I hosted a Lil Pumpkin baby shower for a friend due in October. I made this pumpkin cake from two bundt cake pans. One inverted on top of the other. An ice cream cone made a great stem once it was colored green and brown. My bundt pan made a middle hole a little larger … Read more
This Jack OLantern pumpkin cake was from the Wilton pan & recipe. It is easy to bake following the Wilton directions (30 minutes exactly in the oven worked best) but I recommend using a white/yellow cake and not chocolate. The darker cake was much harder to decorate because of the crumbs and the dark cake … Read more
My daughter turned 10 and we wanted to make something special. We created the whole casing, flowers etc. out of fondant, very easy to use. We copied the casing from pumpkin cakes pictures so as to make it look like a pumpkin. Make sure you have plenty of time to prepare the fondant colors ahead … Read more
I made this Skull Birthday Cake for my best friend’s 14 year old daughter. I had originally planned on doing a pink and black girly skull cake, but she wanted yellow, so I added the red so it didn’t look like a bee with just yellow and black. I just used a strawberry bake mix … Read more
My niece was turning one and I was thrilled that my sister-in-law gave me complete creative control over the birthday cake! Making cakes is a hobby of mine but it’s ALWAYS by request so I was thrilled to have a chance to make whatever I wanted! I really cannot tell you how I came up … Read more
I made this 3D Vampire cake for my little boy who was having his party in a haunted house party room. I used a large pudding basin for the body and a smaller pudding basin for the head and carved it into a round ball. I then built up the layers of clothing with fondant … Read more
I did a witch cake for a friend who was having a Halloween-themed birthday party. The birthday girl was dressing up like a witch and so I made a witchs hat and caldron. I made the witches hat out of the Wilton Wonder Mold Cake Pan, and put some black icing on the cake board … Read more
This homemade Nightmare Before Christmas cake was for a girl who likes “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, sewing & sketching. This is what I came up with. The pencil has drawn Jack & Sally and the needle & thread has sewn the heart. This is a double layer 9”x13” cake. I covered all 4 sides with … Read more
I made this Halloween ghost cake for a party for some body I knew. I made a 10 inch square tin sponge cake from scratch, Victoria sponge recipe with jam and cream in the middle. Put green butter cream in and strawberry jam then I covered it with moulding icing. I drew a ghost in … Read more
I baked this Homemade Halloween Graveyard Cake with a Graveyard theme for a Halloween Party. For the icing, I used homemade buttercream icing tinted dark blue for the sky part, then dark green (achieved by adding some black and green Wilton icing color for the actual grass part). I used my homemade marshmallow fondant and … Read more
I wanted a cake that said Easter without a bunny so my daughter and I chose the empty tomb. It was surprisingly easy. I baked two cakes one in a 9×13 pan and one in a stoneware mixing bowl. I iced the bowl cake on top of the square one and carved out the opening … Read more
I got this Halloween cupcakes recipe on Ettores.com (a local well known bakery). First, you make the cupcakes using white cups for cupcakes. Then you frost the top with chocolate frosting, using a frosting gun (sorry, cant think of the real name). Swirl the frosting like soft serve ice cream. I used a homemade chocolate … Read more