My aunt absolutely loves fish especially tropical fish. She came in town the weekend of her birthday and we surprised her with a cook out at my house and I made this Puffer Fish Birthday Cake especially for her. It brought tears to her eyes because she said no one had ever done this for … Read more
For my daughters 7th birthday she wanted a Koi themed party. Luckily she has a summer birthday and we have a pool. Once we decided on the theme we planned a trip to NYC to one of our favorite stores: Pearl River in Soho. We purchased Koi windsocks for each guest as a goody bag … Read more
This fish birthday cake was my sons third birthday cake. I made two 9 inch rounds, iced together, cut a ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ into the opposite sides of the circle and turned the whole thing on its side. I iced it blue with flora and fish. I used nerds for the gravel which really made … Read more
The octopus on the Octopus Island Birthday Cake is created using gum paste and was hard to make just by going on pictures from others that I had seen. This was the third or fourth one made at that. The island the octopus is on was a half of the Wilton Sports Ball pan covered … Read more
We made this Homemade Octopus Cake for a school cake raffle. We got this awesome idea on our own. We used a pan that is for a basketball for the body and then Twinkies for the tentacles. It turned out really well! The body was made with a pan that is used for sports (basketball, … Read more
My son Audie loves lobsters, so for his 9th birthday i decided to make him a Lobster Birthday Cake. I used regular box cake and Wilton’s recipe for buttercream frosting. I made several rectangular cakes, circular cakes, and cupcakes, and cut out shapes for the lobsters body, arms, tail, head and eyes by hand. We … Read more
My son loves Happy Feet, so for his 2nd birthday we decided to make him a Happy Feet birthday cake. We used two round cake pans. We used a larger one for the body and a smaller for the head. I am not sure of the size, but you can use whatever size you need … Read more
I used a teddy bear shaped cake pan to make this Penguin cake. I cut off the ears and shaped the feet to make it look like a penguin. I used chocolate frosting for the black color and butter cream for the white and orange. I outlined his face and belly with the white, his … Read more
The cake decorating design ideas I had was such fun to figure out. I took the Stand up Wilton teddy bear and the mini teddy bear and on both I trimmed off all the arms, legs, ears, tails and noses so I basically had a snowman cake. I then piped in the black and white … Read more
I made this homemade shark birthday cake for my nephew’s 8th birthday! The cake is two 9-inch round cakes. I used Duncan Hines chocolate fudge mix and the frosting is homemade buttercream. The shark is made of marshmallow fondant, this was my first time working with fondant. I’m not sure how well I like using … Read more
This Shark birthday cake was a simple 9×13 cake using a box mix. One can of blue frosting, then piped on homemade cream cheese frosting for the shark. I used mini marshmallows cut diagonally for the teeth and a chocolate chip for the eye. Added some green licorice for seaweed, Swedish fish, gummy turtles, and … Read more
