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This Back to the Future with the coolest Delorean cake was a custom cake for a friend’s friend. The base is a tiered sheet cake crumb coated and covered in fondant. The car is on it’s own cake board and carved from three layers of sheet cake. All details were made from fondant using different icing … Read more
This watermelon cake was made for a friend’s 40th birthday. Yes, there are 40 party ants at this picnic made of black modelling chocolate. I flavored a vanilla cake with watermelon jello which makes the cake dense like pound cake. I used a stainless steel mixing bowl to bake the rounded ends of the cake … Read more
I made this Nursing School graduate cake for my niece who just graduated from Nursing School. First I made the pattern for the shape. I had to measure and make sure the dimensions would fit with the cake pan that I was going to use. Once I finished the pattern I had to start making the … Read more
It’s due to be my son’s 31st birthday. I decided to make a cake with a fisherman on it, he loves fishing. I did make him a big fish for a cake one year so I thought I’d change it a bit this year. I baked an 8″ 3 layer cake and filled with butter … Read more
My boys love Star Wars. Their birthdays are 1 day apart, and they turned 6 and 9 this year. When they asked for a Yoda birthday cake, I wasn’t sure I could deliver. The Cake: I started with 2 round 8-inch cakes and a square 9-inch cake. The round cakes were stacked for Yoda’s head, … Read more
For my nephews 2nd birthday, I wanted to give him something besides the normal everyday gift. It took a while, but 2 days before his party, I decided to “make” him a Lightning McQueen cake (his favorite character). I was pretty good at doing “cupcake ” themes, so I figured it couldn’t be too hard. … Read more
Myself and my caking partner were contacted by a customer about doing a baby shower cake. The client sent us a picture of what she was wanting, it was a 10″ square cake covered in green fondant with white polka dots and on top of that was a horseshoe shaped cake covered in a cow print fondant. … Read more
I was asked to make this One Direction birthday cake for my friend’s granddaughter, she love the band One Direction but didn’t know what type of cake to have so she searched the net and forwarded me a picture similar to this cake but the picture she sent me was pipe iced in butter cream. … Read more
I was asked to make a Tigger birthday cake for the 1st birthday of a beautiful little girl. I must admit that Tigger is one of my favorite characters and therefor I was very happy to make a cake of this lovely character. I knew that I wanted to make a 3D Tigger out of … Read more
My daughter (like many other girls these days) is glamoured with Monster High. So for her birthday, she requested a Draculaura cake (her face with her ponytails). So, I made her a red velvet cake (my 1st attempt at that!) and had at it. I used 2 layers of a 10″ square pan. Because I … Read more
I am usually shown a picture of what someone would like for a cake. I add my personal touches and pride my work in making it look like what is in their mind. The picture was shown to me of an elephant on top of a cake that was made purely of fondant. I was … Read more
I made this cake last minute for a Father’s Day BBQ. It turned out really good. I baked a 9 x 13 cake then froze it. I got various pickerel fish pictures off the internet and enlarged them until I got the size I liked. I then cut the picture to make a template to … Read more