For my son’s 1st birthday I went with an under the sea theme. I first found the plates and party decorations that I wanted to use and from there I came up with the Homemade Giant Octopus Birthday Cake. I used a Wilton 12×2 pan for the bottom layer, a Wilton 10×2 pan for the … Read more
My nephew requested a lobster cake for his 9th birthday dinner, my brother of course bought him a steamed lobster from the grocery store. I decided to take his request one step further and baked him a lobster shaped cake. I was so disappointed to find that there were no lobsters on this site, I … Read more
When my daughter turned two, she was really into “Happy Feet.” We decided to venture away from our typical Wilton pan birthday cake and do a freehand Happy Feet Birthday Cake. Using the Happy Feet napkin design, my husband cut the Happy Feet shape seen in the picture using a serrated knife. We used a … Read more
I made this Penguin Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday! I layered seven eight inch rounds and sculpted the top 2/3 for the head/upper body. The sculpting was a challenge since I’d never done it before! I used fondant for the belly and eyes and black frosting for the body. While not a masterpiece, … Read more
You can use any cake and frosting recipe. Bake cake and frost. Cover with blue colored fondant. The ice and snow are done with royal icing which I applied with a tip (Wilton #11 or #12) and also used a (damp) knife to spread. Use tip #2 or #3 for the fine/pointy pieces of ice. … Read more
This Homemade Shark Birthday Cake Idea is a composite of every shark cake on this site. Thank you all for such wonderful advice and tips and pictures. The coolest thing I discovered from this venture was that I can make virtually any shape, given enough cake. The early picture of the raw carving could be … Read more
My Shark Picture Birthday Cake has been made by “the cake shop”, at Grenoble, in France. This is a shop in which you can find everything possible for amazing cakes you want to do or you want them to do for you ! Indeed, I asked them to make me a birthday cake with the … Read more
I made this Homemade Jaws Shark Cake for my 20yr old nephew’s birthday. He loves movies and asked for the Jaws movie Poster as a cake. The cake is a chocolate cake which I made in a large roasting tin. I wanted the actual shark to be the cake so I used fondant icing on … Read more
This shark is copied from shark pictures. It was for my sons 5th birthday. This cake was drawn completely free hand. The teeth were made out of nuts. I can’t remember what kind but I looked at all the packages and picked out the kind that most resembled teeth. I picked through the nuts for … Read more
My little one wanted a blue whale cake from day one, so I just had to live up to the challenge. I’ve used rice crispy treat to form the body and covered it with marshmallow fondant. I originally did the same with the tail, but it was much too big and heavy after it was … Read more