My friend, Jessie, and I wanted to make a cake for fun over the summer break. We came up with this idea and used food coloring to make the cake foot-colored. We used Airheads and cut them up for toenails. We used Airheads and Twizzler twists for the flip-flops.
I used two long loaf tins to make a chocolate sandwich cake and created the hull by cutting two corners off to create a point. The first cake was the base and the second was used for the raised decking. I then iced the sailing ship cake as normal. I used mint matchsticks to create … Read more
My son loves school buses. I got this great idea of a to celebrate his birthday with a Homemade School Bus Birthday Cake. This was my second cake using fondant. A little bit more difficult than a regular circle or rectangle cake. The hardest part, which I should have planned better, was the support under … Read more
This homemade dressing table cake design was rather easy to make. I used a shaped, cake pan which made the dressing table easier to “sculpt”. Then I just placed all her toys that were lying around to beautify the top. Saved lots of time as I don’t know how to sculpt marzipan and was able … Read more
I began this Spa Girl Cake by making 2- 9 inch round cakes. I layered them and iced with buttercream. I used store bought fondant, and colored it with Wilton’s violet paste. Then, I rolled the fondant and applied it to the cake. I made the face out of a Styrofoam egg shape that I … Read more
This dump truck was so much fun to make but time consuming too. I started by baking two 9×13″ cakes. Once cooled I cut out the shapes I needed and put the pieces together to resemble a dump truck. It took 2 tubs of icing to cover everything and that was the most time consuming … Read more
A friend of ours has a company of dump trucks. I was asked to commission a truck cake for their to be 13 year old son. His mother suggested a Homemade Double Dump Truck Cake and said that orange was his favorite color. After making the main truck and realizing it was rather small (they … Read more
My cousin asked me to bake her a cake for her 25th birthday. I always say she’s my “Barbie Doll”, since loves bright pink, animal prints, star-shaped stuff, etc. So, I decided to make her this zebra print cake. It is a simple vanilla cake, with layers of strawberry jam and chocolate. I first covered … Read more
For this construction cake I used three 9×13 cakes, graham crackers (whole and unbroken), and Wilton’s decorator frosting (yellow, light blue). Cut one of the 9×13 cakes in half so you have 2 short rectangles. Layer the two remaining cakes as you would any double layer cake. Then place one of the halves at the … Read more
I first want to explain that Michael Paul wanted a Scoop cake but his mother didnt want the face on it just the truck; therefore I made Scoop without a face. To make dump cake I used two regular sized loaf pans and four mini loaf pans. The body of the truck is the two … Read more
Ann-Christine was turning eleven so I made her favorite chocolate cake. She loves being outdoors, and she’ll totally get engrossed in her own little world once she’s got her book to read, her iPod and Kaasy, her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She likes to tune out and we let her be. Based on that, it … Read more
The design of this garden cake is not exclusively mine though, I tend to take bits and pieces of ideas from other online cakes to create mine. The two flower pots were made from a cupcake and a mini-mini-cake pan. The pot of mum’s is my favorite and was so simple to do using a … Read more