This sailboat cake was for my son Owens second birthday. I copied it from a cake photo I saw in a magazine. I cut a square cake in half for the sails and the bottom and then a smaller triangle for the jib (front sail) I frosted it with shades of blue and named it … Read more
My friends and I rented a 30-person limo bus to celebrate a few birthdays and I was challenged to create a cake replica! I actually copied a school bus cake that I found on this site, just changed it to look like a limo bus.To make this I baked two cakes in a 9 x … Read more
My 4 year old asked for a Garbage Truck Birthday Party this year. I’ve always wanted to do a 3-D cake and this turned out to be the perfect opportunity with this Garbage Truck Birthday Cake. This was also my first time working with fondant – I was pretty anxious about it, but it ended … Read more
A friend and co-worker asked me if I could make a Longbow Apache helicopter cake for her husband’s birthday since he used to work on them when he was in the Army. I tried to be as accurate as possible while still giving her as much cake as possible (which is why it is wider … Read more
For our daughters 3rd birthday, we went crazy with the princess theme. I made a castle cake for her 1st birthday party, so I was looking for something else in the same theme. I found the directions for this cake in the 2002 Wilton Yearbook Cake Decorating book. It was really very easy and fun … Read more
My boyfriend is a jeep enthusiast. So, there was no question as to what kind of cake I was going to make him. It was just the question of how. I actually got the idea of how to make the Homemade Jeep Cake from this site. I just slightly modified the set-up. I used a … Read more
I always make homemade birthday cakes for our birthdays so for this birthday I made four 10 X 14 cake slabs (two chocolate, two white). I iced the cakes normally. I measured the cake then cut an area out for the inside of the cake. Once this was done I used some fondant and made … Read more
My son just loves monster trucks and since I had just finished the Wilton classes I wanted to see what I could really do! I checked this site which gave me some of the ideas used with my monster truck cake. A few starting hints and then I took it from there. This cake took … Read more
This Gravedigger Monster Truck cake was a little tricky! I baked four loaf yellow cakes. I used a six pack of Krispy Kreme glazed donuts. I cut two of the donuts in half and placed on the cake pan. I piped on white vanilla icing. This gave the monster truck a “lifted” effect. I used … Read more
I made this Super Chocolate Monster Truck Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. Monster trucks were his passion that year! Also, he is a total choc-o-holic which is why it’s all chocolate. I used a 1/4 sheet pan, chocolate fudge box cake mix, home-made chocolate buttercream frosting. I used Oreo cookies as the “bumper” area, … Read more
I baked a sheet cake and made an oval track on it and surrounded the track with grass for this Monster Trucks Cake Idea. I smashed a few little Matchbox Cars with a hammer and placed them on the cake. I used Devil Dogs covered in frosting for ‘jumps’, then sprinkled graham cracker crumbs on … Read more
You’ll need: Sheet Cake Chocolate fudge icing Glazed & chocolate donut holes Whoppers Raisinettes Yogurt Raisins Graham Crackers Strawberry stems Christmas trees I made this Offroad Truck Cake for my 3 year old son, since my whole family is into Jeeps and going offroad. It was actually very easy. If you use this design and … Read more