The cake is a bed with a quilt draped over the top of it. My best friend is a quilter and I used her original quilt design as the pattern for the quilt. I used a half sheet cake pan for the bed. I cut a little off the end to use as the pillow … Read more
I made this Homemade Football Birthday Cake for my son’s 8th birthday. I decided to do a football cake because he’s in a football team. It’s vanilla flavored with vanilla frosting but I changed the colors to try to get a green for the grass and used chocolate for the football color. Every one liked … Read more
I made this Nerf Gun Birthday Cake for my son’s 11th Nerf Wars Birthday Party. I used an 11 x 15 pan. I baked 3 Betty Crocker Devil’s Food Cake mixes. I froze the cake overnight to make it easier to cut the design. I downloaded a picture of the Maverick Nerf Gun off the … Read more
This Homemade Shoe and Bag Cake was made for a friend’s 17 year old daughter. The cake for the shoe box and bag are carved from a chocolate Madeira cake filled with and covered with chocolate butter cream. The bag handles and shoes were made in advance using fondant mixed with tylos for stability. I … Read more
For my girls 2nd and 3rd birthday party I made them individual cakes, so for the rest of the guests I wanted to make cupcakes that went along with the theme of the party. We were having a garden themed birthday party, so I thought some sort of flower cupcakes would be perfect. I was … Read more
My brother is a big Cleveland Browns fan, so for his birthday I decided to make him a Cleveland Browns Birthday Cake with the Browns colors. I used two 9 inch round cakes that were strawberry flavored (box cakes)and I made the Wilton recipe of Buttercream frosting. I drew the helmet free hand and piped … Read more
I made this Transformers Optimus Prime cake awhile ago. I couldn’t really find any good ideas to copy from the internet (although there was one amazing freestanding Optimus Prime that did inspire me but was going to be way to hard to replicate) so I just made one up myself. Anyway this was not necessarily … Read more
This fairy’s house cake was made for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She had a fairy and wizards party. The cake is simple but looks amazing when completed. I made two bowl cakes (one is slightly smaller than the other). The cakes are Madeira sponges. I covered a cake board with fondant that I tinted green. … Read more
I made this Scarecrow Cake for a church fall cake walk after seeing something similar in a magazine. I used a baking bowl and unfortunately, due to a time issue, used a triple chocolate fudge cake mix. I coated the cake in cream cheese icing, unfortunately also purchased from the grocery store shelf. I used … Read more
I used the soccer ball pan from Wilton, used boxed funfetti cake (kids always love sprinkles). The pan takes a little over a box, so I made 2 boxes and made 18 cupcakes with the rest of the batter. I covered the cake in homemade buttercream and then ivory satin ice fonfant. I mixed blue … Read more
I made this 18 Wheeler Transformers Birthday Cake for my son’s 8th birthday, Nov 2008. I made two cakes, not sure that I could pull the first one off. The cake is made using two loaf pan. Cut the first cake down the middle leaving a thin layer for the 5th wheel(behind the cab area). … Read more
I made these edible flip-flips for our Laua Themed family reunion. I used my husbands flip flops (I wanted a big enough template to use a lot of cake) and I traced them and made templates with paper. I baked a rectangular cake then cut out the shapes of the flip flops. I placed them … Read more