I was requested to make a Minion cake for a friend’s daughter and was put to the challenge of making it look like a Minion from Hawaii. This is the result I came up with. I used two 15 cm. round cakes and cut them both into three layers, filling them with a vanilla cream … Read more
I created this cake for my daughters first birthday. She was fascinated by the Minion’s in the movie ‘Despicable Me’ and was going through a banana crazy at the time (Minion’s love banana’s), so it seems appropriate. I would soon regret my decision as the cake was ridiculously challenging to make and I’m worried now … Read more
I wanted to make an original Mickey cake but I wanted it to look like a piece of art at the same time. So I baked the cake, cut it out and used a piping bag to decorate it, but then I used the tip of a spoon to make it look like a water color … Read more
A friend of mine asked me if I could do a super hero cake for a friend of hers son who was to become 6 years old, well I love a challenge so I agreed to do it, she decided to leave the cake to me so I decided to do Superman, Spiderman and Batman. … Read more
My lovely granddaughter Brooke was 4 years old on bonfire night. Brooke is my little cake maker in training. She loves baking and I’ve mentioned her before in my featured cake baker profile. Well, she loves the Doc McStuffins programs and asked me to make her a Doc Stuffins cake for her birthday. I told … Read more
I had a lady call me up asking if I could make her a Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas wedding cake and 150 cupcakes. I said sure that sounds like fun! she only could afford $400 so I was good with that. I figured I could do it with that and still make money off it. … Read more
This is one of my cakes that I made for my Twins 2nd B-days. Their favorite cartoon was Bubble Guppies and all caracters in that movie. So I decided to make all of them from fondant. To make one of these figures it took me about 2 hours. To color the fondant to make shapes … Read more
My daughter wanted a Princess Belle 5th birthday party. I scoured the Internet looking for inspiration. I found this cake and thought, that’s beautiful but could I do it? I have made cakes just for my daughters birthdays and 2 friends. I kept looking but nothing came close, so the preps began. I printed out … Read more
My mom always made our birthday cakes. In fact, she made all our baked goods. I vowed that I would do the same for my kids. So, every year they choose what they really love and I make a cake. My older son thinks it’s fun to challenge me. Well, it was a little different … Read more
My son asked for an Octonauts cake – Octopod for his 6th birthday. I had absolutely no idea how I was going to make that happen. I looked at pictures online, walked through the store trying to come up with ideas, talked with my husband hoping he had ideas. I was coming up short, until … Read more
I make all of my grandkids’ birthday cakes and sometimes they really come up with some dandy requests. My grandson’s request this year was for a Planes cake. Because he was turning 5 and I wanted to incorporate his age into the cake, I took the pattern of the number 5 and created the runway … Read more
I had a friend of a friend call me one day and ask me if I could make a Frozen birthday cake for her granddaughter’s birthday. My first question was, “Do you mean an ice cream cake?” She laughed and said, “No, a cake from the movie Frozen.” After a few minutes of giggling she … Read more