My son wanted a rocket birthday cake this year. After doing a bit of exploring, I came up with the idea to make an additional cake of the earth that the rocket could be shooting off from. For the earth, I used a basic chocolate cake recipe and baked it in a metal mixing bowl … Read more
This Rocketship Birthday Cake was for a 3-year-old birthday party and he wanted a rocketship. I used yellow cake and homemade buttercream frosting tinted red, white, and blue. I layered two 6″ cakes, then 2 5″ inch cakes and then two 4″ inch cakes with dowels and cardboard between the different sizes. I used an … Read more
I created this Saturn cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He was really into planets and Saturn was his absolute favorite planet. I used a dome-shaped pan for the planet and simply laid it on a sheet cake. I made Saturn’s rings out of “Fun Foam” and rested them on toothpicks protruding from Saturn’s sides. … Read more
My son wanted a solar system cake for his 7th birthday party. He really wanted the main cake to be Earth and the other planets orbiting around it. I am still learning cake decorating tips and thoroughly enjoy making fun cakes for my children’s birthdays but still have lots to learn. Earth is made out … Read more
My son is totally into space and requested a Space Shuttle Birthday Cake. This cake was baked as a large sheet cake. I found several pictures of space shuttles from several different angles on line and printed them out. Using them as a guide, I carved out the base of the cake. Then, I carved … Read more
I made fondant out of marshmallow and powdered sugar, colored it yellow, rolled it out and covered the Sunshine Cake. I then cut out the rays for the sun and used a q-tip and red food coloring to make the cheeks and black gel for the eyes and mouth. I hope you enjoy!
I made this moon cake for my daughter’s first birthday. The moon and stars are done in chocolate cake. Cut the cake into shape and freeze to prevent crumbling during icing. Ice with yellow icing. I also coloured some plain sugar with yellow food colouring and sprinkled it on top to create a shining effect. … Read more
Let me make this as easy as possible. First I’ll list the items I used on this Little Einsteins Rocket cake then I’ll explain how: Wilton Football cake pan Wilton 3-D Egg cake pan Wilton 12 inch round cake pan (2) 24 oz. pkgs of Wilton Ready-To-Use White Rolled Fondant (2) 1 oz bottles of … Read more
I was around 12 when my mom got me my first plastic decorating kit, and I was hooked! I’ve made dozens of cakes over the years, and now that I have my own kiddos, well, it’s even more fun, and challenging. My 3 year old loves “Rocket” so thought I’d give a Little Einstein Rocket … Read more
I made this rocket cake for a co-worker’s daughter’s birthday. She wanted an outer space cake, so I thought this would be cute. I made the space ship from the Wilton football pan. The bottom layer is a regular 1/2 sheet pan. All the icing is buttercream. To make the ‘fire’ put both red and … Read more
We made this Homemade Solar System Birthday Cake for our son’s 5th birthday. He knows all about the solar system and informed us of many details that should be included. First of all, he is in love with Pluto and insisted that we include the dwarf planet. Second, Uranus got hit a long time ago … Read more
Our 3 and 5 year old boys love rockets and anything outer space so I made them this NASA Shuttle Orbiting Earth Cake. The earth cake is made from three layers of 8″ round cakes stacked together and then carved down to a half-sphere shape. My wife and brother-in-law then painstakingly tried to accurately portray … Read more