Both cakes are regular … Read more
This Kipper the dog cake was from a book that came with a Kipper soft toy and a blanket. I couldnt quite manage tartan for the blanket but used luster dusts in a crisscross pattern to give the effect. I made Kipper from a mixture of fondant and gum paste for extra strength and painted … Read more
My daughter has just turned six and is crazy about Madeline, so I promised her I would make her a Madeline party & Madeline child birthday cake. I prepared a regular sponge cake in a Wilton doll-shaped tin and then made up loads of butter icing in all the different colors needed for Madeline. To … Read more
A friend of mine wanted a Max and Ruby cake for her daughters birthday so I decided to tackle the project. I baked the cake and then frosted it with Buttercream icing. I then let it sit for about 15 minutes to slightly harden and then used parchment paper to smooth the cake. I traced … Read more
I loved the Mr. Men books growing up and thought this would be a great and different 1st birthday cake idea for my son. I had only made one really basic snowman cake before this so I was a little cautious. I had to make a cake big enough for a large number of guests … Read more
Both of my daughters are lactose intolerant and I have had to learn how to make cake mix recipes that would suit them. Heres the tale…. My youngest daughter requested a Noddy cake. I was unable to find any ideas from anywhere (even the internet let me down) so this design is unique and to … Read more
This Very Busy Spider Birthday Cake was made for my cousin’s first birthday! His very favorite book is The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. His mommy wanted marble so I used Chocolate Fudge and French Vanilla cake mixes from Betty Crocker. I used a 12 inch round, 9 inch round and 6 inch round. … Read more
I made this homemade Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake for my baby girl’s first birthday. I used a yellow cake mix in a bunt cake pan. I cut off the bottom of the bunt cake to make it flat and used the discarded cake to shape the head and the end of the tail. I cut … Read more