For my son’s 2nd birthday he wanted a Curious George CupCake Birthday Cake, so when I was thinking about how to design this cake, I came to the conclusion that George’s head is round like a cupcake! I baked a bunch of cupcakes, put them together to form the general shape of a monkey’s head … Read more
My husband joined me in the kitchen to make this fun Curious George cake. I began with a printout of Curious George’s face, enlarged to fit the pan. I taped the printout to a cutting board, and over that I taped wax paper. For each color I used candy melts and chocolate chips, piped out … Read more
The large cake is a traditional butter cake, which used 9 eggs – it was a very firm cake which made cutting out the Curious George shape easier. The Curious George feet and hands had to be attached using toothpicks. The balloon cakes (same recipe but with 6 eggs each) were made using an oval … Read more
The cake is a 9×13 and a 6×9 put together. The two “balloons” are cakes made in glass custard dishes. This was my first attempt so I bought an 18-piece Wilton beginner kit which had the tips I needed (#4 and #16 I think?) The boys loved it.
For my son’s first birthday I wanted to have a Dr. Seuss theme so that he would get books instead of toys for gifts. Then I decided to do a Green Eggs and Ham cake. After perusing this website I decided that it would be more fun to do a Cat in the Hat themed … Read more
The creation of this came after the request of my five year old nephew. He wanted Cat in the Hat for his Dr Seuss birthday. After looking through the famous Dr Seuss book and searching online I decided to make it look like the book with the cat overlooking. The cake was a golden yellow … Read more
This Bride of Frankinstien cake was for a little girl’s 3rd Birthday/Halloween Party. This was one of my first cakes like this. But after I was done with it I was really pleased with it. Everybody at the party could not stop talking about how good it looked. I used loaf pans and baked 4 … Read more
My son loved this Herbie the love bug cake for his fifth birthday! Boxed cake mix, white store-bought frosting and two-9″ round cake pans. After cakes had cooled overnight in fridge I cut each round in half. Glued three halves together with icing to form Herbies body then cut the remaining half into wedges to … Read more
My husband & I co-made this Indiana Jones cake for our nephew’s 6th Birthday. He’s a big Indiana Jones Lego fan & this cake was a surprise. His first comment upon seeing the cake was “Wow, I got a pinata for my birthday!”. To make it we used 2 loaf pan cakes(Orange Chocolate Sourcream cake. … Read more
My nephew wanted an Indiana Jones cake for his 9th birthday party. My mom initially suggested that I make Indy’s famous fedora hat, but I felt that was way beyond my skill level. This is what I came up with instead: The cake is a 9X13 sheet cake made from two box mixes. The frosting … Read more
This homemade Little Miss Sunshine birthday cake was made from several cakes, cut into shapes and pieced together and covered with marshmallow fondant.
My son had a very strong desire to have a Chronicles of Narnia Birthday Party but I could not find any paraphernalia at my local store. I thought I could just try to come up with my own amazing cake design and base it on a book and the lamppost since that is what lead … Read more