My son loves Despicable Me and requested a Minion cake! yikes! How were we supposed to do that? Some how we did! It turned out to be 18 inches tall!. We followed a how to video. My husband and I worked on this from 6 am to 3 am the day before the party!! It … Read more
My daughter is crazy about Peppa Pig, so she asked me to make her a Peppa cake for her 3rd birthday! The cake was quite simple, I made a sheet butter cake and cut out the outline for the face and body. After covering in icing I used colored fondant to cover over the shapes of … Read more
My son requested a Minion party for his 6th birthday. More specifically he wanted a one eyed Minion cake. After spending several hours over the course of a few weeks looking at Minion cakes on the internet I decided I thought I could pull it off. My son, Ben, looked at some of the pictures … Read more
This Cookie Monster cake was fun to make. We used a round cake pan and colored vanilla frosting blue. I put a crumb frosting layer down first. Then I used a frosting tip to make hair. I pushed down on marshmallows to make them larger and created eyes with black frosting sure to make the … Read more
I made this pretty pink Disney princess cake for a 4 year girl. It is a chocolate cake layered with chocolate butter cream icing. It’s covered in sugar paste. I couldn’t find my round nozzle and I was about to panic when I realized that I can use a plastic packet and cut the tip off … Read more
For my granddaughter’s 4th birthday party, she decided on the Disney princesses theme with Cinderella, Ariel, and Belle as her main characters. My daughter-in-law purchased the princesses to later be given as her gifts and I baked the cakes using Wilsons classic wonder mold. All three cakes were different flavors. The Barbies were actually too … Read more
My daughter wanted a Minion cake for her 9th Birthday! I made 4 6″ round cakes, 2 white with vanilla filling and 2 chocolate with peanut butter filling. I used half of the Wilton ball for the dome of the head. I have only covered one full cake in fondant so I was scared to … Read more
This cake was made for my 8 year old son Jonathan. He happens to be a huge fan of the hit show The Walking Dead. My biggest inspiration on making this cake was making my son happy. I planned for weeks on ideas for his cake. After looking up so many different ideas I just couldn’t find something that … Read more
I made Hoot for my son’s 1st birthday so I had to do Hootabelle. I used the puppet we have of her to get sizing right. I used a a ball cake pan for her head and cut up a 20 cm round cake for the body. Everything else is made up with fondant. I … Read more
My sister and I have watched and helped my Mom make cakes for many years. I am almost 45 and my sister is almost 42. We both have daughters, hers is 10 and mine just turned 4. We started asking our daughters months in advance about what kind of cake they want for their birthdays. … Read more
My son asked me for a Spiderman cake for his 5th birthday. I searched online for some ideas and came across a cake that gave me the idea to make this cake and how to incorporate all of his favorite superheroes on one cake. I have never covered a cake with fondant before and now … Read more
My daughter is completely mad about the new Frozen film from Disney (and so am I a little!), and she asked me to make her a birthday cake in this theme. I had the idea of making the cake with some of the figures she had got on a recent trip to Disneyland Paris. I … Read more