I decided to make a Roller Skate Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday. She was having a party at a roller rink. I decorated the cake with homemade buttercream icing and made the roller skate using a picture that I got off the internet. I used piping gel to trace the picture on parchment … Read more
Rugby is a big hit in New Zealand, a bit like football in America so I made this sports theme cake for my friends son’s 7th birthday. He loved it and the cake was so simple. The cake itself was a rectangle and I made the rugby players out of white icing. You can make … Read more
This Skateboard Birthday Cake is a very easy cake to make. I just used fondant for trunks and wheels and then dusted with silver luster dust. I stacked 2 rectangular cakes and then cut out the shape that I wanted. Covered it with fondant and then drew on the flames with icing. Put the wheels … Read more
My nephew Josh loves skateboards. With ideas from this site I decided to give it a try and make a Skateboard Birthday Cake. I mixed two boxes of cake mix and cut the shape out. Used Wilton star tip to decorate with vanilla icing I dyed light blue and black. I drew the lightning bolt … Read more
I baked a sheet cake and a dozen cupcakes using homemade cake recipes. I made the little snowboarders out of different colors of fondant. They each had a toothpick sticking up through them. They turned out really cute! The cake was frosted white and I cut the cupcakes in half and placed them on the … Read more
This soccer ball cake was made for an end of soccer season party. The slab cake is milk chocolate fudge cake and the soccer ball is a vanilla buttercake. All icing is homemade BC except for the lines of the goal which are royal icing. I used tip 16 to decorate the ball and the … Read more
At first I was a bit wary of preparing this Soccer Cake as I was not sure about how to do the ball shape, however, it was easier than I expected (except that the hexagon shapes are tricky to do yourself without a cutout or something similar). I just prepared one 9″ by 13″ chocolate … Read more
For boys who love soccer, this Soccer Ball Cake was quite a hit. I just baked my cake in a stainless steel bowl then iced it with white icing and piped the black soccer markings. I bought standard cake topper soccer players to place along side. It was for my son’s birthday, but would work … Read more
The cake is a basic Lemon Madeira, covered in butter icing before the fondant is put on (gives a smoother finish). I iced the board with two colours of fondant…squash it on, then roll it to flatten (leave to harden for a day or two). The grass is coconut dyed with food colouring. Mould the … Read more
I just used a regular cake mix from the box and icing sugar to make this soccer cake. Made five circle cakes and stacked them on top of each other and sculpted with a knife into a sphere. By using a straight edge on a piece of cardboard we made the soccer ball design and … Read more
This Sports Cake Design was for a teenage boy who actually wanted brownies instead of cake. I used 2 boxes of dark chocolate brownie mix and prepared as per the directions, poured the batter into my large circle pan and baked as directed. I used canned whipped cream frosting and dyed it with Wilton colors. … Read more
The girls wanted a birthday cake they could help make. So when we saw this idea of a Surfing Birthday Cake in a book, we knew it was the perfect candidate. And we love how it turned out. It is our favorite cake yet! We used pre-made blue fondant: 1.5 lbs for the cake and … Read more