I frosted the area around the cake to look like a moat and grass. Ariel is resting on a “rock” made of a frosted cone bottom. The drawbridge is a Hershey bar with licorice rope. I decorated the cake with sugar wafer cookies and skittles. I then placed the entire princess figurines around the castle. … Read more
This cake took a lot of frosting. I made two batches of buttercream frosting each using the two pound bag of powdered sugar.
The roofs to the turrets were ice cream cones brushed with water and covered in a fondant and gum tex mixture and airbrushed and left to dry for 24 hours. they were later dusted with pearl dust. Small round sections were cut from each layer of the cake and the turrets were pushed in and … Read more
This is my granddaughters Disney castle cake. it has six boxes of cake mix on a five layer cake and buttercream frosting. The pillars are made of champagne flute, right side up covered with pink fondant, top with a sugar cone brushed with apple jelly and sprinkled with pink candy flakes. Pictures are not edible. … Read more
My son was a huge Harry Potter fan about 2 years ago and wanted a Harry Potter cake. I decided to try my hand at a “Castle”. The columns are paper towel/toilet paper holders and the “points” are ice cream cones. Everything else is “cake”! It is a 3-tiered cake and I purchased Harry Potter … Read more
This Princess Crown Birthday Cake was my second fondant cake ever! And my first two-layer cake! I was determined to make my daughter’s 3rd birthday cake. I spent hours online researching how to make my own fondant and for easy designs. I found a design similar to this but they iced the triangles on with … Read more
This Dragon Birthday Cake was from the Debbie Brown’s Enchanting magical cakes book, I made it for my mother in law. This was the most enjoyable cake I have done yet. This is made from three bowl shaped cakes, two for the egg shells one for the dragon. The board is covered in ready made … Read more
I like Ace of Cakes and wanted to make something nice for my brother’s fifteenth birthday. This was my first ever shaped cake. My brother and mom have a thing for dragons, so I looked at a couple of the dragon cakes on this site and took it from there to make my own Homemade … Read more
This Homemade T Rex Birthday Cake was made for my son’s 4th birthday. He wanted it to resemble “Buddy” from Dinosaur Train. I used one 9 inch round for the body, cut in half and put together upright. The neck and tail were made from parts of another round cake, I used the extra pieces … Read more
I made this Dragon birthday cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. He had a dragon theme so I went with a Puff the Magic Dragon cake. The cake is a 3 layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream which I carved into the shape of the dragon’s body. The neck and tail are molded rice … Read more
I found a dragon picture in my printing software and printed it out, put wax paper over it and traced it with piping gel (bought at grocery store), using a small dot decorating tip. I let this sit open to air for about 3 days so it would become dry. I prepared a cake from … Read more
I got creative cake ideas from your site but had to change it since I did not have the ingredients for fondant. I used a 12″ round pan as well as one half of a ball pan to bake to cake, two boxes of Marbled Duncan Hines cake mix and homemade vanilla custard. After the … Read more