I created this Music Note Cake using the Wilton sports ball pan (half of it!) and cut portions of a square cake to make the rest of the note. I tinted my buttercream icing with Wilton black tint and used edible silver candies to add a little pizazz! I used more of the icing to … Read more
A friend wanted to have her daughter a pool party. She asked me to come up with a cool cake decorating idea that would be appropriate to go along with a group of pre-teens at a pool party. We decided on the tapedeck radio idea so then I had to decide how to make it. … Read more
This is my first attempt at a decorated cake and it was made for my father’s 60th birthday party. He collects and repairs antique radios and also hosts an “Old Time” radio show on a local community radio station. The whole radio cake took a total of about 10 hours to make including making the … Read more
The childrens birthday cake was a lemon flavoured Genoese sponge and I used three different sized tins. Seeing as I didnt have the correct sized cake tins I used a biscuit tin, a tuna tin and a salmon tin. Which I carefully lined with greased baking paper to ensure they didn’t stick. I covered the … Read more
I made this Hannah Montana Guitar cake for my niece’s 10th birthday. I used 3 chocolate cake mixes, two Betty Crocker whipped butter cream frosting cans, two cans of whipped chocolate frosting and a hand full of small marshmallows. To make my board, I cut two layers of heavy cardboard, taped together and covered with … Read more
I’m an Italian girl (I’m from Sicily) and I made this Fender Strato Cake for my boyfriend’s 30th birthday. The guitar body is made of sponge cake, or what we call “Pan di Spagna” filled with three layers of custard cream, covered with almonds batter (Sicilian “pasta reale”). The handle is the same but covered … Read more
I just started experimenting with fondant. I was asked if I would make a Hannah Montana guitar cake for my niece’s birthday. I thought I would give it a try! I used a half sheet cake for the bottom, covered with white fondant and Hannah Montana themed colored stars, and painted swirls. For the guitar … Read more
My good friend’s daughter was having her 6th birthday and I volunteered to make the Hannah Guitar Birthday Cake, really didn’t know what I was in for, but it turned out great and she loved it. I have made several cakes over the years, but this was by far the most difficult. It took six … Read more
To make this guitar cake I used the Wilton Guitar pan #2105-570. The bottom is a half sheet cake iced smooth. I piped the flame and accessorized first using a #18 star tip. Using star tip #21, I piped remaining guitar. Using tip #21 I piped a boarder around the base cake. This was my … Read more
I made this homemade guitar cake for my sister’s 18th birthday. She plays the guitar, and I snuck into her room to take pictures of it to model the cake after. The cake itself was yellow, and I used two 12×18 pans to create it. I then cut out the shape of the guitar base … Read more
I made this Guitar Birthday Cake for a friend’s husband’s 50th birthday. They were doing a rock ‘n’ roll 50’s theme. And she knew she wanted a guitar on it so I came up with this. I made it using the guitar shaped pan and a 1/2 sheet pan. I covered the 1/2 sheet with … Read more
I made this Fender Guitar Birthday Cake for my brother in law’s 21st birthday. It is a replica of his guitar. I made a large slab cake and made a stencil from greaseproof paper and cut out the body from that. The arm was modeling paste, as were the head and all the tuning bits … Read more