Cake: basic butter cake. Icing: Buttercream frosting, piped with ridged tip. Decorations: licorice (2 types), sour strap. This Terrier Dog Cake was baked in a roasting pan (cooked the day before and frozen). I found a picture of a Scottish Highland terrier (front on view) which I enlarged to the height of the pan then … Read more
I started this Tow Mater Cake Idea with a chocolate 13 x 9 cake. After it was cooled and chilled I cut in half length wise. On half I cut a little curve off on end for the front of the truck and then iced the top of this piece. The other half I cut … Read more
This Hannah Guitar Cake was a request for a Girl’s 7th Birthday. She’s a huge Hannah Fan. This was my first attempt on a Guitar and I was pleased with the results, even if the making made me almost crazy. I had a friend of mine draw an outline for the guitar. I transferred it … Read more
I made this Super Mario cake for my Mario-fanatic twins for their 5th birthday. I took a crusting buttercream frosting and bought store bought red frosting, because I heard that red was hard to make, and I didn’t want a pink Mario! I printed off a picture of Mario online and transferred it to the … Read more
My son LOVES dogs so I wanted to make him a doggie cake for his first birthday. This cake is designed after his Grandma’s dog Daisy, who is the first dog he met. He recognized “Day-dee” right away and couldn’t take his eyes off her. I also made a small bone for his smash cake. … Read more
This Disney Cars Cake was for the son of a friend of mine. I wanted a cool CARS cake for him, and wanted to have the black asphalt somewhere on it so he could put his actual toy CARS on it. The cakes are a 10″ and two 6″ cakes with icing in the middle, … Read more
My wife made a Battlefield Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 7th birthday. Photo enclosed. I was “helping” with the decorating, giving technical advice, etc, and struck upon this idea for one of the cupcakes. It’s a little gross, but then again war is not for the weak of heart! The larger cake was made … Read more
I made this Sonic The Hedgehog Birthday Cake for my best friend’s fiance who had said he had always wanted a Sonic cake for a birthday, so I thought I would give it a go at making him one. I made 2 yellow sponge cakes which I then sandwiched on top of each other with … Read more
It was coming up to my 29th birthday and my 3 year old wanted me to make a cake! We searched the internet for cakes and we came across Spot the Dog! She insisted I make a Spot the Dog Cake! I copied the picture and free hand a copy onto some baking paper. I … Read more
Making this Cars 3rd Birthday Cake and having this CARS party for my 3 year old son was a blast! It is actually made from 4 round cakes (2 stacked on top of each other). I stacked the frozen cakes (I cut a little off the centerline so they fit together nicely) then I carved … Read more
I made this Guitar Birthday Cake Design for my daughter’s friend’s birthday party. She asked if I could make a guitar cake. I traced a small guitar my children had and went from there. The strings are licorice and the knobs were peanut butter cups.
I made this Super Mario Galaxy Cake for my son, Wyatt’s, 4th birthday. He was recently obsessed with the Mario Galaxy video game, but I couldn’t find a doable example of a cake to fit the theme. The cake was a stacked 8″ with fondant icing. The green pipe, planet, mushroom, and Lumas were made … Read more