I actually saw this idea for a Crocodile Birthday Cake in a cupcake book. My daughter was having a Tinkerbell birthday party for her 4th birthday so in addition to the Tinkerbell doll cake I made her, I thought I would make her the crocodile from the movie. I baked 24 chocolate cupcakes, just using … Read more
I bake 2 8” round cake, vanilla flavor and chocolate filling, decorated with white fondant, and I used black fondant for the squares, to simulate a race car flag. The car on the Lightning McQueen cake was made out of sugar paste, according to the colors of Lightning McQueen. For the flags I just bought … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s third birthday. It’s made from two 24cm round cakes (they were quite high too). I made them from scratch (not packet cakes) because I was worried about the icing and crumbs. One cake was cut in half from the top to the base then the … Read more
My niece is a huge WWE fan. So, for her 12th birthday (today), we decided to do the WWE Belt Birthday Cake belt. We ordered the black fondant and the gold icing coloring a couple of weeks in advance, from a company in Arkansas. They shipped fast too!! Had the stuff in two days time. … Read more
I was inspired by other cakes I saw on this website, so I decided to do a 3-D rubber ducky cake for my son’s 1st birthday party. I started with buying a large wash-basin online. I coated the inside with wax paper, and placed an elevated base inside fabricated by my wonderful husband out of … Read more
Well this is really not about the actual cake but the more about the decorations on the cake and how I came about getting them since they were no longer available in-store anywhere, you see, my son wanted a Bob the Builder theme for his 5th birthday. The problem was not getting a cake with … Read more
This Foot Cake Idea was my husband’s to show appreciation to my Doctor on the surgery he did on my right foot. Just a word of warning before you begin. If you are using your own foot as the model, don’t do like I did and drop the knife onto your foot. It kinda hurts! … Read more
This 3D Grave Digger Child Birthday Cake was pretty easy and a lot of fun. My cousin and I made this for our son’s 3rd & 4th birthday. For the base of the truck we took a broken monster truck toy and removed the truck top. We then made a cardboard base for the cake … Read more
I started this Homemade Pug Dog Cake by baking a 9” x 13” x 2” cake. I wasn’t sure what mixture to use so I used the mixture for a 8” round lemon Madeira cake recipe twice. The recipe I used is below: 12 oz self raising flour 10oz caster sugar 10oz soft margarine 5 … Read more
I made this Cars Racetrack Birthday Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. It is choc cake with Oreo filling on one side and vanilla cake with strawberry filling on the other side. My son loved helping me with this cake. I cut off part of the round cakes and made it flush to make a … Read more
This cake was not actually a birthday cake, but we (me and my partner) made it for the annual fair at our church. Wanting to do something that will be eye catching, we decided to make a “Oscar Academy Award” cake. Although the Oscar is not an exact replica of the original, it does give … Read more
I made this golf cake for my husband’s 30th birthday party. I first started by frosting the whole cake with light green icing. Then with a tooth pick I traced the water, the sand pit and the green. I filled in the green with more light green icing and I filled in the water with … Read more