This Wizard Toto Yellow Brick Road birthday cake was for my mother’s 60th birthday. It shows the feet of the bad witch under the house, as well as the yellow brick road and Toto in his basket. Along with red flowers. My mother’s favorite movie is The Wizard Of Oz, so on her 60th birthday I … Read more
I made this Spiderman bust cake for my son’s 4th birthday. I am quite new to cake decorating but always like to challenge myself. The cake was the easy part. I made 2 x 10″ cakes and layered them on each other and I made an 8″ cake which I cut into quarters then layered … Read more
This In The Night Garden birthday cake was made for my niece’s little boy who is 22 yrs. Because of broken marriages I hadn’t seen her for about 18-20 yrs. Facebook brought me to see her mum Ruth again. Then I saw them both at a carnival. They had seen a few of my cakes on … Read more
This is Minion birthday cake from the movie Despicable Me. I made it for a birthday of a 4 year old boy. I used a regular cake, with fondant on it. Food coloring in colors: yellow,blue, black, white and brown. It was fun to do this, I also added a Minion doll from McDonald’s .
I was asked at the very last minute by my son to make a surprise birthday cake for his best friend and could I incorporate his favorite things, his favorite movie as a kid, Cars, with Mater being his favorite character, his favorite games, Skyrim and Minecraft and his favorite series, Sherlock. Now his birthday … Read more
A dear friend asked me if I could make a Minecraft birthday cake for her son who was turning 6. She said she had looked and asked many places but couldn’t find any one who could make her such a cake. Not knowing what Minecraft was I set to researching it. I found some examples … Read more
My granddaughter loves the Dora & Boots DVD’s and asked me to bake her a Dora & Boots birthday cake for her 5th birthday party. Long before the time I searched the internet for suitable images of both of them until I found two nice ones. Then I enlarged them on a photocopy machine to … Read more
I asked my nephew what kind of cake he would like for his 7th birthday and here it is, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles birthday cake. I made 2 x 8in chocolate round cakes and 1 x 8 in strawberry cake. I wanted 3 layers so it would be higher, (I made cupcakes with the … Read more
A couple of months ago, my niece asked me to make a groom’s cake for her wedding. Her then fiance/now husband is a big Duck Dynasty fan, especially Uncle Si, so we agreed on a design and I set out to make her cake. I started with the characters-all gum paste and fondant Because I had never made people … Read more
After visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter last summer, my son insisted on a Harry Potter cake. He is always very…too…involved. He checks over ideas, debates colors with me, comes in and tells me when something doesn’t look right, but loves the end result each and every time. I make ONE cake a … Read more
I did this Chip ‘n’ Dale birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. He was not interested in any cartoons till 20 months until he saw Chip n Dale cartoon. Along with him, I became a huge fan of those cute little chipmunks. So I decided to make his 2nd birthday special with his favorite character. … Read more
My son loves Thomas the Tank Engine, so I knew I had to make a Thomas cake for his second birthday. The cake turned into a full train when we decided to share the party with his two cousins – ages 1 and 6. As always happens with my cakes, my initial thought was “How … Read more