I looked all over the internet for a beautiful cake for my son’s 6th birthday. I even ended phoning a lady that did cakes from home but when I heard the price I hung up the phone quickly! So I plucked up the courage to make a massive cake for my son. He chose a … Read more
I used a Wilton 6 inch round pan for this caterpillar cake. After baking I cut the top off to make it level and let it cool. Once the cake was cool, I coated it with chocolate buttercream and placed in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. I smoothed chocolate marshmallow fondant over the cake and … Read more
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This Homemade Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake is the Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake my mum and I made for my son’s Tyler 1st Birthday. Together we made four 8inch round cakes, two chocolate flavoured and two butter creamed flavoured. We used a sports ball pan for the head and 10 cupcakes again different flavoured for the … Read more
I used (rented) the Wilton cruiser pan for this Racecar Birthday Cake. I used homemade fondant (found a recipe on the internet). I made a spoiler which I stuck in with toothpicks. After I covered the car with the blue fondant, I cut out the shapes I wanted for the windows, windshield, and headlights, and … Read more
My husband and I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for our baby’s first birthday. It took about 1 1/2 bundt cakes to get just the right shape to the caterpillar. I made the icing and just tried to swirl in the greens, etc for the body. There is a yellow outline along the … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. The party was for only 10 children and 30 adults so I didn’t want too much food colouring! I made a chocolate brownie base for the adults, approx 20x30cm, nice and solid. I made mini cupcakes made from a plain lemon cupcake … Read more
This turned out to be one of those tricky race car picture cakes because I didnt use a car-shaped pan. I made if for my grandchild. It is a rather funny, but cute cake, modeled after a ’69 Mustang. I enjoyed doing this and my son, Daniel, 16, helped me with the logistics of it. … Read more
I wanted to make a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake but one that reflected the book clearly so my one year old could identify it more easily. I made a basic large lemon sponge cake, covered it with roll out icing (stuck down with lemon curd). I traced the leaf from the book, cut it out … Read more
We had a cars and trucks theme for my son Jaxs 2nd Birthday! I looked for kids birthday cakes online and found this idea. The cake I found was two round cake pans and it had a race track on it which looked like a figure eight. I decided to shape the road like a … Read more
After browsing through hundreds of beautiful childrens birthday cake ideas on this site I decided on the caterpillar for my grandsons first birthday party. I used the Wilton Sports Ball cake pan for the large caterpillar. I couldn’t find the mini-ball cake so for the smaller caterpillar (‘smash cake’ as someone else called it) I … Read more
