This Castle birthday cake was for a young lady who loves Scotland and all of it’s history. She graduated grade 12 and it seemed fitting to do a castle cake. The cake topper was styro foam and covered with rock stamped fondant. The towers were paper towel rolls covered with rock stamped fondant. I made … Read more
I made this cake for my best friends two little boys and their Harry Potter themed joint birthday party. I searched for Harry Potter cakes but in the end made this monster book. I used two cakes, one 15 x 11 1/2 sheet cake for the monster book and formed open book pan the same … Read more
This Harry Potter Gingerbread Hogwarts Cake has lots of fiddly bits but fun to make! Gave it away for my school Christmas Fete which had a Hogwarts theme. The most tricky bit was cooking the gingerbread into tubes for the towers!
I made this Wrist Watch Cake for my stepson Brian who is obsessed with watches. I am an amateur baker and this is only my 5th cake of this caliber that I have made. It was a lot of fun, although time consuming. The details is what I think makes the cake so neat. Brian … Read more
There will be several large chunks of cake left over and they should be placed around the bottom of the first round cake. With buttercream icing you will “glue” all the layers and chunks together. Now you should color rolled fondant a light gray. Remove a small amount of the fondant and make a long … Read more
I baked an 11×11 inches butter cake and a 9 inch round chocolate cake. I saved some batter and made 1 cupcake. Anissa wanted pink butter cream icing with strawberry jam. On a large cake board I crumb coated the square cake and round cake on a circle cake board. I then used drinking straws … Read more
For my daughter’s 6th birthday she wanted me to do a Doll Fairy Cake and I tried baking the cake in a glass dish which did not work out. Then I doubled up on my cake mixture and baked two round cakes in the silicone holder (which is bigger in dimensions) the night before. I … Read more
For this Disneyland cake castle, make 1 large cake for base, and 1 small cake for upper level. Then frost entire cake white. You will need Disney edible toppings, regular ice cream cones, sugar ice cream cones (for the castle stems) one choc. Graham cookie (for the draw bridge), color sprinkles, toothpicks (for flags), black … Read more
My daughter wanted a Tinkerbell cake and saw a picture of a really complex one that you had to buy a kit for. After looking at it, I decided it was too expensive and too complex (required airbrushing and was 3 layers complete with waterfall and pond) and that I could come up with something … Read more
For the cones, I got the idea off the internet. I used regular ice cream cones and rolled them in melted white chocolate, then sprinkled lavender sugar crystals over that and added a squirt of frosting on top. The sugar crystals were found at a craft store that carries cake supplies. It was a fun, … Read more
I made a quadruple recipe carrot cake from scratch. One of the cake batches went into 3 9 inch cake pans. Another batch went into a Pampered Chef Pyrex bowl (to make the hill). The final two batches went into a large rectangle pan (it’s actually double a 9×13″ pan). The large Pixie Hollow Birthday … Read more
I wanted to have somewhere on the cake to say Happy 4th Birthday, so I made a little sign and covered with contact paper and put 2 princess stickers on it. I also printed a picture of my daughter out and covered with contact paper to put on the castle cake. It was her Halloween … Read more