My son and his 3 best friends all have birthdays one day after another, so they decided to have a joint party for their 7th birthday. All 4 worked on the idea for their cake, complete with drawings. It was decided that it should be a monster, but more silly than scary, it must have … Read more
I made a Happy Feet cake for my son’s 5th birthday, it was fun and actually fairly easy cake to make. I made vanilla cakes using multiple size pans and also a cupcake for the top and used dowels to support the cake. I used vanilla icing and Frostin Pride fluffy whipped frosting to ice the … Read more
I made this blue jeans cake for my daughter Alexia. I decided on jeans because I love the way she looks in her own jeans! It is German chocolate inside. The frosting is butter cream tinted in blue or yellow for the seaming. The button is a M&M. The star knee patches are cooking chocolate. … Read more
We had a pool party / end of the school year party this year and the invites and cake were flip flops. Like always I make everything from scratch and the cake was a midnight cake. The frosting was butter cream. I used a star frosting tip to give it some interest. I hope this inspires … Read more
I was asked to make a unicorn cake for a friend’s daughter for her 5th birthday. I didn’t know what to do at first and then figured rainbows and unicorns go great together. The bottom cake is a 12′ round and I made 5 layers, a green, blue, purple, yellow and red. I used white … Read more
This Hogwarts Ice Cream cone cake was made for my twins’ 9th birthday. I was inspired by cakes on this site, but once I got going, it became an original creation. This Hogwarts cake required very little skill, just props and an internet connection. As you can see, much of the cake it not cake … Read more
My son is a huge fan of trains. That’s nearly all he plays with. After searching this site for train cakes, I decided to get the Wilton train engine cake pan. I searched everywhere for an example of a train cake made with fondant with no success, so I decided to wing it. I’ve made … Read more
I got a message from a mother who was giving her daughter a Baby Shower. She said they decorated the baby’s room like a Rain Forest. So she asked if I could do something like that. I told her I’d do my best, so first thing I did was see what was in a rain forest. … Read more
My grandson was having a beach party theme for his pool-side birthday party. I created a half sheet cake that was white cake with cheesecake filling. I made water from tinted Swiss Meringue with a slope to the beach which was brown sugar. The beach boy and hat which did resemble my grandson are made … Read more
I ordered the castle cake kit from Wilton online, I’ve never made a castle cake before so I went the easy route! lol, although it didn’t end up being very easy! The towers kept tipping over. I used royal icing to hold them down but they would still lean, and my two year old kept … Read more
This shark birthday cake was a birthday cake I made for my mother’s 46th birthday. My sister helped me make the cake and she helped with some of the ideas. My mother is a scuba diver and her dream is to one day be able to swim with the sharks, it just so happened that … Read more
I had previously made my daughter a purse for a cake and this year she said that she wanted a high heel shoe as a cake. My 6 year old daughter loves shoes! All kinds of shoes but especially high heels. So I set out to figure out how to make it because every mother … Read more