I made this cake for my husband’s 30th Birthday Party. I got the idea from a Father’s Day cake I found in a recipe book. I took two sheet cakes and stacked them, cutting some what of a tray out of the top layer. I then applied a crumb coating and covered store bought dark … Read more
My mom loves Russian dolls: she has many in the house. I checked out some easy homemade cake recipes and I used the 3D Winnie cake mold. I cut some pieces to give it the shape of a Russian doll. I covered it with white rolled fondant and painted the entire doll with food colorant … Read more
It was one of my regular customer’s birthday. So I decided to make a cake in his likeness. His name is Knobby and he’s been eating at our restaurant for years. So I made an Old Man Knobby Birthday Cake. I made 2 9″ rounds and stacked and frosted them. I made sugar cookies in … Read more
This Spinner cake was for my son in law Scott. He turned 40 which is a hard age for some. He took it very well and really liked the cake. The cake is a yellow cake with blueberry filling. It has two ten inch rounds tarted and filled. It was frosted with butter creme icing. … Read more
This Pot Of Gold Birthday Cake is my grandson’s first birthday cake. I made this from a 9″ cake, layers piled on top of each other. Sometimes I had to use wooden dowels to hold together if cake is tall. I iced between each layer and around sides to give a nice coating then rolled … Read more
For lack of a better idea for my sons 10th birthday I came up with a “Timeline” cake. It was a very long cake, each 10th of it with decorations reminiscent of each of his previous birthdays: first-dogs, second-baseball, third-carousel, fourth-fireman, fifth-fishing, sixth-airplane, seven-rockets, eighth-science, nineth-“camo” bike-ride, and 10th-his “Golden Birthday” as he turned 10 … Read more
I baked one 9 x 13 chocolate cake and cut in 4 pieces because there were 4 kids celebrating this Daycare birthday cake, 3 boys and one girl. I decided to try out the marshmallow fondant recipe, it was easier than I though it would be, though I did have to combine a few recipes … Read more
My dad was turning 60. He is a fencer by trade. I wanted to do something special for him as a cake. I had a friend introduce me to modeling paste (Fondant and Gum Tragacanth) and after I started to have a play around with it and realized what I could do, the idea for … Read more
This Muppet Birthday Cake was made for my brother in law on his fortieth birthday. He’s a big fan of the Irish Times cryptic crossword and also of the Muppets. The toilet was added as a family joke. A lot of time is spent there completing the crossword! All of the models are made from … Read more
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.