This Sand Castle Wedding Cake you would think would be for a birthday party or some kind of beach themed party. But no, this was a Wedding cake. You may have guessed, it was a beach themed wedding. This cake took me about a day and a half. I am used to making very formal … Read more
My friend’s mom made this homemade nursing cake… (not a professional cake artist) – came out great.
My 8 year old son wanted to have a “GROSS” birthday party so we had some gross activities and I made him this gross eye ball cake. It was actually really simple. I baked the cake in a glass bowl so that it would be round. The cake was iced in white, the center is … Read more
Bake a 9×13 chocolate (dirt) cake for this Camping Tent Birthday Cake. Frost it green, very smooth. Build tent using chocolate pop tarts, pretzel sticks and brown frosting. Make a circle of brown frosting and add campfire, using chocolate rocks, pretzel sticks and orange/red frosting. Fill one sugar cones with frosting, pipe out “needles” using … Read more
This beaker cake was made for my husbands 28th birthday (he’s a bit of a science nerd!). I started by baking a chocolate cake in a rectangle pan. I cut the beaker shape free form and iced the entire cake with white buttercream. I slightly heated green buttercream to make it more fluid and poured … Read more
My son had to make a cake and decorate for a Scout competition. I decided a Homemade Camping Theme Cake would be most appropriate. I searched this site to see what others had done. Using some of the tips and coming up with my own, I have my rendition to share. Use a decorating icing … Read more
I made this moon cake for a baby shower. The cake was made from a box of cake mix (yellow cake) as were the cupcakes. I used a round pan for the cake and after I had cooled the cake, I cut out the hole with a much smaller round pan to give it the … Read more
I started this Little Einstein cake with a sheet cake with 2 cake mixes for Rocket’s base and used 2 round cake pans for Rocket’s top. I shaved the top to make it round and used 2 dinner rolls for the engines. Graham crackers for the (things on the engines) – whatever they’re called! Tootsie … Read more
I made this Teddy Bear Picnic cake for my 2 year old’s birthday. A friend had seen something similar and sent me a photo so I gave it a go. The cake is a basic circular chocolate cake, which, I then covered in chocolate cream cheese and butter icing and finished with marshmallow fondant icing. … Read more
For my little girl’s 3rd birthday all she wanted was a Little Einsteins Rocket Cake. She had talked about it for over four months and was so excited about getting one. To make it I cooked 2 chocolate cakes – one in a large round tin and the other in a small pudding tin. Once … Read more
This Dirt Track Cake was a cake for my 13 year old grandson Eric. He is one of twins and he likes truck races. The bottom layer is a 11×15 cake pan. The other layers are 9×13 carved to fit, with a total of four layers. It is frosted with IMBC over the entire cake. … Read more
My inspiration for this Rocket cake is from Little Einsteins. I made a larger round cake and a smaller dome cake for the top. I iced the bottom cake first, then positioned the smaller cake on the top making sure enough space was left for the headlights. I put the blue icing on first for … Read more