I actually got this fish birthday cake idea from a magazine. My daughters birthday party was supposed to be a pool party but we got rained out. The trick to this fish birthday cake is that you MUST USE POUND CAKE. Believe me I didn’t catch that the 1st time I tried to stand it … Read more
I made this Homemade Ocean Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 1st birthday. His name is Kai, which means Ocean, so I thought this was an appropriate theme. It was fun to make and I learned a lot along the way. This is only the 4th cake that I’ve done using fondant. I started about … Read more
I saw this Pingu Cake Idea on one of Debbie Brown’s books and wanted to do it for my daughter’s 5th birthday because she loves Pingu. It may seem easy but I assure you that it is a quite difficult cake to prepare. First of all you should cover the board with white fondant and … Read more
For my daughter Emily’s 8th birthday she wanted a penguin cake. She was so pleased with it and we got so many comments that I thought I would share. A couple days before I made the cake, I made the wings, nose and feet from rolled fondant. I dyed the fondant, shaped the pieces and … Read more
My 16 year old daughter loves penguins. When the movie Happy Feet came out she wanted one for her birthday. I simply couldnt grasp the concept of trying that one so I went to a website that teaches children to draw penguins. I practiced my cake decorating design ideas on paper then when the time … Read more
I used a Wilton football mold for the Jaws Birthday Cake. Fondant for the teeth and logo, buttercream for the the rest. My nephew loved his cake and said it was the best he’d ever had.
My son was wanting a different looking cake. We looked on line and found a cake that I was going to order…then we discovered that the cake store was in London! So we decided we could come up with our own shark cake from what we had seen. I began with 2 bundt cakes,both strawberry.Then … Read more
I made this shark birthday cake for my 26 year old sister in law, Jane who loves the Jaws movies. I used the Jaws movie poster as my inspiration, but put “JANE” instead of “JAWS.” I did a 9×13 double layer strawberry cake to give it a feeling of bloodiness (my 4 year old son … Read more
It’s best to look at a shark picture while creating your cake. I used the wonder mold pan and cut out the mouth. I used 1/2 sheet for the bottom, iced blue with blue gel for the waves. The teeth were gum squares cut in half! I hope my shark picture of my cake helps … Read more
My son, who is obsessed with animals, requested a homemade narwhal cake for his 13th birthday. I looked up other narwhal cakes online, but some were really bad. I got this idea from another cake on this website, I think it was a killer whale cake. It took me four days to make this cake. … Read more