For my son Jack’s eighth birthday party he wanted an Angry Bird Theme. I had seen a lot of cakes online with scenes of the Angry Birds using candy and plastic figures from the game but he wanted his cake to be just the red bird. Unfortunately, none of my children enjoy the taste of … Read more
This Donkey Kong Bowling Cake was my 6th cake to make. It is a plain white cake with buttercream under marshmallow fondant. I printed out a picture that I wanted to use for the cake and then drew on the picture so I could use it to cut the cake to scale. I used a … Read more
My granddaughter wanted a Piplup cake for her 10th birthday. I have never heard of the character, so I search for other Piplup cakes and images. I could not find one that really excited me, so I made my own. I used to 9 inch round cake to make 3 cakes. One for the head, … Read more
For my son’s 5th birthday, he wanted a Mario Brothers Birthday Party. There were no decorations or anything at the store, so we came up with everything ourselves. I Googled a few options and found lots of great ideas for a Mario Bros cake, but nothing I felt I could replicate on my own. We … Read more
This cake was made for my son’s 7th birthday party. We looked at all the ones listed here and took ideas from several we liked and compiled them into one cake. I am not experienced with fondant so I wasn’t ready to tackle an entire cake of fondant. I used two 9″ rounds for the … Read more
My thirteen year old wanted a Mario Hat Birthday Cake for his birthday so I decided to go with a fondant covered cake to get that smooth look. I first made four 8 inch round cakes from two cake mixes. I made them the day before because they had to be completely cool before cutting … Read more
I made this Homemade Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake for my son’s 8th birthday. I got my inspiration from several other pictures of cakes I found online and combined the things I liked and thought I could do. I bought all of the Mario figures from eBay. I think you can find some at stores … Read more
My son’s 4th Birthday and he is crazy about Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Birthday Cake is made of Aldi Brand Chocolate Cake, covered in Frosting from Coles. Pipe is made out of same mix but cut to shape. Covered in dyed plastic icing. I just rolled in green dye into icing. I have … Read more
This Mario Brothers Birthday Cake is a vanilla cake with buttercream icing. The photo was printed on my copy machine that has food coloring ink and edible sugar paper. The birthday boy was very excited to see it!
I made this Super Maria brother cake for a co-workers son’s birthday using the Wilton pan that I purchased on EBay. It was my first character cake so I was a little worried about how it would turn out. It was actually quite simple, just difficult to get the right colors. Of course my boyfriend … Read more
This Portal Companion Cube cake is a triumph… For those of you who don’t spend hours of your life gaming, Portal is a computer game in which you wake up as a test subject in the Aperture Science facility. In order to escape (and receive cake), you have to go through a series of rooms, … Read more
I made this Sonic the Hedgehog Birthday Cake for my son who was turning 12, and who is crazy about Sonic! To begin, I used my Betty Crocker Cookbook to make the cake homemade. I used a large cake pan, about 12×16. I made two cake batters so that the cake would be thick enough … Read more