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Read through to see these realistic, jaw dropping birthday cake ideas that you can actually make at home. Make an anti-gravity cake that will amaze everyone. Wow a child with their favorite animated character cake. Give your sports fan a cake that will make them cheer. Celebrate the union of holy matrimony with an elegant wedding cake. Take a doll cake to the next level. Present an animal lover with their favorite creature as a cake.
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I made this couple’s golf cake for the country club down the road. They have a golf couple’s league and the little man on the top is blowing the golf ball in the hole and the girl was just sitting on the side. I have golf clubs and a golf bag on the side and … Read more
So, in December of 2013, my nephew wanted a Beatles cake. He had come to love their music and so had the Beatles themed party, cake and all. His younger sister, who loves him very much, wanted a similar cake. So since she is a warrior princess, we changed the Beatles to beetles and threw … Read more
To make this tree trunk anniversary cake, I baked two 10″ round cakes and one 4″ round cake from my favorite bakery style white cake recipe. A few days before I made 5 gorgeous red roses from chocolate clay. The chocolate clay is made of melted chocolate, 14 oz and 1/4 cup of corn syrup, … Read more
I am a home/hobby baker and created a few party cakes for my son’s kindergarten class. Every year the local weather man comes to each school in the area to talk to the kindergarten children and the school usually gives him a little cake as a thank you. Over the past 35 years it has … Read more
I am a home/hobby baker. My son’s preschool teacher asked me to create a hamburger cake for a birthday in her family. I was a little timid about the request so I scoured the internet for videos and how too articles on making cake look realistic as other food. I dove in with my new … Read more
The base of this Twix anti-gravity cake is a basic cake with chocolate icing. The top of the cake is a chocolate ganache that is very simple to make. SIMPLE GANACHE Scald 1/2 cup of heavy cream and remove from heat. Pour over a 12 oz bag of your choice of chocolate chips. Mix with … Read more
For my granddaughter’s 7th birthday I made a Littlest Pet Shop cake at her request. I love making fondant figures! For this cake I made 7 pets: a dog, a cat, a mouse, a whale, a tropical fish, a pig and a bird. (I used homemade fondant except for black.) I used homemade decorator icing, … Read more
I am a home/hobby baker and often get asked to make baby shower cakes and it seems everyone I know is having a baby these days. They usually send me a picture of the bedding as inspiration. When I received the picture this time it had an adorable little monkey face on it so I … Read more
This cactus flower cake was for a housewarming the church gave for my daughter. It fit right in with the southwest country theme of the party. Everyone thought it was a real cactus and no one wanted to cut it. LOL! The cake was made in dark chocolate and covered with lots of buttercream applied … Read more
I was so nervous, but so excited about making this handbag birthday cake. I started the cake a week before so the detail could dry. I had promised my daughter that I would make her a handbag cake with makeup and had no idea how I was going to pull it off. I made 2 … Read more
I made this anti-gravity M&Ms cake for my granddaughter’s 11th birthday, so it had to be a little more “grown up” than most of the cakes I have made for her. The cake is red velvet, a flavour I hadn’t used before, but was so popular that I shall make it again (already had a … Read more
I was asked to make a chocolate unicorn birthday cake for a friend’s 11 year old daughter and I thought, ” Yeah I can do that!” Well, I did manage to pull it off, but with a lot of help by watching youtube videos. I began by modelling the unicorn out of fondant and I added … Read more