My name is Danielle from Manalapan. I am 10 yrs old, and love to bake and decorate cakes like my mom. This Paint Pallete Cake Idea I made for a local cake decorating contest. The first thing I did to prepare this cake is carve out the pound cake that I made into the pallete … Read more
This Crayola Crayon Cake can be made using any favourite cake recipe. Prepare and bake the cake using a 13×9 cake pan. Once cake is baked and cool, place on cake board. At the top of the cake (9″ section), slice midway through the cake lengthwise approximately two inches. Bring your knife back to the … Read more
When the cakes were cool enough, I spread pastry cream on them and then a generous amount of sliced bananas and strawberries. I did 3 layers of yellow cake and 2 layers of filling. I did a crumb coating of white icing first and after it set, I did a 2nd coat of yellow icing. … Read more
My cousin and I decorated this Starry Night Birthday Cake for a birthday party. We dipped toothpicks in food coloring to make the details. The background was piped. The cake itself is just regular box cake with vanilla frosting.
I borrowed this idea for a Groovy Tie Dye Peace Sign Birthday Cake after looking at several sites for inspiration for our daughter’s groovy 6th birthday cake. I started with a white butter cake recipe that I enjoy. I crumb-coated the cake with a white royal icing. After that, I took the remaining icing and … Read more
My colleagues and I were at a networking event where they let us play “cake boss”. Four people per team, one half sheet cake and the tools of fondant, gumpaste, buttercream. We had 45 minutes to come up with a design, carve, decorate and create a cake that did the following: 20 teams competed. Had … Read more
My roommate is always so creative so I decided to make her a Crayola Crayon Cake! It started off as a regular white 13×9 cake from a box. I carved a rectangle out of the top like the lid was off the crayon box. The crayons were each a Twinkie with one end cut into … Read more
To make a true black for the letters, I used a chocolate fondant with true black gel colorant. This was my first foray into fondant and I loved how easy it was. It was also my first time using the gel colorants. They were awesome too. It made this kid cake project a breeze! The … Read more
I made this Art Decco Lady Cake for my friend’s mom’s 60th birthday. I drew a picture of a lady, placed greaseproof paper over the top of her and using royal icing piped around and filled her in in stages, letting each section dry so the icing wouldn’t run into each other. I then made … Read more
My son was a budding artist and loved to paint so I decided to make him this “Water Color Paint Set ” cake for his 4th birthday. With a few simple tricks it came out great! Everyone thought it was a pretty cool cake especially the birthday boy. We usually have large birthday gatherings at … Read more
I made this Artist Birthday Cake for my Father In Law who was 80 in February and is an excellent artist. The round cake was chocolate, iced with fondant icing and the cake was made with a small Victoria sponge and iced with fondant icing again. I painted the edges of the book with edible … Read more
I couldn’t find a cake mold for a crayon box, so I started with all the great crayon cakes on this site. For this Crayon Cake Design I baked one chocolate cake and one yellow cake, trimmed one edge off of both and stuck them together, that way people could choose either chocolate or vanilla … Read more