I made this Homemade Topsy Turvy Dora Cake for my grand daughter’s 3rd birthday and it was my first attempt at a Topsy Turvy cake. I love the way it turned out and would only change the slope of the bottom cake if I could. I have seen these cakes on the internet and thought … Read more
I made this Pirate Ship Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton pirate cake pan. I used Wilton candy melts and spread them into the mold to pick up the design. White in the skeleton and sails, tan for the boat. I put the pan in the freezer briefly to quickly … Read more
My first attempt at a Topsy Turvy cake for my brother’s 15th birthday. The layers are (2) 8″cakes, (2) 6″cakes and (1) 4″ cake. I made homemade (white) marshmallow fondant days prior which was relatively easy to use and MUCH less expensive plus it was tasty. The cake was a chocolate chip pound cake (would … Read more
For this pirate cake, I baked a regular sheet cake first and then used a small disposable bunt cake pan for the ship and a small round pan for the island. I frosted the sheet cake white and used my knife to bring up some of the frosting to create waves. I then used Wilson … Read more
I made this Topsy Turvy Fiesta Cake for my daughter who wanted and Mexican Fiesta themed cake. I watched a couple of Topsy Turvy Cake tutorials and then got to work. I baked 3 of each 9 inch, 7 inch, and 5 inch confetti cakes. I froze them separately. I them assembled the cakes with … Read more
I baked 3 square 10×10 cakes and stacked them together, froze them overnight to make it easier to carve the Homemade Pirate Ship Birthday Cake. The next day I made a pattern of the view of the top of the ship out of wax paper and started carving away. I covered it in MM fondant. … Read more
My little brother wanted an army theme for his birthday, but rather than recreate the Korean War (which he actually asked me to do), I figured a Army Battlefield Cake would suffice. I used two sheet cakes stacked on top of one another with a layer of frosting in between. I also used a small … Read more
My 3 year old son wanted nothing more than a Pirate Birthday party. Being a total and complete cake baking novice, I was terrified. As tradition dictated, I immediately launched myself onto the coolest-birthday-cakes website in hope of inspiration and assurance. Success. I found several amazing cakes (and amazing behind-the-scene mom’s) and finally decided that … Read more
I used a basic chocolate cake recipe from The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook, with the Vanilla Buttercream and Rich Chocolate Buttercream icing for this pirate ship cake. I did 1 1/2 the amount called for in the cake recipe to make a 9×13 sheet cake as well as one 8 inch round cake. For the … Read more
This Homemade Target Cake was a simple cake to prepare. I made the cake of two boxes of chocolate cake mix and one box of pound cake. I modified the ingredients a bit, I used five eggs between the three boxes and I used ¼ less oil and water than each box of chocolate cake … Read more
We made this cake using multiple 9 inch round pans and stacking them at varying heights to make the ship. We froze each piece to make them sturdier to work with when we started to frost. We used the darkest Duncan Hines icing we could find for the main cake color. We also used dowell … Read more
My parents are both artists who mainly do watercolors AND their birthdays are 4 days apart. They loved this Artist Palette Birthday Cake. After seeing other cakes like it on this site and the web, I found a clip art picture of an artists palette, enlarged it and cut it out. I baked and stacked … Read more