This Backyardigan Third Birthday Cake was the first cake I was going to be decorating in our motorhome so I was hesitant about being too intricate. I found the Backyardigan toppers on the internet (Amazon) and decided to take it easy with with new Duff fondants at Michaels – which were fabulous. I baked three … Read more
I made this Pirate cake for my son’s birthday because he loved pirates. The bottom is just a half sheet white cake that made and frosted with butter cream in between the two layers. I looked for the biggest cake pan that I had in order to make it look like two different parts of … Read more
For our son’s fifth birthday cake, after a couple of previous years of ‘cool cakes’ (see Star Wars Max Rebo and Mike and Sully previous submissions on Coolest Cakes!) we have set ourselves up for a task every year to make sure we make a cake worth a five year old’s expectations! Added complication of … Read more
My 2 kids both have birthdays in May (5 and 3) and they both love Jake and the Neverland Pirates. I decided to have a Pirate themed party for them this year. I looked through all the cakes on this site and decided to make a cake that was a combination of some of the … Read more
INSPIRATION: Our boy loved bananas and cream cheese so for his first birthday I made a banana cake with cream cheese icing into a 1st birthday Banana in Pajamas cake. For inspiration I looked though the other Banana In Pajamas cakes made on this website (coolest-birthday-cakes.com) and took the plunge into cake making! METHOD: I … Read more
This is a Pirate Ship Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. It was made of a round cake cut in half. The cannons were Rolos, and I also put the candles by the canons(when lit looks as though they are firing). I used wooden skewers and put paper cut in the shape of a flag. … Read more
My 4 year old daughter loves the Aristocat movie and Marie is her favorite Aristocat. For her 4th birthday we had a party themed after Marie and the Aristocats. I made the homemade Aristocat Marie cake and a Pin the Tail on Marie game for her party. We also made headband cat ears for the … Read more
The party theme was pirates, but I couldn’t find any cool decorations so I decided to use my son’s Playmobil pirate toys and just make the Treasure Island Scene cake. I gathered them up, designed the ship on the water side in blue and placed the land pieces in sand, the tan section. Because I … Read more
This is a sheet cake I made with buttercream icing and icing gel colors. I used rice paper and to outline the picture and filled it in on the cake. Then I misted around it with red food coloring.
I layered two ten inch round cakes for the bottom tier and two six inch round cakes for the top of this Pirate Birthday Cake. I covered the two tiers with white fondant and then made red and brown fondant for the balls around the top and bottom tiers and cut out strips and laid … Read more
I made this Barney and Friends Birthday Cake for a friend’s daughter. I used 2 9in cake pans. The cake has 2 layers. Bought the vanilla frosting from food store(Stop and Shop) and tinted them using Wilton food coloring gel(found at Micheal’s, A.C.Moore & Walmart). I made the Barney figures, flowers, bow on top and … Read more
I made this Treasure Chest cake for my son’s 5th birthday party that was pirate themed. I used white cake mix in a sheet pan, cut it in half, and stacked one half on top of the other. I then used a casserole dish and added it to the top, to finish giving it it’s … Read more