I am just a novice when it comes to cake decorating. Last year I could not find a Ben 10 cake that I liked and came up with this Ben 10 Omnitrex cake instead. I baked one rectangle shaped cake and one round using cake mix from the box. When the cake cooled completely I … Read more
I made this homemade Dinosaur Land birthday cake for my son’s 5th birthday party. I actually came to this site to do research on the type of look I wanted before I started it. I used some of the ideas and tips others had included with their cakes. The “cake” portion of this cake was … Read more
This Race Track Birthday Cake was only my 2nd attempt at cake decorating so if I can do it anyone can! The cakes are two 8in rounds. I used one chocolate buttermilk sheet cake recipe (originally for a 9×13). One box mix would work too. I cut a little off the ends of both and … Read more
I made this Blues Clues Birthday Cake for my grandson’s first birthday. I combined 2 themes – Blue from Blues Clues and the first birthday Prince. I baked a homemade white cake and iced the entire cake with white buttercream icing. I printed coloring book pages of Blue and used the copier to resize them … Read more
I made the Princess Crown Tiered Cake for a little girl’s 4 birthday. I used french vanilla butter cream to frost the cake. I made the crown out of mmf/gumpaste a couple of days before I started the cake so it would have time to dry. I wrapped it around a baby powered milk can … Read more
I bought a 1/2 slab mud cake from Woolworth’s. I did one layer of white butter cream icing. Then I did another of green butter cream icing and covered it with coconut which I dyed green with food coloring. I made the goals out of pipe cleaners and netting which I purchased for $1.25 at … Read more
My 4 year old daughter loves The Land Before Time series of movies. Last year was Littlefoot; this year was Spike (she picked him because he is the biggest, so there would be more cake). I built a structure up to hold the body off the ground. The structure had 4 legs and a plank … Read more
I made this Dueling Dragons Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. He’s very into dragons, especially the movie “How to Train Your Dragon,” so I tried to make the little dragon look like the Night Fury from the movie, battling a larger dragon. The big dragon is a lemon cake with lemon/orange buttercream … Read more
My son is a goalie for his hockey team. This year he wanted a hockey goalie cake for his birthday. I made a hockey player cake using the Wilton hockey player cake pan and adapted it to look like a goalie. My son’s favorite NHL team is the Anaheim Ducks so I made the goalie … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He fell in love with the movie “Cars” while in the hospital for 2 months recovering from his second open heart surgery. He wanted a “Cars” birthday party and a Lightning McQueen cake so that is what he got. He and all his lil’ friends loved … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea for a family friend. Its my favorite cake I’ve EVER done. When she said Reptar I was like… “How am I supposed to do THAT?!” But I was going to figure it out. I found a coloring page online of Reptar, blew it up and printed it out … Read more
My friend’s son had an Olympic themed birthday party. So, I baked an Olympic cake for that. I made a rectangular shaped strawberry short cake. On that, I put the symbol mark of the Olympic game, sports themed hard icing cookies,and stadium and audiences. Olympic symbol and stadium was made with with Italian meraunge cream … Read more