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
This was my first attempt at using fondant on a unique cake of this kind. It came out okay and was easier than I thought it would be. I cut three layers and stacked them with a thin layer of butter cream frosting between each. I used light and dark pink fondant on the outside … Read more
My daughter requested a pink cake, no preference as to what, just pink girls birthday cake, for her ninth birthday. She is into the makeup thing and loves purses so we thought of a purse. We made two 9×12 cakes, one chocolate and one fun confetti. Cut them in half length wise then stacked them … Read more
My sister has horses and lives in her Hunter wellington boots so when we were trying to decide what cake to do for her 39th birthday my mum suggested a Wellington Boot Birthday Cake Idea! I made the sponge in a large roasting tin as it’s the longest tin I have. When it was baked … Read more
I made this High Heel shoe cake for my friend’s wife, yes, she loves glamorous shoes. The stand is made from perforated plastic, and was cut and bent into the shape. The cake itself is vanilla sponge with a vanilla butter cream. Once the cake was carved into the shape I needed, I dirty iced … Read more
I found the recipe for this Flip Flop Luau Cake on Betty Crocker but modified it a bit. They had a handy template that you print out so that your flip flop cake is just the perfect size. I’ve done some cake decorating in the past but my experience is minimal. I really wanted to … Read more