I made this Hello Kitty birthday cake for my daughter in law. This is made of chocolate cake and fondant. Well, this is my first time I made a fondant cake, and all positive comments from my family, friends and FB friends. I cut out Hello Kitty’s face into a thin cake, half of the … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was a hit, I sat and managed to do Elmo in an hour. The cake is a double layered chocolate cake with chocolate butter-cream. Elmo is crafted completely from fondant, he has a lollipop stick in the center to hold him up. I gave Elmo his fur look with an icing tip with … Read more
I had made an Elmo cake for a friend and was then asked to make another one, a week before I was asked if I could do a Mickey Mouse instead! Panic stations, lots of sad looking Mickeys later and this was the end result. This a double layered vanilla cake, filled with chocolate butter-cream. … Read more
I have always loved Cookie Monster and knew he had to be the theme of my child’s 1st birthday, with or without the approval of daddy. Ha ha! Making the Cookie Monster Cake I wanted to do everything myself (short of making the dough from scratch), so I purchased cake mixes in the box from … Read more
This My Little Pony castle cake is made of 2 10″ layers; 2 5″ layers, 7 turrets, and a set of stairs. The cake layers themselves were colored pink and yellow to match the outside. The turrets are made of rice krispie treats; the turret roofs are sugar cones covered with a thin layer of … Read more
This was my first big challenge before I started working with fondant and sculpting but I managed to get it right the first time. My nephew wanted an Angry Birds cake for his birthday. I had a couple of weeks to figure this out. I went shopping with my imagination and bought a bunch of … Read more
We got a request to make a Ninja Turtle cupcake cake for 50 children. Okay, how do we do this? We never made a cupcake cake. So we went online and got some images of Ninja Turtles. We then had the challenge of what to put it on. My cake cardboard’s were not big enough. … Read more
I had never attempted a proper birthday cake for my children before as they were too young to appreciate it (and I hadn’t got the time!) so this was my first attempt at a novelty shaped cake, though I do enjoy baking. My son has just turned three and as he has just discovered Peppa … Read more
I made this Oso cake for a friend’s son. He is a huge Oso fan. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make it but it turned out OK. The fondant recipe I used to use was hard to work with. I have since then found a better recipe and my cakes … Read more
For this Avengers birthday cake I took ideas from a bunch of different things I saw out there. I decided Hulk needed his own cake and created the look of his cake in fondant dyed brown and cut to look like stones. For the Hawkeye/Thor cake, I made the bow and arrows, targets, and hammers … Read more
This was a very fun cake to make. I have not worked with fondant that much when a friend asked me to make her twin sons a Minion birthday cake. I thought ummmm, ok. I have seen a few online and thought well I could do this. I did one in white cake with strawberry … Read more
I used two 6″ cakes and 1 half of a ball pan to create this minion. The ball cake shape is on the top and then the other two underneath them with a thin layer of icing in between the layers to “glue” the layers together. Cover the form with yellow fondant and then make … Read more