My daughter’s birthday is in April and she wanted to have a Spring Garden party theme. I had just bought the book, “Hello Cupcake” and was inspired by their butterfly and sunflower cupcakes. After making the cupcakes I decided to make an actual cake to go with them. I used the same decorating techniques described … Read more
For my daughter’s 5th birthday I decided on a garden theme as the party was based around fairies. I made this Garden Birthday Cake. For the sponge I used a Betty Crocker carrot cake mix. I simply sandwiched them together using green butter icing. I used two different lots of coloured butter icing. The idea … Read more
I cooked a sheet cake. We covered the entire cake with blue icing with a little more white mixed in for the “sky”. Since it was close to Easter we were able to get pastel m&ms to make the flowers and sun. We added green grass and stems to complete the “picture”. The cake was … Read more
I made this homemade worm dirt cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves everything mud, bugs, worms and more so what better way to give him his own edible mud pile with bugs, worms even eatable rocks. Firstly I made a Mud cake slab, after the slab had cooled I broke it apart into … Read more
It was my son’s girlfriend birthday so he asked me to bake her a cake. This roses cake is a 6″ orange cake iced with buttercream icing and the outer is covered in a colored fondant icing. For the top of the cake I rolled out fondant, cut it in width of about 2 inches … Read more
I made this flower cake for a friend whose daughter was having a garden party. It’s made from an 8 inch round cake and 12 cupcakes. I cut a little bit off one edge of 11 of the cupcakes (to give them a flat side so they’d fit more tightly) and arranged them around the … Read more
I made this Homemade Birthday Flower Cake for a 9 and 4 year old. I bought the cake daisy flower cake pan at Hobby Lobby. It was about $11.00 in price. One cake was vanilla and the other was chocolate.
This is a Sunflower Pot Cake made for our town’s auction to raise money for the church. This whole cake was edible except the ribbon. This is an 8″ round German chocolate cake iced with white frosting to hold the Monetta chocolate cream wafer sticks from Aldi’s in place to make the pot. On top … Read more
This 1st birthday flower cake was made for a close family friend’s daughter. The family gave me free range with what to create, and every time I thought of this beautiful baby, I kept seeing the flowers they always have in her hair and knew I’d do a flower theme. This was very easy to … Read more
I used a yellow box cake mix and a large round Wilton cake pan. The colors of the wedding were purple. I made the roses in Royal icing both in lavender and purple. Place them on wax paper, some in an egg carton (to keep shape) and others leave out to create a more natural … Read more
Having twin three year old brothers help come up with a first birthday cake for a little sister is not the easiest thing. Trucks, trains and bugs were the most popular ideas. Bugs…thought lady bugs, but how to get the red out after the demolishing of the first piece of cake. So I came up … Read more
This Garden Tools Cake was for my Mother-in-Law’s birthday. It was my first fondant cake I’ve ever made (my daughter helped with the decorations). I made my own marshmallow fondant myself. I really like the taste of the fondant, but had some issues covering the cake. Being a newbie, I’m not sure if I used … Read more