My girlfriend was turning 30 and her husband was having a surprise party for her. I just recently started cake decorating and wanted to try using fondant icing. I had never done it before and was really pleased how it turned out. I often look on the internet to get ideas and thats how I … 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
First prepare boards using 2 layers of stiff cardboard, cut to size, tape together, cover with wrapping paper (taping underneath board) then cover with clear contact paper. The day before you start making this happy birthday cake, do these following steps: The #1 can be made with sugar cookie dough and iced with royal icing; … 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
This happy birthday cake was made for my friend’s grandmothers birthday. We made three 8X8 square cakes, frosted in between layers and around the cake once put together. We then used fondant to cover the cake. Grandma said that the happy birthday cake was too pretty to cut… It turned out great!s birthday. We made … Read more
This Present Birthday Cake is a Gluten Free cake which I made for my Mother in Laws 50th birthday. It is a Gluten Free Victoria sponge, covered in white fondant. I made the bow out of fondant (I am not very happy with it, but it is my first attempt at one and I know … Read more
I made this Present Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 13th birthday. I used four layers of chocolate sponge cake and the cream was chocolate mousse. Very delicious!! The frosting was whipped cream coloured as light orange. The ribbons and the roses was made with homemade sugarpaste as well as the little flowers on the side. … Read more
This was my first fondant cake. I wanted to do something special for my only niece’s first birthday. My sister in law wanted something cute and girly. I must have looked at thousands of cakes online. I just combined different ideas of a gift box cake with my own. The cake is a yellow cake … Read more