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My 2 year old son is obsessed with the character Finn Mcmissile from the movie Cars 2 so I decided to make him a Finn Mcmissile birthday cake for his 2nd birthday. I baked two banana chocolate cakes using a rectangular shaped tin for the base and a square one for the top of the car. … Read more
My partner decided he wanted a Bathurst 500 cake for his birthday, he didn’t really expect to see one though. After Googling for some time I found NO Bathurst 500 cakes so it was up to me to be creative. At the beginning of the week I made some gumpaste signs that indicated different corners … Read more
As I was overseas for my husband’s birthday, I decided to make him a late birthday cake. With some encouraging words from my husband we decided to make the old TV favorite, Mr Squiggle. I wanted to try something completely out of my comfort zone, a standing cake. I made the whole thing in 2 … Read more
My daughter wanted a tiger party at the beach for her 7th birthday. So I searched for pictures of ‘kiddy-tigers’. I enlarged a tiger-picture that was cut out to use a stencil to cut the sponge cake, that I baked. I then covered the cake with butter icing so get a smooth finishing and then … Read more
LaLaLoopsy is a sort of rag doll which is very famous here in Malta. A lady phoned me and wanted a Lalaloopsy cake for her daughter. She saw a plastic topper on a website which could be laid on top of a rectangular cake but when she tried to purchase it, she realized that the … Read more
My client for this Moonshiner birthday cake is a 9 year old boy who orders his birthday cake from me every year. He’s had various themes, tractors and big trucks, but this year he’s enthralled with the TV show “Moonshiners,” and much to the surprise of his Mom (and me) he insisted on a drunk … Read more
First of all I will start off saying that I have never had any formal training making cakes but I started my own business selling cakes and cake pops about a year ago called Princess Pops. I am a labor and delivery nurse working full time at Water Reed and teach Jazzercise part time. In my … Read more
My client needed a baby shower cake, and chose this design. Since it was a small event, they didn’t need a lot of cake, so instead of sculpting, I opted to make the decorations from Rice Krispie Treats. I created the legs, feet, and baby bottom from the treats, and then covered them in fondant I … Read more
The Disney Princesses are and will remain always a favorite with young little girls. A few weeks ago a lady phoned me to order a birthday cake for her daughter who was turning 8. She told me that she wanted a princess Jasmine’s cake. She also told me that she had a plastic figurine of Jasmine which … Read more
This birthday cake was a favor for a friend. Her little boy is crazy about fishing and loves collecting crabs and shells. His favorite shellfish are lobsters so when his mum asked me to make a birthday cake, I knew it had to have a lobster on it! I began by making two 10″ square … Read more
I made this Dr. Seuss Giraffe birthday cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. Her favorite stuffed animal “Papaya” is the giraffe from the Dr. Seuss story “And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street”. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, she told me she wanted a “Paya” cake….and … Read more
It was my daughter’s birthday again and this year she had requested a chocolate rainbow cake. I looked around on the web and found a few rainbow cakes that I liked the look of and thought wouldn’t be too hard, but was a bit bored by the idea of it being just a chocolate cake … Read more