I made this homemade birthday Lego cake for a boy who turned 5 and adores Legos. Everything about this cake was homemade. I used two 9×13 moist yellow cake from scratch. I made homemade buttercream for filling. This is not the best icing to color if you want a vibrant color. Then to frost the … Read more
I followed the instructions for the “anatomically correct” lego cake. I cut a 9X13 sheet cake into thirds and layered them. For the squares, I cut the thirds in half. Very simple, just time-consuming. Baking and freezing the cakes ahead of frosting works well, and allows you lots of time and energy for the frosting … Read more
I made this homemade Lego cake for my nephew’s birthday. I used loaf pans with an entire box cake mix in each pan. I baked them at 315F for about 70 minutes. I built a 4-legged structure under the middle block that connects the two blocks, then I put 2 legs on that cross-plank up … Read more
I wanted to make a Lego cake for our son’s 10th Birthday. We experimented with a single sheet cake with cupcakes on top and then just plain old icing. It was OK but thought we could do better. We have always wanted to work with fondant but we always thought it was difficult to work … Read more
My granddaughter is enthralled with Little Pet Shop critters. She asked me to bake a cake in the shape of one of the monkeys and provided me with 2″ round stickers to pick from. Based on a 2″ round ‘girl’ monkey sticker, I created the cake from two 10″ round pans and two round muffin-type … Read more
I did this Homemade Littlest PetShop Cottage Birthday Cake for my niece’s 7th Birthday. She loves the Littlest PetShop toys and wanted that to be the theme of her cake. She actually saw a cake on your website that she loved and I used it as my guide. I baked two 13 x 9 (Butter … Read more
My 6 year old daughter has a huge collection of these “Littlest Pet Shop” pets. So we decided that we would make a cake around that theme. Well there is virtually nothing out there for this theme at least no such ideas for childrens cakes that I could find, so I gave it a shot … Read more
Driven by my 3 year old’s obsession with the Toy Story movies (includes sleeping with a Mr. Potato Head each night), we decided to make his party with a Toy Story theme. So, trying to be somewhat practical I thought that Mr. Potato Head would be the easiest to re-create. I started this Homemade Mr. … Read more
I made this Rainbow cake, My Little Pony-Rainbow Dash, along with another My Little Pony-Pinkie Pie (also posted) with the retired Precious Pony cake pan by Wilton, which you can either rent from a local bake shop or buy on sites such as eBay. The cakes were made for a 4 year old girl’s birthday … Read more
My just turned 4 yr old wanted a Rainbow Dash cake, so I took the picture from her Memory game and worked from there. I made ‘paper cakes’ from copier paper and laid them out, drew the template on them and adjusted accordingly. I ended up using 4 9×13 cakes and 4 8″ rounds, so … Read more
I have a friend who has a 4 year old and My Little Pony is her theme for her Birthday party. This Pinkie Pie My Little Pony cake was made with the Wilton Precious Pony cake pan (retired pan-can usually get on eBay or local bake shops to rent). I used a darker pink for … Read more
For this cake, I prepared a regular Chocolate cake and cut it in the shape of a horse using a blown up horse picture (I printed it on 2 A4 papers and pasted them together to create a horse in the size of the baking pan I was using). I covered the cake with whipped … Read more