Believe it or not, here are our first pirate cakes (Ship and Island)! A joint effort. I got so carried away with making the cake I forgot to take stage by stage pictures but Ill try to explain best I can. Ships ‘planking’ made from brown colored fondant icing (when coloring the white icing I … Read more
Read Monas “Party-Tale”: The story behind the cake…s “Party-Tale”: The story behind the cake…
My son wanted a chocolate cake for his ‘turning 2 cake.’ So my son and daughter and I sat down and drew up our Farmyard Birthday Cake idea. Tractors area huge part of my son’s life (we live on 165 acres of agricultural land and huge corn/pumpkin/cattle farm across the street.) The tractor was purchased … Read more
By exploring your theme-site I was able to create my own version of a pirate birthday cake for the party. I love creating cakes and themes for my son’s birthday. I usually take a lot of time in decorating the cakes and making them from scratch. But this year I simplified the task by simply … Read more
This cake was made for a 6 year old. He wanted a farm/garden to go with his love for John Deer Tractors. I made two sheet cakes from a box and made some homemade Butter cream frosting. I started by frosting the garden area and the dirt road with white. I grinded up chocolate graham … Read more
I made this pirate ship for my sons third birthday. I wanted to make something different to the usual pirate ship cakes so this is what I made. I baked a round sponge cake and cut it in two in the middle. I cut a bit in the center of the lower half to make … Read more
Little Red Barn Cake is the name of the cake. I found it on the Pillsbury website. I cut out a template,traced it on a sheet cake. Hope you get the idea. I used shoe string potatoes, graham crackers, animal crackers etc. Do your own thing, have fun with it.
These Pirate Cupcakes are a first attempt at royal icing cupcakes for a friend’s daughters birthday party. I made 30 cupcakes. I tried my best to level them all and then added ganache. Once that had set I started working on the royal icing. It was a fair amount of work but they were a … Read more
I made this Farmyard Birthday Cake Idea for a friend who’s little boy was turning two years old. It was my first time to use marshmallow fondant. Once I learned to cover my hands with JUST A DAB of Crisco, the fondant was a fun challenge. The frosting is buttercream and chocolate buttercream. The barn … Read more
I made this Pirates cake for a friend. It was just a chocolate cake with milk chocolate icing and I drew the movie logo. I think it turned out pretty well!
My boy Phillip turned 1 year old on 16 Jan 2012. He absolutely adores animals, all kinds, so I decided on a cheerful farm-themed birthday party. I used a large sheet cake for the ‘farm yard’ and cut a second sheet of cake into 4 pieces, stacked them and shaped the top to form the … Read more
I made this cake for a barn themed party. I used the Wilton house cake pan then frosted it red for the barn. The hay on the ground is toasted coconut. For the haystacks I used cupcakes and the Wilton mini dome pan – the dome cakes are the haystacks next to the barn by … Read more