Harley Cake for a Celebration of Life

Harley Cake for a Celebration of Life

I was asked to do this Harley cake for a celebration of Life for a Harley lover. I was given a picture of the bike and asked to replicate it. Sure of course I can. Looked easier than it was to do. We (my husband and I) started a week ahead of time. We had to  plan … Read more

Monster Truck Cake

Monster Truck Cake

I made this monster truck cake for a friend’s little boy who was turning 4.  He loves monster trucks!  The cake was half chocolate half white with chocolate butter cream icing. As always I used an enhanced cake mix recipe. This was a 1/2 sheet cake.  I used RKT to form the hills and chocolate pudding for … Read more

Coolest Flying into 1st Grade Airplane Cake

Coolest Flying into 1st Grade Airplane Cake

I made this airplane cake for my son for his kindergarten graduation. I wanted to do something special for him and practice some of my techniques in the process.  Graduating from kindergarten is a big deal and so is he so I looked for a long time before I decided on the airplane. This was … Read more

Coolest Monster Truck Rally Birthday Cake

Coolest Monster Truck Rally Birthday Cake

This Monster Truck Rally birthday Cake is a white almond sour cream cake recipe doubled. I used an 11 x 13 pan for the base and 2 loaf pans for the walls. Covered all in butter cream tinted light brown and saved some to make the green grass. The signs were made from using the edible printer and … Read more

Awesome Car Cake

Awesome Car Cake

My son Eric has been consistent with asking for a “green car cake” since he was 3 years old.  I held off year after year due to other must have cakes he requested due to various other age appropriate likes.  Now that he has officially turned 16 today I gave him what every teen his … Read more

Cool Jeep Groom’s Cake

Cool Jeep Groom's Cake

Well this cool Jeep groom’s cake was a very fun cake to make that is for sure. I used 2 boxes of white cake mix, a 2x8x9 in of wood for the base to hold the Jeep up high enough for the wheels. I used black Twizzlers for the top rack of the Jeep the outlining, … Read more

Coolest Train Birthday Cake

Coolest Train Birthday Cake

I used a floor tile as a base as the cake boards that I had were too small to create the scene that I had envisaged. I baked mini chocolate logs and decorated each log as a mini carriage. I used log biscuits and liquorice as the tracks and decorated either side of the tile … Read more

Cool Monster Truck Cake for Future Driver

Cool Monster Truck Cake for Future Driver

Brogan, my nephew, favorite things are monster truck. He is either playing with them, watching videos of them on the computer or on the phone in the car. He always carries at least 1 with him wherever he goes. And his favorite thing to say is” Bad to the bone “. So for his 2nd … Read more

Cool Harley Davidson Birthday Cake

Cool Harley Davidson Birthday Cake

The person I made this cake for owned a Harley.  The motorcycle was a toy.  I shaped fondant to look like the Harley symbol and wrote Happy Birthday Gene.  Gene was also turning 50, so I made the speed limit sign reflect that.  I put fondant flames along the bottom and used food glitter to give … Read more

Coolest Birthday Train Cake for 2 Year Old

Coolest Birthday Train Cake for 2 Year Old

I made this train cake for a co-worker’s son’s 2nd birthday. I wanted it to be a fun colorful cake that a 2 year old would like.  Everything but the train engine, candles and trees were made of candy or icing.  For the wheels I use coconut chocolate cookies.  The letters are iced sugar cookies. I filled … Read more

Coolest Pick Up Truck and Snow Plow Cake

Coolest Pick Up Truck and Snow Plow Cake

I baked a large sheet cake, then measured and cut to the size I needed for this Pick Up Truck cake. I filled and stacked the cake in more or less to the shape of a truck. I then wrapped in plastic wrap and placed in freezer for a couple of days so it would … Read more

Coolest Porsche Logo cake

Coolest Porsche Logo cake

This Porsche logo cake was for my 9-year-old son’s birthday. I baked a rectangle cake and iced it with bright yellow icing. I had printed a copy of the logo that I got off the Internet and laid wax paper over the logo. I melted milk chocolate candy melts in the microwave, spooned some into … Read more