This Tinkerbell’s House Birthday Cake would have to be the most fun cake I made for my daughter’s 5 year old birthday party. Helped having my mum around as an assistant for another past midnight evening. The house is made of three cakes on top of each other and then shaped accordingly. I always ice … Read more
I made this homemade Tinkerbell cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. The bottom was an 8″ round and the top was a 6″ round covered in butter cream icing. To make the icing smooth, I let it “crust” and then placed a Viva paper towel over the cake. I then took a fondant smoother and … Read more
My daughter is a huge Nancy Drew game fan. She has been playing the HERS interactive games for years. We bought her all the games for her birthday. I decided to buy her a Nancy Drew cake. There were none out there. So I thought I would make one. I used a 10″ cake pan … Read more
For this castle fairy cake, bake 2 large cakes and cut in four square sizes (2 must be the same size). Layer as seen in picture. Ice 5 ice-cream cones and decorate with 100s & 1000’s – these are your towers. Place layers accordingly on each other and cover with icing of your choice. Place … Read more
My daughter wanted a Barbie of Swan Lake birthday party. I searched the web and found some similar ideas, but using as many resources as I already had, this is the cake I came up with. She was especially interested in the unicorns so that is where they came from. This is actually the Barbie … Read more
This is a cake I recently made for a friend’s 30th birthday. It was a ‘villains’ party and she was attending as the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. I really wanted to create something striking and quirky to capture her personality. I actually made two cakes for the party but this cake was … Read more
My brother’s family moved back to NJ from Chicago this year and one of the many benefits is being able to celebrate all special occasions together again. My niece’s 2nd birthday was one of those moments and hey…..Aunt J used to make really cool cakes. By “used” to, it has been approximately 2 years since … Read more
This Chucky Cake is made with a half sheet cake. It is a yellow cake with buttercreme icing. The head and hands are made out of rice krispy treats. The knife is a rubber play knife. The hair is buttercreme. I used the 233 tip for the hair.
I made this Curious George cake for a friend of mine whose son loves Curious George. It was a huge hit! I started out by drawing Curious George. For the head, I traced the 9″ round cake pan on a piece of paper and drew from there. I made a 9″ round cake (for the … Read more
Due to lack of time and the fact that this Curious George Birthday Cake was the first cake that I’ve ever decorated, I purchased a plain white iced cake from the grocery store. I then bought Wilton white decorators icing to tint myself. First, I tried to make brown by mixing green and red, but … Read more
Then I make my icing and used a tiny amount of brown to make the tan color and much more brown to make the dark brown. I used a #16 tip to make the star pattern covering the rest of George. I used the black and white piping gel to fill in Georges eyes. On … Read more
