“Dad, I’d like you to make me a rock climbing cake for my birthday” said my 6 year old son and the game was afoot. What has become a tradition since it began a couple years back is slow turning into an mission. How big, how intricate, how creative, how far can I go? At … Read more
This Boston Bruins Banner cake was for my brother’s birthday. He is a big Boston Bruins fan and had hinted to me that he would like a Bruins cake for his birthday. The cake was a vanilla cake 9×13. For the icing I made the Wilton recipe for butter cream frosting. I transferred the design I wanted with … Read more
This Tarheel Snowflake birthday cake is three 8 inch cake layers of white almond sour cream cake recipe. Snow flakes were made from cutters I bought on line, using marshmallow fondant and Wilton sugar crystal attached by using glue made from gum paste and water. The symbols and birthday message were printed from my edible printer on sugar sheets. Using … Read more
This Dirt Bike cake was really pretty easy! Just a bunch of cake mounded into a landing, rice crisp take off and a toy dirt bike held up by a coat hanger. The cake was white with butter cream frosting. I put Cocoa Krispies and Oreo’s in a food processor to make the “dirt”. Then just pressed it into a … Read more
This Disney Cars birthday cake is the birthday cake I made back in Feb. for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves all the Disney Cars movies and I wanted to make him something really special. He had become a big brother in November, so I wanted to go the extra mile for his birthday! The cake … Read more
My first attempt at a baseball cap cake. I have not perfected the art of fondant so the cake is covered in butter cream. The ball is made from mm fondant and gum paste. Next time will make with all gum paste so it will be stiffer (had to hold up with toothpick, truth be … Read more
I was inspired by the Dodgers logo. I first baked a round cake then did a quick sketch on it so I could get the out line for the letters. To outline anything on cakes you can use the small toothpicks. But you have to do it lightly because, then you will get big holes … Read more
I had a Surf’s Up themed joint birthday party for my son’s first birthday and my dad’s 49th birthday since their birthdays are only one day apart. I made a surfboard cake for my dad. I made two cakes, using a standard cake pan. Since my dad is diabetic, I used a healthier diabetic recipe … Read more
Ryan plays tennis, so this Tennis Racket Cake was for his graduation party. Print a picture of a tennis racket from the internet. Take it to a photocopy store and enlarge it to fit on a 10×14 cake board. The round part has to be less than 9″ wide and less than 13″ long. The … Read more
This Alabama Crimson Tide Cake was done by using Frozen Butter Cream Transfer. I taped the picture to the back of a metal cookie sheet and then placed a piece of wax paper over that. I traced out the picture using # 2 tip and black Wilton icing in the tube. I put the outline … Read more
For this Weightlifting cake I used buttercake and chocolate icing melted for the icing. I made the bench out of chocolate and the other items were made of fondant icing. I used kebab sticks for the weights and wrapped foil around for the silver effect. This cake was a hit!
We used 2 cake mixes for this Wrestling Birthday Cake. One chocolate and one white. The cake was frosted with homemade whipped cream frosting, can be found on allrecipes.com. covered cake with homemade marshmallow fondant that we colored grayish. The post are made with marshmallow squares that we bought and covered with blue fondant. The … Read more