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
I made this for my boyfriend’s niece Jaylynn, for her 11th birthday. She is a super Edward Cullen fan and we wanted to surprise her. She had a big party at the fire hall with lots of her friends and she never had a clue what the cake looked like until everyone started to sing … Read more
My great-niece, Avery Isabella, was having her first birthday and the theme was a Wizard of Oz Party. There was a yellow brick road for all guests to walk down when they came to the party so the cake theme was a Wizard of Oz Cake Design made of fondant and dusted with gold dust. … Read more
I made 2 9×13 cakes and used green dyed buttercream icing. The yellow brick road is yellow fondant that I scored like bricks and let it dry the day before. Next time, I would make it longer. The pond is blue icing gel. The grass is coconut dyed green using a Ziploc bag to shake … Read more
This Hogwarts Birthday Cake was made for my boyfriend’s 21st birthday. He made a joke saying I should make a Harry Potter cake and I took him seriously and came up with this. This Hogwarts cake has a grand hall and some towers, a courtyard (cardboard not cake), an owlery with owls, Hagrids hut, a … Read more