I made this Zebra Print Gift Box Cake for my sister’s 25th birthday. She wanted it to be girlie with zebra and pink. As my family and most people do not like the taste of fondant I always ice it with buttercream really smooth to look as if flat as fondant then add all fondant … Read more
This bow cake was made for a friend’s 22nd birthday. The cake inside is s butter cake recipe (Duncan Hines and it tasted really yummy). Its iced with a crusting buttercream recipe (then I dyed a soft pink). I then used the paper towel method (Google it) to smooth out my edges (icing a cake … Read more
This Present Birthday Cake was my second attempt at making a cake with fondant. My husband and my mother-in-law have birthdays close together, so I decided to make a square present for the both of them. The cake was a homemade peanut butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and covered with homemade fondant. The bow … Read more
I made this Present Birthday Cake for my niece’s 2nd birthday. I got the idea from the book Confetti Cakes for Kids by Elisa Strauss. I began by making the tissue paper out of gum paste that I coloured blue. I rolled it quite thin, cut it into varying sizes of squares and then set … Read more
I first made two 8×2″ square cakes. After cooling completely and freezing each for a couple of hours I then leveled them both off. I added a filling in the middle and iced them with a white buttercream icing. I rolled my fondant out to a 16″ circle and then covered the cake, smoothing it … Read more
This Birthday Cake is the cake I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday last year. It was the first time I’ve ever done anything remotely like this. I’ve take a couple cake decorating classes at the local craft store, but hadn’t learned anything yet about working with fondant, so I read a lot online and … Read more
My girlfriend asked me to make a cake for her friend’s birthday. All she told me of this friend was that she was a wild, crazy and fun gal. I had creative license with the cake and this Homemade Gift Box Birthday Cake is what I came up with. This was my 3rd time working … Read more
I baked two round cakes for this Zebra Giftbox Birthday Cake. Frosted the top of one then laid the other on top and frosted the top and sides. I used plain white fondant and covered the cake. Then I got some more fondant and dyed half black and half pink. I then rolled out my … Read more
I used an 8″ square pan and baked a vanilla cake. Once it was cooled I leveled it and filled it. I then used a “crumb coat” and covered it with fondant. For the bow I cut out strips and used water as “glue” to stick them to the cake. For the bow I had … Read more
I made this Chocolate Present Birthday Cake for a friend’s 30th birthday party. She saw a picture of it on Google images and asked me to make one just like it for her husband – only bigger! This would be my first attempt at a stacked cake so I was a bit nervous, but decided … Read more
This homemade Gift birthday cake was made with three round cake pans and then stacked and layered with butterceam frosting. The entire cake was covered in marshmallow fondant. Strings of colorful fondant with cutout shapes were adhered with buttercream frosting. 1″ strips of colored fondant were placed between layers to hide any ‘seams’. The flower … Read more
I made this Birthday Prezzie Box Cake for my daughter. It was a chocolate mud cake, covered in chocolate ganache and then covered in fondant. Everything was edible, the bow is the first attempt(and I was quite pleased at how well it turned out). It took me over three days to make it and was … Read more