I made this Homemade PS3 Birthday Cake for my brother’s 27th birthday. I baked two 9″x11″ rectangular cakes (it was a small cake, not the PS3’s actual size)one on top of the other with black buttercream frosting as filling. All four sides were cut so it would have the square corners and flat sides but … Read more
I learned a lot from this Homemade Lego Star Wars Cake Design but mostly about Star Wars. I started by researching the movies, characters and famous scenes that played out. I started with the fondant characters a week in advance because I knew they would take a while. I find MMF doesn’t dry hard enough … Read more
In creating this Playstation2 console cake, I baked a simple 9×13 white/chocolate cake. I used black food coloring to create the icing. Once the frosting was smoothed on (using a butter knife and a little water) I used blue/green frosting to write the PS2 on the top. The controller was a little more difficult. I … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday which was Disney Princess. I used a Pyrex bowl and 2 round pans. It took two cake mixes, one for the bowl and one for the round pans. Once the cakes were baked and cooled, I used butter cream icing to stack the round cakes and … Read more
After spending hours gazing at all the glorious Belle cakes here on Coolest Birthday Cakes, I decided to try my hand at making my own Belle Birthday Cake. This was the second time I’ve used the Wilton Wonder Mold and I’ve learned to use 2 cake mixes to achieve the right size. (Note: This will … Read more
I went on Coolest-Barbie-Cakes to get ideas and just from that designed my own Princess Belle Birthday Cake. I went and bought the Wilton Barbie Cake Mold and made that, then cooled it. Frosted it with Wilton Icing then colored the fondant and laid it on the cake, then cut a small hole at the … Read more
This was my first non-rectangle cake. I was inspired by many similar cakes on the web. My Little Mermaid cake took it’s shape from a 10″ round pan and an 8 Cup Pyrex measuring cup. After baking the cakes (350 for the round and 325 for the Pyrex)I first decorated the bottom half, the ocean. … Read more
This Little Mermaid Birthday Cake was made for my niece. I used a pudding basin for the base, and misshaped it to look more like a rock. I used a Barbie doll with her legs removed, and used lolly sticks in place to secure into the cake. I made the tail, using her legs as … Read more
I made this Little Mermaid Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 7th birthday party. This is my first cake. The mermaid tail is fondant, all the rocks are edible candy and the sand I made from cinnamon graham crackers.
I created this Snow White cake for a friend’s daughter’s 5th birthday. I used a Snow White doll she provided. I baked the skirt using the Wilton Doll pan and the base using the Wilton 12″ round pan. I used three Pillsbury strawberry cakes with an extra egg & 1/4 cup flour per cake and … Read more
I made this Princess and the Frog Birthday Cake for my baby’s fifth birthday. She loves princess Tiana! I made Princess Tiana and Prince Neve out of gumpaste about a month in advance. I then made the frogs and the alligator as well as the flowers out of gumpaste a couple of days in advance. … Read more
Many of my daughter’s friends had just had princess cakes, so I really wanted to do something different for her fourth birthday. Not sure where I got the original Mermaid Birthday Cake Design from, but I looked through all the mermaids on this site to collect ideas for what I had in mind – thanks … Read more