This Ants Cake and Cupcakes was made by a family friend for my 4 children who share their birthdays in June. The triplets turned 1 and my oldest daughter turned 3. My husband and I decided on the theme, because they are always under our feet, busy carrying something around, eating, and just moving about, … Read more
SuperWhy! decorated cakes are not readily available in the grocery store bakeries, so a neighbor asked if I could make her 3 year old a SuperWhy! Birthday Cake. I happily agreed. I got the SuperWhy! images (SuperWhy, The Balloons, and Why Writer) from the PBSKids website. They have a really cool design center page for … Read more
For my daughter’s 5th birthday I decided on a garden theme as the party was based around fairies. I made this Garden Birthday Cake. For the sponge I used a Betty Crocker carrot cake mix. I simply sandwiched them together using green butter icing. I used two different lots of coloured butter icing. The idea … Read more
I made this Homemade Jet Helmet Birthday Cake Design for my brother, he is a huge Jet fan. The bottom half of this cake is rice krispie treats, for support. I used 3 8″ round cakes for the top half and started sculpting. The filling for this cake was strawberries and whipped cream. I guess … Read more
For my daughter’s 1st birthday I decided to do a Bumble bee theme party and like always I got ideas from this website for a Bumblebee Cupcake Cake and also from a Youtube video titled “How to make a fondant bumble bee”. I bought a big cupcake mold and decided to make the top part … Read more
The bottom of this Spongebob Birthday Cake is yellow, the top round one is a 2 layer chocolate with buttercream in between the layers. Spongebob, Patrick and Gary are all made out of rice krispie treats and marshmallow fondant. I decorated the cake with waves, jellyfish, rocks, ocean plants, fish and a reverse shell border. … Read more
This homemade Mother’s Day flower cake was white cake (I was using light colors so I didn’t want the cake color to show through). This is covered in yellow fondant. The daisies are made out of gum paste and fondant mixed 50/50. They are cut out using the daisy cutter and then using a fondant … Read more
I made this Basketball Birthday Cake for my little sister’s best friend, Ann. They had a joint graduation party and I made a cake for each of them. She played basketball through middle school and high school, so I thought this would be the perfect cake for her. I cooked 1 cake mix (Funfetti) for … Read more
My grandmas garden is in ladybugs and I made it into a Ladybug Cake Idea. The cake was just red and black icing and two round cakes. It was by far the worst cake I have ever done but the least challenging. I enjoyed this cake and it only took about 30 min. It is … Read more
I created this Homemade Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s fourth birthday party. It was a huge hit. I have never done this professionally and haven’t decorated a cake for years. I found several examples of cool cakes online, mostly using fondant. I had decided against using fondant since children may not like the … Read more
I made this cake for my granddaughter Cristina for her sweet sixteen birthday party.I made 5 cakes covered with fondant,and filling with milk custard,(dulce de leche). Also the shoe I put on the small cake on top,was made from gumpaste. I also used flowers which I had made in advanced and the orchid I bought … Read more
We recently had a small bowling party for our daughter, and this Homemade Bowling Birthday Cake was a hit! We started with a 9×13 cake. For the frosting, I made a One Minute Caramel Frosting that I found a recipe for on the web. Once it completely cooled, I gently folded in about 2 tbsp. … Read more