I made this Koi Cake Design for my Grandma’s birthday. She has always had a fish pond since I can remember, and her Koi in it have to weigh close to 20 pounds each! So, I knew she would love this cake. It is a marbled chocolate-vanilla cake with a Kaluah-Coffe filling, vanilla buttercream and … Read more
This cake I actually found on this website for fish birthday cakes. There was a link to the recipe found on www.birthdayexpress.com. It turned out to be a really cool cake but working with the tail proved to be a challenge. I had to use a LOT of wooden skewers to hold the tail in … Read more
I baked 3- 9×12 cakes and stacked them on a wrapped board with buttercream icing between each layer. The cake stand was a wine rack that I turned upside down. I iced the Aquarium Birthday Cake in buttercream icing and cut out black fondant strips to make the frame for the aquarium. I air brushed … Read more
Got the pan from Williams and Sonoma, which was perfect for this octopus cake. Covered it with purple fondant and the sand was vanilla wafers. The fish were fondant too. Used the icing gels to color the water and everything else, love that the gels make everyone’s mouth turn blue! This is one of my … Read more
I made Octupus Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He helped with the decorating, so it’s really over the top! The base is 2 x 12 in rounds; the middle is 2 x 10 in rounds made with the butter cake recipe found on the Wilton’s site. I filled it with pastry cream and … Read more
We just got back from a cross-country road trip (from Southern California where we live all the way to the tip of Maine), when my youngest daughter had her 3rd birthday. Because we had spent a significant amount of time in Maine (and I lived there as a child myself), I decided to do a … Read more
I made this penguin birthday cake for my daughter’s second birthday, the night she was born was one of the coldest nights of that year and January around here typically is, so I wanted something wintery that did not have any ties to Christmas. I baked a regular yellow sheet cake from the box in … Read more
My friend said that her son would like a Penguin Birthday Cake Design for his 3 year old birthday party. OK, no problem! Well, after searching the internet for some ideas, here is what I ended up creating. I started with the base. I made two 10″ round vanilla cakes. I filled them with vanilla … Read more
I made this cake for my girlfriend’s daughters first birthday. I used a sheet cake pan and cut out the cake in the shape of a penguin. Frosted the whole cake white and then decorated it with pink icing. She requested a pink one instead of the old fashion black and white. It turned out … Read more
This site was a helpful visual guide on shark cakes. For the shark’s body, I took a little disposable aluminum loaf pan and molded it into a shark shape (with a pointy nose). Then I cooked a red velvet cake in it. While that was cooling I cooked a sheet cake. I let them sit … Read more
I used a rectangular cake pan and bread loaf pan for this Shark Birthday Cake Idea. I used marshmallow for the teeth, fruit rollup for the mouth and junior mints for the eyes.
This Shark Birthday Cake was for my son who really likes… can you guess? Yes, SHARKS! Even though sculpted cake seems a little intimidating, it wasn’t all that hard to do. Of course midway through the process, after stacking chopped layers of chocolate sponge cake with generous amounts of peanut butter cream it looked like … Read more