A colleague at work asked me to make a tooth cake for his wife’s work Christmas party, she works in a dentist’s office. I made a chocolate sheet cake and when it was cooled I carved out the tooth with a serrated knife. I then torted it to fill with butter cream icing that I … Read more
My friend’s mom made this homemade nursing cake… (not a professional cake artist) – came out great.
My 8 year old son wanted to have a “GROSS” birthday party so we had some gross activities and I made him this gross eye ball cake. It was actually really simple. I baked the cake in a glass bowl so that it would be round. The cake was iced in white, the center is … Read more
This beaker cake was made for my husbands 28th birthday (he’s a bit of a science nerd!). I started by baking a chocolate cake in a rectangle pan. I cut the beaker shape free form and iced the entire cake with white buttercream. I slightly heated green buttercream to make it more fluid and poured … Read more
I made this Nurse Cake Design for a guy my Mom works with that just became a nurse. I made a 1/2 a sheet cake and iced it white. The stethoscope and band-aids were made from icing. The pills are red and white airheads shaped into pills.
I just baked a cake mix in a greased 2 qt. glass-mixing bowl. Then frosted it white and decorated with blue, black and red frosting to look like an eyeball. Read Rikelle’s “Party-Tale”: The story behind the cake…
I am a nurse working in Gastroenterology so I assist with colonoscopies on a daily basis. For ‘Nurses Week’ a couple years ago someone suggested that I make a cake shaped like a colon. She had seen a similar one in EndoNurse magazine. I looked up their website and contacted the editor who contacted the … Read more
This Med School graduate cake was made with one day notice! If you can believe it! Turns out it’s one of my favorite cakes to date. Yummy devils food chocolate cake with a strawberry whipped filling and whipped frosting covered in fondant. 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup cocoa 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda … Read more
My friend is a Chiropodist and so I wanted to make a cake relating to her job. I made an orange sponge cake recipe. Then I traced around my own foot to get that shape. I just made slight indentations around the toe area to give the shape once the Royal Icing was covering it. … Read more
I made this Dosette Box with Pills Cake for our graduating class in mental health nursing. It’s a Dosette box with pills! Of course I had to add the coffee cups above it as we almost all had shares in coffee by the time we had finished our training. The base is sponge with butter … Read more
My son Paul is very interested in the human body. So, when it was time for us to plan his 6th birthday party, he said that he wanted a cake of the digestive system. Once I got over the initial shock of his request, I started looking around for photos of similar cakes on the … Read more
These two little beauties were so much fun to make! For each cake I used two round cake pans and put them on top of each other with a layer of frosting between. I found that it helped to put the layers together with the frosting in between and then wrap them and put them … Read more