This lady bug cake is a cake I made for my daughter Reilly’s first birthday. I baked the main cake in a daisy cake pan using chocolate cake mix and butter cream frosting and the smash cake in a small round cake pan. For the main cake I made a cupcake for the center and … Read more
The measurements for the cake are: head = 4 oz black fondant, spots = 1 oz fondant, red body = 20 oz red fondant, grass that the cake sits on = 12 oz green fondant, and the remaining fondant is tinted yellow for the petals. Roll the yellow fondant thick only when cutting the petals. … Read more
One of the easiest cakes Ive made was this ladybug-birthday cake! My daughter needed a cake to take to pre-school and the theme for that week was bugs/insects. I simply made a 9-inch layer cake. I iced around the bottom with green icing and used a fork to make the “grass”. After you put on … Read more
made this ladybug cake for my friends daughter’s first birthday cake. And the small ladybug birthday cakes were for the other kids. The theme was bugs. I made two round cakes (one for the base and one for the head/wings). Use white icing for the base spreading on with spatula. I cut a small semi-circle … Read more
My office has a Halloween carry-in every year, for which I like to make something unusual – I’ve made a meatloaf mummy, a haunted house cake, and a “Nightmare Before Christmas” cake, among other things. This year I saw a picture of a roach cake online and thought “that’s a good idea”. But I made … Read more
I made this spider cake for a co-worker. His birthday falls on Halloween so I decided to make a spider web cake with the spider crawling on the side. I used 2 8-inch round chocolate cakes and used white buttercream to ice the cake. To make the web & spider I drew it out on … Read more
My son loves Spiderman, and wanted a spider cake for his 5th birthday, he drew me a picture of how he wanted it, so I got the Spider Birthday Cake Idea to replicate his drawing. I used a rectangular pan and made 4 cakes (I prefer to have more then less). It was a vanilla … Read more
Wilton butter cream frosting (1 recipe) tinted 2 colors of green. The legs are black licorice strips (like twizzlers) and the eyes and knees are dots candy.
Technically these bugs should be spider cupcakes with eight legs but we ran a bit short on legs! The legs were red string candy. We found it easiest to use a skewer to first make the hole before inserting the string. We used chocolate cupcakes covered in chocolate frosting and brown sprinkles. The eyes were … Read more