These cakes were for my twin boys first birthday. The idea came from their Halloween outfits of a sock monkey. They were sock monkeys and won a contest for most original. Their Christmas ornaments for this year are sock monkeys and my sister made them actual sock monkeys for their birthday. So it came that … Read more
I made Bumblebee for my son Ian’s 4th birthday. This is the cartoon version. There are a ton of variations of a Transformer Bumblebee Cake. Each franchise has their own spin and subtle look. I used a loaf pan and baked a chocolate cake for almost twice the time recommended on the box. Then I … Read more
My son loves all things Transformers. He wanted an Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Design but NOT the robot version. He wanted a truck. I started with a very dense doctored cake mix. I made 1 13×9 and two loaf pans of the vanilla cake. I laid down the 13 x 9 as the base and … Read more
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!