When my daughter turned 2 years old, I wanted to show her what a little rainbow she was in our lives! We planned a Rainbow Birthday Party, with a six layer Rainbow Birthday Cake at the center. Since I enjoy decorating cakes more than baking them from scratch, I made the cake out of 3 … 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
My daughter turned 3 in September and since about May she has talked about rainbows non-stop so we thought that would make a great idea for a birthday cake. We looked at lots of pictures on the Internet but in the end did our own Rainbow Cake with Pot of Gold Birthday Cake using a … 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 roller coaster cake for my nephew’s 8th birthday which was held at a local theme park. The kids went crazy for the cake! I made 4 round cakes and one small square cake. After baking and cooling the cakes frost the top of one round cake and then top with another round … 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
My niece, Jordin, wanted a slumber party cake for her birthday, so I came up with this. The bed, tv and nightstand are all made of rice krispie treats and covered in homemade rolled fondant. The (huge) nail polish bottles, bowl of popcorn, braided rug, and decorative pieces on the bed, and pillow(the feathers on … Read more
I knew that I wanted to make a cake for my husband’s 30th birthday, and I finally decided upon one of his favorite things, which was his Les Paul electric guitar. I set the guitar out so that I could do the quick outline sketch of the shape I needed for the cake. After I … Read more
This years birthday request was for my daughter’s first sleepover party. Turning nine this year she wanted a hand in designing and constructing the cake. We started with her favorite thing, ice cream sandwiches! We bought a couple of boxes of the mini ones and laid them on the bottom of a Pyrex dish. The … Read more
My 6 year old wanted a Hannah Montana Guitar Birthday Cake. I looked on the web and got everything you could imagine. I finally just copied her play Hannah Montana guitar and it worked well. I used fondant over buttercream frosting and was really pleased with the results. But most important, my daughter loved it.
This magnifying glass cake was simply a large round cake, double stacked, and then the handle I carved out of a square pan. The cake is just a white cake (made from scratch). I found the recipe online. The icing is also a buttercream icing which I found the recipe online for this as well. … Read more
I used a Wilton guitar pan for this guitar cake. I already owned and matched the icing colors to the party pattern (teal and hot pink). The Hannah image is the cardboard plate cut out and iced around. I also added some edible glitter.