The cake mix was made in a 10″ round cake pan. This cake is sculpted into a strawberry shape and then iced with a thin layer of butter cream. Its covered with homemade butter cream rolled fondant. I then cut leaves out of fondant with cookie cutters. Creative cakes get many compliments!s covered with homemade … Read more
My daughter Lily adores “Georgie”. So for her second birthday party I baked her a four layered banana cake with cream cheese frosting. I decorated the sides of it with homemade banana flavored ladies finger cookies “spray painted” yellow. It was topped off with a figurine of Curious George sitting in green coconut “grass”. As … Read more
Carrot Cake has always been my favorite kind of cake. I decided to be silly and make it carrot shaped! I made half a recipe for carrot cake from a cookbook and baked it in an 8″x8″ pan. Once cooled I cut the cake in half and stacked it to make it 2 layers. I … Read more
For these types of creative cakes I use an airbrush to achieve this look.
My daughter wanted a coconut cake for her birthday while we were on vacation, so I did my best! She had a hula girl theme and wanted something to go with it-and frankly I’m glad she asked me to do a coconut instead of a hula girl. I made the cake in an oblong pan, … Read more
This cherry birthday cake was made for my brother-in-law’s birthday. The only fondant on this cake is the leaf and the shine spot on the side. It was supposed to be a cherry but ended up looking more like an apple. Oh well. It’s a cherry chip cake with cream cheese icing in the middle … Read more
My daughter’s birthday is in May and she was getting a bit bored with the usual cakes & parties. She was 11 and decided on a strawberry themed party – her favorite fruit. The strawberry cake is really simple, a sponge cake in a heart shaped tin. I then covered it in red fondant icing. … Read more
I wanted a strawberry theme for my daughter’s first birthday cake. I used a small heart pan to bake layers for the strawberry shape, stacked on top of cake layers from a basic 9×13 pan. I made both chocolate and white layers to please the variety of guests. The chocolate layers are a basic one-bowl … Read more
I made this apple cake for a teacher that I work with that was honored through our district as “Teacher of the Year”. I started with three eight inch round cakes (two chocolate and one vanilla) layered with chocolate ganache frosting with almonds. Once the cakes were stacked, I carved out the shape of an … Read more
I had some free time one day and decided to try out a recipe that had been lying around the house. The cake batter (vanilla egg-white-based) is squeezed out in ovals on a cookie sheet and baked, then cooled. For each “potato”, two oval cakes are held together with raspberry jam, then wrapped in almond … Read more
A friend wanted a 4th of July watermelon cake for him and his family. He’s diabetic so I made the small watermelon made with a diabetic cake recipe and the icing was half sugar and half splenda. They really enjoyed this cake.
This apple cake was made for a teacher’s birthday. The cake itself is one 9″ round cake topped with a medium sized Pyrex bowl of cake. I stacked the two together and trimmed down the edges to form the shape. I then took the shavings and laid them on top of the apple to create … Read more