This jungle cake was for my daughter’s second birthday The cakes are chocolate with chocolate butter cream. Then I used marshmallow fondant to cover each cake. The bottom layer is white. I used a pizza cutter to cut triangles out of black fondant. The top layer is yellow/brown fondant with dark brown spots. The animals … Read more
This Hello Kitty cake is my 4th cake using fondant and my first 3D cake. Tools I used: Wilton 3D Cuddly Bear Pan 1 Box of cake mix, any flavor prepared as instructed on box 1 batch of pound cake batter (any recipe) A Hello Kitty doll you can use to guide your carving. A … Read more
My soon to be five year old grandson was totally into anything Space related. So I found this wonderful website and ended up making him both a crater moon cake and a Saturn cake for his 5th birthday. I’ve never attempted anything like this before so I was so happy with the outcome. I ended … Read more
I made this Pony cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday party. She loves horses and so we did a cowgirl theme. I tried to match the colors of the cake details to the decorations. My husband contributed by making me a template which I then traced onto the cake. I have extra large cookie sheets … Read more
I made this Hello Kitty Birthday Cake for my daughter’s third birthday. It is a two tier “Fun-fetti” cake mix with a layer of buttercream frosting. I covered the cake with a homemade marshmallow fondant and made colored polka dots from the fondant. I added a pink fondant bow and a cute Hello Kitty candle.
This tea party cake was made for a good friend’s little girl, her 5th birthday. The sheet cake is covered in buttercream icing, the tea pot is the sports ball cake pan, I trimmed the bottom and top, took one of the trimmings and used a circle cookie cutter to make the top of the … Read more
This safari cake was made for a baby shower at a local hospital. It is two layers on bottom and two layers on top of a homemade yellow cake and homemade buttercream icing that I colored green for the bottom layer and blue for the top (grass and sky). I tinted fondant with gel food … Read more
I made this Nemo birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party. I used a football cake pan for the body. Then I made an 8 inch square cake and cut it diagonal (sculpted it a bit too) to form the tail. I used the rest of the 8 in. for the fins. I dyed … Read more
This Teapot Birthday Cake is one of my first cakes, which has inspired me to many more cakes. I don’t like the taste and texture of fondant so I tried to use as little as possible. For the cake I used the large sports ball cake to make the ball shape. The cake was just … Read more
I used ideas from lots of cakes I had seen on the net. I wanted the actual Jungle Birthday Cake to be quite simple so that the animals stood out. They are all hand made from fondant icing and left for a few hours so that they are easily assembled and don’t go flat. The … Read more
My daughter is very much into Hello Kitty, so for her 5th birthday I decided to bake her a Hello Kitty birthday cake. Since she was having a party, the actual cake is a simple chocolate cake. I just had to quadruple the ingredients to get a decent size rectangular cake. I covered the cake … Read more
For this planets cake I baked two square chocolate cakes in 8 inch tins and laid them side by side on the cake board. I covered them with blue fondant icing in a marbled effect achieved by mixing dark blue and light blue packs. The fondant icing was stuck to the cake with a thin … Read more