I made this Twilight Birthday Cake for my friend’s daughter who was turning 11. I started out with four 13×9 cakes. I used buttercream frosting, iced the top of two cakes, layed the other cakes on top and butted them up against each other. This made the 26×13 cake. Then I colored the icing black … Read more
For my niece’s 4th birthday she wanted a Wizard of Oz cake. I just made a Spiderman cake for her brother so I thought I’d give this one a shot. I used the marshmallow fondant and made the tornado and witches hat with it as well. This picture actually isn’t the finished product, I added … Read more
I threw a Wizard of Oz birthday for my little girl’s first birthday. I knew I wanted the cake to be the Emerald City and after searching relentlessly for different ideas, I came up with the idea of pulled sugar. I read up on how to do this and bought a 25 lb. bag of … Read more
I made this Monster Book of Monsters Birthday Cake for our son’s birthday. The eyes, gums and lettering on top were made from chocolate (CK Sculpting Candy Kote). It comes in a small tube, so it’s easy to control. I have a small disk mold I used for the eyes. I put down the black … Read more
This Harry Potter Cake was for a young lady, Jordan’s birthday. I simply used two 9×13 cake pans. After layers the two cakes, I cut off about three inches off the length of the cake. I iced the sides which were the “pages” with white icing and used a fork to strike the lines for … Read more
My son is a big Harry Potter fan and really wanted a cake with a hippogriff! Having no clue how to draw a hippogriff I went in search on the web for Harry Potter characters. I found a few but none really fit the bill. So I sketched my, own using a few others as … Read more
My nephew was having a Jedi training party for his 5th birthday. My sister-in-law requested whatever cake I thought I could do to match the theme. After looking on this site, I was sure that I could do the R2D2 3-D cake. I used half a Wilton ball pan for top and then four 6-inch … Read more
I was asked to make a Star Wars cake for a friends daughters birthday. I got my inspiration from the other cakes on this site – thank you. I made 2 oblong sponge cakes using the fabulous Lakeland multicake tin. I lay these in a line and trimmed to make the ‘sabre’ shape. I sliced … Read more
My son is a huge Star Wars fan and so am I. I wanted to make a Storm Trooper Cake for his 5th birthday but after looking at his Star Wars Annuals, I decided that the Clone Trooper looked easier. This website was a massive inspiration and the tips from other cake makers were a … Read more
I have not worked with frosting much so I knew that would be challenge. I was trying to come up with ways to “cheat” to avoid issues with my lack of experience. As I came up with a few ideas I decided to decorate with candy instead of frosting. This R2D2 Birthday Cake was a … Read more
My son chose a R2D2 Cake Design for his 4th birthday cake (he and daddy watch Star Wars, including the newer cartoon versions, often). I baked various round and square cakes and basically cut the shapes I wanted for the body and “arms” of R2D2. I used a Pyrex bowl for the head. Of course … Read more
I started this Master Yoda Birthday Cake by getting my large rectangle tin and making a paper cut out exactly the same size. Then drew my image of Master Yoda’s face in an oval shape, then drew my ears using the remaining space around the oval from the representation of the cake tin. Using my … Read more