I made this Ladybug 1st Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I was not very confident that it would be a success. But with this website I was able to get ideas and tips on how to go about making my cake. I used two packet mix cakes for the body and one packet … Read more
I found about 3 different cakes online that I liked and combined them into my own creation of a Tinkerbell cake. The bottom layer was a 16 x 16 pan that we colored purple for the cake. The top layer was colored yellow. We used Fondant icing for the flowers and as well for the … Read more
My son has wanted a dinosaur birthday every year from age 2. When he turned 4, I decided to make his T Rex cake as I did not think the ones I bought every year were “cool” enough. I found this cake topper of a motion sensored popping T-Rex that roared and had red eyes. … Read more
I made this Superbowl Cake for the Saint’s trip to the Superbowl. I began by baking an 11×14 cake in butter golden cake, and I also baked two 8″ cakes in the same recipe. I carved one of the 8″ rounds into a Fleur de lis, and saved the scraps to use as the “hurricane” … Read more
My son loves Spiderman, and wanted a spider cake for his 5th birthday, he drew me a picture of how he wanted it, so I got the Spider Birthday Cake Idea to replicate his drawing. I used a rectangular pan and made 4 cakes (I prefer to have more then less). It was a vanilla … Read more
I used a Madeira cake recipe and hired all three tins from local cake shop for this Thomas The Train Birthday Cake. I used a recipe for royal icing and made different food colouring to colour batches and stored in air tight containers. I used a pallette knife to spread grey on the top of … Read more
I searched everywhere for a unicorn pan to make this unicorn cake, but never found one “just right”. I ended up at Michaels and saw a Wilton party hat pan. I turned my head to the right sort of sideways and could envision it as a horse head and long snout. So, I bought it … Read more
This Basketball theme cake was made for my son’s birthday. The hat was made from the mini ball pan. The brim was fondant with a little tylose powder added to it. I let the brim sit over night so it can harden. The jersey was just fondant. I printed out a jersey template for the … Read more
My youngest sister’s birthday was coming up. I had gotten several Wilton cake decorating with fondant books. I decided to be brave and try to make one for my sister. The easiest part was baking the cakes. The fondant part took me 12 hours to do!! But the final out come was so worth it. … Read more
This is Thomas The Tank Cake is just a regular slab cake made from a boxed cake mix. I looked online for some pictures of Thomas to get an idea of his shape. I enlarged a photo of Thomas to the size of the cake in my photo program and printed it out. I cut … Read more
a friend of mine wanted a saint George dragon cake, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off, but it turned out well!
I baked 2 x 8 inch sponge cakes, these were then left to cool. On one cake I spread jam and on the other I spread butter cream, these were then sandwiched together. I then placed it on a plate and covered in butter cream and then placed in the fridge to chill. While the … Read more