This Cinderella carriage cake was made for a Charity fete last year which supports children with terminal or degenerative illnesses. It’s called “The Rainbow Children’s Trust”. I was approached by the organizer of the event, who asked if I would donate one of my “party cakes”. These are simply Victoria Sponges or coffee cakes – … Read more
I baked two chocolate 11″ loaf cakes for this Airplane Cake and carved them into the shape of the body of the plane. (I cut each loaf into two layers, sprinkled with cherry brandy and filled with cherry filling). I supported it with a piece of cardboard cut like a rectangle with a triangle on … Read more
This Airplane Birthday Cake was for my husband’s, a pilot, birthday. The base was two 9×13 layers of chocolate cake, filled with vanilla butter cream and maraschino cherries. The entire cake was covered in homemade blue marshmallow fondant, with clouds cut out of white fondant. I built a frame for the airplane out of thin … Read more
I love flowers. I don’t use cutters or templates (not that those are bad), I just try to see what I can do with very little tools. Anyway, thank you for looking.
This special construction birthday cake was created for my nephew’s first birthday. It is a two layer half sheet and a two layer 6-inch round white cake with strawberry and banana filling decorated with fondant. The roads were lined with piped butter cream grass. Two holes were carved into the top layer of the sheet … Read more
This Guitar cake, inspired by Eddie Van Halen and Guitar Hero, was for our eight year old son who’s recently mastered the Guitar Hero Series of games on Nintendo’s WII. The little monster plays the game on some type of HYPER speed with his back turned which makes me wonder what he will do with … Read more
I made this Barnyard Birthday Cake for a friend of mine at work who wanted her granddaughter to have a “Special Barn Cake”. I could have constructed the animals out of fondant but, the grandmother and I agreed she would enjoy playing with the animals,(made of plastic) more after, instead of eating them all up. … Read more
I made this flower cake as a ‘thank you’ to my daughter’s class mother. The cake it’s self was a homemade white cake. It was made in an 8″ spring form pan and then cut into 3 layers. The filling was lemon curd mixed with buttercream frosting. The cake was first covered with a cream … Read more
I made this Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake for my sister-in-law’s 50th birthday party. The skeleton of the cake was a PVC pipe that I used to support the neck and head. The body is made of vanilla sponge cake with a Bavarian creme filling, with a vanilla buttercreme crumb coat and covered in an ivory … Read more
This Homemade Camping Birthday Cake was designed for a double birthday party that had a camp out theme. Each of the birthday kids got to choose their favorite color for the tent and then I tried to make a likeness of them peeking out of through the tent flap. I also made a sign to … Read more
My Grandson wanted a ‘GI*Joe’ homemade army tank cake for his 7th birthday, so I found your site and started looking. I found lots of ideas from many different cakes and combined them with my own and came up with a cake that he absolutely loved. This was my first try at sculpting cake and … Read more
This whole Gift Box Cake is edible except for the real pearls. The box top is a cake, the bottom and the pillow are cakes also. The flowers are all made from fondant. This is my first gift box cake and I haven’t been working with fondant very long, this is the first time that … Read more