My granddaughter is totally hooked on Street Dancing, she enters competitions through out the year, part of her dance outfit is a baseball cap. In December 2012, I took a 4 hour cake decorating course in which I decorated a Christmas Cake. I must admit it did come out really well. Now my family think I am an … Read more
This fishing nightmare cake was created for my father; he came up from Florida to visit. My sister asked me to make a cake with a fishing theme. He loves to go out fishing with his brothers. It was a last minute cake for me, originally it was supposed to be a boat and a … Read more
You will need 2 cake mixes for this guitar birthday cake (I used more elaborate cakes because all the time they take). Bake a big cake and a 9 inch round cake. I used a template and cut out the pieces after freezing for a couple hours. The hardest part about this cake is that … Read more
For my daughter’s 13th birthday she requested a very difficult dragon cake. I said to her perhaps choose something a little easier, so she asked for a cake in the shape of an ice-block. The cake was relatively easy, the hardest part was cutting the chocolate fondant for the top of the cake. And yes … Read more
Friends were having a BBQ and I had seen these cute cupcakes in a magazine. Theme was perfect for the day so I decided to make these BBQ cupcakes. I had an arrangement of little hamburgers, hot dogs with buns, then hot dogs kabobs and pork chops on the “grill” and the campfire with some … Read more
You know all us girls never grow up and give up our Barbie dolls. When I was asked to bake a friend’s daughter’s 21st cake I jumped at the chance to make a Barbie birthday cake. Having never made a doll cake, I was frightened in case it looked like a toilet doll, you know … Read more
This Cars 2 birthday cake was done within a three day notice. The theme was Cars 2 and flavor was strawberry banana with strawberry filling. I wanted everything to be edible so I stared off with two 10X2 inch cakes which makes total 10×4 inch and two 6×2 inch cakes for total of 6×4 inch. The hardest … Read more
This was an amazing attempt of the famous Spiderman upper torso cake. It was a request for my friend’s son who turned 8 years old. I wanted to something creative rather than a decorative two tier cake and I thought this was much easier and fun! The body consisted of two 10×2 inch cakes and … Read more
I made this red devil cake in a number 6 shape with alien cupcakes for my 6 year old’s birthday. Got the idea of the number 6 devil from the Australian Women’s Weekly cake book. 1. To make the number 6 cake, I used my favorite butter cake recipe to bake x2 cakes – x1 ring pan and x1 loaf tin cakes. I shaped … Read more
I decided to copy the Hoot puppet my son has, he loved Hoot. I made Hoot’s head using the Wilton sports ball pan for his body and ended up using a large jam sponge roll, but if I was to do it again I would use a loaf tin and cut down to size and round. I … Read more
So this cake was for my mothers 60th birthday. It was a two layer gluten free chocolate cake with raspberry jam filling and covered in blue fondant. The figure is made entirely of fondant and I made to look like my mother. The banner is also made of fondant. I used a box mix for the cake … Read more
I made a Blue’s Clues birthday cake for my grandchild’s 2nd birthday. I used a white cake mix and baked it in two round pans. Cool the cakes on a cooling rack and freeze. Freezing the cake makes it easier to cut out the shape from the template. I made a template the shape of … Read more