My son is a big fan of Bob the Builder, so for his third birthday, I decided to make him a Bob the Builder cake design. I knew I wanted it to be a construction scene with all the characters, for which I borrowed my son’s die-cast miniatures. I started with a regular 9″ x … Read more
I made this Hannah Montana Guitar cake for my niece’s fifth birthday party. She is crazy about Hannah Montana, so I wanted to attempt a Hannah Montana guitar cake. The cake itself is a standard yellow cake with pineapple filling. After filling and icing the cake, I sculpted it with a serrated knife. I made … Read more
This is a soccer pitch cake we made for my Godson Daragh’s birthday. He is a huge soccer, and especially Manchester United Fan. We used two 9 inch X 13 inch cake pans and a standard vanilla Madeira mix. We layered the two Madeira cakes with buttercream frosting, and crumb coated the entire surface of … Read more
This was my first cake I ever made. My daughter had a kitty birthday party when she turned six. I used 2 round cakes to cut the cat cake the way I wanted it shaped. I piped it with different color icing using my Wilton star tips. I outlined the cake with light brown icing. … Read more
I decided to make my daughter’s 1st birthday cake and wanted to do a Care Bear theme. I used a 3D Care Bear cake pan I found on Ebay. With this Care Bear Birthday Cake I found that I had to cook it a lot longer than what the instructions stated because the middle of … Read more
I made this guitar birthday cake for my daughter’s 12th birthday. She is getting too old for these cakes, but she does like “rock” music, so I figured I could get away with this one! It started out as my little 4 year old’s “Bratz” toy guitar. She so graciously let me trace around it … Read more
A friend from church asked me to make a cake for her husband’s 60th b-day. She wanted a golf and basketball theme since those are his favorite sports. I had a horrible time finding a way to combine them! I looked for hours online, trying to find some ideas. This is a combination of ideas … Read more
I made this Kittens cake for my birthday to share with friends at dinner. I have never decorated a cake before and stumbled along this site and was inspired to give it a try. I left it till the last moment so I borrowed an idea from this site; kittens on a ball of wool. … Read more
I made this Homemade Lightning McQueen Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I started out by baking a chocolate cake in a 3D car shaped tin I got from our local cake specialty shop. It had to be baked for a long time as there was so much mixture it took a long time … Read more
I made this Rock and Roll cake for my sister’s 50th birthday where the theme of the party was the 1950’s. This was my first attempt at playing with fondant and cake paint. The edible parts of the cake were: – the cake base, which was a simple rectangular butter cake, iced with butter icing, … Read more
I made this Scuba Cake for a 50th birthday for my husband. He and I have been scuba divers since 2008. I then just learned to make and use fondant and had so much fun creating the cake. The recipe for the fondant was so simple. I greased a glass bowl with Crisco and put … Read more
When I was asked to make a cow cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday I had a look on the internet until I found a picture of what I was wanting to do. The body is actually the part which is cake which I used a Dolly Varden tin. The head is a foam ball, … Read more