For my son’s 2nd birthday I decided to make a homemade Choo Choo train Cake for him as he loves choo choo trains. I worked from my imagination only and created a 3D sculpture of a train by stacking together various sponge cake shapes, iced with coloured frosting and lollies to create grass and train … Read more
I just stared making cakes on the side (my 3rd cake) and a friend of mine was turning 30. His wife got in touch with me and wanted me to make a fun cake for his birthday. I decided to do an old timey “bucket of beer” cake for him since we were having his … Read more
My daughter asked for a “nature cake” for her 9th birthday. I already knew I wanted to do some kind of waterfall and I happened to find a cheap pack of animals at the store which even included a couple of trees and rocks. I used a simple from-scratch yellow cake recipe but doubled it. … Read more
This Semi Trailer Birthday Cake was a cake my husband and I did for my father-in-law’s birthday. We used 6 loaf pans, 4 for the trailer and 2 for the cab and cut the cab to the desired shape. I then iced the cake with homemade buttercream icing, added pretzel sticks for the smoke stacks … Read more
My friend and I made this Coffee Cup Cake for another friend’s birthday. We had a hard time choosing what to make in cake form and we finally decided on a coffee cup. Our friend loves coffee and cake, so we thought it would be a great gift. We simply stacked about four cakes on … Read more
This Beach Cake is a cake I did for my niece who loves the beach and her little puppy. The cake is a butter cake from scratch covered in buttercreme. The water is piping gel colored blue, the sand is crushed Graham crackers. The blankets are fruit roll ups, the starfish, turtle and fish are … Read more
My ideas came mainly from others on this site so THANK YOU so much for providing this site for awesome ideas. I LOVE this site! I always go here before I start to build my cake idea. My 6 year old son wanted a Hot Wheels birthday party this year. So, I made something similar … Read more
This Watermelon Cake was made early in my cake decorating endeavors, so covered in star tips! Sheesh! I used the Wilton round ball cake pan for the wedges; I baked a whole ball (two halves) but only ended up using one half (two quarters.) I used and one 10″ cake cut in half and stacked … Read more
I made this School Bus Sugar Cookie Birthday Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. I baked sugar cookies and cut them while still warm for the windows door, wheels, stop sign and strip across the middle. This was a huge hit!
For this hamburger cake we just used two yellow 9” round cakes and one more out of devil’s food cake. We frosted the bottom “bun” with frosting that we food colored to make bun-colored. To get that bun color, we used some red, a lot of yellow, and just a drop or two of green. … Read more
We were throwing a luau potluck at work and I was nominated to bring the desert. The base of the Waterfall Cake was German Chocolate cake mix with chopped Andes mints. The “island” part of the cake as well as the shore line were yellow cake. I baked several rounds for this. The entire cake … Read more