My three year old granddaughter loves “The Wizard of Oz” and asked for a “Dorfy” cake. I carved the “ruby red slippers” from a frozen Sara Lee pound cake, iced them red and sprinkled them with red sugar. The bows were made from homemade marshmallow fondant tinted red. The yellow brick road was freehanded and … Read more
My nephew’s favorite book when he turned one was the Very Hungry Caterpillar. For his birthday cake I decided to make the Caterpillar and it turned out to be an amazing cake. I used three bunt cakes that I cut up to make the body. I made two different colored green icings to cover the … Read more
For my son’s 6th birthday he wanted a Yoda cake so I made him a Star Wars cake. I made 2 basic sponges in a rectangle tin. I drew the shape of Yoda’s head onto paper and then again onto card. Once cut out I used it as a template to carve out the cake … Read more
This R2D2 cake was created for my nephew Cyle when he turned six years old. The cake was constructed of two 9×13 sheet cakes and 1/2 of a 9-inch round cake. The body is one 9×13 cake, the head is a half of a round cake and the legs were cut from second 9×13 cake. … Read more
I browsed through quite a few R2-D2 Star Wars cakes for inspiration. This was seven round cakes stacked together and frosted in between each layer. Each layer of this cake was a different flavor as well. I got wooden dowels to hold up the different layers. Then I used buttercream to decorate. I made this … Read more
In a galaxy far far away we planned a Star Wars party for a five year old. We wanted a fun Star Wars birthday cake for the kids. My son thought a light saber cake would be cool and my husband thought it would be even cooler if it were six feet long. So I … Read more
My nephew requested a Star Wars-themed cake for his 8th birthday. I decided to try to do something similar to the fondant-covered Storm Trooper cake but with Darth Vader which I copied from a Darth Vader picture. I layered two 9 X 13 sheet cakes (baked from store-bought mix) with store-bought frosting in between. Using … Read more
The Bob cake was baked in a round baseball/soccer ball pan and Larry came from a normal 13×9 cake pan. after it was baked I cut out the Larry shape with a sharp knife. I made the frosting a little thinner than usual so it would have a glossy finish. The eyes are made from … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter Literary Theme for his 7th birthday this year. I have always enjoyed making his cakes for his parties. We decided to make the cake look like one of the HP books. I used a Wilton book pan and a 9X14 pan. This is essentially two cakes, one topping the … Read more
This is a boxed cake mix made in a 13×9 cake pan. I searched and searched for a Curious George cake pan without any luck so we decided we’d have to freehand one. First I frosted the entire cake in yellow. I then outlined George’s face from a coloring book page and piped that in … Read more
I used several ideas from this site to come up with this Curious George cake. I baked two 9-inch rounds and made two batches of buttercream frosting, one chocolate (some light for his face some darker for his hair) and one vanilla. I use the Wilton buttercream recipe. I used the darker chocolate frosting for … Read more
Bottom cake (16×16) of this Winnie the Pooh picture cake is half white/chocolate with fresh strawberry filling and buttercream icing. Pooh is a yellow pound cake. Removable “SMASH” cake is placed on a MMF tablecloth and the party hat is a cone with MMF. The presents are rice crispy treats covered with candy melts and … Read more