I made this cake for a friend for his birthday because he wore sneakers that looked like these. Here are my tips on cake decorating: first, I drew a left shoe pattern on a sheet of paper. I cut it out and used it to cut out the base of the left shoe. Then I … Read more
A friend of mine asked me to make her daughter a cake for her birthday party. Here is my homemade Spa cake! I made a basic sheet cake and frosted it with white butter cream. I edged it with pink and sprinkled pink, edible glitter over the top. Then I made a 9″ round cake … Read more
I made this Makeup Birthday Cake Idea for my daughter who loves her makeup. It was a lemon cake with a raspberry/whipped cream filling. I used black fondant and blue sugar crystals. My first time using isomalt which went over the sugar.
I made this Zebra print cake from a 9″ double layer round cake covered in marshmallow fondant. A cake order that I had for a little girl’s birthday. The zebra stripes are chocolate marshmallow fondant. It’s easier for it to actually color it black without adding to much food coloring. The beads around is just … Read more
I got this Fathers day cake idea out of a Family Fun magazine, but I changed it a bit so that the tie was a piece of marzipan I rolled out and cut after pressing stripes of fruit roll-up onto it. It is flexible enough to have a bit of wave in the tie rather … Read more
The bottom of the Polka Dot Birthday Cake is 2 8″ rounds, vanilla with vanilla pudding, and the top is a 6″ round. I inserted wooden dowels to stack the cakes on top of each other for support. The cake body is covered in white fondant, then I cut the pink and black strips to … Read more
I made this Corset Birthday Cake for a friend of a friend’s surprise 30th birthday. She loves to wear corsets and mostly black or purple, so that was the inspiration. I used a slab cake pan and also divided some mixture between two bowls for boobs. I cut and placed cake pieces and “glued” it … Read more
I made this Jewelry Box Birthday Cake for a friend’s daughter. She wanted a jewelry box with lots of candy coming out of it. I made two 8 by 8’s. I cut off about 2 inches of the back of each cake and stacked them. I frosted them and then made the compartments out of … Read more
For this unique birthday cake I used a basic cake mix and baked it in a 13×9 pan. I then split the cake in half (so that I had two 6.5×9-inch cakes) and stacked them and frosted them with white frosting. I cut a piece of cardboard the same size – covered it with foil … Read more
This Homemade Purse Birthday Cake is the 2nd purse cake I’ve made. Much simpler than the Louis Vuitton I did a few months back, and my favorite of the two. It was for a girl’s sweet 16th birthday,(along with a 3 tiered Chanel inspired cake). Her dad drove about an hour to pick up the … Read more
I used loaf pans to make the Purse Birthday Cake and cut it and then stacked it with buttercreme. Then shaped it some more. I put it in the fridge for the frosting to crust. I made my own marshmallow fondant (which tastes better to me than bought). I covered it with fondant. I Added … Read more
My daughter inspired me to make this homemade purse Mother’s Day cake. I was going to go to our local bakery to buy a Mother’s Day cake when she suggested I try. We used a 9’ springform pan and a box of white cake mix. We chopped up some fresh strawberries and placed them in … Read more