My son told me all he wanted for his 4th birthday was a fire truck. But he has so many fire trucks in his toy collection that I thought I’d give him something more memorable – a fire truck birthday cake. I did not trust my ability to use my 9×13 pan and cut the … Read more
This Harley Davidson 50th birthday cake was a labor of love for my husband’s 50th birthday. It is actually 1/3 scale of his bike with many hours photographing and measuring his bike to get it in proportion. It is a chocolate liqueur mud cake covered in fondant. The wheels are sculpted from foam cake dummy … Read more
This fire engine birthday cake was the second cake I made from the movie Cars. It was made for my son’s 3rd birthday. He wanted “Red” the fire engine. It was a chocolate cake covered in marshmallow fondant. I used almond bark for the ladder and side panels of the truck. The wheels were wooden … Read more
This Cinderella carriage cake was made for a Charity fete last year which supports children with terminal or degenerative illnesses. It’s called “The Rainbow Children’s Trust”. I was approached by the organizer of the event, who asked if I would donate one of my “party cakes”. These are simply Victoria Sponges or coffee cakes – … Read more
I baked two chocolate 11″ loaf cakes for this Airplane Cake and carved them into the shape of the body of the plane. (I cut each loaf into two layers, sprinkled with cherry brandy and filled with cherry filling). I supported it with a piece of cardboard cut like a rectangle with a triangle on … Read more
This Airplane Birthday Cake was for my husband’s, a pilot, birthday. The base was two 9×13 layers of chocolate cake, filled with vanilla butter cream and maraschino cherries. The entire cake was covered in homemade blue marshmallow fondant, with clouds cut out of white fondant. I built a frame for the airplane out of thin … Read more
When my grandson requested a Fun Car Birthday Cake for his 7th birthday, I took an idea I saw from Naughty Cakes book by Debbie Brown. I used the Wilton car pan and a 9×13″ pan for this cake. I iced in buttercream with fondant “triggers” (arms), antenna with squirrels tail and rear-ends. Crushed Oreo … Read more
My Grandson wanted a ‘GI*Joe’ homemade army tank cake for his 7th birthday, so I found your site and started looking. I found lots of ideas from many different cakes and combined them with my own and came up with a cake that he absolutely loved. This was my first try at sculpting cake and … Read more
This Fire Engine Cake was made for my little boy’s 3rd birthday, as he was obsessed with Fireman Sam. We already had several large and small fire engine toys, so it was a process of putting them all together and choosing which aspects from each toy I could use. Initially I baked a 30x30cm chocolate … Read more
I made this Army Tank Birthday Cake for Ben’s 6th birthday. It’s a simple jam and cream sponge cake iced over and then camoed by painting food coloring. The gun is a chocolate flake wrapped in icing, supported by a kebab skewer. The tracks are chocolate fingers and digestive biscuits sticks. The hole for the … Read more
Here’s my 3-tier John Deere tractor birthday cake! I hope you like it.
My neighbor asked me to make her son a military cake and so I put this Army Tank Cake together from a bunch of ideas on the internet. It’s 90% edible except the soldier on top and the wooden dowel covered in fondant for the gun. To make the ID tags I used silver edible … Read more