This Chinese Checkers cake was a lot of fun to make. A lot of gumballs and colored frosting. I made the cake rounds with fun-fetti cake and covered it completely in white frosting. I colored each section of the game board and let set. Once the cake had set, I used a gumball to make … Read more
I made this Ninjago Birthday Cake for my nephew’s son, who turned 6. He asked me if I could make this cake of Ninjas’s, which before now, had never heard of. So in doing research, I found “Ninjago.com”, which is a web site of this cartoon. So from there, I took his favorite Ninjas, and … Read more
I made this Lego Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s 5th birthday. He’s a huge Lego fan and I could tell trying to make and ice a big Lego piece might be a nightmare, so I found some silicone molds from eBay and legos.com and bought Wilton candy melts in red, green, blue and yellow. … Read more
We used cupcakes on top of a regular rectangular cake and frosted it all blue. James (the birthday boy) donated and built some Legos for his awesome Homemade Lego Birthday Cake!
Lego Cakes . . . FORGET USING THE MARSHMALLOWS or mini-muffins! I’ve decorated cakes for over 30 years and hold myself to a very high standard as far as to what my finished cakes look like. Buttercream-frosted marshmallow halves or mini-muffins just didn’t measure up! My Tip for Lego Birthday Cake? I removed UNSCENTED TEA … Read more
I made this cake TOTALLY from scratch. I made the cake vanilla on the bottom tier, chocolate on the middle tier and then 1/2 and 1/2 on the top tier. It helps when making this homemade littlest pet shop birthday cake to use different colors of food coloring dyes to make bold bright colors! It … Read more
This Little Pet Shop cake is one of many I’ve done. It’s so cute because a little girl saw one of my chocolate wedding cakes. She loved it so much that every time she came to my store she insist on walking by to show her family. So when her fifth birthday came up her … Read more
My son and I made this monopoly cake for a Cub Scout Father Son cake bake. He is a big monopoly fan so we decided to make a monopoly game board. The cake was made with rolled white fondant and different color fondant for the rest of the details. We had to make some of … Read more
For this homemade My Little Pony cake I did a frozen butter cream transfer. For best results use a butter cream recipe that is 1/2 butter to Crisco – it peels from wax paper easier. I got the picture off the internet and taped it to the back of a metal baking sheet. I then … Read more
This My Little Pony Cake was the first cake I ever made that was not completely a shaped pan. I did use the Wilton 3D duck shaped pan and an 11 X 14 sheet cake. After all the cakes had cooled, I mixed some green and yellow food coloring with buttercream icing for the base … Read more
For this cake design, my mom used a Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix and rented a Wilton Rocking Horse cake pan to make this cake. Instead of making a rocking horse though, we extended the legs of the horse to reach the bottom of the cake and turned the “rocker” into grass the pony was … Read more
This 9×13 My Little Pony birthday cake is easy to make. Freeze cake before you start. Simply cut out a triangle for the ear from the bottom of the cake and cut a slant off the top left corner. I used white frosting as a base over entire cake. The mouth is red shoestring licorice. … Read more