I bought a purse to match this purse cake to give to a little girl for her birthday from a known franchise store. To start, I made 2 9″x9″ cakes and cut them in half to cool. I layered the cakes with buttercream icing and even though it was leaning by the time I was … Read more
This Handbag Birthday Cake is a cake I made for my mum’s birthday, about two years ago now. Fairly straight forward, two sponge cakes sandwiched together with jam and buttercream. Cut the whole cake in half and stuck the two halves together, with buttercream, flat side down on cake board or plate and covered with … Read more
This Lazy Town Purse Cake was for my daughter’s 6th birthday. The Lazytown cartoon was only out in the US for about 6 months when she had her birthday and I searched everywhere for Lazytown party supplies but couldn’t find anything! Her favorite character was Stephanie so we started with that. I made a costume … Read more
This girl birthday cake is made from two loaf pan cakes stacked together with cream cheese frosting. The quilted criss-cross pattern is made by frosting the cake then using the edge of a butter knife to make the criss-cross pattern. The cake handle is wire ribbon stuck through two pretzel twists and glued to its … Read more
This stack of shoe boxes with a Gucci shoe cake is my most requested cake! The entire cake is edible even the shoe! Each box is a different cake flavor. The bottom box is Vanilla and chocolate, the middle box is Red Velvet with Cream cheese frosting and the top box with lid is Chocolate … Read more
This High Heels Cake was made for a young lady who loves high heel shoes! She loves the color green just about as much and is always dressed her best. The cake was a two layer vanilla cream cake with vanilla frosting. It was covered with a layer of green fondant and small dots made … Read more
This Flip Flops Cake Design was my first attempt at cake decorating in about 12 years. I wanted to surprise my daughter for her 13th birthday so I started looking for ideas on line. I didn’t even have a theme, but I ran across a pattern for this flip flops cake on the Wilton website … Read more
I was asked by a friend of a friend to make a boy’s baby shower cake for her friend (already three degrees of Kevin Bacon!). I was sent five idea photos ranging from a Louis Vuitton diaper bag to a teddy bear. The only stipulations were that the cake be two tiers and decorated in … Read more
I took a brand new pair of flip flops and traced the shape onto poster board paper. I cut it out and placed my template over a sheet cake. Cut with a sharp serrated knife around the stencil. Flipped over the template and did the same thing on another sheet cake (making left and right … Read more
My husband is addicted to chapstick, so I thought this chapstick cake would fit him perfectly. Basically I just used a bread pan for the body, baked two cakes and fit them together. I then carved the top of the tube with a knife to make the indentations. The red is dyed frosting and all … Read more
This Beauty Cake was made for my daughter’s 30th birthday. The makeup was made using colored fondant, the tops of the nail polish bottles were held in place using spaghetti and edible glue, the mask was made by covering a mask with rolled out fondant which was left to dry for about a week. It … Read more
I used fondant for this Pink Zebra Print Birthday Cake. The top is lemon, then Root Beer, last is strawberry. I made everything from scratch except the coloring. I used American Girl coloring for the Pink and Wilton for the Black. I did make my own black sugar though. This took me about two days.