This Oscar birthday cake was a challenging cake. When I was asked for an Oscar cake in a bin I thought great, I love to make cartoon characters. The first hurdle was to make the bin look old. I covered the cake with black fondant then mixed silver food coloring very weak then did a … Read more
My daughter was never really into Barbies or Disney princesses. When she came to me and asked for a Belle Barbie cake for her birthday, I was a bit surprised, but I figured I could do it. I did however know I did not want to spend $40 on a doll cake. I got lucky … Read more
I made this Handy Manny toolbox and tools for my son’s 4th cakes. I cut out a small square about 1 layer thick for the tools. For the sides I made a square of rice cereal plastic blower part of 3 Handy Manny party blowers. This worked great because I put them inside each other … Read more
It started with tablet… with free Minecraft demo version. Than with tablet Minecraft Pocket edition, and than grand ma asked my son Nitzan: ” what do you want for birthday?” And the answer was:”Minecraft for PC!!!! So 1.7.5 version arrived in our home and in our lives. As many will understand, it is simply Minecraft. … Read more
Who doesn’t love pirates?! and the new generation, a group of young but formidable foes of Captain Hook make me feel like going back to my childhood, but with all the new characters out there! *Peter Pan I still love you and Wendy, just saying… This cake took so long to make and I was … Read more
I let my grandchildren choose their birthday cake theme. At first my granddaughter wanted a ballerina cake because she had just started ballet class. Then she changed her mind as 4 year old’s often do. She decided on Dora the Explorer…so I made Dora a ballerina. I also made Boots and Swiper ballerinas. The “boys” … Read more
What a fun cake to make, Yo GABBA GABBA for a fist birthday party. This cake was a challenge since, I never watched the kids show Yo GABBA GABBA, and I was nervous to create the characters. The biggest challenge was watching the show and constructing the characters. The best part was the same, watching … Read more
When my friend asked me to make a cake for her sister’s baby shower, I was excited to hear that the theme was nursery rhymes. I spent a few days researching nursery rhyme cakes and then I got to work. I decided to do a two tier cake mostly because I wanted the Humpty Dumpty … Read more
This Dora and Diego cake for my twin sons’ 4th birthday was a huge project. I knew that making Dora and Diego would be extremely time consuming so I decided to use little toy figures for them. Since they weren’t going to be edible, I wanted the rest of the cake to be really special. … Read more
This Rapunzel tower cake was my first time working with fondant so I’m not sure why I decided to attempt such a tall and detailed cake! I knew I wanted everything to be edible because I like the idea that you could eat every part of the cake. I remember I had hardly any tools … Read more
I made the round cakes and covered them in fondant. The lettera are fondant cutouts with edible glitter in them. I created the Pinkie Pie pony and Spike the dragon as well as the number 7 and balloons out of gumpaste. The characters, balloons and number 7 were made several days in advance. I just used … Read more
My lovely daughter Phoebe really wanted a Hello Kitty Cake this year for her 8th birthday…. and it had to be a strawberry cake inside. I used a vanilla cake recipe and added strawberry essence with a few red food coloring drops to tint the batter pink. I baked two large rectangle cakes and then … Read more