I made this Spiderman Perched on the Moon Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He is highly allergic to eggs so I replaced the eggs with a non-egg containing egg replacer. Because cakes without eggs tend to be more fragile, I froze the cake before icing it and the icing held it together. I used … Read more
This Flower Pot Fairy cake is red velvet layers with cream cheese icing. I baked five 10 inch cakes so I would have enough cake to make it high enough to look like a flower pot. Five layers staked and carved to shape flower pot. Iced then covered with homemade fondant almond flavored. All the … Read more
This football cake is a simple jello cake. I used a Duncan Hines yellow boxed cake in a 9X13 glass pan. You can also use a metal pan, however with a glass pan you can view the bottom to see if the jello mixture bleed to the bottom, if not add more jello. I used … Read more
My son requested a castle cake for his birthday after studying castles in school. He thought it would be cheaper than buying one from Publix this year, although it was not. I started this castle birthday cake with throw away cake pans, one a large rectangle and the other a small square. I measured them … Read more
This Pokemon cake was for my son’s 8th birthday. The cake is a lemon cake, made with 2 boxes of store bought cake mix in an aluminum sheet cake pan. The design came from his pajama top – he wanted all 3 Diamond & Pearl starter Pokemon plus Pikachu. The icing is all store bought … Read more
My mother-in-law made this Homemade Garden Birthday Cake for my daughter. It was a big hit at her recent 1st birthday party! The theme was a big number 1 pulling a red wagon with flowers. We wanted the theme from the napkins, plates, etc. to continue with the cake. So, I found a miniature red … Read more
This Pittsburgh Steelers Cake is two sheet cakes with a strawberry filling in the middle. I made all the frosting and colored it appropriate colors. I shaped the football from fondant and used a small craft stickdowel rod to hold it on the cake. I printed out a picture of my dad’s favorite players and … Read more
We baked two chocolate cakes two weeks early and put them in the freezer. Then we baked a round vanilla cake with pink food coloring for the top layer. The frosting was homemade, we made one batch with a recipe of food network then another batch made of powdered sugar. We frosted the entire cake … Read more
My boyfriend is moving to a new place and so I decided to make him a Shrek’s swamp welcome. I made a round cake and covered it with green fondant to make a grassy look for this Shrek cake. To create Shrek’s home I mad two cupcakes and “glued” them together with chocolate genash then … Read more
This Flowers Cake is a lemon layered cake filled with lemon pudding and iced with Wilton’s recipe buttercream. I used all shortening and clear butter flavoring for the icing. It makes the icing snow white. It’s important to ice your cake using thin consistency icing. To make your base smooth – ice your cake and … Read more
I bought Cincinnati Reds tickets for my dad for Father’s Day, so I made him this Baseball Cap Cake too. The cake is baked in an oven-safe glass bowl. To make the bill, I used a cake-leveler to cut off a piece of the bottom (flat part) of the cake. This can be done with … Read more
I made this 3rd Birthday Princess Castle Cake for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday. I got my idea from looking online at a lot of other castles cakes and came up with this idea. For the main part of the castle, I made 2, 12×15 cakes and 2, 7inch rounds cakes. I covered these with purple … Read more