This is how I made this Gift Box Cake. I iced both cakes with buttercream icing and sat in the fridge to chill while I worked on fondant circles. I made the marshmallow fondant and cut out circles in different sizes to add around edges. I also cut out a piece of fondant in the … Read more

This First Birthday Gift Box Cake was surprisingly easy to make. This was also the first time I decorated with fondant. It was however, somewhat time consuming. The fondant decorations can be made a day in advance, but since I never seem to remember to be that prepared it took about 4 hours. For the … Read more

I made this gift box cake for my friend’s mom’s 50th birthday party. The decorations were all in red, black, purple, and turquoise but since I couldn’t figure out how to make turquoise with food paste I left that color out. This is my second fondant cake and I used marshmallow fondant instead of the … Read more

I made this present cake for a baby shower that was polka-dot themed. I used 6 cake mixes and made layers of 9×9 square pans, and then stacked them all up. They were given a coat of buttercream. I made fondant from marshmallows and water and rolled it out and put it on the sides. … Read more

A friend asked me to do a cake for her daughter’s 4th birthday and she found a Gift Wrapped Cake similar to this one on this site. I used 3 different size square pans and baked a vanilla cake. I made buttercream frosting which I divided and colored. I frosted each cake. I then used … Read more

I made this gift box cake for a friend’s wedding shower. It is made from regular Duncan Hines Butter recipe cake mixes which I baked in three 9-inch square pans (making it a triple layer cake). I then frosted with homemade buttercream frosting. I colored 1 box of prepared fondant brown using Wilton icing gel … Read more

This pink and brown Homemade Giftbox Birthday Cake was made for a good friend’s birthday. It was actually my first try at using fondant and gum paste. It was a lot of fun. Daisy Surprise was made from a 12×12 square, 2-layer yellow cake and decorated with pale pink butter cream frosting, light brown 3-D … Read more

I wasn’t really sure of what to do for my mother’s birthday cake so I decided to do a simple “gift”. I baked a yellow cake from scratch using a recipe I found online, which turned out to be very delish. The cake was baked in a 10in square cake pan. I cooled the cake … Read more

This was my second attempt at a fondant cake. I had hoped that doing a more square shape would be easier to cover. I made two white cakes and inverted one on top of the other, filling them with buttercream frosting and peach preserves. I layered the gift box cake with a crumb coat of … Read more