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This is the first time I tried to decorate a cake with fondant. I am fond of cooking and asked a cookery teacher to give me the recipe. I couldn’t wait and went directly to the supermarket for the ingredients. I did the cake the same day and was really happy about the results. I offered … Read more
My children, aged 8 and 11 share a birthday month, and since we home school, they share many of the same friends as well. So this year, we decided to share a birthday party too. After fielding many, MANY suggestions regarding the party theme, I pulled rank and chose a Winter theme. Given that their … Read more
Cute As A Button baby shower cake was made with chocolate top tier and white cake on the bottom tier. The cake is butter cream, the fondant accents and white chocolate large button on front. I used a medium tip and cut out the buttons then a small tip to cut out the inside part … Read more
A friend asked me to make a “circus themed” cake for her 4 year old. I had make 100’s of cupcakes and as it was a friend so I didn’t want to say no. What started out to be a simple request took me hours, hours of research! I Googled ” circus themed cakes” and … Read more
A friend asked for a “twins” baby cake for her shower. Googled the web for ideas and loved the look of the baby bottoms! Created the bottoms from the Easter Egg cake pans that I got at a flea market for a quarter and sliced each one in half and filled with fresh strawberries, bananas … Read more
My son is animal mad and wanted a tortoise for his birthday. I’m busy enough looking after my 3 boys and decided that as a real tortoise was out of the question. I would make this cake as an alternative. He loved it ! I baked a basic dairy and egg free sponge (due to … Read more
My friend’s little girl is Minion mad – so desperately wanted a Despicable Me 2 cake for her Minion Party. I made two big chocolate cakes, sandwiched them together with butter cream then set to work decorating them. This began with covering the cake with blue icing, which I then sprayed with edible spray color … Read more
This is a cake I made for an entry in the local Fair this past summer. I won a blue ribbon for 1st place in the “Decorated Cake” category. I wanted to create a cake that would fit in with the fair theme. I decided to make a cake that looks like a bag of … Read more
My daughter and I both like our steaks rare. I thought it would be a great cake idea when she asked me to make her one. The cake and frosting were chocolate. I covered the cake with my home made fondant and brushed the food coloring on it to make it look cooked. I then … Read more
We rented a party pirate ship for my son’s 6th birthday, but he wanted a volcano cake. So we decided to combine the theme. I went to the coolest cake website to find some brilliant ideas. I baked a few round sponge cakes to build up the volcano and placed a flower vase in the middle. I … Read more
I adapted this design from a three tier cake I’d seen on Pinterest and Oz’d it up by adding the ruby slippers and flags and yellow brick road. The cake is a 5-layer rainbow cake with butter cream filling and frosting. The bottom is an icing sheet printed with a blue gingham check pattern. The … Read more
Ivy insisted she wanted a Pirate Cake and as I love a challenge. I decided to fulfill her wish, lol. I have never done anything like this before so I did a Google search for pirate cakes and picked out a few I liked. The cake I ended up doing was a mix of several cakes … Read more