For my husband returning from being on tour drumming for 7 months I really wanted to this Drum Cake. I followed the drum cake recipe from another submission on this site and used 4 chocolate fudge box recipes, frosted it with chocolate frosting overnight and used marshmallow fondant. It’s cheap and tastes great. I used … Read more
I made a Super Mario Bros. Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He loves Super Mario Bros. and wanted a cake of it. I had a lot of fun making it for him and he loved it. All I did was make two round cakes and frosted them. I used the fondant to make … Read more
I used the Wilton Mini stand-up bear pan for these little baby bear cake. I recommend filling it up slightly below where their tummy ends so when it raises you don’t have a lot to cut off(a lot of wasted cake). This mold works really well with thicker cake like pound cake. I made these … Read more
For this Dora cake I used a pampered chef bowl to bake the cake or dress part of the cake. I cut a hole in the middle of the cake and inserted a Dora figure for the doll. I iced the dress in a pattern I found online.
This was my first Guitar Birthday Cake Design – I used a guitar hero game guitar as a template to cut the correct shape from a basic butter almond flavored cake, crumb coated it twice with buttercream then covered it in black fondant and added fondant and gumpaste details. To get the gold details on … Read more
I made this Angry Birds chocolate birthday cake for my son and his friend who have just turned 6. The cake is gluten-free as my son has just been diagnosed with Celiac Disease. The cake contains buckwheat flour and ground almonds in place of regular flour. It was lovely for my son to be able … Read more
I work at a pet store and the girl that worked in the reptile section was leaving to go to school and I wanted to make her a special cake so I looked at some of the cakes here and came up with this python cake. I baked two bundt cakes (carrot cakes) and cut … Read more
I made this Cinderella birthday cake for my niece’s 5th birthday. I got this cake idea from the many examples on this website. I used a Wilton doll cake pan for her dress and then just inserted a dollar store Barbie doll inside the hole. The height was good and her foot fit into the … Read more
I got the idea for this guitar cake after my son asked for a cake that looked like a “real” guitar. After looking for cake pans, I decided to look “real”, I must try to sculpt the cake myself. I made 2 rectangle sheet cakes and cut the base of the guitar out of one … Read more
This Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake is my first attempt at a fondant cake. I took on the challenge when my son asked for the Super Mario Brothers theme and there was nothing to be found. I said sure I’ll try it so I watched some YouTube videos and dove right in. Did a test … Read more
This Snake Birthday Cake is a very forgiving cake, which is why I chose it for my first attempt at fondant. It is from 50 Easy Party Cakes. Cake: White from a box, bunt pan . The design is so forgiving that it broke coming out of the mold and I “glued” it together with … Read more
I made this Quagmire cake for my husband’s co-worker. He is a huge fan and we wanted to surprise him for his birthday. I made a 10in cake as the base and frosted it blue. Then I baked another 10in round cake. I printed a picture of him from the internet to use as a … Read more