For my daughter’s 4th birthday party this year, she wanted a princess themed party with a pink princess castle cake. Since I hadn’t done this before, the project was exciting, and I put together a vision of what it was supposed to look like in my head. The first draft had three tiers, with the … Read more
This beach movie luau themed cake was so much fun to make! A little girl who likes the Teen Beach Movie was having a similar themed birthday party. Her mother and I brainstormed to come up with this cake idea. It included a van with a surfboard on top along with party themed colored surfboards … Read more
I was so nervous, but so excited about making this handbag birthday cake. I started the cake a week before so the detail could dry. I had promised my daughter that I would make her a handbag cake with makeup and had no idea how I was going to pull it off. I made 2 … Read more
I was asked to make a chocolate unicorn birthday cake for a friend’s 11 year old daughter and I thought, ” Yeah I can do that!” Well, I did manage to pull it off, but with a lot of help by watching youtube videos. I began by modelling the unicorn out of fondant and I added … Read more
I made this 50th birthday cake for a friend. It all started 2 years ago when I made my husband a 1/3 scale replica of his Harley Davidson for his 50th birthday (that cake is also on this site)! It was then that my friend Steve said he wanted a cake of his beloved GT Falcon. … Read more
I wanted a bright and cheery birthday cake for my grandson’s first birthday. Jake loves fish, so under the sea it was. There were oh so many options. The top was a giant brightly colored octopus. He would be surrounded by fish of many colors with big flowing tails and starfish. The list goes on, a … Read more
I made this mini tea party cake for my father’s birthday. My father is not a bloke’s bloke. He loves going out for morning tea and the finer things in life! Also, I had been wanting to make some miniature fondant foods and play with creating a smaller gravity cake before graduating to a big … Read more
I made this 1st birthday butterfly cake for a precious little girl. Savannah is a sweet little redhead I met through a sister in church, a beautiful little person I grew to love very much. When her birthday came around and I was asked to make this cake for her, it was more than an honor. Savannah … Read more
Each birthday my children pick the flavor of their cake and the shape of their cake. Thanks to great ideas from this web site, most of them have been successful. This August my son turned 9. He chose a train cake. I immediately wanted it to be a 9-car cake. He requested poppy seed cake … Read more
My daughter wanted a Hawaiian themed birthday party and cake. The cake is a white cake I used coconut milk in place of milk to give it island flavor. The filling in between is pineapple buttercream. I covered cake in white fondant and hand painted it brown with several different browns. I used brown gels … Read more
This is one fish that didn’t get away. I baked a 9×11 cake cut in the shape of the fish. I used the scrap pieces of cakes to build up the belly of the fish. After covering fish in fondant I used a crisper to make it look like scales. I dusted the cake with … Read more
As I was shopping I ran into a A friend of mine. She said she was throwing her son a “Whale” themed Pool party for his 1st birthday. I saw the decorations she was purchasing in her shopping cart and they were adorable. However, someone in her family was making his cake. (That was fine. … Read more