Here’s a really cool cake idea, I made it for my sister’s 60th birthday party. She lives near Sheffield, England and loves to shop at the Meadowhall shopping complex. Obviously her favorite colour is green! It is a chocolate/orange Madeira 8” sponge. I split the cake after it cooled then I froze it as I … Read more
Fairy cakes are simple if you like fiddly jobs like making tiny sandwiches and cakes out of icing and flower paste. I used my daughter’s Barbie plates and admit the teapot etc. on the tray is Barbie’s too. The fairy birthday cake is made from a pink marshmallow with icing strand (we call them sprinkles … Read more
This cake was made based on a 9 x 13″ sponge cake. I got the birthday cake ideas for kids from this site. I cut the shape as near as possible to an actual Xbox and covered it in rolled icing. I added a few buttons etc on the front to make it look real … Read more
I made a 13×9 cake from one of the free cake recipes on this site and covered it with marshmallow fondant tinted black. I cut a square of white fondant for the screen and wrote on it with edible markers. I did the same thing with the menu circle. I shaped the white marshmallow fondant … Read more
My son wanted a dump truck cake for his construction party for his 3rd birthday. My husband works for CAT designing large mining dump trucks and my son thinks that is the coolest thing in the world. So I wanted to give him the birthday party that he wanted, and this was the first year … Read more
My husband owns an excavator and our son thinks that it is the coolest thing in the world. This dump cake was a lot of fun to build although it was definitely time consuming. Seeing the look on our three year old son’s face made it worth while the effort. I started with two 9×13 … Read more
I asked my friend Shaun what cake he wanted for his birthday and he decided he wanted a drill cake. Not just any kind of drill a cake of his drill he calls Colin. He sent me a picture of it and I found one on a website for specialty cakes which I printed out … Read more
For my son’s 3rd birthday we created a construction cake (he loves construction vehicles). My sister-in-law is into making unique birthday cakes and this is a very cute cake. We had so much fun with it. She used brown sugar for the dirt roads and used real toy construction vehicles. She really put detail into … Read more
The construction birthday cake recipe is one called chocolate zucchini sweet potato cake. You can go here for the recipe. My review is listed under hollygollygee and it will tell you the adjustments I made on the recipe. The buttercream recipe is from a Williams Sonoma cookbook. It is a vanilla meringue buttercream. I love … Read more
After having three girls and finally getting a boy we sure did have fun making this construction cake! Pretty simple, just a regular cake with a play construction set. We used chocolate chips for the dirt. I put a plain white paper table cloth down and had his sisters and cousins draw a town for … Read more
My niece wanted a Littlest Pet Shop cake with a waterfall. I have no idea in cake designs so began by baking a 9×13 cake and two round 9″ cakes. I made butter frosting and colored some of it green and some blue. I also left some out so I could make the waves in … Read more
This sandcaslte birthday cake decoration was another experiment! We had a beach theme for my son’s birthday and he loves the sand. So, instead of a girly castle I just changed it up and made a sand castle. I used two sheet cakes and cut them to what I wanted. I iced it in sand … Read more