I made this Swimming Pool Graduation Cake for my co-workers son. He graduated from high school. The pool is made of chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate creme filling. The cake has a crumb coat of buttercreme icing and covered in fondant. I used clear piping gel mixed with blue coloring to make the water … Read more
My daughter and her friends are crazy about Moshi Monsters Moshlings so I made this Moshling cake for her seventh birthday. There seem to be hundreds of different Moshling characters, so I spent quite a long time planning and working out which ones would be easiest to make but still look good on the cake! … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I wanted to do something special. I really had no experience in making specialty cakes and tried to do something simple but memorable. This is 2 round cakes, with 7 cupcakes (4 paws, 2 ears, nose). Nothing fancy, chocolate and cream cheese icing and red gel icing. The claws are … Read more
I made this Garfield Birthday Cake for my brother’s daughter. She loves Garfield and he could not find a good store cake. The cake is an apricot brandy pound cake with real butter cream frosting. I covered the cake with yellow fondant and made the happy birthday sign to look like a comic bubble. Garfield … Read more
My daughter decided she wanted a pool party for her 7th birthday. We found lots of good ideas and pictures on this website to enable us to make this awesome swimmingpool cake. It took lots of time and effort, but the look on her face was well worth the trouble. Basically we made a 9×13 … Read more
I made this Angry Birds birthday cake for my son’s 7th birthday party. I had to assemble the cake onsite which was a little nerve-wracking but it wouldn’t transport well. The icing got bumped too, so it ended up not looking as smooth as it was at home. Smooth the slightly dry icing with a … Read more
A friend was having a birthday party for her son turning one, she had plates and napkings with this pattern and I copied them to the cake. Everything on cake is fondant except the sticks to hold up the monkey heads. I also made a individual small cake for the boy. I frosted the cake … Read more
I was asked to make a homemade Club Penguin cake for a boy’s birthday party that was Club Penguin themed. Club Penguin is an online game where penguins can chat to other penguins, etc. The birthday boy’s penguin in the game is green, so I made a frozen buttercream transfer of a green penguin. The … Read more
This was very very easy. My daughter believes herself to be a fashion icon! Loves the store Justice. They have a sign that says Peace, love, Justice. So we simply took that and replace Justice with my daughters name. We also made sugar cookies with same peace sign, no words. I will describe those first … Read more
This Creeper from Minecraft Cake was for my son Dash’s 9th birthday – he decided on a Minecraft theme. Minecraft is a computer game and everything is pixelated and very square. The cake itself is a white chocolate mudcake, it is a 7 inch by 7 inch cube so it took a lot of cake. … Read more
This Monkey Going Bananas Cake is a Marshmallow fondant birthday cake. The theme was jungle monkey going bananas. First tier is Zebra stripes. Second/ top tier is giraffe and the topper is jungle leaves with coconuts surrounding the birthday monkey and his many bananas. I made this for my grandson’s 1st birthday. It served about … Read more
My daughter wanted a Fancy Nancy birthday. So, I did some research and found information on frozen buttercream transfers. It sounded pretty easy so I took a shot and it was extremely easy! I made my buttercream frosting as I always do. I printed out a picture of Fancy Nancy in MIRROR IMAGE and covered … Read more