The towers are just cupcakes stacked together with an ice cream cone on top. I used lots of icing to fill in and act as glue with lots of cake sticks. All the princesses on the cake belong to my daughter. I think they were the perfect size for the cake. Everyone loved the cake.
The cake is composed of two stacked layers. A cake topper was made with a paper fairy as the focal point. A pre-made butterfly was added for drama. Surrounding the fairy cakes are berries and buds made from gum paste and gold berries from the craft store. They are all anchored in a fondant and … Read more
We also made the little flags out of paper we colored and then glued them onto toothpicks and inserted them into the ends of the sugar cones. This was a very easy cake to make. My only problem was it was very hot that day and the icing began to melt and caused the top … Read more
I made this Sombrero cake for a friend’s 29th birthday party. I was asked to make a cake to suit a Mexican themed surprise party that would feed 60 people. Well, that was a challenge, since I’ve never made a custom cake before. Here’s how I did it. I baked 2 giant chocolate chip cookies … Read more
I frosted this cake with homemade butter cream frosting and sprinkled clear edible glitter across the entire cake. For the flags I used white cardstock and stamped pink flowers using a Stampin-up rubber stamp and then taped the flags to a toothpick to stick into the castle towers.
I made two 9″ round cakes and topped them with two 8″ round cakes with icing in between all layers for this castle birthday cake. I coated them in purple icing. I covered paper towel rolls in fondant icing and spray painted them purple with spray food color for the marble effect. I did the … Read more
This bow cake was made for a friend’s 22nd birthday. The cake inside is s butter cake recipe (Duncan Hines and it tasted really yummy). Its iced with a crusting buttercream recipe (then I dyed a soft pink). I then used the paper towel method (Google it) to smooth out my edges (icing a cake … Read more
This cake was a challenge. First I made two 10×13 cakes using castle cake recipes from this site, stacked them on top of each other then frosted them. I used large muffins for the towers and stacked them two on top of each other holding them together with wooden Kabob skewers. I placed one going … Read more
This Present Birthday Cake was my second attempt at making a cake with fondant. My husband and my mother-in-law have birthdays close together, so I decided to make a square present for the both of them. The cake was a homemade peanut butter cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and covered with homemade fondant. The bow … Read more
I got the idea for this Disney princess castle cake off this website. Originally I was going to make a Minnie Mouse cake but since I didnt want to buy a special pan to make it I decided instead on this one. It was really easy! The bottom layer is just your normal 9×13 size … Read more
I made this Present Birthday Cake for my niece’s 2nd birthday. I got the idea from the book Confetti Cakes for Kids by Elisa Strauss. I began by making the tissue paper out of gum paste that I coloured blue. I rolled it quite thin, cut it into varying sizes of squares and then set … Read more
I started off this Princess Pillow Cake by making 2-11×15 sheet cakes. I then carved off cake to make them into a square shape. I stacked and iced the square cake. I then colored some fondant blue and covered the cake with it. I took the dull end of a butterknife and made the quilted … Read more