My sister adores butterflies and for her birthday asked if I could make her a purple butterfly. This is the Wiltons butterfly pan and for the icing colors I found the neon colors food dye and followed the directions on the box for the color mixtures. I also had an idea about “bug guts” so … Read more
This Homemade Caterpillar Birthday Cake was for niece Katie-Beth’s 11th birthday. I bake all the birthday cakes for my nephew, his wife and their 11 kids!! What fun to see their expectant faces as I arrive at the parties! I baked a strawberry cake mix with added mini chocolate chips in a bundt pan. I … Read more
I found this great website when I was looking for an idea for my son’s second birthday cake. And as I have read a lot in this site, my son loves cars, so I thought the best idea is to make him a car cake. It was the first time I ever read about fondant. … Read more
Our son’s Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake turned out AWESOME! I baked it, and my patient, and talented sister – Cristy iced it! We hated to cut it! It only took 5 hours of baking and 5 hours icing! What fun! The head was vanilla cake, the teal ones was lemon, the red was red velvet, … Read more
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
