I was asked to make a cake in the shape of a basket filled with socks as a joke for someone’s 40th birthday celebration. I started making the socks a few days prior. I used a gumpaste/fondant mixture. I colored some of the mixture with a few colors. I cut out some mini flowers out … Read more
This Black, Purple and White Birthday Cake was for my daughter’s 12th birthday. She LOVES Justin Bieber so the inspiration were the colors black, purple and white. The top tier cake was white cake mix from a box. But to keep with the purple theme I added the juice and some squashed bits of canned … Read more
This Lineman Cake is a cake I made for my brother in law’s birthday who is a lineman. It was fun to make. I just used regular icing and food coloring for different shades and sugar sheets for the lineman. I was actually pleased with it, considering it was my first time.
My family started gem mining this past summer and my nephew had a gem/fossil mining party and needed a cake to fit the theme. This Rock Mining Cake is what I came up with. The base is the bottom of the “mountain” covered in dirt (chocolate icing) and simple a round layer cake and a … Read more
I made this 1st Cupcake Birthday Cake for my friend’s daughter. I used the Wilton pan (with the 40% off coupon at Micheal’s) and 2 9inch rounds for the bottom. For the smash cake I used a big muffin tin for top and trimmings from the rounds for bottom. Boxed cake mix and canned frosting … Read more
My son wanted to have his 4th birthday at “the tunnels” – a local attraction, Inner Space Caverns near Austin. We took the kids on the tour of the limestone cavern, giving each child a spelunker’s helmet. I love to decorate cakes, so I first made a chocolate bundt cake which I then cut in … Read more
I made this Roxy Logo Birthday Cake for a girl who was turning 8. The Roxy logo was the theme. The cake was a banana cake using Betty Crocker’s vanilla cake mix with two mashed bananas mixed into it. YUMMY! I used 3 cake mixes baked in a large square cake tin. I made up … Read more
This Candy Barrel Cake was chocolate cake, frosted with chocolate peanut butter frosting, ringed with Kit Kat candies, and topped with Reese’s Pieces candy. It is the simplest cake to make, just be sure to hollow out the top of the cake to below the top of the Kit Kats, so that the candies on … Read more
My little sister is nicknamed Booger so it’s only fitting that I made her a booger cake for her birthday. She requested red velvet so the interior is just a box red velvet cake. I had to improvise the shape as I wasn’t entirely too sure what shape to make a Booger Cake. The bottom … Read more
I made an 11×15 cake and then cut it in half to make 2 rectangles. To make it look more like a corn hole board I angled the tops of the cakes. I then iced them smooth white using the Wilton recipe icing. I cut the holes using a measuring cup as a guide and … Read more
The base is a 12″ round, and the “tower” is three 5″ rounds. Its all decorated with buttercream. The skyscrapers are made of royal icing, which I had made on waxed paper the day before, and they were extremely breakable. Luckily I made several extras because they kept breaking! Wilton said to make them with … Read more
I made this crime scene cake based off of the TV show NCIS (a show basically about Navy cops). The cake is red velvet with cream cheese icing, which I turned gray with food coloring, (2 blue, 4 red, and 4 yellow over and over again until I thought it looked like road gray). The … Read more