I use the Wilton “Animal Crackers” pan to make the head of the Dr Seuss birthday cake. This pan can be used to make a bear, pig or kitten. This pan uses one cake mix. you could also use a single round pan. The ears were created by my 8 year old. I baked 1/2 … Read more
My daughter wanted a Fancy Nancy cake for her 6th birthday and I couldn’t find anything! I came across an article on frozen butter cream transfers, which is how I created the character for this cake. The first thing is to find a picture you want to use and blow it up if necessary. Keeping … Read more
I was asked by the manager at my son’s nursery to make a Homemade Gruffalo Cake for them to raffle off for comic relief. I’d never made anything that complicated before but said id give it a go. I made 3 plain 8 inch round cakes and piled them up, tinted some buttercream green for … Read more
This How To Train Your Dragon Birthday Cake posed a bit of a challenge! The head is made of 2 – 6 inch round cakes that I put frosting in between and then cut the sides off so it wasn’t round. I then used the cut off pieces to add dimension and facial features. I … Read more
I made this Lego Indiana Jones Birthday Cake Design for my son for his fifth birthday. For the Indiana Jones figure, I used a Lego man silicone cake mold. I didn’t want him laying down, but I didn’t think I could make him stand up. So, I had him leaning against a boulder, which I … Read more
I made this Indiana Jones on the Run Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He was really into Indiana Jones. I made two 9×13 cakes. One chocolate and one vanilla. Placed them side by side with icing in between long sides touching to make bigger cake. Iced with homemade crisco icing tinted brown except one … Read more
My daughter loves Kipper the Dog videos (it used to be a cartoon series on Nick Jr.) so I decided to make her a Kipper cake for her second birthday. But since Kipper is a British creation you cant really find much Kipper stuff here in the US–no cake pans or party favors. I got … Read more
Although you can buy Maisy Mouse cake transfers I made this Maisy myself by just enlarging a picture I had of Maisy and using it as a stencil on rolled out icing. This cake was very easy and only took me a couple of hours to complete. I layered the icing to give it a … Read more
I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced the cake using butter cream icing.
My son wanted a Mr Men Birthday Cake for his 4th birthday, he wasn’t bothered which Mr Man so I thought Mr Bump might be the easiest to make. I made two 9 inch round cakes using a basic Victoria sponge recipe (4oz butter, 4oz sugar, 4oz flour, 2 eggs and a little hot water. … Read more
We decided to make a ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ birthday cake for my son’s first birthday, and it turned out wonderfully! I have no experience in making or icing cakes, but this wasn’t too difficult (time consuming yes – it took about 2 hours to ice!, but not difficult). We used two bundt tins to make … Read more
This Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake was really fun to make. I used a 10″ cake tin and this to was double up to be able to fill with homemade butter cream and strawberry jam. It was left in the fridge and straightened all the sides to look perfect (hopefully). The cake itself was quite difficult … Read more