For this Xbox 360 controller cake I found an image of an Xbox 360 controller online, I copied the image into MS Word and blew the picture up to fit a regular 8.5×11 sheet of paper. I then printed the image in color on photo paper (this gave me good and clear details). I cut … Read more
My son is crazy for cleaning. It’s his favorite pastime. Naturally, I want to reinforce this behavior! So he has lots of cleaning-oriented toys, and his favorites, by far, are vacuums. He goes nuts screaming “Vacuum! Vacuum!” when he sees any vacuums at his daycare or in stores. So, when I was planning his 2nd … Read more
With iPods being all the rage, this cake was a lot of fun to do. It’s a good thing I’m detail-oriented. A colleague of mine ordered a cake from me for her son’s Confirmation but she wanted something “non-traditional”. Since I did not have a lot of notice, I didn’t want to commit to anything … Read more
This laptop cake was made for a 30th birthday party. The birthday boy worked with computers. I started with a 12 x 15 sheet cake, frosted in white buttercream, then added a 9 x 13 sheet cake on top of that. This was covered in black fondant. (which can be special ordered). I made the … Read more
Thanks to the previous contributors to this simply awesome website, I found fun ideas for a Wii cake for my son’s 5th birthday. My cake resembles a few of the cool Wii cakes posted here but has the added “Mii” (my son’s Mii) on the Wii console. The cake was a homemade butter cake with … Read more
I made this Homemade Xbox 360 Birthday Cake for my little brother’s 18th birthday. I baked three layers of pound cake in 9×13 pans. I mixed vanilla frosting, strawberries, and cool whip for the filling in between the layers then cut it into the shape of an xbox. I covered the cut cake in a … Read more
My daughter and I made this Xbox birthday cake for a friend’s 13 yr. old son. He just loves X Box. His mom originally wanted a controller for Xbox, but once my daughter and I got started we couldn’t stop. This was our first attempt on the whole gaming system with controller. I took the … Read more
Our son loves Walkie Talkie radios and he found some on the internet that he REALLY REALLY wanted. Well of course they were only $3000 for the system. So my husband came up with the idea to “grant his wish” for his birthday. He created 4 individual radios with the base charging station with cord … Read more
This IPOD Touch Birthday Cake is a cake that I created for a friend of a friend. It was a two layer vanilla cake with cream cheese icing and a cherry filling. Although the icing was black, it was a really good, home- made cream cheese icing that tasted great. I used marshmallow fondant to … Read more
I was inspired by the circuit board designs on this site, and made this cake for my fiance’s birthday. He builds high-end audio as a hobby, and I based the design of the cake on a circuit board that he recently designed (seen in the picture in front of the cake). I baked several sheet … Read more
I made this Laptop Cake for a friend’s daughter’s birthday. She wanted a laptop cake. The bottom portion is a “funfetti” cake mix. The bottom of the laptop is made of cereal treats and the “screen” of the laptop is made of foam core. The laptop is covered in fondant with fondant accents. I used … Read more
I baked 2 square chocolate cakes and cut one in half. Joined one and half together and cut the other one into triangles and assembled them into the controller shape. Then frosted them with chocolate buttercream to help it all stick together and covered them both in icing. The Xbox cake itself was easy, I … Read more