A good friend of mine’s little girl is turning 2 and is obsessed with Tinkerbell. She loves everything Tink and for her birthday she asked her mum for a Tinkerbell Cake. When we went looking for a Tinkerbell doll for the cake we could only find an Esmeralda doll. We took it home and the … Read more
Tinkerbell’s head was the Wilton cake pan! I decided to attempt to make a body for her so I baked another cake in a heart shaped pan. Her face, dress and hair were star iced with tip 2010 and outlined with #3! Her necklace was top #7, dots with a drop star in the center. … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell birthday cake for my niece Hayden’s 4th birthday. She had a Tinkerbell themed party (being a four-year old girl and loving all things Disney Princess!). I used the Coolest Birthday Cakes site to get ideas. I ended up using the Wilton Wonder Mold pan for the skirt and a medium round … Read more
My daughter is CRAZY about Tinkerbell, so for her third birthday, we decided to go big and make her a Homemade Pixie Hollow Cake Collection. For the cake on the left, I chose a boxed strawberry mix for a 13 x 9 glass baking dish. I followed the directions to bake it and then allowed … Read more
My friend Marta baked the actual cake and put it together. It was the first time I worked with fondant and I got help from her. The flowers and butterflies of the fairy cake are made of sugar; they were purchased at a cake-decorating store and I painted them with luster and pearl dust.
I had decided that this year I wasnt going to buy a cake for my daughters’ birthday this year. She wanted to have a “Barbie Fairy” party. I mentioned it a work and a friend suggested making a Barbie Doll Fairy cake. I had never seen one so I decided to go online and check … Read more
A friend ordered this Cheshire Cat Cake for her daughter’s fourth birthday. It is white cake with vanilla butter cream. The base is two sheet cakes, with strawberries in between, stacked and frosted green to look like grass. The cat’s body was three 9” round cakes, stacked, cut and rounded on the sides. The face … Read more
I made this Homemade Willy Wonka Cast Party Cake for the cast part of Willy Wonka Junior at my son’s school (he played Charlie!). I just made three round cakes of different sizes, stacked them up and decorated! I am no chef, so I made the cakes from mixes (two Devil’s Food and one white), … Read more
The birthday boy loves Clifford the big red dog. I was concerned about the large amount of red coloring (if I were to make the whole dog red). So I decided to put red spots instead. It turned out the dog really stood out. The body of the dog was carved using a large loaf … Read more
My son loves Curious George so I made this Curious George birthday cake for his second birthday. I got ideas from looking at cakes on this website. I made a square cake and a round one and placed one on top of the other. The cakes were a chocolate. I used Royal Icing and chose … Read more
My daughter is FASCINATED with Curious George, and after spending a couple of months looking for one to buy without any luck, decided to make my own. I used an 8 inch round for the head, a 9X13 for the body (and cut off diagonal pieces for shoulders and used them to piece together the … Read more
I then frosted the whole cake with vanilla whipped frosting from Betty Crocker and let it set for a few minutes. Then with my pampered chef cake decorator, using the star tip put small stars of chocolate Betty Crocker frosting in rows down the sides. I then used the same star tip; put smaller yellow … Read more