Cool Rock Candy Cake

Cool Rock Candy Cake

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

Coolest Candy Corn Cake

Coolest Candy Corn Cake

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

Reese’s Peanut Butter Package Cake

Reese's Peanut Butter Package Cake

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

Sweetest Skittles Birthday Cake

Sweetest Skittles Birthday Cake

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

Must-Have M&M Cake for a 2nd Birthday

Must-Have M&M Cake for a 2nd Birthday

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

Coolest Peanut M&M Birthday Cake

Homemade Peanut M&M Birthday Cake

This was my first attempt at making something other than the standard two layer, eight inch round cake for a birthday cake. I made this Peanut M&M Birthday Cake for one of the vice president’s of the company I used worked for. He kept a jar of peanut M&Ms on his desk, so I decided … Read more

Coolest Gumball Machine Cake

Homemade Gumball Machine Cake

I got the idea for a Gumball Machine Cake from a friend and the recipe from a cake magazine (I forget what it was called) she had. With ideas from the internet and the cake magazine recipe, I made the cake to my liking. I used a 9in round and a 9in square pan for … Read more

Coolest M And M Cake

Homemade M&M Cake

I made this M&M cake for a co-worker who loves M&Ms. I used a the ball shaped pan and made cupcakes. I iced the ball cake with buttercream and chilled it. While it was still cold, I covered it with green fondant. The arms and legs also were made ahead of time out of fondant. … Read more

Coolest M&Ms Cake

Homemade M&Ms Cake

I made this homemade M&Ms cake for my brother-in-law’s birthday. He LOVES M&Ms candy. The cake is a three layer cake. It is then iced over with any type icing (but enough that the candy will stick to it). Around the homemade M&Ms cake are Kit-Kats which are “glued on” by the icing itself. After … Read more

Coolest Chocolate Bar Cake

Coolest Chocolate Bar Cakes

I used a homemade cake recipe and a rectangle baking container to bake this cake. I melted chocolate in ice cube trays and then covered the cake with melted chocolate. Drew a giant label on the computer and wrote the name of the birthday person.

Coolest Almond Joy Cake

Homemade Almond Joy Cake

This Almond Joy cake was made for my mom who just adores the Almond Joy candy bar! I was happy it turned out so easy to make! I first started out making a rectangle cake (I went with a half cake- 12×18 pan). While that was baking I whipped up a batch of marshmallow fondant … Read more