My son, now 8, was very specific about what he wanted the Mario Bros. Power-Up Mushroom Cake to look like. It had to be a Power-Up mushroom that stood up on the cake, not flat. I started by baking a 12×16 base cake. I iced that with green icing so it looked like grass. I … Read more
This Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake is my first attempt at a fondant cake. I took on the challenge when my son asked for the Super Mario Brothers theme and there was nothing to be found. I said sure I’ll try it so I watched some YouTube videos and dove right in. Did a test … Read more
This was my first attempt at a Super Mario Birthday Cake. My 4 year old son wanted a “Batman” party and at the last minute decided his cake should be Super Mario. I had a great time making this cake, and enjoyed all the “OMG…YOU made this cake?” at the party. I took a half … Read more
I made this Mario birthday cake for my nephew’s 7th birthday. I used a picture of Toad road from the game Mario Party 9 to help with design. The cake is a chocolate sponge with chocolate butter cream. I made a rectangle and a 7 inch round cake to create the shape and a 4 … Read more
This Super Mario Brother cake was made for my nephew. He loves Mario but we could not find a character pan. So I printed out a Mario cartoon I found on the internet. I enlarged the print to be slightly smaller than the base cake. I cut out the photo and laid it on a … Read more
This Companion Cube Cake from Portal Video Game is a normal sponge cake with chocolate butter icing filling and fondant icing covering. It took 2 and a half hours to prepare the sponge and finishing the cake with the icing took about 6 hours all together. Original picture of the companion cube from the computer … Read more
My son recently discovered Sonic the Hedgehog, and it is currently THE thing with his friends. So, when he asked for a Sonic the Hedgehog Birthday Cake, I stepped up to the task. The cake itself was crumb-coated in buttercream, then covered in white fondant and bordered in cream. The rings are made out of … Read more
I found out it was my friends birthday so I thought I would make him a special cake design. Yes, its a bit scrappy in places, but this is my first attempt and I didn’t copy another cake (obviously copied the face of Sonic…) It took me about two hours to bake the two cakes … Read more
This year my daughter asked for an Angry Birds Gone Wild Cake. I thought and thought, and this is what I came up with. The entire cake (each tier) is confetti cake – not from the box, homemade. I then made the two bottom tiers Topsy Turvy cakes. The next two tiers were made with … Read more
I made this Angry Birds chocolate birthday cake for my son and his friend who have just turned 6. The cake is gluten-free as my son has just been diagnosed with Celiac Disease. The cake contains buckwheat flour and ground almonds in place of regular flour. It was lovely for my son to be able … Read more
I made this Angry Birds cake for a friend’s son. This is a 11 x 15 marble sheet cake with pure white butter cream icing. I printed out coloring pages of the Angry Birds and then traced the image backwards onto wax paper with black piping gel. I flipped the wax paper over to transfer … Read more
This Boo cake was for my son’s 9th birthday. He had asked for a Halloween-ish cake, but I also knew his favorite avatar for his Mario games is “Boo,” so I decided on this character. This was also a Vegan cake (no animal products used). I used a 13″ round for the body and sculpted … Read more