With inspiration from Mary Kay of thepartyworks.com I was inspired to do this solar system birthday cake after my daughter came to me and asked for a solar system cake the week of her party. I freaked out when I saw some of the cakes because I have never taken a baking or cake decorating … Read more
For our son’s 7th Birthday, we were doing a Patriotic Space Shuttle Adventure party. I’d searched online and had seen all those beautiful and fancy cakes and was searching for an easier option. I found a cake on the Betty Crocker site that was a 3D cake and then had come across a NASA model … Read more
My son, Max, was turning six and wanted an “imagination” party. He wanted the cake to reflect all the things he was passionate about, so he asked for the Earth, all the planets, dinosaurs, a volcano, and Superman! So, here it is! The Earth cake is made from a half round cake and covered in … Read more
My son is really into The Little Einsteins, so for his birthday my wife decided to have that as the theme. She bought all the party favors then looked for a cake pan. Well, she didn’t find one. So I studied the picture of Rocket and came up with an idea. We had two oval … Read more
I took two oval shaped pans, one larger than the other, made a Madeira cake (or pound cake). As soon as they were out of the oven I wrapped them in foil and cooled them, then placed them in the freezer overnight. I had pre-bought: 1kg of red regal icing (I’ve tried to make red … Read more
My son wanted a rocket cake last year, so away I went. This is a six layer cake, so three recipes. I used the same size 8″ pan for all of them and filled them with chocolate butter cream. I inserted about 5 wooden skewers cut to the right height to stabilize the tall cake. … Read more
My 2 year old really loves The Little Einsteins! And his favorite toy is the rocket so that is where I got inspired to make this Rocket Cake Design for his birthday. It was much easier than I anticipated. I used two boxes of Betty Crocker Butter Cake Mix. Baked two 9 inch rounds and … Read more
I made a cake mix in a large rectangle cake pan and after cooling it I cut the cake in half and turned the cake pieces long ways. Cut two triangles off the top corners to use for bottom. I have a candy store near to me that had gummy letters I could use for … Read more
This Space Birthday Cake was made for my son Christian on his 10th birthday. He’s an avid space/planet fan so I made him a cake of the 9 planets. I Googled planets and came up with the exact order they come in and what they look like, colors etc, and based this cake off of … Read more
For my son’s 9th birthday,I made him a Space Shuttle cake since he likes NASA and space exploration so much. I made the tip out of card stock paper that I coiled into a cone and covered it in black icing. I baked part of cake in a bar pan and carved out for wings. … Read more
My son Cole has always challenged us with his unique birthday theme ideas and celebration cakes he wants. My challenge is always making the cakes myself for my childrens birthdays. Cole became fascinated with rockets and space so for his fifth birthday he wanted a space themed party. We first found an excellent website for … Read more
This Earth Day cake may not be geographically correct but it was fun, yummy and educational. The mold used was a sports ball mold you can purchased at any craft store. I used 1 1/2 cans of store bought vanilla frosting, 3/4 for the outside dyed blue, 1/4 dyed green for the continents and half … Read more