I made this Octopus Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It was an under the sea theme. The base was 2 9 inch rounds stacked, doweled and covered in fondant. Then I added the circled cut out of fondant. For the octopus I baked it in the Wilton ball pan. Then frosted, doweled and … Read more
I used a buttercream frosted cake with fondant penguin figurines and trees etc. on this Christmas Penguins Cake. The igloo is the Wilton Ball cake pan and the ball cake is also frosted with buttercream. The pond is colored piping gel.
When my 3 daughters had a combined Alaska themed party, I made this penguin one for my 7 year old who wanted penguins on her cake. I used store bought boxed marble cake mix. I used a rectangular shaped pan, about 10 x 8 and a few mini and regular size cupcakes. I iced the … Read more
This was for my seven year old daughters “Happy Feet” Birthday party. I got the idea from another cake I saw on the internet for cake decorating design ideas. We used a yellow butter cake from a box and I made the cream cheese icing from a recipe on the internet (mix room temperature 8 … Read more
I made this Shark Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s 4th birthday. After checking this site for ideas, I decided I liked the cakes with a picture of a shark better than the ones that tried to sculpt a shark out of cake. I drew this shark freehand with a toothpick, looking at a shark … Read more
My soon to be 3 year old son has been obsessed with Orcas for a little over a year now, so we thought what better theme for a birthday party than ” Killer Whales”. I just used two boxes of Betty Crocker Chocolate cake mix for this Killer Whale Birthday Cake Design and made a … Read more
My sister in law wanted me to make my nephew’s birthday cake. I’ve been teaching myself how to make cakes on and off for a few years now so he wanted a shark cake. She found a picture of the shark on line so I star piped him grey. I put him on top of … Read more
I made this cake for a friend’s 3 year old daughter’s birthday party. It was a last minute favor and I think the cake turned out well. She wanted a homemade whale cake design because her daughter was having an underwater theme party. I started out by baking two 11 x 15 sheet cakes. I … Read more
I made this Homemade Ocean Wonderland Cake for my son’s second birthday. He loves fish so we had an ocean themed day. I wanted it to be big enough to show a lot of detail so I stacked two 9 X 13 cakes. Strawberry on the bottom and chocolate on the top. All of the … Read more
The Little Mermaid is a white chocolate colored mold using a Wilton cake pan, also the shells and under the sea creatures are also white chocolate molds. The sand is brown sugar. This Under The Sea Cake was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used regular boxed cake mix, and Wilton icing. The octopus mold … Read more
I made this Homemade Underwater Cupcake Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday, because we were doing an “octopus” theme. I made two flavors of cupcakes (chocolate and strawberry), baked in color-coordinating liners for where they would be placed on my cake sheet. Then, after frosting them, I rolled each one in colored sugar/sprinkles to … Read more
