This was my first time working with marshmallow fondant, or fondant of any kind. I searched the internet and found a really easy recipe for this fondant which I made about a week before my son’s birthday. I stored the fondant in a ziploc bag in the fridge. I decorated the cake the morning of … Read more
I made this Little Einsteins cake from one round 8′ pan. I had planned to purchase a dome pan but had a hard time finding a dome pan so at the last minute and opted to cut a Styrofoam ball in half. Wilton carried a dome pan. And I contemplated using one of those pans … Read more
This was a challenge, I made the planets from rice krispie treats, colored each in fondant then brushed them so they would shine. I thought someone might be interested, I searched online and could find nothing that helped me with this solar system cake.
I made the solar system for my outer space boys 4th birthday. He didn’t just want Earth, he wanted all the planets, plus the moon and the sun and I had to come up with a few unique birthday cakes. A month ahead of the party I baked all of the cakes in Pyrex bowls … Read more
This Space Shuttle Birthday Cake Design was made for my son’s 13th birthday. I made this cake out of 4, 13 X 9 cakes. The bottom that looks like “space” is 2 of the 4 cakes. I put them together, leveled and ‘dirty iced’ them. Then I put a top layer of black on for … Read more
I made this cake for my sister Jenny’s fifteenth birthday. She loves sunshine/moon things so I thought it would be cool to try and make a sunshine cake. The cake was made of yellow mix but you can do whatever flavor you want of course. I baked the mix in two nine inch circle pans. … Read more
I made this Outer Space Moon Landing cake for my son’s fifth birthday. The party was an Astronaut Training Party. The cake itself is from a mix. The base is a half sheet cake (3 cake mixes). For the moon and the planets, I used different sized glass mixing bowls (2 each for the round … Read more
I must first say that this Little Einsteins Rocket Birthday Cake is my first attempt at cake decorating; clearly I am not a pro!! Having made my disclaimer, here’s how I made this cake (which took about 4 hours including baking time). Pans: Wilton 3D Egg Pan (1 box of mix) and an 8×8 pan … Read more
This Homemade Little Einsteins Birthday Cake is a basic vanilla recipe. I didn’t want anything crazy because it was for a 2 year old. I used a glass casserole dish for the base, try to find one that resembles an egg. I filled it about 1/4 full of batter. I then used a 9″ cake … Read more
I made this rocket birthday cake for my son Dexter’s fourth birthday. I made two cakes using the Wilton football cake pan (one cake mix per cake). Using a toothpick I sketched an outline of the top layer of rocket. I cut out a rough shape of the top layer of rocket out of one … Read more
I prepared this Little Einsteins cake for a friend. I used a half sheet cake for the bottom layer. I iced it with sky blue butter cream icing with a star tip boarder around the bottom. For the rocket I baked a one layer 8″ round cake and tapered the top edge for a rounded … Read more
My son has really been into the solar system/outer space recently, so we agreed to design and make his 5th birthday cake a Solar System cake. I decided to make a 9×13 sheet cake from a regular cake mix, since I figured that would give me a good “canvas” to start with. Beginning with white … Read more