DESIGN: Tinkerbell’s dress was inspired by a Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and The City) rainbow skirt she wore in one episode. CAKE: I baked one 6″x2″ cake and one 3″x3″ cake to create the skirt. I used a red velvet recipe I found online. Unfortunately, I can’t remember which one. It was an unremarkable recipe anyways. … Read more
This Tinkerbell & Friends cake was for my daughter’s 4th birthday. I needed to give her her own cake and have plenty for everyone else. The cake was an orange cream sheet cake. The doll was wrapped in plastic wrap and decorated after being placed in an oval cake. The decorations were sugar flowers that … Read more
For this fairy cake I used the Wilton doll pan for the fairys body and the Wilton butterfly pan for the fairy’s wings. I decorated the fairy cake to match the outfit my daughter was wearing. I used one of my daughter’s “magic wands” to place in the fairy’s hand. This was a fun and … 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.
All of the decorations (flowers, mushrooms, teacup, hat, watch, etc.) on this Alice in Wonderland birthday cake are handmade from fondant or chocolate and are edible with the exception of the feathers and hatpins on the hat. This was for a 10 year old’s belated Alice in Wonderland party at the theater before seeing the … Read more
My son’s favorite movie is Willy Wonka, so it seemed fitting that he have a Willy Wonka party for his 2nd birthday. There aren’t many ideas on the internet for a Willy Wonka Birthday Cake, so we had to get a little creative! We used 3 boxes of funfetti cake mix to bake two layers. … Read more
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I used a 9″ round cake pan with chocolate cake for this Curious George Cake. I trimmed the sides slightly to straighten it out and trimmed diagonals at the bottom sides to form the jaw. I used the trimmed off pieces for ears and his piece of hair at the top. Mixed a bit of … Read more
I made this white layer cake for my daughter’s 3rd Curious George themed birthday party. I used boxed cake mix with frosting between the layers. I used canned frosting for the entire thing and colored it as needed. I started by frosting the entire cake in yellow. I had found the picture that I used … Read more
I am a born procrastinator, but occasionally, it works for me. I printed out a George mask and after frosting the cake yellow, I poked thumbtacks carefully through the printed out sheet following the lines like a connect the dots. I then carefully held the sheet over the frosted cake and laid it down to … Read more
There is not a cake pan for Curious George Cakes, so when my niece turned one they wanted Curious George – and I wanted her to have him! I had only had one cake decorating class so I had to think of something pretty simple. This was it – just stars.
