As with almost every little girl on this planet, my soon to be six year old daughter is “Frozen” smitten, and so for her birthday she requested a “Frozen” party. As usual, I let her choose what type of cake she wanted. Looking through my copy of Women’s Weekly birthday cakes, she pointed out the … Read more
This Olaf cake began with a simple question. I asked my almost 5 year old grandson what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday (since his nonna always makes his birthday cakes) and he answered, “Olaf.” “What,” I said, “is Olaf?” Now I had done it. I was worried, as I had no clue … Read more
This cake has a pretty funny (now!) story. I was doing the cake for a special little girl. Her mother is a friend and I was very honored when asked to be part of her birthday celebration. After much deliberation over what cake to have for her Cinderella party, this was the chosen one. But … Read more
For this Cinderella carriage cake, I used a wilton ball cake pan to make the carriage and covered it with fondant. The base was a 12″ round 3″ deep pan. The crown and wheels were made of fondunt and sprayed gold. The figurines I purchased at Walmart The base was buttercream colored purple. I covered … Read more
I wasn’t quite sure how this was going to turn out so I took a trip to the toy store to find anything Frozen related. My daughter wanted a castle on her cake so luckily I found this one with Anna. I then went to the craft store and found some snow flakes in the … Read more
My girls wanted a Frozen movie castle cake. I did a castle for their 1st birthday, first ever cake I made, it was terrible, but I was so proud. Now after seven years I know my way around fondant….or so I thought. And because I had already done a castle I though pffft easy pie.. umm… … Read more
When I was asked to do this Disney Frozen cake, my first thought was how to do the figurine… fondant or buy a toy? I decided to buy a toy topper because the fondant version would be a lot of work, therefore upping the price significantly for the cake. You would think one of the … Read more
I made this pretty pink Disney princess cake for a 4 year girl. It is a chocolate cake layered with chocolate butter cream icing. It’s covered in sugar paste. I couldn’t find my round nozzle and I was about to panic when I realized that I can use a plastic packet and cut the tip off … Read more
For my granddaughter’s 4th birthday party, she decided on the Disney princesses theme with Cinderella, Ariel, and Belle as her main characters. My daughter-in-law purchased the princesses to later be given as her gifts and I baked the cakes using Wilsons classic wonder mold. All three cakes were different flavors. The Barbies were actually too … Read more
My daughter is completely mad about the new Frozen film from Disney (and so am I a little!), and she asked me to make her a birthday cake in this theme. I had the idea of making the cake with some of the figures she had got on a recent trip to Disneyland Paris. I … Read more
This is a Sofia the first birthday cake that I made for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday party. Needless to say she is a huge Princess Sophia fan. I wanted to make the figures myself out of gum paste, however I knew I could never pull that off. I decided that a doll sitting on top … Read more
Princess Rapunzel, Princess Ariel, but Princess Tiana? Oh. It’s hard to find Tiana in the Disney Store. NEARLY impossible. Many of the other princesses are abundant in Disney merchandise, but when you want a Tiana costume or Tiana water bottle- well, you’re out of luck. This was no different with cakes. My daughter gazed delightedly at Disney … Read more