A friend of mine who had asked me to make her wedding cake, also asked if I could make her husband a bachelor party cake. It was the biggest challenge yet, a Bachelor Party XBox Cake! But I was definitely up for it. The cake was a vanilla Oreo cake with vanilla butter cream. It … Read more
I made this Henry Hoover vacuum cake for my son for his 6th birthday. He has always loved hoovers and other electrical things, but hoovers are a firm favourite, he even used to try to eat the hoover tube when he was a baby! When my mum bought a real Henry Hoover last year, he … Read more
I made this iPod Cake for one of my niece’s birthdays. She was turning 11 and totally into music, so I thought an Ipod would be perfect. I also used her favorite colors on the cake. I used several ideas off of this site combined to make this awesome cake for her. I started with … Read more
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Here’s the story behind my camera birthday cake design idea. My brother is a professional photographer and his favorite camera is the Canon 5D and his favorite lens is the Canon EF 100-400 Telephoto. When I thought of birthday cake design ideas for him I decided to make him a cake with this theme in mind. … Read more
This Homemade Apple Laptop Cake is a cake for my step-son’s 20th birthday. He’s a big fan of Apple products so I decided to surprise him with a laptop cake. This cake consists of the laptop, case, Iphone, and some post-its and pen. Laptop and case are chocolate cakes filled with chocolate pastry cream. Everything … Read more
For my daughters 8th birthday she picked out the “Glamour Girl” party theme. She said she wanted a cell phone cake. At first I had planned to just make the cake look like a cell phone, but then I came up with the idea to make the cell phone out of rice crispy treats. I … Read more
What can I say, it’s an Xbox cake! We make a variety of cakes for the school and this is one of the them. The cake walk is a big deal in our family and a lot of thought goes into which cakes to do. We love it! We use fondant for any of the … Read more
This Wii Birthday Cake Design was my first cake made with marshmallow fondant. I made two square cakes, and layered them, then made a couple more square cakes to carve the remotes and joy stick remote, made the fondant and covered it. I looked at my son’s actual Wii to make all the details. The … Read more
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