I started making cakes around five years ago. When my niece found out she was having a boy and wanted a Winnie the Pooh on the cake, I couldn’t help myself. The idea came to add both the basket cake idea with the characters for his room. At the last minute I added in the bib … Read more
I made this Princess and the Frog birthday cake for my friend’s daughter…she loves the Princess and the Frog and her mom asked if I could possibly try to make something. I looked for ideas on the internet. There’s so many sites with so many techniques I was so overwhelmed but I decided to just … Read more
For my youngest grandson’s third birthday, at his request, we made Lightening McQueen for his Cars themed party. It was definitely a family affair with artistic contributions from his grandpa, as master scuplter, his uncle, as master decorator and me, grandma, as master baker and icer. We used two 9 x13″ cakes for the base: … Read more
As soon as we knew that Monsters University was opening the weekend of my daughter’s 8th birthday, we knew we would be having a MU party at the theater. Once that was decided, the next order of business was the cake! We went through a few ideas before we settled on a two tier cake … Read more
My son turned one this week. I decided to have a Winnie the Pooh theme. I baked the chocolate cake from scratch cause that is how I like it. I was scared that the cake would get stuck in the pan or that it would break but it turned out awesome. Decorating time was very … Read more
Nine months BEFORE her birthday, my daughter was set on wanting a Rapunzel cake. I kept telling her to wait until closer to her birthday to decide but she kept insisting she wanted a Rapunzel cake. She never wavered. So I decided to make one for her. I am certainly not a professional but here’s how … Read more
My 2-year-old daughter is recently obsessed with Minnie Mouse, so I whipped this one up for her. I baked two separate cakes — one cherry chip and one yellow — in an 14.5x11x2-inch pan. I layered the cakes with icing in the middle. Then I placed a 5-inch circle in the top corners and used a … Read more
I made this Minnie Mouse cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday party. This is my 5th cake to make. I Googled Minnie Mouse images and used one for a template. Since it was a small template, and I couldn’t get it to print out any bigger, I just used the picture as a guide. I … Read more
I just finished this Toy Story birthday cake, tonight actually, for my best friend’s 3 year old son, Irah. I have never had any formal training with any of this. Over the last few years I have amassed several gizmos and gadgets that make the decorating much easier, but for the most part I just dig … Read more
I decided to make a cake for a local cake contest. It was in October for a Halloween festival. My kids loved the Frankenweenie movie, so we decided to make a Frankenweenie cake. I always look online for cake ideas, but I found very little for this cake. So I just looked up images of … Read more
My daughter is obsessed with Rapunzel from Tangled. She was adamant that she wanted “really long hair”. I created this Rapunzel cake using a simple round cake pan and cupcakes to create braid-like hair. I used boxed cake mixes and frosting, with some tubes for effects. The hardest part was finding a board big enough … Read more
I made this Jake and The Neverland Pirates cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday. The children seemed to love this one. I made the pirate ship out of rice crispie treats and covered it with chocolate flavored marshmallow fondant. I find the treats are really easy to carve into the shape you want and hold the … Read more