The Dr Seuss birthday cake was our main focal point as you walked in the door and centerpiece of the food table. I made the Cat in the Hat’s hat. It was five layers. Layers 1, 3 and 5 were iced in red with pink cake inside and layers 2 and 4 were done in … Read more
I made my mother-in-law a Bride of Frankenstein cake for her birthday since her birthday is around Halloween and we were having a Halloween theme party. I took two 9×13 pans and cut them down to make them more rectangle shaped. I “glued” them together with icing and iced the bottom green and the top … Read more
This is Herbie the Love Bug cake is a picture I just drew on the cake and hoped it would turn out! My son loves Herbie and really wanted a Herbie the love bug cake. I baked a simple 8×8 cake and practiced drawing a car on a piece of paper! Then I drew it … Read more
This toothless dragon cake is for my grandson’s 5th birthday, we went to see the live “How to Train your Dragon” show a few weeks ago. It is basically made from a 2 layer round 9″ cakes, one layer cut in half and put together with jam for the body, and the tail and head … Read more
I used one of the new Indiana Jones play sets as a model for this for this Indiana Jones cake. The cake is iced in buttercream. The back wall is a cake board covered in foil and iced to look somewhat like a stone wall. The Indiana Jones figure is from the play set. The … Read more
My son was really into Indiana Jones and I wanted to make him something special for his birthday. I searched and searched and had brought together lots of ideas from lots of different places for this Indiana Jones cake. The main “volcano” is hollowed out in the middle and there is a cup inside which … Read more
My now 4 year old son’s interest in robots began earlier this year when he discovered a really fun book called Lilliput 5357 about the 1940’s vintage robot (Lilliput 5357: Stephan Czernecki). We even found a reproduction of this unique toy from Back to Basics and gave it to him for Christmas. So when it … Read more
I made this Maisy Mouse cake for my son’s second birthday as it was his favorite character at the time. I baked a big rectangular sponge cake. I then copied a picture of Maisy’s head that I found in one of his books. I first covered all the top of the cake with uncolored butter … Read more
In true Miffy fashion I made a simple carrot spice cake for my daughter’s second birthday. Then I made cream cheese frosting to ice the cake with. For the background I mixed some blue and green frosting using food coloring to create the grass and the sky. My daughter not only loves Miffy but she’s … Read more
This a Homemade “Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” Cake. I started with the cake decorations because I could make them ahead of time. I left the cake itself for the day of the party. I Google-searched to find pictures of the ship and characters for reference. Then I made the basic ship shape using … Read more
I made an Homemade Olivia Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I looked all over the internet for ideas before I started. This cake was super easy but a little time consuming! For the shape, I found a picture of Olivia online and blew it up and outlined with it a sharpie and cut … Read more
I learned a lot about how to start thinking about this cake from this site. So, Thank you! I baked two bundt cakes for the body and one round cake for the head. I cut the bundt cakes into thirds and reshaped them. I then sliced them in half length-wise to create two layers. I … Read more