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Featured Arts and Crafts-Shaped Cake Decorating Ideas
Cool Paint Roller Cake
I wanted to make a birthday cake that didn’t look like a cake, and since we all love to paint, I thought of making it look like paint. The paint roller is just a jelly roll filled with cherry pie filling. I stuck a real paint roller handle into it! The icing is store-bought green icing that comes in a tube. After smearing it all over the cake, I “spiked” the icing to make it look more like a used paint roller. I also smeared some icing on the paint roller handle to get a more real effect. Read more about this Paint Roller cake…
Awesome Quilting Cake
I created this quilting cake for the mother of a good friend of mine. Her mother loves to quilt, so I knew the items on the cake had to be somewhat realistic. My great grandmother was a quilter so it was kind of a pet cake of mine at the time. Although I knew my friend only needed a small cake for a family dinner, I just wanted this cake to be so much more than a simple dinner cake. Read more about this quilting cake…