My goddaughter was born premature and we have come to think of her as a miracle, so when I decided to do her baptism cake, I decided that an angel cake would be perfect. I had always wanted to work with fondant so I gave it a try. I found a marshmallow fondant receipe online … Read more
My 9 year old son wanted a cake of Commander Fox from the Star Wars Clone Wars movie. I have been making cakes for my children for 10+ years but this cake was the most difficult for me. Probably because I didn’t have templates for cutting out all the pieces. Fortunately, my husband helped me … Read more
My sister calls me telling me her son’s were having a movie night birthday party, asking me what kind of cake could I make? So I came up with, what else but a Popcorn Bucket Birthday Cake! I used 4-10″ vanilla cake layers. Budget wise you can either use box cake mix or time wise … Read more
This was for my son’s 2nd birthday. We had people coming with lots of dietary restrictions, so it is basically three cakes. The sheet cake ( I never got a picture before it was cut. It had used to have a tractor on it, too) was dairy free. The silo was gluten-free cupcakes stacked on … Read more
I came to this website looking for ideas for an R2 D2 cake. I combined a few ideas and came up with my cake. I baked 3 11x 18 sheet cakes (each with 3 boxes of cake mix). When I baked the last layer, I also used enough cake batter to bake a few cupcakes … Read more
The Pizza Birthday Cake is a box cake I made in a pizza pan, (I extended the sides with tinfoil.) I cut off the domed part of the cake and left the edges a bit higher. I covered the crust with marshmallow fondant tinted with a little yellow, and wrapped it around the sides of … Read more
This Beach Birthday Cake is a 12 x 18 double layer sheet cake. I used decorator icing for the inside, sides and water. I iced it all with the blue and then mixed some white in and gently tapped where I wanted to water to be. That gave it the white cap look. The sand … Read more
This was my homemade R2D2 Birthday cake. It was made in 4″ x 8″ round pans, except for the dome head which was baked in a stainless steel mixing bowl. The legs were made of rice krispie treats and the whole thing was covered in fondant. It stood about 17″ tall and was simply awesome!
My niece has loved Taco’s her whole life so there was not a better choice for her sweet 16 birthday party then a Homemade Taco Birthday Cake. I looked at several versions of taco cakes on this web site and put together this version for my niece. I made a jelly roll cake using Betty … Read more
This cake was made for a friend’s son. He was turning 8 and wanted a camping themed cake. The cake is chocolate with chocolate icing. The trees are sugar cones roughly frosted with green buttercream icing. The grass was star tipped, also buttercream. I used 2 graham crackers to make the tent and then wrapped … Read more
I asked my 5 year what kind of cake he wanted for his Star Wars birthday party. He said “The part where they are stuck in the garbage trying to get out of the Death Star(ep6)” So I gave it a try and this is my Star Wars Death Star Escape Cake. I took melted … Read more
I made a Sushi Cake Design for my daughter’s 15th birthday after studying every online resource I could find and watching a video on making sushi and reading a sushi cookbook. The first thing I learned was, dark green fruit roll ups DO NOT EXIST. What I ended up using for Nori was grape fruit … Read more