This is my daughter’s Wheel of Wow Webkinz Cake for her 10th birthday party. With the right supplies, it is easy to make. If you can ‘paint by number’ then you can make this cake. Icing: Store bought Wilton icing, watered down with 2 tbsp of water per container. The icing was colored with Wilton … Read more
This Baby Einstein Caterpillar Birthday Cake was my son’s 1st birthday cake. It was also my first attempt at a custom birthday cake. It took some time to make but was so worth it! Baby Einstein was the birthday theme and this is how the caterpillar cake was created: The bottom of the cake is … Read more
I used the baseball cake pan and made five different flavors. I used bamboo skewers for the support for the head. I had a lot of fun with this Baby Einstein Caterpiller cake. I just used regular butter cream icing. Chocolate for the cheeks and head. I used sugar cookies for the Happy Birthday. I … Read more
For my son Masons first birthday I wanted a Baby Einstein theme but I couldn’t find a cake I wanted. Of course there are no actual Baby Einstein character cake pans out there so I decided to get creative with the new Friendly Lion cake pan by Wilton. A trick I use for a very … Read more
I used 2 Wilton dome pans (4 domes in each pan), 1 box of cake mix, let cool really well in pan then turn upside down to let the domes slide out, hopefully unharmed. I then used Wilton roll out Fondant icing (a little hint: knead in a little bit of clear vanilla or almond … Read more
Using Wiltons Ball pan I baked 5 ball halves, let cool and leveled each one by cutting off excess cake horizontally (from the “bottom” of the body section). I traced the caterpillar shape onto cardboard using the cake pan so I would know how long the board needed to be. Then I cut the edges … Read more
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