Coolest Pumpkin Cake

Happy Harvest Pumpkin Cake

This Happy Harvest Pumpkin Cake was 100% edible, covered in fondant. I made 2 single layer 14 inch round cakes, crumb coated them with buttercream and applied fondant strips to make the basket. I then baked a standard bundt cake, flipped it upside down and sat it on top of the two round layers (the … Read more

Coolest Homemade Pumpkin Cakes 4

This is a chocolate and peanut butter cake that I made for our offices Halloween party. This is not the usual pumpkin cakes, this is layers of chocolate cake chocolate ganache and peanut butter cream are covered in fondant and hand painted. The hat is the same cake layered and covered in modeling chocolate. The … Read more

Cool Homemade Skull & Crossbones Birthday Cake

Homemade Skull & Crossbones Birthday Cake

We are a family run business – (Wee Tait Catering), and we were asked to create a Homemade Skull & Crossbones Birthday Cake for a birthday party. We decided to make the design of the skull funny rather than scary. I found it easier to use an oblong tray and then create a cut out … Read more

Free Cake Decorating Idea for a Skull-Shaped Cake 1

The King is made up of 63 hand crafted cookies in the shapes of bones. The skull is baked from cookies on a dowel and assembled with royal icing. All cookies are decorated with fondant. The cake is a full sheet pan size. Cut to square. Then the remainder is cut to 2 more squares … Read more

Coolest Witch Birthday Cake

Homemade Witch Birthday Cake

My mom asked me to make a cake for her friend whose birthday is on October 31st. I thought making a Halloween themed cake would be the best. I got the idea for this Witch Birthday Cake from a picture of a scarecrow cake I found online. I made two 9 inch round cakes and … Read more

Coolest Zombie Cake

Homemade Zombie Cake

We were asked to create a Zombie Cake for a friend’s sons birthday. We cooked 3 x 8” round orange flavoured Madeira cakes. We stacked the cakes on top of each other layering them with lemon flavour butter cream. We then carved the cakes into a head shape and gouged out the eyes and the … Read more

Coolest 2 Tiered 4th Of July Cake

Homemade 4th Of July Cake

I made this 4th Of July Cake for my sister’s 30th birthday. It’s 2 tiers with homemade buttercream frosting. And I made the stars and strips out of marshmallow fondant. It was the hit of the party!

Coolest Homemade Stars and Stripes Patriotic Cakes 3

I made this cake using my Wilton Star shaped cake pan. It took just one cake mix. I made homemade butter cream icing and tinted some of it red and blue. For cake decorations I had clowns, who were made from icing-tip 21 ( Wilton ); and the heads are plastic stick-ons. The inside of … Read more

Coolest Patriotic Cupcake Cake

Homemade Patriotic Cupcake Cake

For Memorial weekend, we had a last minute get together. I decided to make some kind of a Patriotic Cupcake Cake using my giant cupcake pan. I made that cake a carrot cake. For the bottom, I used white icing and cut red stripes from sugar paper. Knowing that children would not like the carrot … Read more

Coolest Roasted Turkey Cake

Homemade Roasted Turkey Cake

Everyone seems to spend a lot of time carving round cakes or something, I highly recommend using the Wilton football cake pan – make 2 cakes and put them together, then simply notch the edges! The secret to getting this Roasted Turkey Cake just right was a 4 day process – day four, fondant cranberries … Read more

Coolest Thanksgiving Cake

Homemade Thanksgiving Cake

This Thanksgiving Cake was about 16″ x 22″ in size. It is a Mango Mousse Cake. The base is a Vanilla flavored Light Sponge Cake with Raspberry Filling and Mango Mousse on top. The Turkey pattern is created with Pineapples, Strawberries, Mandarin Oranges and Carrot for the beak and legs.

Coolest Anniversary Chain Cake

Coolest Anniversary Cakes, Photos and How-To Tips

This is a cake I made for my friend’s first anniversary. Simple white cake, fresh strawberry filling; the chain is made up of mini doughnuts frosted with vanilla frosting.