This is just a 1/4-sheet cake iced with buttercream. My father-in-laws birthday party was held on Flag Day and he is very patriotic so I thought I’d do a flag. It’s one of those easy and quick to make 4th of july cakes. I made thirteen stripes and fifty stars. The stripes are just zigzags … Read more
This map cake was to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. (Yes it’s a science geek thing). The cake is vanilla cappuccino (you can make a buttercream icing but add a bunch of espresso instead of milk or cream to get an incredible flavor). To get the map (which is a map of the route that … Read more
My husband and his friends just returned back from a year long overseas deployment right before Memorial day. I felt that creating the coolest Memorial day cake, would be a good way for me to show my gratitude and appreciation for the soldiers. I am very proud of my husband and his battle buddies for … Read more
This is a Patriotic Cake Design I made for a friend’s daughter’s birthday/8th grade graduation party. It’s 2 10″ chocolate fudge cakes with fudge filling, then a 6″ cake, layered with fudge filling also. I covered both layers in white marshmallow fondant. Then decorated it with stars and stripes, and handsculpted firecrackers, also all made … Read more
This is an easy cake to do. Stripes are fruit roll ups. Blue square here is butter cream icing, but you could also use blue fondant. Then pipe on stars or use white candies. A variety of cookie cutters used to make these patriotic cookies. Foose Cookie Cutters website has USA cutter and one for … Read more
My two sons’ favorite book is the Scrambled States of America. This Scrambled States of America Cake is their most recent birthday cake. The cake is covered with homemade buttercream and homemade marshmallow fondant. The decorations were done freehand are made out of royal icing (dried on wax paper for three days). I attached them … Read more
This patriotic cake was for my Godson who loves American History – especially the Presidents. Since this is something he loves I decided to do a sort of replica of the Presidential seal emblem. It is a four layer vanilla cake. I used buttercream icing for the decorations which were made using a paper template. … Read more
With 4th of July coming around I felt I needed a cake to celebrate the United States birthday! This 4th of July Birthday Cake was prepared in two steps. On day one I prepared two boxes of Betty Crocker’s Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix and baked it at 350 degrees in the oven for one hour … Read more
This was a single-layer 9×13 yellow cake iced in white butter cream. I outlined the flag shape in black and filled it in with red and blue. The white stars on the flag are small sugar sequins’. Red and blue butter cream ‘fireworks’ on top and red and blue fondant stars on the side completed … Read more
I made this USA Map Cake to look like a map of the USA for my map-obsessed son’s 4th birthday. I found an old Wilton cake pan (circa 1982) on eBay…but if you don’t have one, it would not be too hard to cut out your own USA shape with a knife. Step 1: Bake … Read more
This is just a basic cookie cake recipe that I made and then I decorated the cake with a star tip and writing tip all around to create my husbands work logo and put the appropriately matched Air Force rank on both sides. I used the writing tip to fill in the logo for the … Read more
This was for a Fourth of July/Housewarming party for my uncle when he got his first house. It’s a funfetti cake covered with buttercream frosting. The flag is just star tipped and the stars on the flag just larger stars. The fireworks have a star tipped middle and then just a regular piped line for … Read more