I made this Cactus Cake for a May meeting that fell the day after Cinco de Mayo. It is 2-15 inch round cakes. The filling is coconut cream. The frosting is yellow butter cream. The Cactus and pepper vines are green butter cream. The four sleeping Mexicans are white butter cream with black butter cream … Read more
For this cake I used a devils food cake mix and baked it in a bundt cake pan. When I went to take the dirt cake out of the pan, the top of it stuck to the pan, so I just filled the hole in the center with the remaining cake, which worked just fine. … Read more
Any inexpensive dollar store vase will do for this Cupcake Bouquet, nothing to light though. Need a Styrofoam ball, one that will fit nicely into your vase. Make your cupcakes, cool, icing and attach to toothpicks that you will insert into the Styrofoam ball. I also added some artificial green stems carefully after adding the … Read more
I threw together this Spring Flowers cake kind of last minute. Someone I work with asked if I could do a 1/4 sheet double layer overnight for a birthday. So I did the bottom layer chocolate and the top vanilla with frosting in the middle. I had made the drop flowers the weekend before for … Read more
This Flowers Birthday Cake was for an 88 year old Birthday. Top is blended red, yellow, and orange-red buttercream. Sides are chocolate brown basket weave. I prepared fondant roses in advance of 2 colors – orange-pink, and purple (got this from youtube) Roll the fondant into small balls, get a Ziploc baggie and use to … Read more
This Daisy cake was made for my friend’s granddaughter for her 3rd birthday. I started by making two butterflies out of flower paste and left them to harden, then I coloured them in with edible colour paste and added a it of glitter. I baked 3x 8” sandwich cakes and they were left to go … Read more
I am a cake and wedding nerd! I love to look at books, videos, photos etc. of gorgeous cakes. I love making cakes for family, friends and clients. One day I was watching videos on YouTube on decorating with royal icing to practice string work. I came across a master cake artist from the UK … Read more
This is a spin off of one that was already submitted…. I got the idea from here! And I loved it so much. I just thought these pictures would give other viewers ideas on how to implement the flower birthday cake idea. I used two 10″ rounds for the base of the large purple flower. … Read more
Cake baked in a large loaf pan covered with chocolate frosting lady fingers placed all around the edge with the tips cut into points. Crushed Oreos/chocolate cookies sprinkled on top for “dirt”. Large gumdrops cut into flowers placed on top of green toothpicks. Thanks for ideas on flower cakes on your website, it helped a … Read more
This party was a fairy themed party for my 8 year old daughter. I was inspired by cakes I found online. I had never worked with fondant before, but in enlisted the help of my 13 year old daughter, and we had so much fun together creating this Toadstool Birthday Cake, much like playing with … Read more
This cake was made for my son (turning 3) and my daughter (turning 4) whos birthday’s fall near each other. I wanted a homemade cake recipe to do with fairies for my daughter and my son liked bugs. So I combined the two ideas and formed a critter/toadstool birthday cake for the two.My mother baked … Read more
This Planter cake is a really easy cake to make. Make a chocolate loaf tin cake for the base, cover it with chocolate butter cream then add chocolate fingers round the edge to give it the planter effect. The flowers are made using colored regal icing and need very little skill. Take a pea size … Read more