I made this Monster Truck cake for my son’s fifth birthday party. He LOVES Monster Trucks! The cake is made in 5 pieces. Front and back of truck are cut out of 9×13″ yellow cake middle is cut out of additional 9×13″ yellow cake. Wheels are made of 6″ round chocolate cake. Then piped homemade … Read more
My friend wanted a birthday cake in the shape of a Cosmopolitan in honor of the Sex and the City Movie. Another friend and I baked a chocolate cake in a large, deep square pan. We used a cake leveler to split the cake in half and then we spread raspberry filling in the middle. … Read more
I made this Wubbzy Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I got the idea online on nickjr.com. I did it pretty much the same except I didn’t cut the ears and I added a round cake on the top for the clown wig. Unfortunately the cake for the wig didn’t turn out quite big … Read more
My son just loves monster trucks and since I had just finished the Wilton classes I wanted to see what I could really do! I checked this site which gave me some of the ideas used with my monster truck cake. A few starting hints and then I took it from there. This cake took … Read more
I made this coffee and donut cake for my best friend when she was hired by the police service in our city. I thought that it would be fun to make a Tim Horton’s to go coffee and a Donut as a joke, considering the stereotype of police and their coffee breaks! For the donut … Read more
In a desperate attempt to inspire everyone to think of Buzz Lightyear and not have to go into too much detail, I put a spin on the character’s wardrobe and came up with what represented Buzz and his character’s friends as a child could process. Turns out, this idea for this Homemade Toy Story Buzz … Read more
My son just turned three and he loves his trucks so I decided to do a monster truck cake for him. The cab is cake stacked and carved into the shape of a cab. The bed is made of graham crackers glued together with royal icing and covered in fondant to match the rest of … Read more
I struggled to find an idea for my son’s 19th birthday cake. Then it hit me – he loves curry so why not make a Curry and Rice cake version? I made a normal sponge cake in a rectangular shallow tin, then cut it into chunks. I coloured some butter icing that strange orangey colour … Read more
I made this crayon cake for my daughter’s Pre-K graduation. I used two boxed cake mixes and canned icing. I baked two rectangle sheet cakes the day before so they could completely cool. The next day I cut a few inches off the top of one cake so when I stacked them there would be … Read more
This truck cake made from white cake mix. Frosting was a mixture of cool whip and Duncan Hines vanilla frosting mixed with strawberry syrup and dried coconut. The wheels were made from figs and almonds and chocolate chips used for car handles and lights. The truck road track was made from green mixture of herbs.
My daughter was bored with regular birthday cakes. I had the idea for a Hamburger Birthday Cake for a long time, but never tried it before. I looked online and found tips here; especially using fondant, (which I had never heard of). The “buns” are from a white cake mix. The bottom bun was baked … Read more
This beach cake is a 2 layer cake with Chocolate pudding in between the layers of white cake topped with Butter Cream icing. Used glitter on top of the yellow to make the beach. This was for a 12 year old who loves the beach and loves to surf. Big Hit! Easy to do as … Read more