This Spongebob and Friends Birthday Cake was so much fun to make and only 2 cake mixes. I used a 13″x9″ cake pan for the head and body, Swiss rolls for his pant legs and yellow licorice for his legs with black licorice and black frosting to make his shoes. His teeth are 2 small … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake using the Wilton Stand Up Cuddly Bear cake mold. I made the bear and the top square cake using one pound cake recipe and one yellow cake recipe mixed together. *Don’t just use yellow cake, because the cake will not be solid enough to stay together** The bottom rectangle … Read more
I saw this spider cake on your site and thought it was amazing. I used ‘Matchmakers’ stuck together with melted chocolate because my children hate licorice, in the UK these are long thin mint flavoured chocloate sticks. The feet and joints are black royal icing. Butter icing with dark coco and sweeties for eyes. I … Read more
My friends little boy had a Spongebob themed 1st birthday party and I was given the job of making a homemade Spongebob cake! I had a couple of rough practices and soon came to realize that using rolled icing as opposed to buttercream looked a lot neater. I have never used this kind of icing … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my son’s first birthday. I got idea from some other cakes on this site.. I made a basic white cake and 3 cup cakes for eyes and nose. I used moistening orange juice and sugar as moistening syrup for the cake. Also gave a glaze with orange juice and … Read more
My cousin stated (jokingly!) that she wanted a purple and green sparkly butterfly for her birthday cake. I took it as a challenge and made her a Butterfly Birthday Cake. It’s actually made with two butterfly cakes made with the Wilton butterfly pan. I had a ton of fondant and Italian buttercream in the freezer … Read more
I made this homemade Sponge Bob birthday cake for my nephews 6th Birthday. He loves Sponge Bob, and I want to surprise him with it. His party is tomorrow. :) Hope he likes it. I used one box of yellow cake mix, homemade buttercream frosting, and a can of chocolate icing. I just baked my … Read more
These Elmo Cupcakes were really easy to make! I made red buttercream frosting and used the Wilton grass tip (#233) for Elmo’s furry face. I used pre-made, store bought eyes made from sugar for Elmo’s eyes. I used a Wilton round tip (#12) to pipe an oval mound for Elmo’s nose. For Elmo’s mouth, I … Read more
This homemade Dragonfly Birthday cake, made for a friend at work, was a sheet cake made out of two boxes of mix, then entirely carved. I decorated it with funfetti cake white frosting, black and white sparkle gel and sugar crystals. The wings were lattice cake decoration and white sugar crystals, which were just sprinkled … Read more
All chocolate superman cake, single 14″ bottom, doubled 8″ middle and the top, the earth is rice krispie treats ball, i loved making this cake, i had never tried this before at all, or anything like it. I was please with it being my first one. The kids loved it.
I made the Elmo 2nd Birthday Cake using Wilton’s cuddly bear stand up cake pan and cut off the ears. A note about that, the first cake I made I had 2 problems, one, the 6 cups of batter to fill the cavity was not enough to bubble up and over (which I think was … Read more
For this homemade LadyBug Birthday cake, I used Wilton’s largest wedding pan, 14′ x 3″, to bake three strawberry cake mixes. I used a deep, 9″ round pan to bake one mix of chocolate cake for the Bug’s head. I covered the body with canned frosting, using a lot of red food coloring; it is … Read more