I made two bundt cakes, leveled them and stacked them (flat sides together). I then used the orange Wilton coloring mixed with a little brown (to darken it up a bit). I then iced the entire cake with a nice amount of icing. Once covered I went back over the icing in an upwards motion … Read more
I made this 6″ Pirate Skull cake and 85 cupcakes for a friend’s son’s first birthday. The theme was ‘Pirates, red and black’. Half of the cupcakes were vanilla cakes and half were chocolate. I made homemade buttercream icing from the C&H Sugar Recipe and colored half of it red and the other half black. … Read more
I was trying to think of the perfect cake to do for my husband. I looked at a lot of the cakes on your website to try and get an idea. Well, they all were golf or something like that. So I thought of the things he was interested in and here is what I … Read more
Macy was a Halloween baby, and always wants a Halloween themed birthday cake. She also wanted a Barbie cake, so I incorporated the Halloween theme, by making a Halloween Witch Cake. I baked one cake in my Pampered Chef large measuring cup, and made an 8″ round cake for the base. I bought spiders and … Read more
I modeled the Zombie Cake for my friend Nic (his birthday) with gum paste. Cake is dark chocolate, filled with raspberries and chocolate mousse, iced with chocolate butter cream and marshmallow fondant. Brains and blood made from smushed raspberries.
This Jack Skellington cake was really fun to do and one of my first attempts at shaping buttercream. It is just a quarter sheet cake with Bavarian cream filling. I started with a picture I found on the internet of the title character and went from there. I realize I should have used a 8 … Read more
My son loves Jack, I made it for his 6th birthday, This was my first big cake.For the head I used 2 round cakes, the body 1 long cake pan, the bow tie is construction paper. The frosting I bought from Target, they have the different color tubes and gel for the face. This cake … Read more
I always like to make a cake for each holiday. Last year, for Halloween I made this ghost cake with ghosts going for a walk. I used a boxed cake mix and even canned icing. The border of the cake is made from candy corn, so each different area was separated. On the left side … Read more
I made this cemetary cake for my 3 year old son. It’s made with Betty Crocker’s German chocolate cake mix. Small gravestone shaped Hershey chocolate candybars, some store bought spider jewels, bone hands, and icing. All the kids loved it and it makes for a good Halloween party.
I was having a Halloween party and made this Halloween Graveyard Cake. It came out pretty cool. The head stones, skeletons, pumpkins and animals are made out of fondant (make all the fondant figures a couple of days prier to assembly). I used butter cream for the grass and crushed chocolate animal cracker cookies for … Read more
My son was turning six and was at the stage where all things gross, creepy, crawly and slimy are really cool. So we made him a Homemade Snakes Skulls and Spiders Birthday Cake! We called it the “tattoo” cake because that is what it reminded us of. For fun, we put food coloring in the … Read more
I made this Halloween Cake Idea for Halloween 2009, it went down a treat so I thought I’d share the idea with everyone. First I made 2 plain Victoria sponges, one 12″ and one 8″ rounds, (when they are both mixed up I used a tiny drop of red food colouring and swirled it into … Read more