I made the little mermaid using ready-made cake layers that I put in a bowl. I layered with crème. Finally I turned it upside down to get the cake out. (No baking involved here). The icing is sugar paste that I colored with food dye. The doll is a regular Barbie that I removed the … Read more
I made Ariel for a friend of mine’s daughter. The Little Mermaid was my favorite movie when I was little and is still one of my favorites so I loved making this cake. After searching this site for other Little Mermaid birthday cakes this is how I started. First I made a half sheet cake. … Read more
I used a Pampered Chef batter bowl to make this mermaid cake. I iced the cake with a tan colored frosting and used bright blue at the bottom. I then crushed graham crackers and pushed into the tan icing. I added the green fin last. It was a huge hit and very easy to make. … Read more
I have created this little mermaid birthday cake for my friend’s daughter sixth birthday. This is very simple to make. The mermaid itself was covered with violet and pink fondant icing. First I have covered with plain fondant icing from her waist down to her legs then brush it with marmalade and then I have … Read more
I made this Jake and the Never Land Pirates birthday cake for a friend who’s nephew turned one. I had fun doing this cake. I got a coloring book and traced the character,s taped the picture to a small cookie sheet and covered it with wax paper. Then I used icing to trace the picture and … Read more
I made this Toy Story birthday cake for my 3rd son’s 2nd birthday party. He is the biggest Toy Story fan I know. It’s made up of 8, 6 & 4 inch round cakes in chocolate, vanilla and carrot. He absolutely loved it and kept asking to press the buttons on Buzz’s costume. The smiles … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter’s birthday. I knew it was going to take me along time so I made it from fruitcake so I didn’t have to rush and I’m so glad I did because it took forever. But it was worth it just to see the look of disbelief on my daughter’s face when … Read more
I have made all of my niece Hayden Grace’s birthday cakes (a couple of which are published on Coolest Birthday Cakes already) for her 5 birthdays, but this one, from her 5th birthday is by far my favorite. She requested a “Rapunzel” cake and putting together a few ideas I found on CBC’s website I … Read more
The irony of this Nemo birthday cake is I was making a Nemo cake while the storm Nemo was battering the area. This cake was for a good friend who ordered her son’s first birthday cake from a local bakery who totally blew it. I knew I had to make up for the disappointment. I … Read more
Well I normally make lots of cupcakes and cookies, hardly ever cakes as I’ve always thought that if I mess up a cupcake I can quite easily bake another batch and start again but a cake is BIG and daunting. I offered to make this cake for a friend I work with as she was … Read more
This cake was created with love for my nephews birthday. He loves Mator and so I took one of his mator toys and turned four qtr. sheet cakes into the matoor sculpted cake you see. It took me about 20 hrs to complete him with all the prep on the pieces that needed to dry … Read more
I created this evil confection for my husband’s birthday. He is an animator/illustrator that works on Disney’s newest webseries Doof’s Daily Dirt. (Check it out on YouTube!) Dr. Doof, the evil scientist, is made entirely out of rolled fondant. I resized an image my husband sent me and printed it. Then, I traced the outlines … Read more