I made this Rapunzel Tower cake for my eldest daughter’s 6th birthday in December. She just loves the Disney movie Tangled, so we decided together on the Rapunzel Tower for her cake, although I did manage to keep her from seeing it until her actual party. The tower was white choc mud cake, which I cut … Read more
I decided I would make a few cakes here and there to occupy my time now my little man has gone off to preschool a couple of days a week. I have been teaching myself off YouTube on the basic how too’s. I was asked by a friend to have a go at a Hootabelle cake for … Read more
Really? Is the youngest Hott really turning eight? Well, he is. And here is what Levi wanted to do to celebrate this 8th birthday. With two older sisters coming before him, I must admit that I was a bit unfamiliar with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Until now! Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello arrived to … Read more
For this Dr Seuss cake I used a 10″ round (3 layers) and decorated it with butter cream. For the tree tops, I used tip 233 making a swirl pattern in pastel colors to look like the trees in The Lorax. I used foam pieces covered in paper to create the Dr. Seuss books which worked as a support to hold the hat. The hat and fish bowl … Read more
My son wanted a Ninja Turtle birthday party so I let him pick a picture online of what he wanted the cake to look like. I was hoping he would pick just one character but he wanted all four! I started by making the cake (which I bought a cake mix from the store) the … Read more
My niece wanted a fun Rapunzel birthday cake, so I started my hunt for ideas online. I made a Rapunzel cake for my daughter two years before, so I had a few ideas already up my sleeve. I knew I needed to sturdy up my tower because my daughter’s was made of ice cream cones … Read more
Using a Dolly Varden Tin I made the head for the Owl birthday cake – nothing fancy just a standard supermarket packet cake. The challenge was to make it balance on a smaller upside down Dolly Varden Tin – this got too hard….so I used a small bowl covered in the icing and placed the cake … Read more
A school friend of mine, asked me to make a “Real Tinkerbell”’ cake for her daughter’s 3rd Birthday! REAL, meaning the girl did not want any fake fairies or dolls (who are not Tinkerbell) on her cake, she wanted a fairy that looked exactly like the Real Tinkerbell! I tried finding a plastic figurine, but this being … Read more
The first thing I always do when designing a birthday cake is to look at lots of ideas and then put together my favorite parts and sketch out my design. Then I make a plan….for this Care Bears cake I needed a way to support the fondant rainbows, so I asked my husband to cut and bend … Read more
At first my daughter asked for a winter themed birthday cake but given the fact she is a fan of Stewie (Family Guy) I added the FG figurines to the cake. I baked the cake in a 12” rectangular pan, vanilla cake for both the base cake and the little house. I made a raspberry filling for … Read more
I was asked to make a Hunger Games cake for a friend. I did tons of research and decided on just replicating the book. But in much larger scale. I was really worried about making the Mockingjay pin that goes on the front because that is a lot of sculpting, which I don’t really do. … Read more
“Fairies and pirates, pixie dust and buried treasures… how do I capture that in a cake?” That was all I could think of in my jet lagged, exhausted head. My daughter’s 4th birthday party was 3 days away, and I had just landed after a 24h flight, and was devising a strategy on how to prepare … Read more