The only two shows my son Luke watches are Thomas and Clifford. We had a Thomas party last year so Clifford the big red dog it was this year for his third birthday. I used Duncan Hines white cake mix for the cake. One box did great. I greased the pan with shortening that I … Read more
I got inspiration for this Curious George Birthday Cake from a few cakes on this site. I used two box mixes of yellow cake mix, one was split between two 9″ rounds, one box was split between on 9″ round, and one bread pan (this one took longer than the round). For the main cake, … Read more
I decided to have a Curious George themed birthday for my son’s first birthday. As most moms out there will see, there is no cake pan or design specific to Curious George, so I had to tap into my unfound artistic skills. I used a 12″ square cake pan to bake 2 boxes of regular … Read more
I grabbed one of his invitations and made an outline. Then a few days before the party I practiced using the star tip, because while I had made cakes in the past, it had basically been me making a box cake and throwing some frosting on it. The Curious George cake was made up of … Read more
The image was just traced off of a napkin and was enlarged on the computer and then inverted with piping gel onto the cake. Just invert the image and start filling in with color. The background of the trees was just a few different shades of green blended in together. This was a really fun … Read more
I made this Dr. Seuss 1st Birthday Cake Design for my nephew’s 7th birthday. This was only the third time I worked with fondant so I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The books are two 13 x 9 funfetti cakes. I used two boxes for each cake. I covered them separately and then … Read more
My preschool class was having a graduation party. We decided Dr.Seuss was the theme. I looked for a long time for a Dr.Seuss Cake Idea and while I found many of the other cakes cute I wanted something a little different. I love Cat in the Hat and the fish. I wanted to incorporate Thing … Read more
My 6-year-old daughter wanted a Fancy Nancy themed party, so we made a Fancy Nancy Birthday Cake Design which was colorful, glitzy, and covered with all things girly. This cake was three tiers displayed on the Wilton Graceful Tiers stand. The stand was decorated with pink boas and flowers and butterflies from Hobby Lobby’s floral … Read more
I made this cake making a double layer 11”x15” cake and frosting it white on the sides and under the water area, I tinted the frosting a very light brown and covered the rest of the cake to look like sand. I tinted piping gel blue for the water. I made Toothless out of a … Read more
My son wanted to have the full picture and face of Indiana Jones. I searched the web and couldn’t come up with anything that I felt would do justice to Indiana Jones. So while on the “official” Indiana Jones site the silhouette image appeared while the web page was loading and “bam” my Indiana Jones … Read more
For this Kipper the Dog cake, a simple heavy mixture of cake was created approx 12inches by 14 inches. I copied a Kipper the dog picture onto A4 paper and enlarged it to approx A3 size. I cut the individual segments out and once the cake mixture was ready, cut around the segments (body, head, … Read more
This was my daughters 3rd child birthday cake – Madeline, from the Ludwig Bemelman’s storybook character. I used an old Wilton pan from the 80’s that was strawberry shortcake (much larger than the new ones). It had a girl face with hat and she was originally holding a large strawberry. I just modified that to … Read more