My best friends daughter wanted a cake made in the shape of a high top converse tennis shoe in lime green and orange. After reviewing many tips on cake decorating, I used two 9″ round cakes for the high top and a 13″x9″ cake for the base. I cut the round cakes at an angle … Read more
For my daughters 9th birthday she wanted her party at a water park. Many of the party favors we picked out (from Oriental Traders) had flip-flops so my birthday cake decorating ideas was to make flip-flop cakes. Because she shared her party with two friends I made two cakes. For the second cake I made … 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
This shoe was for our five-year-old daughter who believes she is a princess. We purchased a frozen pound cake for this one as it requires a lot of carving. I wish I could tell you how it was carved but that is my husbands department which, by the way, he found on this site for … Read more
This is a 1/2 choc, 1/2 white cake. It’s the first time I have ever cut a cake into the shape of something but it was so easy. I just drew the shape onto a piece of cardboard, cut it out and placed it onto the cake and cut around it. For the straps I … Read more
This is a homemade Air Jordan shoe cake I made for my son’s birthday since he is in love with Jordan shoes. I really haven’t played with fondant all that much so I decorated this cake with just basic icing and used sugar sheets. I love using those. I hope everyone likes it, it was … Read more
This Flip Flop Birthday Cake was my second cake that I did. It is a 9×13 sheet cake for the base. I then made another 9×13 sheet cake, used a pair of new clean flip flops and made a stencil out of parchment paper, which I placed on the other cake and cut out the … Read more
I cut the shape of the shoe from a 9X13 pan cake after freezing for a few hours, this makes carving much easier. Frost with a crumb coat of butter cream frosting, then apply different cut out shapes & colors of rolled out fondant. I started applying the fondant from the front to the back … Read more