I was asked to make a cake for a young lady turning 12 years old on 12/12/12. Her color theme for the party was pink and red, and she wanted rock candy somehow incorporated into the cake. I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do with this idea! After much thought, I … Read more
I found the recipe for this Candy Corn cake on a website that emails me recipes. I thought I would give it a shot and it actually turned out pretty good. I used 2 9 inch round cake pans with 1 box white cake mix. I iced both layers of the cake with chocolate icing and … Read more
I used a chocolate cake with homemade peanut butter frosting for icing. Then I made my own fondant from marshmallows and icing sugar. I then colored it with yellow and red food coloring and rolled it out. I also made yellow fondant for the letters. I made this cake for my sister. We didn’t have the chance to grow up together … Read more
To create this cake I mixed my cake mix and separated it into 5 bowls. With it being a skittles cake I felt the birthday boy needed to “taste the rainbow” feeling with the batter. I colored the batter red, yellow, green, blue and purple. Then placing a little batter at a time I created … Read more
This was the first homemade cake I have ever made beside putting batter in a cake pan and pouring frosting over when cool. I looked everywhere for a place that made a M & M cake as that was my son’s favorite thing ever at 2. I found not one company! So my mom and I took … Read more
This Pez cake was for my nephew who collects PEZ dispensers. I knew I wanted to make a PEZ cake so I looked on the internet for ideas and this is a cross between 2 cakes that I liked. I baked a half sheet cake and then cut a piece 6″ x about 16″ long. … Read more
This is my NFL Chocolate Marble Cake. Four layers of marble cake with chocolate icing, cookie sticks attached with icing around the cake, and a bag of M&M’s on top. On top of M&M’s are mini Snickers bites with NFL team logos! Black satin ribbon on the bottom with a Fleur de Lis representing the … Read more
Every year since my daughter was born 8 years ago now I have been making her birthday cake. Now I have two kids and love searching for the perfect party theme and then planning a birthday cake to go with it. The kids watch the construction which takes some time! This year I tried something … Read more
This Gumball Machine cake is an original creation I made for my son Zayden’s 5th Birthday. The day he was officially allowed to start chewing gum! I made the base of the machine from a cake baked in a 9×13 pan – trimmed to shape. I baked the bubble top cake in a Pyrex bowl. … Read more
I made this Twix Candy Bar Cake for a co-workers daughter, she loves Twix bars. I used vanilla sponge as the bottom layer, and chocolate sponge as the top layer. I wanted it to resemble a Twix bar when they cut into it. I used chocolate buttercream icing as a crumb coat. The cookies are … Read more
This was my third grandson, Andrews second birthday. My daughter always seems to come up with a different homemade cake recipe for Andrew’s cakes. For this one I found a picture of the M&M man. I made the M&M man out of fondant. It can be bought at the store and is like Play Dough. … Read more
My 3-yr-old son loves M&Ms and that’s the cake he wanted for his birthday. I got the idea from the other M&M character cake on this site submitted by Paula S. My cake turned out a bit flaky and it wasn’t sturdy enough to stand up, so I created a support out of folded cardboard … Read more