I was all set to make my soon-to-be 9 year old a Spongebob cake when we went to pick out his balloons for the party. He told me “Spongebob is for babies”. Oh boy, better think of something else, and fast! Video games! Angry birds! Surprise! It was much easier to make than I thought. … Read more
Every year I ask my son, “What kind of birthday do you want?” and almost instantly regret it. I love making cakes, but I am no expert; I have no training of any kind and some of the designs I come up with are quite difficult, though I’m not experienced enough to know it. But … Read more
For my son’s 8th birthday I decided to make his favorite Angry-Birds! He loves to play the game with his great-grandfather on the iPad. I made two sheet cakes, yellow and devils food. After icing, I used a store bought aerosol icing spray to tint the top green like grass. I then started constructing the main … Read more
My son wanted an Angry Bird cake for his birthday last year. I thought, “piece of cake! I’ll go to the store and ORDER one!” Boy, was I surprised to find out that our supermarket had absolutely nothing in their cake design book for Angry Birds! But they were SOOOO popular, how can that be??? … Read more
I received an order for a sonic themed birthday cake for a little boy. Knowing that I always do some sort of character themed cake for this person I hunted the internet. Finally finding a sonic head cake I decided to do this cake. I made three 9″ round cakes. Two of them would be … Read more
Here’s a cool Dragonvale cake I made for my daughter’s best friend’s 10th birthday party. My daughter’s friends are always ‘ooh’ing and wow’ing’ over the customized theme cakes that I make for my daughter’s birthday parties, so I promised to make one for her best friend this year. I like to create cakes from imagination, based … Read more
My daughter wanted a Super Mario Galaxy birthday party. I had to get creative with the party because they do not have this specific Mario theme of party supplies. Yoshi was made out of a Wilton Ball pan. I covered him with fondant. The cake is black buttercream and I smeared some purple, turquoise, etc … Read more
I had a request to make a Super Mario themed cake of just Mario’s head. I looked on Google for some ideas. I used a 10″ round cake for the head and another 10″ cake to form the hat. Then I used cupcakes to form the rest of the face, like the chin, and another … Read more
My son loves Minecraft, especially Stampycat. So a homemade Minecraft birthday cake was the only way to go for his birthday. We bought two store-made half sheet cakes and then cut off one end of both to turn it into a perfect square (because everything in Minecraft is square.) We also bought a ton of … Read more
I made this Minecraft Creeper cake for my son’s 10th birthday. I think you can use this method for any type of Minecraft face. I hope you find this useful… How to Make the Minecraft Creeper Cake Bake a 20x20cm (8″x8″) square cake. Then cool, cut off the top, turn it upside down onto a … Read more
My niece asked for a Pokémon cake for her 6th birthday, so I sat down with her and looked at several pictures of cakes to get an idea for what she wanted on it. Two things stood out, Pikachu, and Pokeballs. I decided to try making Pokeball cake pops, which didn’t turn out very pretty, but … Read more
Well I guess for a complete and utter amateur I do alright. I browsed about 10,000 photos of Minecraft sword cakes when my eight year old son, Bubba, made sure to tell me he wanted the Diamond one. I saved about three varieties to my computer, made a list and then went shopping. I browsed … Read more