What better cake to go with a Rainbow Brite doll for my daughter’s birthday? A little labor intensive, but incredibly fun to make. I used 2 boxes of standard, yellow cake mix, a double batch of butter cream frosting, and a single batch of homemade marshmallow fondant. Oh,and plenty of food coloring! Her cake was … Read more
I baked the chocolate cake as a single layer in a 10 in square pan. Then, using an enlarged image of the red bird, I made a paper cut out of the shape and cut the cake out using a serrated knife. I also used parchment paper to trace the main features (beak, eyebrows, eyes … Read more
My nephew wanted a Zambulance cake after watching Zamboni videos on You Tube. I cut a 9×13 cake into thirds and stacked them to make the body, then carved it into a Zamboni. The lights are bicycle wheel lights that light up when tapped. The frosting is piped on buttercream, the wheels are oreos.
I made this homemade Cinderella birthday cake for my daughter’s 5th B’day party, she loves the disney princesses. I used a Dolly Varden cake tin and then decorated it with ready made icing, I rolled it out and coloured a small section light blue and a larger section dark blue, I also made the pumpkins, … Read more
I got this idea for a slumber party cake from this website! We have 5 girls in our family with birthdays within 30 days so my sister-in-law and I made a slumber party cake with 5 girls on it. First, we made a 9X13 cake (half chocolate, half white). After leveling the top flat, we … Read more
This Super Mario birthday cake was made from 6″,10″,and 14″ rounds. The roads were made with black fondant rolled onto cake boards. These boards need to be cut to size after the cake is baked. If making this cake again I would use plywood as the base because the cardboard base I used started to … Read more
I started with the Martha Stewart recipe for banana cake. I used the Wilton stand up teddy bear cake pan and one small scoop of batter in a muffin tin. I baked the cake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes. The cake did not bake over the edge of the pan like it does with … Read more
This cake was made for an after-prom at the high school where the theme was all Dr. Seuss. This is my third year making cakes for this event and the kids really seem to love them each year. Everything on the homemade Dr Seuss cake is edible. The hat was the hardest to make. I … Read more
I used several of the cakes on this site for inspiration and added a few ideas of my own for this slumber birthday cake. I iced the cake and then draped the fondant bedspread over it, then trimmed it. The girls’ bodies are Twinkies, the heads, bedspread, pillows, hair and dots are fondant that I … Read more
My friend told me she wasn’t going to have a wedding cake, so I said that if she didn’t mind, I would make one and they could use it for pudding. So I made one chocolate and one plain victoria sponge cake (1 small round one and 2 large sqaure ones of each flavour) and … Read more
Our little grandson Sydney was born in Germany very prematurely, and whilst in hospital for several weeks we called him our ‘brave little bear’. Although still small, as his first birthday was approaching, it seemed appropriate to make him a Teddy Bear birthday cake. I ‘googled’ the internet for inspiring pictures, and having admired some, … Read more
I made this cake for my 3 year old daughter’s Dora themed party. I used a Wilton shaped cake pan (the tin came with full instructions for decorating), a banana cake recipe, and then totally winged it with the colouring of the buttercream icing as I didn’t have the “Dora” colour set. I knew I … Read more