My boys love Star Wars. Their birthdays are 1 day apart, and they turned 6 and 9 this year. When they asked for a Yoda birthday cake, I wasn’t sure I could deliver. The Cake: I started with 2 round 8-inch cakes and a square 9-inch cake. The round cakes were stacked for Yoda’s head, … Read more
I was asked to make a Tigger birthday cake for the 1st birthday of a beautiful little girl. I must admit that Tigger is one of my favorite characters and therefor I was very happy to make a cake of this lovely character. I knew that I wanted to make a 3D Tigger out of … Read more
This Optimus Prime cake was my first ever attempt at baking. I originally saw this cake on coolest cakes.com and thought “that’s amazing, my son would love it”. I knew it would be a challenge, but totally underestimated how big a challenge it would be. Being a total novice I didn’t have any real baking … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell birthday cake last year for my daughter’s 1st birthday. Two layers of 10″ cake covered in butter cream then fondant. I struggled a bit with the house to begin with but then decided to make it out of rice kripie marshmallows which I put in a small bowl to set (butter the … Read more
I adapted this design from a three tier cake I’d seen on Pinterest and Oz’d it up by adding the ruby slippers and flags and yellow brick road. The cake is a 5-layer rainbow cake with butter cream filling and frosting. The bottom is an icing sheet printed with a blue gingham check pattern. The … Read more
First of all I will start off saying that I have never had any formal training making cakes but I started my own business selling cakes and cake pops about a year ago called Princess Pops. I am a labor and delivery nurse working full time at Water Reed and teach Jazzercise part time. In my … Read more
I made this Dr. Seuss Giraffe birthday cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. Her favorite stuffed animal “Papaya” is the giraffe from the Dr. Seuss story “And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street”. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, she told me she wanted a “Paya” cake….and … Read more
My god daughter fell in love with the Dr. Suess Lorax movie and wanted that cake for her fifth birthday. I decided to incorporate as much of the story into the cake as I could. To start with, I baked a 12″ x 18″ rectangle white cake for the base. I divided it into 2 … Read more
My good friend from high school wanted to surprise his 4 year old Star War fanatic son with the ULTIMATE cake…..R2D2!! Making this cake was very labor intensive, over 60+ hours to make, start to finish. I first made a template for the legs and cake base. I measured the legs and the diameter for … Read more
I’ve been having fun playing with making homemade cakes for a few years now, and I had a really fun idea for my youngest daughter’s first birthday. She loves Tigger from Winnie the Pooh so I took my plain old puzzle cake set that contained 24 cupcakes of various shapes that make 3 generic animal … Read more
Transformer’s are what my now 5 year old is obsessed with. I made him a Transformer’s cake last year (it’s on here) and he wanted another one. I had no idea what to do with this one so I looked at a bunch of cakes and just went at it. He has been wanting the … Read more
This Hogwarts Ice Cream cone cake was made for my twins’ 9th birthday. I was inspired by cakes on this site, but once I got going, it became an original creation. This Hogwarts cake required very little skill, just props and an internet connection. As you can see, much of the cake it not cake … Read more