My son wanted a transformers birthday party theme. I used several different cakes from this site for ideas. He knew he wanted the Transformer cake to be half autobot and half decepticon logos, so I made them similar to the ones I liked the most on some other cakes on this site. He also liked … Read more
I was asked by a friend to make an Optimus Prime cake for his birthday. I was up for the challenge. I printed off an Optimus prime sketch from the internet then used that as my guide while I carved the shape of his body out. I then piped the appropriate colors on his body … Read more
This caterpillar cake was for my kids 4 & 5 birthday party! and being a single dad for this one I wanted to make it special this year. So I created this cake and it was 7 cakes and 14 tubs of icing but they loved it! I have never made a cake like this … Read more
This Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake is the first cake I’ve ever made on request for someone other than friends or family. This baby Einstein caterpillar cake was made for 1 year old Cole. I made it with 3 different cake mixes (white, chocolate, strawberry) where each box of standard, buy at the grocery store, cake … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I found this site and was inspired by the other Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes. This is my take on it! Two Wilton Ball pans, 5 cake mixes and 4 hours of icing. The tail and feet are halves of iced Twinkies, his antennae are Twizzlers. I drew the eyes and … Read more
For this lizard Baby Einstein cake, I baked a cake in a 9×11 pan and one in a heart-shaped pan using a vanilla cake mix. I also made a batch of rice krispie treats using a very deep pan to mold them in. Any of the yellow parts of the lizard you see are rice … Read more
On my sons 1st birthday, my wife really wanted a special birthday cake. She came up with the idea of a Baby Einstein theme and wanted the Baby Einstein caterpillar cake. I insisted on making the cake and used the caterpillar from the video as a guide. I wanted it 3 dimensional so I used … Read more
My little guy loves Baby Einstein videos so I knew it would be the theme for his first birthday. I thought the caterpillar would be the easiest character to make into a Baby Einstein cake using the Wilton Dome pan (4 to a pan). I used two boxes of cake mix and for 8 domes … Read more
I used a 14″ diameter circular shaped cake pan and 2 cake box mixes for the baby Einstein caterpillar cakes (I used white & chocolate cake mixes for a mixed cake). The cake was a hit and everybody loved the icing and caterpillar!
This Homemade Lego Head Cake is super simple!! I used my son’s Lego Head storage container as my model. I used two boxes of store-bought cake baked into four 9″ round cake pans. I stacked them on top of each other using homemade chocolate icing as my glue. I iced the cake with store-bought white … Read more
What can I say, it’s an Xbox cake! We make a variety of cakes for the school and this is one of the them. The cake walk is a big deal in our family and a lot of thought goes into which cakes to do. We love it! We use fondant for any of the … Read more
This Wii Birthday Cake Design was my first cake made with marshmallow fondant. I made two square cakes, and layered them, then made a couple more square cakes to carve the remotes and joy stick remote, made the fondant and covered it. I looked at my son’s actual Wii to make all the details. The … Read more