What do you do for the birthday girl that LOVES penguins and is a cake decorator? Why you have to get her husband who ALSO decorates cakes to make her cake! This was made for me by my hubby last year. I must confess that I did help a little and I coached a LOT. … Read more
My daughter wanted a number 10 shaped cake for her birthday. Easy enough I thought but I wanted to make it special so I added her favorite animal, a penguin . I had great fun in making lots of little fondant penguins, some with party hats and some with balloons, and two were holding a … Read more
I made this big fish cake for a great friend who is also a doctor who loves to fish. I took an 11×15 and 8×11 and cut out the fish. I shaped the tail and face. The middle is just icing to make it look like the fish is jumping out of the water. This … Read more
My 3 year old daughter often pretends she is a shark so a shark cake seemed right for her birthday. And while this is not a very professional looking cake, she was happy with it and so was I. The design is simple. The body is cut diagonally out of a 9″x11″ sheet cake. The … Read more
I made this purple Octopus birthday cake fir my husband’s baby sister’s first birthday. It was a rainbow cake. Unfortunately the pic isn’t the best but you can kinda see. It was such fun to make the cake batter. First I made my cake by separating the batter into 6 bowls and made colored batter, pink, purple, yellow, blue and a darker purple. Then I … Read more
I made this realistic shark cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. He wanted a realistic shark. He didn’t like any pictures of cakes where the shark “looked like a cartoon”. I baked two 9×13 cakes and layered them. He wanted Funfetti cake with blue Funfetti frosting. Easy enough. The frosting came with fish shaped … Read more
My friend asked me to make a last-minute shark cake for her nine year old son! I did an internet search for shark cakes, found a 3D idea and ran with it! I started out by making a sheet cake for the base to make the shark more stable since the cake had to travel … Read more
A friend of mine came to me and asked me to make her son a guest cake, and smash cake for his first birthday party. I’m going to talk about the guest cake because it was a shooooooow stopppppa! His theme was Winter ONEderland. She wanted it to be extravagant , which is my expertise. She … Read more
This Seahorses and Starfish birthday cake is the second cake I have made with “rice krispie” animals! I have such a terrible time with icing though. So, this time I baked two boxes of strawberry cake (for a 7 year old girls birthday…they all love pink cake) and made a batch of 1/2 butter cream 1/2 Crisco icing which worked … Read more
I make this Octopus and Pirate birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday. The original idea I got from the internet. I forgot the artist’s name, and I make the 3D base on the picture with some little changes so it can work with gum paste and fondant, and its my first octopus cake. I was try to … Read more
My best friend’s husband worked for a Fishing Club and so she wanted a cake with a fish theme. I decided to make a cake that looked like a fish. I went online to get pictures of salmon from different angles so I could make it as realistic as possible without using fondant since nobody … Read more
I baked a 9×9 square cake for this dolphin cake. After letting it cool I stuck it in the freezer for about an hour. I used a dolphin stencil that I made and placed it on cake and cut around the shape (you have to do two because it is a double layered cake). I … Read more