This guitar cake was prepared from 15 cups yellow cake batter in a Wilton square 16×16 cake pan, cut by hand to shape, and then iced with homemade buttercream that was tinted in green and black to form the different sections of the guitar. The guard is rolled gumpaste hand cut and dyed black with … Read more
This Racetrack Cake was made for my son’s 5th birthday party. He wanted a racing theme, so I checked on this website for some ideas! As there were a lot of children for the party, a sheet cake was the biggest and easiest cake to cut for party bags. It was held off-site so it … Read more
I used Wilton’s animal crackers pan for this Bear Birthday Cake. My kids wanted a special cake and this was a quick one to please them with. I used “better cream” for the frosting since I always have some on hand. You can find it in the frozen section of some specialty stores such as … Read more
My son was turning 4 and I was adamant to make him a great birthday cake. For his previous birthdays I was very ambitious but never managed to get it right. The icing was always my biggest challenge and would make the cake look less than perfect in my eyes. My friend who bakes a … Read more
I made this guitar cake for my 18 and 11 year old nephews. Fondant is not a favorite with any of us, so all I used was frosting, smoothed out with Viva paper towels. The arm is made out of wood as I didn’t need to serve many people. Peanut butter cups for dials, kisses … Read more
I decided to do this for my hubby’s 45th birthday.. It was a blast to do.. The stream did take a little time, but I got it just how I wanted to.. Lets say my husband liked it so much he never even cut into it.. He said it was way to nice to cut.. … Read more
My daughter just loves The Pigeon books by Mo Willems so we decided to do a themed party of the Pigeon. I baked this great cake in a large rectangular cake pan. I used both white and chocolate cake mix to make it half and half. I did this by simultaneously pouring in the cake … Read more
This CARS 2 “Finn McMissile” cake was made for our son’s 5th birthday. This was our first attempt actually making fondant (using marshmallows) for a cake instead of buying ready made. It was very easy to make and the texture of the fondant made it nice to work with and it didn’t dry out as … Read more
I made the guitar cake out of two 9×13 cakes. One I used for the guitar body, the other for the neck and headstock and put the two together later. The “hole” in the guitar is a chocolate wafer cookie, stings are angel hair pasta, tuning knobs are Graham cracker goldfish cut in half so … Read more
My 2 year old is obsessed with Cars (the movie) so when I started to look for a Cars cake to do for his 2nd birthday I stumbled across this website and the car race track cakes. I felt like this would be a much easier option than doing an actual cake that is a … Read more
My mom and I made this cat birthday cake for a lady who owns a pampered white kitty cat. We baked 2 9×13 cakes and stacked them together with icing inbetween. Then we started at the back of the cake and rounded the cat’s back and progressed up toward the cat’s head. The head was … Read more
The butter cream frosting is a very simple recipe with little twists – adding an extra tbsp of meringue powder. Mix in the desired colors for the frosting. Colors will darken as they sit for a while. So do not worry if you are not able to get the perfect black (from the gray) or … Read more