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My daughter is a student at UofM, and loves anything Michigan, so naturally, I made her a MI themed gumball machine cake. It was all chocolate cake. I used 2 8″ layers, 1,6″ layer,and 1,4″ layer. I filled and stacked the cakes, then carved to the shape that I liked, before frosting and covering with … Read more
This is my second fondant cake (my first time was for my son’s birthday the previous month…it was a stressful 2 months!). It was designed for my grandmother’s 90th birthday party. Lots of relatives were flying in from out of town to wish her well, and it was going to be a big bash. I … Read more
I love to bake and I am very creative. I took one Wilton class at a local store, got sick and could not finish, so what I learned was pretty much nothing….lol. My great grandson was turning 6 and I wanted to make the cake. He loves Angry Birds, so his Mom told me “YES” … Read more
Day 1 On the first day, I started with 2 half sheet cake pans, 2 white mixes, and a pound cake. I made the 3 cake mixes as the directions stated separately then mixed together. Next I poured into silicon lined half sheet cake pans. After cooling the cakes completely I tightly covered them and … Read more
This is my story, I have been baking the cakes and my husband has been decorating the cakes using fondant and he also makes fondant cake toppers. All of the cakes he has decorated have been for family, the funny thing about this is that my husband decided not to decorate any more cakes because … Read more
My son had decided months before his birthday that he wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cake. I began scouring the internet for pictures of something awesome and something that I could do. What I kept coming across were things that were even way to hard, made with too much fondant, or ones that just … Read more
This Purple Evil Minion cake was such fun to make, even though at times I thought this is going to look nothing like the image I have in my mind. But little Brandon kept coming into the kitchen telling me “that is going to look good mum ” and it gave me the courage to push … Read more
I started this Lightening McQueen Cars birthday cake with a two layered rectangular chocolate mud cake , a steak knife and a toy car to look at /copy. Off I began carving bit by bit , little by little …. until I was finally satisfied with the shape. I can tell you, I thought at many … Read more
The base of this cake is a 16×2 cake pan. As I did make mostly everything on this cake, however my two sons did put together and decorate the gingerbread haunted house, so they will get the credit for that. Now the ghosts are made of white and brown modeling chocolate. I started with a … Read more
I started with a 13×3 cake pan for the base, and the Wilton ball cake pan for the baby rump. But before all that I started work with the decorations. The rattle, shoes, bow, baby feet/legs and binkie were all made a few weeks in advance. And they were made of a mixture of gum … Read more
I have wanted to a Dinosaur cake for ever! He was planned as a cute cartoon Dinosaur due to it being for a 4 year old, just before I went to do his face his Mum asked if it could have scary teeth!! This cake was two circle cakes stacked and shaped with a bread … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was a hit, I sat and managed to do Elmo in an hour. The cake is a double layered chocolate cake with chocolate butter-cream. Elmo is crafted completely from fondant, he has a lollipop stick in the center to hold him up. I gave Elmo his fur look with an icing tip with … Read more