I made this homemade Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake for my baby girl’s first birthday. I used a yellow cake mix in a bunt cake pan. I cut off the bottom of the bunt cake to make it flat and used the discarded cake to shape the head and the end of the tail. I cut … Read more
I found a picture in a blog of this collection of cake and cupcakes. There are 22 cupcakes arranged to be the body of the caterpillar. Each is iced with green frosting in a swirl pattern. The 12 cupcakes on the outside edge have sprinkles pressed into the frosting to look like hairs. This part … Read more
This Twilight Birthday Cake was my first fondant cake. I made it with 2-10″ round cakes and 2-8″ round cakes. My fondant is homemade. Frosted cakes with buttercream frosting. We used a ruler to cut out squares for checker board. I got the topper by going to faceinhole.com. My 10 year old granddaughter loved in.
I used the Wilton Harry Potter cake pan and morphed Harry into Edward! Bake cake according to package directions. Then I always freeze my cakes overnight before decorating. Makes them so much easier to handle! I frosted his face with a very pale skin tone and his hair and eyebrows with chocolate. Then I added … Read more
My niece LOVES the Wizard of Oz so it was time to get creative since finding Wizard of Oz items can be difficult at best and that is what she wanted her birthday party theme to be. Thanks to the fellow contributors to this site I got some great ideas for a Wizard of oz … Read more
My friend is obsessed with the musical Wicked. Her husband asked us to make her Wicked themed cake for her birthday. All the fondant is homemade marshmallow fondant except for the black. We can never get marshmallow fondant dark enough without being a sticky mess. We try to keep some black fondant on hand from … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter cake for his birthday, So I decided that the monster book of monsters would be fairly easy. It was, I just made a sheet cake, then I cut it in half and stacked it to make a double layer cake. First I did a buttercream/crumb coat. The frosting was … Read more
I made this Harry Potter Golden Snitch Cake cake for my daughter’s sixth birthday. We are all crazy about Harry Potter at our house and it seemed like a fun cake to try. I made the cake circular by baking the top and bottom half in a Pyrex bowl. I used the Hershey’s Special Dark … Read more
The ideas for this Harry Potter cake I adapted from a birthday cake book. Just quickly colored the ready made icing and chopped up a ready made cake. Quick idea for most busy mums. The kids loved it even if it isn’t perfect! More Harry Potter Cakes Cake by Lisa Y., Reisterstown, MD For my … Read more
This was a Darth Vader cake I made for a 5 year old’s birthday. The customer wanted a cake in the shape of a 5 with a picture of Darth Vader on it. The colors are specific to what the customer wanted.
I came to this website looking for ideas for an R2 D2 cake. I combined a few ideas and came up with my cake. I baked 3 11x 18 sheet cakes (each with 3 boxes of cake mix). When I baked the last layer, I also used enough cake batter to bake a few cupcakes … Read more
I searched all over the internet for a cool Star wars cake to make, and either they fed too many, or were way too complicated! My son was set on having an AT-AT Star Wars cake, and I didn’t want to do a flat one, or have figures on a cake. I have done cakes … Read more