This Skylander Tree Rex cake was a cake I did for a six year old boy whose favorite character in Skylanders is Tree Rex. Having never heard of Skylanders, I started out by going to the store and taking pictures of the portal as well as the character of Tree Rex and searching online for as … Read more
My daughter loves the movie Brave (it’s the first movie she saw in theater). So for her 5th birthday she wanted a Brave party complete with a Merida cake. I don’t like working with fondant so we decided on a completely butter cream frosted doll cake. I bought the Merida doll at local big box … Read more
My eldest son loves Lightning McQueen, so for his third birthday, I was up for the challenge! It was my first fondant cake, and hopefully not my last. The cake is chocolate (a dense chocolate that is easy to shape). I made a few pans so that I had ample cake to work with. I … Read more
I made this Star Wars Lava Battle cake for my nephew who loves Star Wars. He was thrilled when he saw it! I always start out with a hand drawn design of what I’d like the cake to look like. From there I come up with ideas on how I could do it and what materials … Read more
This was my first Hello Kitty cake, I’ve been wanting to make one for so long so I really was excited about this one and already knew exactly what I was going to do,lol. I used boxed cake mix, strawberry and white for the cake and strawberry for the cupcakes. The first thing I did … Read more
I made this Minecraft inspired cake for my friend’s son for his 6th birthday. I started with 2 9 x 13 cakes but my son poked his finger in one so I re baked it and ended up with 2 1/2 cakes. I cut and stacked 7 layers for the pavilion and stacked 4, 3 … Read more
I finally decided to make this Bubble Guppies cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It took her months changing her mind to decide she wanted a Bubble Guppies cake. The cake was a simple French vanilla batter and the filling was half peaches and half strawberries. The frosting was a Swiss meringue butter cream colored … Read more
Well, last year for my boyfriend’s birthday I made him a simple R2D2 cake (2D and no fondant). After a year of practicing cakes I knew I had to up my last one. When we first started dating we played a lot of Star Wars: The Old Republic online together so Star Wars is just … Read more
My daughter decided to have a Thomas the Train party for her 3rd birthday. Her favorite train is the black engine, Hiro, so that’s what she wanted for her cake. I decided to go ahead and make a Thomas train cake, too, since the other kids might be disappointed if there was no Thomas. At … Read more
For his 6th birthday, my son requested a Cars 2 cake. We decided to go with the scene where Lightning and Mater are hooked together and flying over London and Mater has a bomb under his hood. Meanwhile, Holly and Finn are escaping from Big Bentley. The base was just a simple half-sheet yellow cake … Read more
This Darth Vader birthday cake is the cake I made for my son Matteo, who is now 12. He ‘s becoming a rebel pre-adolescent. Not a bad one, but he always finds a way of arguing on everything I ask from him. That’s why I’m used to call him Anakin. I thought that a Darth Vader cake would … Read more
I made this Lego Chewie (Chewbacca) cake for my son’s 7th birthday. He wanted a Star Wars theme for his birthday and was wavering between Yoda and Chewie as his favorite character. I searched for images of Yoda and Chewbacca cakes and most of the ones I liked were totally awesome with lots of detail … Read more