My five-year-old daughter asked to have an ocean themed birthday cake. I searched the internet for ideas of a Ocean Octopus Birthday Cake and decided I could tackle her request. I started by baking a 9×13 yellow cake for the base. I used two round cakes on top. I secured the cakes with a few … Read more
First I baked a round cake with two layers. Then I frosted the cake with a thin layer of buttercream. Next, the fun begins with the fondant. It is very similar to play-do. I dyed the fondant various colors that I needed. First I covered the entire cake in a layer of white fondant. Then … Read more
This penguin cake was a birthday cake for a friend’s son who loves penguins. I just took a toothpick to draw a basic shape for the penguin onto a sheet cake. I then outlined the shape in black and filled it in with a small round tip. To smooth out the colors, I dipped my … Read more
My niece’s 9th birthday was an ice skating party and she asked me to make her a cake with penguins and snow and an igloo. This seemed to be way above the skill level of any other cake I had made her in years past, so after some internet research, this Ice Skating Penguin Igloo … Read more
I made this cake for a friend. Her son was in love with Happy Feet and wanted a cake just like his favorite character. I used two 10in round pans and I used two boxed cakes. I found a few cake decorating design ideas from this site.I made the tongue more life like by pricking … Read more
This shark cake I made for son’s 7th birthday party.He loves sharks and has read an awful lot about them. The cake has been carved out of two 13×9 rectangular home made chocolate cakes, layered one on top of the other using butter cream icing as glue. I carved the cake using a small kitchen … Read more
My 6 year old loves sharks so I wanted to make him a Shark Birthday Cake Idea for his birthday. I started with a 13×8 inch pan and covered with blue butter cream frosting (I used Wilton butter cream recipe). For the shark I used 2 pound cakes and carved the shark, covered it with … Read more
The Shark on this Shark Birthday Cake is made with rice krispy treats lightly frosted with melted chocolate then covered in gray fondant. The shark fondant is enhanced with edible paint and fondant accents and dusted with shimmer dust. The waves are buttercream lightly airbrushed with light blue.
I did this Shark Cake for a graduation. I used the Wonder Mold cake pan for the sharks head, and a 9″ round cake pan for under the shark. The teeth are mini marshmallows, sharks skin is all a marshmallow fondant. Very sticky, but easy to roll out. It took about 3 1/2 hours to … Read more
This starfish sea cake is a constructed of – 9” round, one is the center and the other is cut into 5 pieces. This cake is iced in with orange buttercream icing, and then I sprayed orange and red spray color on icing to really pop out the stars to make it look like a … Read more