The Little Mermaid is a white chocolate colored mold using a Wilton cake pan, also the shells and under the sea creatures are also white chocolate molds. The sand is brown sugar. This Under The Sea Cake was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used regular boxed cake mix, and Wilton icing. The octopus mold … Read more
This Royal Flush cake was made for a friend’s brother who owns a local bar and is big into POKER! It was his 40th birthday and they were having a big bash for him. The cake is made up of 4 9X13 cakes (two on the bottom,two on top). It was iced with the Wilton … Read more
I made this Homemade Underwater Cupcake Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday, because we were doing an “octopus” theme. I made two flavors of cupcakes (chocolate and strawberry), baked in color-coordinating liners for where they would be placed on my cake sheet. Then, after frosting them, I rolled each one in colored sugar/sprinkles to … Read more
I decided to surprise my daughter’s boyfriend and make him a cake for his 25th birthday. He likes to play poker so I figured I would try to make a poker chip cake. I used 2 round cakes. I then used buttercream icing to cover both cakes. I used colored fondant for the cake as … Read more
The layers were 14, 10, and 8 inches. I iced the cake in ivory and made all the sea shells out of white chocolate, I used petal dust to give them their color. I piped seaweed with a #4 writing tip, and used ivory edible pearls to accent around the shells. The cake took me … Read more
This crab cake was actually pretty simple to make. My son Kevin had a “hermit crab” party where all the kids got to decorate their hermit crabs shells, the cage and they actually took home a hermit crab! I wanted to make a little hermit crab cake to go along with the theme. I took … Read more
I decided to make this cake for my friends mom. She loves her slot machines. I really had no idea how to make it. I used a lot of different ideas for special occasion cakes from different pictures. And my slot machine cake came out just as I wanted. My friend’s mom also loved it. … Read more
My daughter was having her 9th birthday party on the beach and wanted a dolphin cake to keep with the ocean theme. After looking at several cakes on various web sites including this one, and looking at a dolphin picture, we came up with the idea of making the cake out of rice crispies. I … Read more
My sister and I created this carousel cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday. After looking at many of the cakes online here, my daughter decided on a carousel cake. Using ideas from other cakes, my sister and I created this unique cake. The cake itself is a basic 1-2-3 cake comprised of two 12-inch layers … Read more
My husband is a fishing FANATIC. When I was originally trying to decide what to do for our son’s first birthday cake, I figured it was a no brainer that it would be fish-themed. I was going to try a layered cake done with fondant and fish shapes all around it. But that seemed like … Read more
This Carousel Birthday Cake was a simple adaptation of those on this wonderful site. It was created for my 2year old who loves carousels. We were not having a party and it was just going to be the immediate family of 5 adults, 1 sibling whose birthday is also in a few days. My objective … Read more
I made this Trout Fish birthday cake for a friend using a yellow box cake, vanilla pudding filling and white canned frosting to cover a base coat on the cake. The fish image came from researching fish, in particular trout, images online. I then drew my chosen image on the cake freehand, and decorated it … Read more