This cupcake tower was made for a massive fan of Harry Potter. It was her 21st. The hardest part about making this was the toppers. A few of them were pretty straight forward where as the others just wouldn’t work. The Golden Snitch for example, I made them on toothpick the first time but the next … Read more
This Cars 2 cake is made from 2-6 inch layers on top and 2-10 inch layers on the bottom. Wooden dowels are used in bottom layers to support the top and one long dowel down the center of all to keep top from sliding. The flavors were just vanilla cake with butter cream icing as requested by … Read more
When my little Emma was turning 4, everything in her world revolved around the newest Disney hit, Tangled! So, naturally, we got a little “tangled” up in party planning! We had a blast setting up the market place scene with flowers for the girls hair, a golden flower hunt in the bushes, and even an … Read more
I made this Agent P birthday cake for my son’s 7th birthday party!! He LOVES the Disney show Phineas and Ferb and really wanted a Perry or Agent P birthday cake. The cakes themselves were made in two deep 8 inch pans, and there is butter cream frosting in between them. The top part of the hat is a … Read more
My 2 year old niece is crazy about Sponge Bob. When ever she see anything Sponge Bob she starts dancing and singing Sponge Bob Square Pants. I asked her what birthday cake she wanted for her birthday and she said Sponge Bob Square Pants. So this is what I came up with. It is a … Read more
This Dora birthday cake was my first time using fondant. I didn’t know how to cover it with one sheet so I did it in sections and covered my seams, the top with icing, the center with fondant stars that I cut out with a cookie cutter. I just used bright colors and a Dora candle! … Read more
Finn McMissile was created and sculpted from a number of sponge layers made in a rectangular tin which measured 8 x 12 inches. The sculpting was fairly easy to do by following different pictures from different angles of Finn. The cake was then filled with a mixture of jam and butter cream and a crumb … Read more
This Miss Spider’s Sunnypatch Kids cake was my first attempt at fondant characters. It was much easier than I imagined it would be. My son had his heart set on a Miss Spider’s Sunnypatch Kids cake. I knew it would be a challenge, so I offered other ideas. Well, he wasn’t having it, so I broke … Read more
This Super Hero cake was for my son’s 4th birthday. He could not choose just one Super Hero so I incorporated a few in one cake. He loved it! I used 2 8 inch x 3 inch deep rounds. He chose chocolate cake with white butter cream frosting. The whole cake was covered in homemade fondant as … Read more
When movies come out my children change all previous planning for their birthdays. We had seen a cake similar to this, but had to create this from memory. This 006 birthday cake was pretty simple up until the “bomb”. I did do 3-8″ layers of white cake with chocolate filling to look more substantial white butter cream with … Read more
My 10 year old nephew loves Despicable Me and the Minions. His request for cake was a Minion! I used 4 – 8 inch round cakes, stacked, and one domed cake (made in Pyrex bowl) to make the Minion. I stacked them together and filled in the colors using an image from the movie. The hair, arms, … Read more
We are a “Disney” family and when my granddaughter decided she just had to have a Beauty and the Beast cake, I was torn on how to do it without violating Disney copyright. So what I did was create a “background” cake for the licensed characters to sit upon and around! The cake is a simple 8 … Read more