This Homemade Finding Nemo Aquarium Cake was made by hand (with the exception of the plants). The characters were sculpted from Play-Doh 2 days before to give them time to dry out. I put 1/2″ long beads through the top of them before they dried to feed fishing wire through them once assembled. The “aquarium” … Read more
I got this fish birthday cake idea from a magazine. My daughter said she wanted a fish themed party for her 8th birthday. So of course I went all out from fishnets and shell to fish cake bowls and so on. We had fish gummies and gold fish crackers for snack. I even went so … Read more
I made this Octopus Baby Shower Cake for my niece’s 1st baby shower. The theme for the shower was “Under the Sea with Baby and Me!” A cute rolled fondant octopus cake was the inspiration to this cute little fellow. Never having worked with fondant before, I used buttercream icing. I baked 3 cakes with … Read more
My son loved cars and trucks from early on so for his 1st birthday I decided to make him a construction cake. I made two sheet cakes from a store bought cake mixes. I used canned frosting and just added the food coloring to make the grass chocolate frosting for dirt and mixed white frosting … Read more
I used this birthday cake recipe for my friends son’s first birthday. He carries a stuffed orange octopus and she asked me to come up with an idea for an octopus cake. Here it is, and it really was simple to make! For this Octopus birthday cake recipe, I used the Wilton round 3D sports … Read more
I used a buttercream frosted cake with fondant penguin figurines and trees etc. on this Christmas Penguins Cake. The igloo is the Wilton Ball cake pan and the ball cake is also frosted with buttercream. The pond is colored piping gel.
Here’s the story behind my camera birthday cake design idea. My brother is a professional photographer and his favorite camera is the Canon 5D and his favorite lens is the Canon EF 100-400 Telephoto. When I thought of birthday cake design ideas for him I decided to make him a cake with this theme in mind. … Read more
When my 3 daughters had a combined Alaska themed party, I made this penguin one for my 7 year old who wanted penguins on her cake. I used store bought boxed marble cake mix. I used a rectangular shaped pan, about 10 x 8 and a few mini and regular size cupcakes. I iced the … Read more
This Homemade Apple Laptop Cake is a cake for my step-son’s 20th birthday. He’s a big fan of Apple products so I decided to surprise him with a laptop cake. This cake consists of the laptop, case, Iphone, and some post-its and pen. Laptop and case are chocolate cakes filled with chocolate pastry cream. Everything … Read more
This was for my seven year old daughters “Happy Feet” Birthday party. I got the idea from another cake I saw on the internet for cake decorating design ideas. We used a yellow butter cake from a box and I made the cream cheese icing from a recipe on the internet (mix room temperature 8 … Read more
This shark cake I made for son’s 7th birthday party.He loves sharks and has read an awful lot about them. The cake has been carved out of two 13×9 rectangular home made chocolate cakes, layered one on top of the other using butter cream icing as glue. I carved the cake using a small kitchen … Read more
Thanks to the previous contributors to this simply awesome website, I found fun ideas for a Wii cake for my son’s 5th birthday. My cake resembles a few of the cool Wii cakes posted here but has the added “Mii” (my son’s Mii) on the Wii console. The cake was a homemade butter cake with … Read more