This is a Giant Cupcake Birthday Cake I made for my niece’s 4th birthday. The pan I rented from a cake store. I used Duncan Hines chocolate cake mix, but I made a pound cake by adding a package of instant chocolate pudding and 4 eggs. I baked the top portion first then the bottom … Read more
I love looking at cakes here and get lots of great ideas from it. My nieces wanted a jungle them and loved the animals. I used a 9×13 pan for the bottom of the Waterfall Jungle Birthday Cake. I used two 8×8 pans but didn’t fill them up to where I usually would so the … Read more
My son is allergic to peanuts so I always have to make the cakes for each birthday. He was intrigued by monster trucks when he was 3(and 4) and wanted a monster truck cake. I wasn’t confident enough to attempt to make the cake into an actual truck so I decided on a more simple … Read more
I made this Giant Cupcake cake for my 13th birhtday party over the summer. I started by purchasing a Wilton cupcake pan and baked the cake in that. The flavor of the cake was funfetti. I let the cake cool and the next day I frosted the cake, one half at a time; the bottom … Read more
I made this beach cake for my aunt who loves being on the beach. I looked on this web site for ideas and then threw in some things I thought about. I started with the sand icing which is light brown icing. Then with a grass tip I did the grass corner. Then the ocean. … Read more
This Racing Car Cake was made by me, for my son Kobe for his 2nd birthday, January 2009. He loves cars so it was the right choice. The cake was a made using a novelty car cake tin. The cake was covered with roll out fondant. I also used roll out fondant to make the … Read more
This Cheese Birthday cake was a cake I wanted to try for a while and a friend’s birthday gave me the perfect excuse! A nice carrot cake recipe that I used for my wedding cake made in a simple round sandwich tin (2 layers). It’s filled with orange cream cheese filling. Once filled, I cut … Read more
Bake a 9×13 chocolate (dirt) cake for this Camping Tent Birthday Cake. Frost it green, very smooth. Build tent using chocolate pop tarts, pretzel sticks and brown frosting. Make a circle of brown frosting and add campfire, using chocolate rocks, pretzel sticks and orange/red frosting. Fill one sugar cones with frosting, pipe out “needles” using … Read more
My son loves trains and wanted a train party for his 4th. So, I made simple chocolate cupcake toppers shaped like trains for the guests, but made THIS guy for the birthday boy. This 4th Train Birthday Cake Idea was my first attempt with fondant and homemade buttercream.
This is a cake that I did for the Pharmacist at one of our local Kmarts. It is a Yellow Cake with buttercreme icing. The coke can is made with rice krispies treats and the coke pouring out is made with piping gel that I colored brown and piping gel all over the can to … Read more
My son wanted a Diego party so the first thing I did was come on to this website for some great ideas. I saw a Waterfall Birthday Cake already posted on here and then added some of my own ideas to it. I added a third layer of cake. The first layer had the waterfall … Read more
These vehicle cupcakes were done for a little boy’s 4th birthday. I used buttercream icing and I had piped the cars from drawings I had copied from pictures found online.