This Angry Birds cake is the cake for my mum’s 40th birthday made by me and my partner Chris. It’s the night before her birthday and we throw together a quick sponge cake with a chocolate butter cream filling. We bought a ton of ready roll icing as we were already cutting it short and … Read more
This homemade Penguin Club birthday cake was made for Lauren’s 8th birthday. She wanted a winter scene for her penguins. It includes an edible igloo, trees, and 4 penguin figures purchased at the toy store.
This Zelda’s Ocarina of Time cake was created using 2 13×9 devil food cake layers. I started on the decorations about 5 days prior to baking the cake. Everything is 100% edible! The shield and Link were the most time consuming and were created by printing the pictures out onto card stock. I would then … Read more
One of my grandson’s was getting ready to celebrate his 6th birthday. He requested I make him Blue Toad for his cake. This was great fun. My grandchildren love to see if I can meet their requests, yet have to make sure they are tasty too. I made two Dora Explorer cakes, one layer chocolate … Read more
My 12 year old son wanted a homemade Mario birthday cake. I didn’t want to spend $80 for a retired pan on eBay. After looking at pictures on-line I decided a cake of just his face would be pretty simple as it’s basically just a round shape. I bought a 12″x2″ round pan and just … Read more
I know fondant is popular but I still love making the cakes form pure buttercream. This Super Mario Cake is simply a big 10″ round cake pan for the base, frosted red, the bottom of the giant cupcake pan for the mushroom base, and half a ball pan for the top of the mushroom. I … Read more
I made this Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake for my nephew who requested a Mario cake for his 7th birthday. The party was on a Friday afternoon so I needed a simple design that didn’t require sculpting and baking a lot of different cakes, etc. so I decided to just make a sheetcake and keep … Read more
I began this Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake Design by finding an image of Mario that was clear and easy to trace. I printed it IN MIRROR IMAGE on my computer and taped it to my kitchen counter. I placed a sheet of wax paper on top and taped it to the counter too (between … Read more
This Super Mario Bros Cake is the birthday cake we made for our Super Mario besotted son Rory for his 6th Birthday, he loved it so much he didn’t want anyone to eat it!. It was a lot of work but actually not as difficult as it appears at first glance. The idea was to … Read more
I let my kids tell me what kind of birthday cakes they wanted this year and my 23 year old told me she wanted a Mario Bros. cake since they are all into the “retro” video games at college now! I used regular boxed cake mixes for the 8″ rounds for the base of the … Read more
I made two 8″ rounds and stacked them for the head of this Super Mario brother. I made another 8″, cut it in half and then cut out an oval shape from the bottom to make the top of the hat. I used the left over middle to make the brim of the hat. I … Read more
I created this Moshi Monster Coolio cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday, she wanted a Moshi Monster themed birthday party. I used various shapes and assemble together the cake as he is a soft serve icecream character. For the base I used a pudding bowl half full for the cone part, then I used a … Read more