I baked this Pirate Ship Cake for my grandson’s fourth birthday. To make the ship I baked two boxed cake mixes in 13×9″ pans. For the bottom of the ship I cut two corners off one end of the cake to form the shape. The second layer I cut a triangle for the front of … Read more
I browsed the Web for all kinds of kid cakes and finally came up with this. First I made a 9 x 13 cake and two 8 inch round cakes. I cut two equal size rectangles out of the 9×13 cake and laid them one on top of each other with frosting in between. I … Read more
My son is crazy about Pirates and Captain Jack Sparrow. I looked around at stores and all the pirate cakes were around $70. I decided I would try and make my own that is what led me to this website where I got most of my ideas. I just baked a sheet cake for the … Read more
My sister made this cake. She used fondant and took her time to weave the wood on the ship. My son gave her the idea of pirate cakes for his sixth birthday. More Pirate Birthday Cakes Pirate birthday cake by Tabitha McM., Indianapolis, IN This pirate birthday cake is a simple sheet cake with crumbled … Read more
I cut a 9×12 cake into the shape of a grand piano. I cut pieces to put around the edge to make it look as if it had depth. I cut a piece of poster board for the top and sprayed painted it black. I used small round glass candle holders for legs and iced … Read more
This is the very first creative cake I have ever made. It was for my son’s 15 birthday. The picture of the guitar birthday cake is the exact guitar my son has. The cake is made of six chocolate cake box mixes, prepared according to the directions on the box. My husband drew the template … Read more
We made this guitar cake from 2 chocolate cake mixes, froze both cakes and used my son’s guitar as a pattern. I used one cake for the body and very little of the other for the neck. Food coloring of course to color the icing, pointed gumballs for the buttons, silver dragees for the tiny … Read more
My daughter is turning eight and wanted a guitar cake like the guitar Barbie plays in the movie The Barbie Diaries. I looked on your site to get some ideas then played the movie, paused it on a close up of Barbie’s guitar, taped some paper to the TV screen and traced the shape on … Read more
My son wanted a camouflage cake for his 8th birthday. I started searching for an easy cake recipe. I used one of his army sweaters for a guide and randomly laid out the six colors. For the cake I just used an easy cake recipe and for the decorating I used black, juniper green, moss … Read more
From ideas I got on this website I came up with this army cake for my son’s sixth birthday. I used a 9×13 cake pan and split the 9×13 cake recipe into another a smaller pan for the top. Once cooled I cut out a bit in the front and back for some shape, iced … Read more
We went with an Army theme for my son’s 3rd birthday this year. My husband was a helicopter pilot in the Army so my son is fascinated with that. I got the idea for the cake as I was searching for cake decorating and designs for Army-themed parties. There was a picture of a similar … Read more
I got this idea from the best party site – this one! Even though it may look difficult to make when looking at the birthday cake picture, it’s fairly simple to make. I used two boxed cake mixes – one 9×13 pan, and one loaf pan. I used two containers of chocolate frosting. For the … Read more