This whole Gift Box Cake is edible except for the real pearls. The box top is a cake, the bottom and the pillow are cakes also. The flowers are all made from fondant. This is my first gift box cake and I haven’t been working with fondant very long, this is the first time that … Read more
This Fire Engine Cake was made for my little boy’s 3rd birthday, as he was obsessed with Fireman Sam. We already had several large and small fire engine toys, so it was a process of putting them all together and choosing which aspects from each toy I could use. Initially I baked a 30x30cm chocolate … Read more
I made this Army Tank Birthday Cake for Ben’s 6th birthday. It’s a simple jam and cream sponge cake iced over and then camoed by painting food coloring. The gun is a chocolate flake wrapped in icing, supported by a kebab skewer. The tracks are chocolate fingers and digestive biscuits sticks. The hole for the … Read more
I made this Handbag Birthday Cake for a carer who looks after my mum-in-law at a local nursing home. It is a 6inch butter Madeira spongecake and I sliced a piece off one side to give it a handbag shape, then split it and filled it with jam and buttercream and turned it on its … Read more
Here’s my 3-tier John Deere tractor birthday cake! I hope you like it.
I was worried when I got this request for a 50th Birthday Cake, a 5 is an odd shaped number. It was actually easier then I thought to cover in fondant (homemade MM fondant). The bow is molding vanilla (same as molding chocolate). It was fun to make and got to try some new things. … Read more
This Totally Edible Spy Cake Idea was requested for a fan of the Cody Banks Secret Agent movies. He gave me specific directions as to the items and placement of items on his cake. He wanted everything edible so I did it! The bomb is solid chocolate that I made with a ball mold. The … Read more
This Handy Manny Cake took me about a week to make. All of the tools and Handy Manny are made from fondant. The cake is iced with buttercream and then I let it crust. I took viva pater towel and smooted it out. It makes it look like the cake is covered in fondant. Thanks … Read more
This dinosaur cake was made for my friend, her little boy wanted a Triceratops cake for his birthday. She also wanted to learn cake decorating. This post goes out to Stephanie G. a great future decorator who helped a ton with this cake. The cake is a chocolate butter recipe, with cookies n cream filling … Read more
This flower birthday cake I made for my birthday this year. I made 2 cakes in a pan, 13x9x2. One was my own recipe and other was the lemon cake. Between cakes it was the Bavarian cream. The cake is covered with fondant and the flowers are made from gum paste.
I made this Spa Birthday Cake for my daughter´s 8th birthday – Spa Party in Costa Rica. I made the face with a mask mold. I cooked a vanilla cake and crumbed it – mix it with frosting (like making cake pops) but instead I filled the mask, previously wrapped with clinging plastic wrap, and … Read more
This Halloween spider cake was more of an engineering challenge than cake decorating. The legs were gum paste over coat hangers cut and bent to fit. The base was spray painted cardboard with a built up cardboard pedestal (four layers) for the cake). For the top layer of the pedestal I used a piece of … Read more