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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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How This Sweet 16 Mardi Gras Theme Birthday Cake Came to Be: I have been decorating cakes now for a little over a year. I have not taken an order for a cake because when I make a cake I never know exactly how it might turn out. I also want to continue to enjoy … Read more
I made this BMW cake for my friend who wanted a BMW car so badly. Instead of the real car I gave him the gift of car cake to motivate him to work even harder to buy the vehicle of his dreams. I made the cake with rainbow sponge cake and carved the cake based … Read more
This was my first attempt at making a slot machine cake and my friend was happy to get such a gift from me. At his party everybody was “Wow-weeeee!” about this cake. In fact, they actually thought that it was a toy. To create this cake I baked 9″ chocolate cakes and cut and stacked … Read more
I made this peacock farewell cake for a special lady, a sweet friend at church who was moving away to be closer to her family. It had to be as beautiful and as graceful as she is. The cake itself is just a 3 tier white cake with buttercream icing . Be sure to put … Read more
An old friend called me one day and asked me to make a gender reveal cake for her son’s gender reveal party. I said, “Oh no, I don’t sell cakes. I only make them for my grandsons as a little hobby. And, I don’t even know what a gender reveal cake is!” My friend proceeded … Read more
I wanted to do something fun for my husband’s birthday cake, and when my kids saw this cake on a blog (alanabread.com), we had to give it a try. This ice cream sundae cake is 4 layers, 2 each of vanilla and chocolate. I iced it in vanilla buttercream tinted yellow. Then, I made the … Read more
My son and his fiance asked me to make their vineyard wedding cake with only two stipulations. It had to be carrot cake and a non-traditional design. Since their wedding was going to be at a vineyard resort, I couldn’t resist using the wine theme to create a wine barrel – good enough to eat! … Read more
This homemade batman cake is a 9″ double layer white cake with buttercream filling, frosted with homemade buttercream frosting and covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. Everything on cake is edible and homemade. To make the mask, I used my grandsons plastic batman mask as a template and mold. I rolled out a circle of black … Read more
My son asked for a ‘pizza’ cake for his 11th birthday party. He was having friends sleep over and wanted to have pizza for dinner and trick them with a pizza cake. I took ideas from this site and it couldn’t have been any easier and it turned out great. I baked a yellow cake … Read more
As my son loves turtles and I love Disney, I chose Squirt as a cake for his 6th birthday. I used a ball-pan to get the shape of the shell and two muffins to build the head. First I colored some fondant blue and then I kneaded it together with some white fondant until it … Read more
Our whole family plays that game and so I decided to make a cake for my husband’s 38th birthday: As my husband works at home, I had to start weeks in advance. I used every minute when he left the house and sculpted all the little fondant figures: wallnut, tallnut, sunflower, peashooter, zombies and even … Read more
I made this for my Son’s birthday. This is a REAL cat litter pan and scoop (new) The litter is crumbled up yellow cake mix The turds are tootsie rolls. I brought this to my sons school and none of the kids would eat it. (Do you blame them?) I had a blast making this … Read more