My god daughter fell in love with the Dr. Suess Lorax movie and wanted that cake for her fifth birthday. I decided to incorporate as much of the story into the cake as I could. To start with, I baked a 12″ x 18″ rectangle white cake for the base. I divided it into 2 … Read more
My good friend from high school wanted to surprise his 4 year old Star War fanatic son with the ULTIMATE cake…..R2D2!! Making this cake was very labor intensive, over 60+ hours to make, start to finish. I first made a template for the legs and cake base. I measured the legs and the diameter for … Read more
This cake was made for my grandson Billy. He loves the Cloud Babies. Before cooking the cake I made the cake topper using a polystyrene cake dummy in a 6″ round. I covered this in blue icing and left it to dry out. Meanwhile I made the sun, moon and the pink horse and pink … Read more
I love to bake and I am very creative. I took one Wilton class at a local store, got sick and could not finish, so what I learned was pretty much nothing….lol. My great grandson was turning 6 and I wanted to make the cake. He loves Angry Birds, so his Mom told me “YES” … Read more
Day 1 On the first day, I started with 2 half sheet cake pans, 2 white mixes, and a pound cake. I made the 3 cake mixes as the directions stated separately then mixed together. Next I poured into silicon lined half sheet cake pans. After cooling the cakes completely I tightly covered them and … Read more
This is my story, I have been baking the cakes and my husband has been decorating the cakes using fondant and he also makes fondant cake toppers. All of the cakes he has decorated have been for family, the funny thing about this is that my husband decided not to decorate any more cakes because … Read more
My son had decided months before his birthday that he wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cake. I began scouring the internet for pictures of something awesome and something that I could do. What I kept coming across were things that were even way to hard, made with too much fondant, or ones that just … Read more
This Purple Evil Minion cake was such fun to make, even though at times I thought this is going to look nothing like the image I have in my mind. But little Brandon kept coming into the kitchen telling me “that is going to look good mum ” and it gave me the courage to push … Read more
I made this carousel cake for my friend’s 4-year-old. She loves My Little Ponies, so I used the Wilton’s Carousel Cake Kit, and substituted the horses in the kit for some tiny (2 inch) My Little Pony figures. They happened to have a convenient hole in the hoof, so I stuck a straw in the … Read more
I started this Lightening McQueen Cars birthday cake with a two layered rectangular chocolate mud cake , a steak knife and a toy car to look at /copy. Off I began carving bit by bit , little by little …. until I was finally satisfied with the shape. I can tell you, I thought at many … Read more
I’ve been having fun playing with making homemade cakes for a few years now, and I had a really fun idea for my youngest daughter’s first birthday. She loves Tigger from Winnie the Pooh so I took my plain old puzzle cake set that contained 24 cupcakes of various shapes that make 3 generic animal … Read more
Wow…..I am a mother of two daughters , so tell me about girlie theme, I will know. But Ben 10? who is he??? I started from there !!! ( lol). This was a very special cake for a special boy. So, had to be good. It’s a 5 kg cake. Inside there are 3 layers, … Read more