This cake was a trial cake I made in preparation for my nieces birthday. I wanted to see how it might turn out. I made a regular boxed chocolate cake and then iced it with Wilton’s chocolate butter cream icing. I then found a Bratz picture on the internet which I enlarged and then traced … Read more
I have always wanted to make a doll cake for my daughter, but she is not what you would call a “Barbie girl.” She does, however love the Monster High dolls and Web cartoon. So this year I decided to make a Rochelle Goyle from Monster High doll cake for her. New dolls that she … Read more
My daughter requested a Polly Pockets Cake for her 6th birthday. All the ideas I found on the internet were pool or summer themed, and didn’t seem appropriate for a February birthday. While I was at Joann’s buying icing coloring, I saw a Wilton’s “Stand-Up House Pan”, and inspiration struck. First, I used two cake … Read more
I made this Bionicle Mask Cake for my son’s seventh birthday. He loves Bionicles. They are a Lego toy that has a whole story line along with buildable figures, video games, comic books, and even movies. They are very detailed figures, so I focused on the face mask. I first rolled out a large piece … Read more
A friend of mine decided to test my cake skills, and requested a Candy Land Birthday Cake. She had so many suggestions but I told her “I got it”. Her suggestions had nothing to do with the actual game board. I bought bags and bags of candy not knowing exactly what I was going to … Read more
I made this Candyland birthday cake for a friend. Her daughter was turning 4 and wanted a Candyland birthday party. The cake was a half of a sheet white cake with buttercream frosting. I used candy canes, starburst, suckers, marshmallows, peppermints, spice drops, ice cream cones, candy hearts, smarties, Recees’s cups, and a tootsie roll … Read more
I followed a cookbook recipe exactly on how to make this cake – and only when I was done did I realize that the cookbook is wrong. Basically the right way is to bake a 9″ square cake, frost it in white and then place After Eight mints in a check board pattern. The last … Read more
My son wanted a LEGO Party for his 8th birthday and then said he wanted a cake like the Cake Boss from the TLC show. I knew there was no way I could make his kind of cake, those are some big shoes to fill, but I did the best I could by making this … Read more
This Homemade Lego Man Birthday Cake was a labour of love. My friend needed a cake for her nephew, and so after finding out that he loves Lego, we decided to try our hand at a Lego Man cake. I had never worked with fondant before, so this would be a first for me. The … Read more
This is a homemade Lego birthday cake I made for my 8 year old sons birthday.
I made this Star Wars Lego cake for a friend’s son’s 9th Birthday. He loved both Star wars and Lego. I had the picture transferred to rice paper, and then made a 12×12″ cake. I smooth iced the top, then using 4 different colours I piped the blocks on the side of the cake, finishing … Read more
My daughter loves the Littlest Pet Shop ladybug – which we had quite some difficulty getting hold of for her birthday last year. This year she decided she wanted a littlest pet shop ladybug cake – she doesn’t ask for much! I had a long think about how I was going to achieve a passable … Read more