I decided to make a Homemade Garden With Animals Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday since she loves animals and flowers. I made a 4 inch cake made of carrot and chocolate and placed a filling in between layers. I then covered the cake with a thin layer of buttercream icing and pink fondant. … Read more
My Mother in law’s birthday is hard for us because she doesn’t ever tell us what she wants. My husband made her the biggest bird house for her gift… so we went with the bird house theme for her special day… This is the homemade Bird house cake that I make for her. I used … Read more
This dirt cake was my sons 2nd b-day cake! He was enamored with crawly bugs; it was also the year of the cicada, so it seemed fitting!! I created a dirt cake in a bucket with fun fruit bugs. What made it extra fun was that I made a caterpillar sandwich loaf (rolls baked together … Read more
We asked my niece what type of cake she wanted for her birthday and of course she had no idea. We did a few searches on the internet and she really liked a lady bug flower cake. I purchased a Wilton flower cake pan for the flower itself. We used a rectangular cake for the … Read more
My friend’s daughter asked me to make a cake for her to take to a Bake sale at school. At first she said she wanted roses, but that scared me because I had not been decorating cakes for very long. So she helped me out and changed her mind to just flowers in general! This … Read more
I made this Spring Flower basket cake using the Course 2 materials from Wilton. There are spring flowers on top made with royal icing – the book gives the specific directions. The bluebird was made by tracing an outline of a bird with royal icing. Once dried (only a few minutes), I thinned the icing … Read more
I made this Homemade Flower Cake for my mother’s 60th birthday. It is a 2 layer 8″ round vanilla cake filled with chocolate fudge buttercream and fresh strawberries. When filling the cake, I found it easier to put a layer of frosting on both cakes (top of the bottom layer and bottom of the top … Read more
My little girl was invited to a nature themed birthday party and I thought it would be nice to make a Flower Pot Birthday Cake for her as a birthday gift and decided to go with flowers. I made the pot using the Wilton cake pan for doll cakes and trimmed it to get the … Read more
This is a cake I made for my mom for Mother’s Day. The cake is 3 layers, filled and covered in butter cream icing. I decorated the outside of the cake using the basket weave technique. I made the basket handles out of fondant – I shaped them and let them harden for a couple … Read more
I got this flower birthday cake idea from this website but I wanted to take it a step further. This was for my daughters 2nd birthday and I wanted to make cupcakes instead of a flower birthday cake. I made extra cupcakes for the kids to decorate themselves. I used my daughter’s fingerprints to paint … Read more
This cake was made for my mother in law. It is an 8 round X 2 stacked and filled with white chocolate butter cream. I piped a basket weave design around the cake and half star tip border. The sign was hand drawn on fondant with edible markers. The orange roses were hand made from … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday I decided to make a Lawn Mower Birthday Cake Design. He is obsessed with lawn mowers so I knew he’d love it! I looked on-line at other lawn mower cakes and got the idea for this one mixing and matching several techniques I thought I could handle. I baked a … Read more