My husband and I made this Monster Book Of Monsters Birthday Cake for our 1 and 2 year old son’s birthday. They love Harry Potter. We got the idea while watching our nightly dose of Harry before bed time. The cake is half devils food and half yellow cake with chocolate cream and fresh strawberries … Read more
This Disney Princess Castle Birthday Cake was a cake I made for my 5 year old niece. It was made from strawberry and Victoria sponge layers for the castle. The towers were made from Swiss rolls and ice-cream cones decorated in 100’s/1000’s. The castle and towers were imprinted with a brick pattern to make it … Read more
This Harry Potter Cake was for a young lady, Jordan’s birthday. I simply used two 9×13 cake pans. After layers the two cakes, I cut off about three inches off the length of the cake. I iced the sides which were the “pages” with white icing and used a fork to strike the lines for … Read more
I made this 4th Birthday Princess Cake for my daughter’s 4th princess themed birthday party. The bottom layer is a 10 inch cake, and the upper cake is 6 inches. I stacked the cakes and used pink crepe paper to hide the tier. I used canned frosting, and colored it pink for the detailing. To … Read more
I made this Bookworm Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 11th birthday since she reads a lot. I thought a bookworm cake was very appropriate. I had great fun doing this cake, it took me 3hrs to decorate. To make the sponge I used two quantities of Victoria sponge and baked them in an 8ins deep … Read more
I baked 2 sheet cakes and cut one slightly smaller to fit on the top. I placed five-sugar ice cream cones upside-down and frosted everything. I used small marshmallows on the top of the cones to put toothpicks through and wrapped fruit roll-ups cut to look like flags around them. I decorated the top of … Read more
I made this Fairy Birthday Cake for my niece who wanted a fairy cake for her birthday. I started by using a Wilton doll cake pan. I purchased a fairy doll with the colors she wanted. I then baked the cake using the bunt cake times for baking to ensure doneness throughout. I tinted butter … Read more
This cake castle was actually made out of Rice Krispie treats. The treats were cut and stacked together with icing in between. The towers were made by painting on royal-egg white-icing. After the construction was complete, the cake castle was decorated with green vines and varied pink flowers. It was a lot of fun to … Read more
As you can see this Fairy Cake Idea was my first foray into making flowers and mixing colours! Fortunately my niece thought it magical. She wanted fairies and Unicorns, I found several colouring books that had the subjects in them. I also can NOT draw, so I traced using tracing paper, transferred on to water … Read more
It took about 5-6 batches of cake batter to do it this large. I would estimate it would feed around 50 or so. I baked all the cakes about 10 days ahead of time and froze them. I tinted the cake batter with red liquid food coloring to make the cake itself pink and I … Read more
Bake two 9 inch round cakes and layer them with icing in between. Remember when stacking, the order should be top, bottom, bottom, top. I iced the entire cake and let it dry for 10 minutes. Then use a sheet of printer paper and lay it on the cake and rub out any creases in … Read more
