My daughter wanted a Belle party for her fifth birthday. I decided to use the new Wiltons castle cake set for this castle birthday cake. It took days and hours to finish but after it was done it was worth it. My daughter really loved her cake. The bottom is a 10″ round and the … Read more
I baked one sheet cake and one round cake. Then I cut the edges off the sheet cake to make it into an octagon. I stacked the round cake on top of the octagon. With the pieces I cut off the sheet cake I put together “the door.” Using waffle cones and regular cones I … Read more
My stepson wanted this Harry Potter cake for his 11th birthday. I made 2 round cake pans and a mixing bowl to make the 3 layers. I then iced it with Vanilla icing and colored with the blue gray color. I used poster board towers and put them inside the cupcakes and sugar cones on … Read more
I made the Princess Crown Tiered Cake for a little girl’s 4 birthday. I used french vanilla butter cream to frost the cake. I made the crown out of mmf/gumpaste a couple of days before I started the cake so it would have time to dry. I wrapped it around a baby powered milk can … Read more
This Dragon Birthday Cake was for my son’s first birthday, he’s not into much yet, so Mommy got to pick the theme! So, yeah, I used store-bought cake mix and frosting. But I added some vanilla and cinnamon and it tasted great! The dragon and tendrils were made a week before so they could dry. … Read more
My son wanted me to make him a dragon cake for his 12th birthday! I made the dragon red because not only is it his favorite color, but it is said to bring good luck to the person who receives the cake. The 12th Birthday Dragon Cake was made using 2 bundt cakes and another … Read more
My five year son wanted a dragon birthday cake so this Dragon birthday cake is what I came up with. I started by baking two marble cake mixes in bundt cakes pans to get the round shape as the cake needed to be low and portable for traveling. I cut the two bundt cakes into … Read more
This Dragon Cake was made for my son’s 5th birthday. I came to this website to look for some inspiration and liked different aspects of several different cakes. So, I put the things I liked together to come up with this dragon. This was only my second fondant cake so there were a lot of … Read more
The castle was very simple. It consisted of two large square cakes. The first cake was left whole and lightly frosted to the board. The second square had an inner square cut out of the centre to make 4 smaller squares all the same depth as the remaining outer square: i.e. if the cake was … Read more
You could use more of the cake scrapes to make the head and legs but I shaped his head, legs and tip of his tail out of rice krispie treats and covered them with a thin layer of buttercream once they were cooled and hard. I tinted the fondant green but left it a little … Read more
This Unicorn birthday cake was my very first 3 tier fondant cake and I was very nervous. For my daughter’s 4th birthday in November 2011 all she would talk about was a Unicorn birthday cake. I was at a loss and had no idea how to create her this cake. I searched for books and … Read more
My friend’s daughter was turning 7 and wanted a Princess castle theme cake. We went online and looked on this site and saw many castle cakes. We got some really great ideas and then decided to attempt making one ourselves. this is our Princess Castle Cake Idea. We baked 3 box cake mixes (Pillsbury Butter … Read more