This Converse Sneaker Cake was made for my daughter’s 11th birthday. She couldn’t decide on a cake, so I made it into one of her prized possessions, her high top converse sneakers. In fact, she doesn’t own a pair in green, but wishes she did. I used a 10″ square pan and an 8″ square … Read more
My mom loves beaches and anything to do with water or the sand. I drew free-handed the sandals and used piping gel on wax paper and inverted the pattern. Just added a few flowers because peach is her favorite color. I just used simple butter cream frosting on a 2 layer cake. Thanks to this … Read more
I made this cake for my sisters 18th Birthday. I got some birthday cake decorating ideas on this web. I used a Wilton 12″x 18″ sheet pan with three boxes of yellow cake mix. After I froze the cake for two hours I cut out a flip flop shape from each half of the sheet … Read more
When I made my son his hamburger and hot dog cakes (#64 under food), I knew I had to come up with something special for my daughter. I know all females love handbags and shoes so I was on a mission to make her a Glamour Bag And Shoes Cake. With my unexperienced cake decorating … Read more
My daughter completely designed her Polka Dot and Zebra Print Birthday Cake. By all means she wanted a green and black zebra print cake with polka dots. We made a 3 tier cake with dowels inserted at each level for support. The bottom tier was 10 inches and was white cake with a chocolate filling. … Read more
I made this Mens shirt cake for my boyfriend’s birthday. I just bought two mud cakes and cut them into the rectangle size for the gift box I had bought. I made the tie section before hand using orchard icing and food colouring, and then simple covered the mud cake with white orchard icing. I … Read more
I made this Jewelry Box cake for a friend’s daughter’s 12th birthday! She’s a diva and that kind of cake her mom wanted for her so I thought that a jewelry box would be PERFECT! A couple of days before I trimmed 2 10×14 to 9×13 size to make them the same size as the … Read more
I baked an 11 x 15 sheet cake using 2 boxes of cake mix, so that it would bake high. I cut the cake into 4 equal pieces, filled and frosted the layers with butter-cream, stacked them 4 high on top of 4 layers of cardboard covered in floral printed foil paper. I hammered a … Read more
This was my second purse cake. This cake is a life size purse. I started off by baking two half sheet cakes. I cut the two cakes in half and stacked the four rectangle shaped cakes into four layers. Each layer was about one in a half to two inches tall with butter cream in … Read more
I made this Suitcase Cake for a friend’s Wedding Shower. It’s a double-layer cake — 9 x 13, one layer chocolate sheet cake, one layer vanilla sheet cake, with a whipped-cream layer between with pink buttercream icing (Wilton’s recipe). The marble effect of the icing was actually just due to poor mixing, but it looked … Read more
I got the instructions for this Purse Birthday Cake from “Howdini”. I used one 9 inch round for the purse and used some of the leftover cake to make the coin purse. I used licorice for the handles, fruit by the foot and candy heart paper (bought at Cracker Barrel) for the decorations. I used … Read more
I was asked to design a Designer Style Handbag Birthday Cake for my mother-in-law’s friend as a surprise birthday cake. I started off with a Wilton book cake tin and baked 1 kg of Madeira cake mix in it and left to cool. Once cooled completely, I split the “book” in half down the centre … Read more