My son LOVES SpongeBob, so for his 4th birthday I made him this SpongeBob Squarepants cake. I baked a sheet cake using 2 funfetti cake mixes. I tinted frosting yellow and frosted the top half of the cake. I split the bottom half between white and milk chocolate frosting. I frosted the face features using … Read more
My step mother has always liked Pinky and the Brain so I decided to try to make a cake for her in that theme. The cake is an apple cake with butter cream icing colored with Wilton’s sky blue coloring. The writing and the earth were all drawn free-handed. The figures are made out of fondant. The cake was … Read more
I couldn’t believe how easy it was to balance 3 cakes! I was expecting a lot worse!! For this In the NIght Garden cake I used a good solid sponge, a good layer of icing and hey presto! The top was lemon with cream filling, the chocolate, fudge then vanilla cake and tabs, berry jam … Read more
For this Mystery Van cake-Scooby Groovy, I started by baking two cake layers in loaf pans, dividing the batter beforehand and tinting it several different colors to create a rainbow effect when the cake was baked. Then, to assemble, we wrapped a Rice-a-Roni box with tinfoil, and stacked the leveled cake layers on top. After a … Read more
My son is a HUGE Ratatouille fan. At the time I made this cake, we had just moved into a new house, there weren’t a huge number of resources for Ratatouille cake ideas (why didn’t I think of the Cheese Block???), so this Ratatouille cake is what we came up with, using what we had on hand. I baked my … Read more
This Mario Kart cake was a blast to do! I used a 10″ and 8″ cake pan and when I went to carve it out (this being the first time I carved a cake), I messed it up!! I ended up piecing it back together before covering it in fondant. Everything is edible. I made the … Read more
This cake was done for my husband’s birthday. Since he is quite small, pixie like! (his name is Tich) has recently got into gardening and The Hobbit seems all the rage at the moment here in Kenya I thought appropriate to make him this cake. The “Hobbit Hole” was a bit of a challenge and … Read more
Once I decided I wanted to try cake decorating, I took all the courses at my local craft store and then set out to learn as much as I could from web sites and cake forums. I was only making cakes for friends and family but really wanted a chance to donate them to charity … Read more
Bravada! I like to make cakes for my four little boys on their birthdays. I never get to spread my creative juices on girl themed cakes, so when I was asked by a friend to make a birthday cake for her 7 year old Brave fan…I decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity. Tash … Read more
This Jesse Toy Story Cake was one of the first cakes I made with a fondant figure. It is a two tiered chocolate cake with marshmallow fondant. After baking and leveling the cakes, I filled them, stacked them, and covered them in fondant using wooden dowels for the supports. Then I let the decorating take over! … Read more
My best friend’s daughter wanted a rainbow cake but I wanted to make it a little more for her. I made the rainbow, then a flat cake all green then made the castle b hind it with foam and then a Little Pony. She loved it. The rainbow was a little hard to keep it together but … Read more
I made a half sheet marble cake for my niece’s first birthday, her favorite cartoon is Yo Gabba Gabba. I frosted it with butter cream and made Foofa & Brobee with fondant. It was easy to shape them then cut out the flower for her head and collar and little circles for the eyes traced … Read more