This backpack cake was made for a co-worker of my dad’s who was going backpacking across Canada. It’s a 1 layer 9×13 yellow cake. I found a picture on the web of Backpack from Dora the Explorer and used it as my inspiration. I cut the cake into a backpack shape, iced it with a … Read more
This Purse and Shoes Cake is made with vanilla cake mix and home made butter cream icing, 1/2 butter, 1/2 vegetable shortening. The handle is made with fondant and so are the shoes. The letters are candy, the rose and flowers are fondant. This cake was made for my daughter who turned 8 today.
I made this purse cake for a little 13 year old birthday and she loved it. I made it with a 1/4 sheet cake pan and sectioned it off into 3 equal rectangle shape with the bottom a little bigger and the top smaller. I used buttercream filling between each layer and then refrigerated it … Read more
I made this Chanel Purse Cake for a friend’s birthday. She wanted the real thing but got this instead. I used rolled fondant and tinted it pink. I then used a fondant roller to make the quilted pattern. The logo and handle were made of fondant as well.
My daughter wanted a “girly” cake with makeup and jewelry. So I thought a purse cake would be perfect! I looked through all of the cakes on THIS website and got several different ideas. I ended up with this Purse Birthday Cake Design with money, jewelry and makeup showing. The cake is 3 layers made … Read more
I made this Radley handbag as a leaving gift for a work colleague. It was a real unique cake. I made it using a large square cake tin which I then cut into a trapezium shape. A very handy hint is to ice the cake by lying it down flat on one side onto the … Read more
My mom loves her Coach purse so I decided to decorate a Coach Purse cake for her birthday. Of course the colors are not “typical” Coach Colors but I like to put my spin on things. I started out with a Wilton purse shaped baking pan. First I iced the sides and inside the purse … Read more
This Beach Birthday Cake was so much fun to make. The seashells are all made from chocolate. The flip flops are cake cut out from my daughte’s flip flops. I traced them and used the paper to cut out the cake. They are iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant. The sand is vanilla wafers … Read more
I was asked to make a shoe cake for a friend of mine’s husband for his birthday. I thought how am I going to do that? The first thing that I did was come directly to this wonderful website. I got ideas from other great people so that I could complete my ideas. I just … Read more
My daughter wanted a Summer theme Luau type party. So I made her this Flip Flop Birthday Cake. I traced a pair of my flip flops on construction paper and cut them out on a 9×13 cooled cake (I cut the cake dome off for a flat surface). Make sure you have a right and … Read more
I made this Shoe and Purse Birthday Cake for my sister to give to a friend of hers. We wanted it to be adult but girly. This would also be a nice cake for a teenager. The shoe was made out of gumpaste. I took an old shoe of mine and made a template for … Read more
I made two 9x13x2 sculpted rectangular dish cakes with Funfetti cake mix. Then cooled and frosted with M&M vanilla frosting colored with neon food coloring to make purple/pink. I cut into flip-flop shape, used M&M’s for “5”, and then used Fruit roll up for the flip-flop thong part. This cake is very easy to make, … Read more