The mother of a little boy named Ethan asked me to make a cake for her son’s 3rd birthday. She just asked for 3 items which she wanted to feature on the cake, the rest was up to me. The 3 items were these:- Thomas the tank engine, a windmill and a river. First of … Read more
I have made all of my niece Hayden Grace’s birthday cakes (a couple of which are published on Coolest Birthday Cakes already) for her 5 birthdays, but this one, from her 5th birthday is by far my favorite. She requested a “Rapunzel” cake and putting together a few ideas I found on CBC’s website I … Read more
Let’s get honest. Fondant is expensive and time consuming! Ok, maybe I’m just scared of new things. Anyway, you can make a memorable cake like me…EVEN if you have FOUR KIDS ages FIVE and UNDER and you dont want to try fondant. That’s right people. Do it in stages. Freeze it. Cut it. MAKE YOUR … Read more
A friend of mine phoned me to order a cake for her daughter’s 8th birthday. She wanted a Moshi Monsters theme but whilst her daughter wanted cake pops, her mother wanted a cake so they were arguing a bit. She left it in my hands to do whatever I thought it was best. I thought … Read more
The irony of this Nemo birthday cake is I was making a Nemo cake while the storm Nemo was battering the area. This cake was for a good friend who ordered her son’s first birthday cake from a local bakery who totally blew it. I knew I had to make up for the disappointment. I … Read more
Well I normally make lots of cupcakes and cookies, hardly ever cakes as I’ve always thought that if I mess up a cupcake I can quite easily bake another batch and start again but a cake is BIG and daunting. I offered to make this cake for a friend I work with as she was … Read more
This was one of my favorite cakes I sculpted this year! My client was surprising his brother for his 50th birthday and asked if I could sculpt his favorite version of the Joker with the saying Its no joke turning 50 in caption bubble. I was super excited.The joker is completely cake sculpted from three … Read more
This cake was created with love for my nephews birthday. He loves Mator and so I took one of his mator toys and turned four qtr. sheet cakes into the matoor sculpted cake you see. It took me about 20 hrs to complete him with all the prep on the pieces that needed to dry … Read more
This cake was a labor of love for my granddaughters 5 birthday. I started by making a 8″ round cake and carved it to resemble a handbag. i made the handle about 3 days before so that it would firm up enough to stand up on its own. The day of her party I covered … Read more
My boys were obsessed with the new app Angry Birds. This was before anything was out in stores so I had to make everything on the cake myself. All the birds are hand made with homemade marshamllow fondant. I spent a week making the birds after my boys went to bed. I printed a picture … Read more
My daughter wanted to have a Plants Vs Zombies themed birthday sleepover for her 9th birthday. Great, except nobody makes Plants vs Zombies (a popular video game) anything. So I used a trick that my mom (who used to bake cakes semi-professionally) taught me. I printed a coloring page of the Plants vs Zombies head for … Read more
I created this evil confection for my husband’s birthday. He is an animator/illustrator that works on Disney’s newest webseries Doof’s Daily Dirt. (Check it out on YouTube!) Dr. Doof, the evil scientist, is made entirely out of rolled fondant. I resized an image my husband sent me and printed it. Then, I traced the outlines … Read more