For my daughter’s first birthday party I chose to make Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes. I got many great ideas and tips for this web site prior to starting my own variation. It was time consuming but well worth all the effort. I didn’t bake the cakes the day before but do recommend it if you … Read more
My son LOVES Lego’s, so of course I had to make him a Lego Birthday Cake. I got ideas from other cakes on this site, as well as some other websites and went from there. I used an 11 X 15 pan to bake the cake, cut it in half to make two Legos. Torted … Read more
I made this XBox cake for my, at the time, boyfriend. He really liked playing video games, and he’s favorite console was the XBOX 360 so I decided to bake this cake. First, I baked 3 rectangular cakes.Then I overlaped 2 of them (which would later be the console), I added the frosting (which is … Read more
I made this Xbox 360 Kids Birthday Cake for a friend of my son whose birthday party was at a game lounge. He loves his Xbox, too! First I measured our Xbox to try to get the cake to be about the same size. Then I baked a sheet cake and cut out the shape … Read more
My son wanted a Homemade Playstation Birthday Cake for his 11th birthday. This was the first time I used fondant (usually used buttercream on my cakes) and boy had I wished I used gloves, the black dye made a huge mess! Its a yellow cake with chocolate icing, covered in black dyed font, all is … Read more
I got my idea from birthday cake ideas for kids on this web site. My son just turned 18 and I wanted to do something really special. The game console was the easiest. Just two layered cakes with buttercream and plain white fondant. I used coloring to get the grey sides and buttons and just … Read more
This Belle cake was made using the Wilton’s wonder mold pan. Because I used an actual Belle Barbie, I also had to put a 8 inch cake under the wonder mold pan to cover all of her legs and hips. The ruffles on the bottom were made alternately using tips 16 and 18 to build … Read more
I made this Homemade Princess Belle Cake for my girlfriend’s nineteenth birthday. To make this Belle cake, I used three different size, round cake pans, layering them up from biggest to smallest before carving the shape of her dress. The Belle doll was a ballerina Belle doll that I found at Walmart for about five … Read more
I made this Belle birthday cake for my friend’s daughter’s birthday and I think it turned out great. I have only used fondant once before and decided to give it another try on this cake. I learned a lot while making this and, next time, hope to be a better dress designer with sugar! I … Read more
I baked this Little Mermaid cake in a Longaberger batter bowl. I added a cupcake on the side (cut a little to fit with the cake) to give me a place for the 3 and to take away from the “dress” look. I took the legs of the doll (and they won’t go back on!!I … Read more
My niece is in love with Ariel so she wanted to have an Ariel cake. I made the sea creatures out of fondant. The bottom cake is an oval and the top is a round cake. I used buttercream icing on the rest. Everything on the Little Mermaid Cake except Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian are … Read more
My daughter was turning 3 and wanted a Little Mermaid cake so I did a couple of searches and found one to copy. This cake so so easy and turned out so cute. I used 1 cake mix and baked half in a round pan and the other in a mixing bowl (pampered chef). Then … Read more