I made this cake for my husbands grandfather. He was a plumber/inspector in his working years. He was turning 84 years old and so I wanted to make this cake for him. I made the tile with fondant icing as well. I applied the tile work with buttercream icing to make it stick. I then … Read more
Working for a colorectal surgeon there are so many dirty ideas that come to mind on his birthday. A butt cake would have been fun, but is such an obvious choice. I had seen a toilet cake somewhere in passing and knew I could come to this site for more inspiration. I knew lemon cake … Read more
I used layered chocolate and orange cake and cut to shape this Homemade Cottage Cake. The walls were part butter icing and part fondant icing. Roof is fondant icing and so are the paving slabs. The grass is dessicated coconut coloured with green paste food colouring.
My mother made this cake for my sons 1st birthday. The cake is decorated with a combination of fondant and icing. To create the wagon on the bottom she baked a 9×13 sheet cake. The cake was set on a foil-covered cardboard rectangle. To make the wheels, we colored fondant red and shaped it into … Read more
Well, I trawled the internet when asked for a cake in the shape of a freezer for a couple who were starting a new venture opening a freezer food centre, and could not find one anywhere. So, I thought I would just have to design one myself. I made a chocolate sponge in an 8 … Read more
I decided to make this Toilet Paper Roll Birthday Cake for a friend who owns a septic pumping business. It’s quite fun to tease him about his job so for his birthday we figured it should be the same. I baked a 8 inch cake for the base and then opened (a new) can of … Read more
I used chocolate icing, coconut sprinkles, Cadbury flakes, malt sticks and a double square sponge cake. I cut one sponge in half and then set aside with the other cut in half then cut diagonally so you have two long triangular prisms. Mix up the icing, the stick, stack the two halves on top each … Read more
Rubber Ducky, Youre the One . . . to Make a First Birthday so much Fun! I made this very cute birthday cake for my son, Joshua’s 1st birthday party and it was one of the most adorable birthday cake designs! Here’s how I did it: Bake a cake mix (I used Betty Crocker’s “Funfetti” … Read more
My sister Rosie is a great cook and a big fan of Aga’s, so it wasn’t too hard to come up with a cake idea! I started by baking a chocolate cake as a tray bake, and then cutting it into three oblongs and placing them on top of each other to make the basic … Read more
I made this Toilet Birthday Cake for my husband’s 40th birthday. I wanted something that wasn’t like what everyone would expect for a 40th male cake and I came up with a toilet. I made the toilet bowl out of cake a 6″ on the bottom and a pudding tin for the bowl. The lid … Read more
This was done as a groom’s cake for my wedding. The cabin is three Wilton house Cakes put together and using the resulting “sides” as the front. The chimney is butter cream and candy stones on a cereal treat chimney and the stream is blue piping gel with a border of random rocks. The chopping … Read more
I made this Duckie in Tub Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. It was very easy to make. I made a two layer round cake and frosted it. I applied graham crackers around the cake to be the “tub”. I then dyed piping gel blue and frosted the top of the cake. For the … Read more