My Banshee Avatar cake was inspired by the part of the movie where they’re flying together with headbands on. This whole thing was Humingbird cake with cream cheese filling and fondant on top. The headband was recreated by making the bones & teeth with gumpaste and then tying them together with Royal Icing. The different … Read more
I made a basic sponge cake for the main part of the face and used another smaller cake to make the chin. I then iced over it to give me the base. I copied the details on the face from a picture of ‘Charlie and Lola’ and I used different coloured icing for the face … Read more
It was my daughters 2nd birthday and when asked what kind of party she wanted, with no hesitation she answered, “I want a Clifford Party”. So I purchased Clifford the Big Red Dog party supplies from an online website. When it came to the cake, there is no Clifford cake pan, so I had to … Read more
I made this Curious George cake using a round 28cm (11 inch) cake pan, and a basic dense chocolate cake batter. I printed out the picture of George (drawn to size on the computer) and cut around it, using some of the off-cuts to construct his ears and flick of hair. I fixed the ears … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday he wanted a Curious George CupCake Birthday Cake, so when I was thinking about how to design this cake, I came to the conclusion that George’s head is round like a cupcake! I baked a bunch of cupcakes, put them together to form the general shape of a monkey’s head … Read more
My husband joined me in the kitchen to make this fun Curious George cake. I began with a printout of Curious George’s face, enlarged to fit the pan. I taped the printout to a cutting board, and over that I taped wax paper. For each color I used candy melts and chocolate chips, piped out … Read more
The large cake is a traditional butter cake, which used 9 eggs – it was a very firm cake which made cutting out the Curious George shape easier. The Curious George feet and hands had to be attached using toothpicks. The balloon cakes (same recipe but with 6 eggs each) were made using an oval … Read more
The cake is a 9×13 and a 6×9 put together. The two “balloons” are cakes made in glass custard dishes. This was my first attempt so I bought an 18-piece Wilton beginner kit which had the tips I needed (#4 and #16 I think?) The boys loved it.
For my son’s first birthday I wanted to have a Dr. Seuss theme so that he would get books instead of toys for gifts. Then I decided to do a Green Eggs and Ham cake. After perusing this website I decided that it would be more fun to do a Cat in the Hat themed … Read more
The creation of this came after the request of my five year old nephew. He wanted Cat in the Hat for his Dr Seuss birthday. After looking through the famous Dr Seuss book and searching online I decided to make it look like the book with the cat overlooking. The cake was a golden yellow … Read more
This Bride of Frankinstien cake was for a little girl’s 3rd Birthday/Halloween Party. This was one of my first cakes like this. But after I was done with it I was really pleased with it. Everybody at the party could not stop talking about how good it looked. I used loaf pans and baked 4 … Read more
My son loved this Herbie the love bug cake for his fifth birthday! Boxed cake mix, white store-bought frosting and two-9″ round cake pans. After cakes had cooled overnight in fridge I cut each round in half. Glued three halves together with icing to form Herbies body then cut the remaining half into wedges to … Read more