I saw this My Little Pony House Cake on Debbie Brown’s book “Lovable Characters Cakes” and fell in love with it instantly. By coincidence the daughter of a friend of mine wanted me to do her a cake with a My Little Pony theme and therefore I made it for her. I baked 2 23cm … Read more
This homemade My Little Pony winter wonderland cake was for my daughter’s 5th birthday. The tiers are 6” & 12”. The sides are iced in pink & purple buttercream and the tops are iced in white buttercream and sprinkled with a combination of sparkling sugar and disco dust. The board is iced in white buttercream … Read more
My little pony birthday cake was made using three Butter Cake quantities cooked in a deep slab tin. The outline was chosen by my five year old daughter. All the icing is Vienna Cream. The eye is self drawn and colored and stuck onto plastic then put onto cake. Mane and Tail is Vienna cream … Read more
This is a Nerf Gun Cake I made for my son’s 7th birthday. He is crazy about guns. This is only my second fondant cake. I prefer to make my own marshmallow fondant, it’s cheaper and easier to work with. I made a 9×13 yellow cake, sliced it horizontally and frosted the center. I wrapped … Read more
My son wanted to host a pinball birthday party, so of course we needed a pinball machine cake! There weren’t a lot of examples on-line, and those I did find were covered with a lot of fondant. I didn’t think that 5 year old’s would appreciate the taste of fondant, so we made up our … Read more
My son is mad about his Tamagotchi and asked for a Tamagotchi cake for his birthday. I baked a chocolate cake in a large rectangular tin and then cut the shape out using a template. I copied the design of my son’s Tamagotchi by covering with blue sugar paste icing, a grey square for the … Read more
My son loves Tranformers, especially the character Bumblebee. I have always made him creative birthday cakes and I wanted to try using fondant icing this time. It turned out good and was surprisingly easy to work with. The Transformer Bumblebee Cake was shaped as a yellow Chevy Camaro with two black racing stripes. The cake … Read more
I started this Transformers Optimus Prime Coolest Cake with baking a half-sheet cake, covered it in butter cream and white fondant for the base. Ground Oreo crumbs made the road, and strips of yellow fondant held the crumbs in place. I printed out pictures of the “Autobot” and “Decepticon” Logos, traced and cut them on … Read more
My son had asked for an Optimus Prime cake, (leader of the Transformers), for his fifth birthday. I knew I wanted to created a cake that was very three dimensional but was unsure how I could support the structure, as it turned out the head was quite light weight and only needed 2 wooden BBQ … Read more
My son has been obsessed with Transformers since his last birthday. So I knew this year his cake had to be a Transformers cake. I blew up a picture of the deception symbol and cut it out. I then placed it on the cake and cut around it. I then iced the entire cake with … Read more
This caterpillar birthday cake was for my son’s 1st birthday, because he loves Baby Einstein. I premade 2 batches of marshmallow fondant- one regular and one with cocoa added. I dyed the regular MMF using Wilton gel colors a day or so before, so it would be ready to go. I baked one cake with … Read more
This Baby Einstein Caterpillar Birthday Cake was such fun to make! This was a half sheet cake, white and devils food cake. I used a royal icing for the entire cake. I used the mini ball pan for the ladybug and caterpillar. I cut off about 1/4 of the ball to help it look better … Read more