This homemade Diva show cake was made for a little girl with a serious shoe fetish. It is an 8″ round chocolate fudge with raspberry/chocolate ganache filling. The icing is a simple butter cream with fondant accents. The shoe was made from fondant and was completely edible except for the sequence used on the top … Read more
I made this Flip Flops Birthday Cake for our babysitter who turned 14. She asked for a flip flop cake after seeing my daughter’s t-shirt. I had freedom to do as I wished so I did my own rendering. I was really short on time so I kind of threw it together. First I used … Read more
My friends daughter loves flip flops, so I thought it would be fun to make a cake with flip-flops on it. I actually used my 3 year olds flip-flop to trace a template of the flip-flop on wax paper. Then I transferred the flip-flop pattern onto the cake and created the flip-flop using my imagination. … Read more
This 18th Fashion Birthday Cake is my hubby and my second attempt at cake decorating. It’s for a friend’s 18th birthday party . Both layers are mocha with mocha buttercream filling. We used a 10 inch and an 81/2 round pans which I now realize was a mistake. The top tier should have been a … Read more
This Nail Polish Cake was made for a lady that loves to polish her nails! Each guest was given a gift of polish to take home. Her name is Kathy, so I played with OPI’s polish names. The cake was made using two mixing bowls, a 9 inch cake pan and a 16 oz can … Read more
My son & daughter in law had the theme colors of hot pink, zebra and black. At first I was not sure what this Wild Wedding Zebra Print Cake would look like together, actually, it was beautiful together. I had made cakes before; but, never with fondant. My son’s father made the fondant and rolled … Read more
This was a fathers day cake I did for my friend. I used the gel transfer method and I printed off a copy of his three kids on my computer. Then I laminated them and stuck them on the cake!s day cake I did for my friend. I used the gel transfer method and I … Read more
This Homemade Polka Dot Cake was made for my daughter’s 7 birthday. To my dismay, she wanted simple and sweet, not huge and fancy. I made a yellow cake and filled it with homemade buttercream. My mom taught me to make buttercream as a child and I still use her method: a stick of real … Read more
My best friend Barb wanted me to do her Mother-In-Law’s birthday cake this year. She was turning 87 so she wanted something special for her. I always wanted to do a hat shaped cake and this was the perfect time to do so. I got on the computer and looked at ladies hats and thought … Read more
I made this Corset Cake for my boyfriend’s 22nd birthday and he sure seemed to appreciate the effort! I couldn’t really find any similar cakes to take inspiration from, so a lot of it was guess work, but it seemed to work out fine! It is made out of four heart shaped sponge cakes, and … Read more
I simply used 2 heart shaped cakes for the base and lid of the Homemade Trinket Box Cake. I also made a mini loaf which I then cut up in order to “prop” the lid heart of the trinket box onto the base heart so that a gap was created to allow for the flowing … Read more
This unique birthday cake takes quite awhile to make, but gosh I love the result! :-) It is a 2-layer rectangle cake. The jewel compartments, the lid and the drawer are made of pink chocolate (melted candy); you have to pour the melted chocolate onto a cookie pan and wait until it is almost firm … Read more