My wife loves to run and got a new pair of shoes for an upcoming half marathon. I wanted to make her a cake for her birthday of the shoes, but she was always wearing them at work when I had time to work on the cake, so I found some images online. It was … Read more
The summer of 2011 we were upstate at my friend’s house. We we having a birthday party for my son who was turning 11. We talked to another friend whose little girl was turning 6 and decided to do a double party for the kids. The little girl’s birthday is July 29 and my son’s … Read more
I made these high heel cup cakes for one of my best friend’s for her birthday. She is honestly the best person, she is fit to be a princess. I made the cupcakes with vanilla cup cake mix with a marshmallow fondant to cover the cupcake. I used white chocolate melts to cover a graham cracker to shape the … Read more
This is a butter pound cake, stacked, and carved in the shape of a converse sneaker (size 10 1/2). Then was frosted in buttercream and covered in fondant, airbrushed in bright yellow with black trim. Holes cut and laces applied. The cake was sitting on the coffee table when she stopped by for coffee. We … Read more
My niece was in her first ever ballet recital and I wanted to make ballet shoes cakes. I got this idea from a book I was flipping through as I couldn’t find much online for ballet slippers. I used a Martha Stewart pound cake recipe I found online. I figured pound cakes would give me … Read more
I made this Converse Sneaker Cake for someone at work’s niece. She wanted a pair of these for her birthday and they had a hard time finding them, so she thinks she is not getting the real sneakers. I baked a 9×13 cake, traced a picture of the bottom of the shoe and added 2 … Read more
As my daughter, Jolie has a summer birthday, most of her parties are summer themed. For her 6th birthday, she insisted that I make her birthday cake. This was my first attempt at making a cool birthday cake. We were doing a flip-flop themed party at a local arts & crafts store, so she wanted … Read more
I made this Pillow with Shoe Cake for a party girl turning 21 and she loved her one pair of high heel shoes so I made a shoe to replicate it sitting on a pink Zebra print pillow. For the pillow I used the Wilton pillow pan, French vanilla cake with chocolate ganache and caramel … Read more
For this flip-flop cake I used two 9X13 cakes, one white cake and one chocolate. I used a pair of my flip-flops as a template and cut the cakes. I iced them in white and airbrushed the purple. I could have just iced them with purple butter cream. I used fruit rollups for the straps … Read more
My dad is in a group of guys that run every morning and they were all coming over for dinner so we thought it would be super fun to make a cake in the shape of a sneaker! We chose his college school colors for the frosting. Here’s how we made the cake: We used … Read more
We threw a surprise luau party for my sister’s 16th birthday and made her this Flip Flop birthday cake. I bought a flip flop cookie cutter and cut the flip flop shape out and then froze them to make movement easier. We then iced them and put Xtreme Sour Belt candy around the bottom for … Read more
This is my first attempt at making a shoe box cake (with shoe) which was for my niece’s 18th Birthday. I wanted to make something different for her so committed myself by saying I’d do it then having a bit of a panic! However, one step at a time and it all paid off along … Read more