A friend asked me to do a John Deere Tractor cake for a groom’s cake to go with the wedding cake. It was made with the right cake pan. I used colored chocolates to form the main body and wheels of this cake and then filled in with butter cream icing. It was placed next … Read more
This tractor cake was baked for a competition. I had originally intended to make a fire engine but it all went a little wrong on the day and so it became a tractor – a red one! A deep based square tin was used for the main tractor body and sides where the farmer sits … Read more
This is my sons 1st birthday cake – a dump truck. I used 3 loaf pans and cut out the shape of the front of the truck in one and cut a hollow in the other for the dump and used the other to fill in and heighten it. To join it I used a … Read more
We had our sons birthday at a fire station and I decided I wanted something different. I decided to make a building on fire instead. The cake is a four-layer cake with butter cream icing (the size depends on the number of guests). I used colored fondant for the walls, door, windows and fire and … Read more
I filled three layers of cake (two yellow one chocolate) with vanilla buttercream frosting. I made the frosting slightly stiffer knowing that I had three heavy cake layers. The cakes were adapted from the cake doctor; I was looking for one that was between a pound and a typical layer cake, sturdy but not too … Read more
My son is a huge Red Arrows fan, they are the British aerobatic jet plane display team. He wanted a Red Arrows cake, so I decided to make him a cake with the Red Arrows in formation. Usually there are 9 planes in a full formation, but since he was turning 6, I made only … Read more
I used a turkey roasting pan, little larger than a 9×13 in pan and deeper. Filled pan with 2 boxes of white cake mix made to manufacturers recipe to make this Airplane Birthday Cake. Cut cake in half lengthwise, one side wider than the other. Left the wider length for the body of plane. The … Read more
For this homemade 2nd birthday plane cake I cut off an 8 in square yellow cake into segments (like building blocks) and arranged it into an airplane shape. Glue the segments together with some frosting. Put the cake in the fridge for a couple of hours. Next step was to crumb coat the cake with … Read more
(Editors Note: This is a multi-vehicle cake, however the idea of setting a toy airplane on whipcream as if it were a cloud is so cool, that we decided to put the cake here…) This was such a fun cake to make for my son Caleb’s second birthday. It was a joint party with his … Read more
I made this ATV cake for a friend who absolutely Loves Atv’s! I looked online for his Atv and printed it out. I baked a small vanilla cake and iced it with Butter Cream Icing. After I bake and Ice a cake I like to put it in the fridge for awhile so when I … Read more
My daddy turns 74 last month. I wanted to give him a surprise birthday day, not just a plain ordinary cake, I wanted to make one cute and wonderful cake for him. Then, I got this idea for a boat cake: a wide cake with sailboat on it. My daddy used to be a sailor, … Read more
My son who is turning three requested a Yellow Submarine party. What a challenge! (We are coaching him so that he will request a more traditional theme for #4.) For the Yellow Submarine & Jello cake, I baked a triple batch of white cake (easier to frost with a light color) in a HUGE round … Read more