We baked this NASCAR Cake in layers at the Knoxville airport, using over 30 gallons of icing. The cake was presented to Dale Earnhardt at the Food City 500 in Bristol Tn. Dale thought it was one of his showcars. We used NASCAR templates to get the dimensions perfect. This cake helped launch my patented … Read more
I got the idea for this cake off of this website from all the other Nascar birthday cakes. The original was submitted by Tracy G. and was for a second birthday. I converted her idea to work for a third birthday. I followed her directions doing the black number three first and then filling in … Read more
My friend is a huge Ricky Rudd Ford Fusion Snickers 88 NASCAR fan. So I used the Wilton NASCAR pan and ignored their design for my race car cake. I just found a picture on the web and tried the best I could to recreate it. He may have been turning 20 but he sure … Read more
This Travel Trailer Retirement Cake I made for a friend-neighbor of my mother’s who was retiring. He was planning on spending a great deal of his retirement time at their travel trailer near my mom’s lake house. I had several ideas to start with but I kept going back to the idea of a 3D … Read more
After carefully viewing all the cakes I made this Snow Plow Truck Cake out of ideas found on this site and added my own touches. I made two loaf cakes and cut the shapes for the cab of the truck, the back of the truck bed and the truck bed trims. I took some plastic … Read more
My son requested a “10 wheeler” for his birthday cake so I made this Homemade Semi Trailer Birthday Cake. I baked a chocolate cake in a loaf tin and cut it to shape (see pic). I raised the cake off the board with some blocks covered in tin foil, so that only the wheels of … Read more
This cake was for my nephew’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a book about fondant decoration. I don’t like fondant so we improvised. I used Betty Crocker yellow cake mix. I used whipped icing (bought by mistake) and added vanilla and powdered sugar to improve the consistency. The cake consists of two 9×13 … Read more
I made this train cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, having been inspired by some others on this website!. I did cheat a little bit with the actual cake – I bought two sponges and one Swiss roll and cut to shape. The icing is fondant icing colored with food colouring. The grass is coconut … Read more
This organic train tunnel cake came about because our son Devon wanted a train cake and a gingerbread house. It seemed like a good idea to turn the house into a tunnel. It actually wasn’t all that hard to make, with some advance preparation. Several weeks beforehand, we baked up a bunch of small gingerbread … Read more
This chocolate train cake is for my son’s fourth birthday. He loved it. Got the main idea from Annabell’s website. I Googled – ‘no bake train cake’ and hey presto got her site. Easy, yummy & my son was jumping up down when he saw it.
My grandson loves trains, mainly Thomas the train. But he is also fascinated with railroad crossings. He lives in tornado alley, and has had lots of tornado warnings this year, so needless to say he is really intrigued with tornados. So I made him this 13×9 train cake with cream cheese frosting. I first tinted … Read more
What I used: 24×48 piece of plywood aluminum foil 3 boxes of cake mix 3 containers of white frosting, food coloring gel icing (for any writing you do) Swedish fish green sugar (find near sprinkles) 1 package of chocolate Twizzlers 2 packs of kit kats 6 oreos 20 mini oreos mini ice cream cone (Joy … Read more