For every birthday my daughter picks a cartoon or movie character and we do a theme party upon her choice. For her eighth birthday she was so in love with Bear in the Blue House (and I have to admit that I was nuts about this cuddly bear too!!) so I decided to do a … Read more
This cake was traced from a stuffed animal Grover for the outline. The icing is Wilton’s whipping cream. The face and tummy were both cut and rounded to give the three-dimensional shape.
For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, she wanted a Wiggles party. I wanted to make a Wiggles character cake for her, so I chose a Wags the Dog birthday cake decoration. I started with a Wilton 11x15x2 cake pan, which uses two boxes of cake mix. I also baked a round cake using a Pampered Chef … Read more
I used the Wilton cruiser pan and cut the top to make it a convertible. Next I covered the cake with buttercream and then fondant. I used a book wrapped in foil to lift the cake up then attached fondant wheels. I used buttercream to decorate the Wiggles logo. I made the Wiggles and the … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton Elmo cake pan. Looking at a Zoe Sesame Street picture, I outlined in all of the main parts and filled in with the star tip. This cake did take a while to make due to the many different colors that had to … Read more
My son’s 2-year birthday theme will be Boohbah. After a lot of searching I couldn’t find much for these sort of cakes other then a basic cake with the figurines placed on it, so I decided to try my hand at making a Boohbah cake myself. We are all so pleased around here with the … Read more
I started to make my own cakes because my kids always chose themes you could not buy in the supermarkets. For this Teletubbies I just used a basic sponge recipe and baked it in a round Pyrex pudding bowl. Covered with green sugar paste and made some Teletubbies to sit on top. Cake by Amanda … Read more
I made this Brum cake for my friend’s son’s first birthday as he is Brum mad. I used a toy Brum car to copy the cake. I used a loaf pan to bake the cake. I cut the shape of Brum to the best of my ability and then iced this with Fondant icing. I … Read more
I used a picture of Captain Feathersword from one of my daughter’s coloring books and I sketched it enlarging it on three sheets of paper and cut it out having three separate pieces. I baked two 9X13 cakes and used my pattern to cut out the pieces to make this Wiggles birthday cake. I used … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son’s second birthday party. It was my very first attempt at decorating! I didn’t want to spend the money on a pan (and couldn’t find cookie monster anyway) so I just baked a sheet cake and iced it white then traced an outline of cookie monster on … Read more
We were asked to make one of those cool animated Elmo cakes for our friends daughter’s second birthday. The theme is Elmo so we were going to try to make a cake to match his TV show, Elmo’s World. We decided to steer away from eating Elmo since it may have traumatized the two year … Read more
I made this Gumby cake for my little sister’s 22nd birthday. She is a big Gumby fan but I couldn’t find any cakes on your site. I found a template on the internet and enlarged it. I started with a 9×13 box white cake mix. After it cooled I put the Gumby template on top … Read more