I made this childrens birthday cake for my little daycare girls first birthday. It is made using a bunt cake. You cut the cake in half and then the one half into fourths. You stand the cake up on its ends and add one fourth on each side. It looks best frosted in stripes. You … Read more
I was doing a baby Einstein theme for my sons first birthday. I wanted to use the caterpillar for the cake. I made four 8-inch rounds in assorted flavors, one 6-inch pan for the head, and 8 cupcakes. I used 4 cupcakes for the caterpillar’s feet, I cut one in moon shape for the tail, … Read more
I made this Snowmobile Birthday Cake for my 10 year old son. I used a half sheet cake pan, used vanilla frosting to frost the entire cake. I would recommend to get WHITE not vanilla because vanilla frosting has a tanish color tint, it’s more of an off white color. I used 2 Swiss cake … Read more
I bought the Wilton Sports Ball to make each of the sections of the caterpillar. I used Strawberry Chocolate and Vanilla cake batters – 1 box makes 2 sections. I made standard buttercream icing (2 batches were enough to cover all 5 sections) and used bright food coloring to color the icing. I piped the … Read more
This Semi Trailer Birthday Cake was a cake my husband and I did for my father-in-law’s birthday. We used 6 loaf pans, 4 for the trailer and 2 for the cab and cut the cab to the desired shape. I then iced the cake with homemade buttercream icing, added pretzel sticks for the smoke stacks … Read more
Each ball of the cake was created using the small Wilton’s ball pan. Each ball was covered in fondant and airbrushed to match the colors of the DVD. Dowel rods were screwed to the cake board and the cakes were slid over the rods to keep the balls in place. Grass was created using colored … Read more
Here is a Dragonfly Birthday Cake I made for a young girl’s birthday who loved dragon flies. I set out on a quest to make something different. The cake consisted of 10 pkts of cake mix and 16 jam donuts. Wow, a lot of baking. Later I ended up with 2 slabs, rectangle size, a … Read more
I got the basic idea for this train cake from your fantastic site but made a few adjustments. My little boys third birthday clashed with other work commitments so I needed to be able to throw something together in 15mins, which I did. As you can see its made from mini cake rolls (Cadbury’s), the … Read more
I used two 9 inch round cakes for the body and a small baking dish for the head of the ladybug cake. These were carved down to make the rounded shape. For the frosting I used a basic powdered sugar recipe and made it purple with food coloring. For the markings, I just added more … Read more
I viewed what seems like hundreds of the “coolest train cakes” on this site and pooled together the features I felt were neat and ‘do-able’ for me to make my own Homemade Choo-Choo Train Cake! Base: I started by cutting a “pond” from a Tommy sheet cake and frosted in green. “Grass” is piped around … Read more
I made a 3D Ladybug Birthday Cake. I took two 10 inch round cakes and iced between them. I then cut the edges around the top cake and placed them around a 6 inch cake that was on top of it to round it off and fill in the gaps. I used fondant for the … Read more
This train birthday cake was quite easy to make. I just used cheap packet sponge cake mix. I cooked the main carriage with a large loaf tin and the carriages with disposable aluminum loaf tins (the ones you get take away food in). I used 2 of these and cut them in half to make … Read more