This English Garden Birthday Cake was made for my father in law and as he is a keen gardener with a beautiful garden. I made him a miniature garden cake, the cake is based on his own garden. The grass is green coloured coconut, I put the food colouring and the coconut in a small … Read more
I made this Farming Tractor Cake Design for my son’s second birthday; he loves trains and tractors. I used a Nordic Ware cake pan for the tractor shape. The cake is made of chocolate, cut in half; in the center there’s a layer of chocolate fudge. The cake is also covered in fudge, and for … Read more
I saw a similar version of flower cakes on a professional cake recipes and decorating website and loved it. For the flowers I used one cupcake for the center and surrounded it with six cupcakes for the petals. For the stems I piped out a random design with green frosting. I covered the ladybugs with … Read more
This Personalized Tractor Cake Design was a mess when I pieced it together out of a 9×13 and two 8″ rounds, but the frosting totally saved it! One full sized 8″ is the back wheel, then I used a baby formula lid to cut the smaller wheel out of the second 8″ round. The remaining … Read more
This cake was easy to make. The larger cactus is three cupcakes stacked on each other and each of the small cacti are cupcakes as well. The small cactus is green and dark green. I put green food coloring inside the decorating back to make it different colors when it came out. The flowers aren’t … Read more
This year my twin grandchildren’s birthday theme was John Deere. I ordered the girl and boy JD stuff on line and then worked cakes to coordinate. My grandson’s cake was a John Deere Birthday Cake. I had looked for other John Deere cakes and nothing inspired me. I used the Pantastic tractor cake pan and … Read more
I made this tractor cake for my nephews first birthday which was a John Deere theme. I used Wilton’s tractor pan and put it on top of two 9×13 sheet cakes. I used yellow cake mixes for all three cakes. I used chocolate icing for the sheet cakes and made the grass using white icing … Read more
I wanted to make my fire captain boyfriend something different for his birthday. I have made the fire truck and other fire department “significant others” made the other cakes that I found online. SOOOO… I got my creative juices flowing. For this homemade structure fire birthday cake I used homemade pound cake and homemade cream … Read more
I made this fire engine cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used 2 loaf pans for the fire engine and cake that is holding the candle. I cut one of the loaf pan cakes in half. I put 1/2 of the cake on top of the other loaf pan and iced it red for … Read more
I baked this flower cake for a friend of mine’s niece. It was her 16th birthday. At first my friend had asked me to bake her a butterfly cake (one from a butterfly pan) and I said I would, but after I thought a little more on it, I asked her if I could do … Read more
I modeled my Firetruck Cake after the coolest birthday cake #29 and used their design for inspiration. I made 3 9×13 cakes. The bottom and middle layer were cut in half vertically and measured about 6×8. I put one half in front of the other to make a ~6×16 firetruck bottom. I also cut the … Read more
I got this idea for a Spring Flowers Cake from Woman’s World. I had seen the picture and wanted to try it but didn’t really have an occasion till we decided to have a going away party for some friends of ours. I made the suitcase cake for both and this one was hers. I … Read more