For every birthday my children get to pick there theme and I do a themed cake. It has always been my gift to them. And something my mom and do together. For my daughter’s birthday we celebrated with friends out of state. So we didn’t do the traditional ‘theme’ party. But my daughter kept asking … Read more
First I’d like to say thanks to all the people who gave their ideas on this site. I made this homemade pink My Little Pony birthday cake after looking at your lovely cakes for my daughter Scarlett on her 2nd birthday. I used two round fruit cakes – one on top of the other for … Read more
I made this My Little Pony birthday cake for my daughter. To put the picture onto the cake I used a coloring in page I printed out then I pricked the image with a pin onto the cake using the printed out page. I then used a piping bag and piped the black outline onto … Read more
I made this Nerf Gun Birthday Cake for my son’s 11th Nerf Wars Birthday Party. I used an 11 x 15 pan. I baked 3 Betty Crocker Devil’s Food Cake mixes. I froze the cake overnight to make it easier to cut the design. I downloaded a picture of the Maverick Nerf Gun off the … Read more
This Rubik’s cube took a while because a lot of cakes had to be baked to get a square. I did a layer of vanilla, chocolate, vanilla, chocolate. I used chocolate frosting in between the layers covered in fondant and made a template for the squares. I used the cake spray colors and used black … Read more
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 Birthday Cake was such fun to make! This was a half sheet cake, white and devils food cake. I used a royal icing for the entire cake. I used the mini ball pan for the ladybug and caterpillar. I cut off about 1/4 of the ball to help it look better … Read more