My Rubber Ducky cake was for my sister in law’s Baby shower. I wanted a duck but didn’t want to buy a specialty pan because I didn’t think I’d use it again so I made a picture of a duck on a large paper and I wanted it to look like it was swimming in … Read more
I made this Homemade Pink Jungle Safari Birthday Cake for my niece’s first birthday. It was only my third cake ever to make, so I was nervous about trying something so challenging! The bottom layer was made with 12″ rounds, a ‘funfetti’ flavor, the middle was vanilla 8″ rounds, and the top was chocolate 6″ … Read more
For my daughter’s 2 year birthday party she wanted Nemo. She really liked the part when Nemo went to school. So I thought that a homemade Mr. Ray from Finding Nemo birthday cake would be best. I used an 11×15 inch Wilton cake pan. This pan holds 2 cake mixes. I used a yellow mix … Read more
I did this Pirate Ship cake for my step-son’s 7th birthday, pirate theme! This cake is as seen in the Australian Woman’s Weekly Kids party Cakes book (a must have). The cake is make in a 26cm x 36cm (sorry metric) baking pan. Cut the cake into four pieces (2 long bits at the bottom, … Read more
My son’s one year birthday was coming up and because of his strawberry blond hair, I thought an orange-maned lion would be the perfect birthday cake animal for him. I combined ideas from different lions in the Wilton 2010 Decorating Yearbook to make it. I used the cuddly bear cake pan to make the lion … Read more
This was meant to be Garfield – my first attempt to make the lovable cat for my brother’s upcoming 21st birthday. I can see where the cake went wrong and hopefully my second attempt at a Garfield Cake Design will be more successful. However my family still loved this cake – and he was very … Read more
I made this treasure chest cake for my son’s 3rd birthday party (pirate themed, of course). I had a lot of inspiration from this website. The key to this cake is making it look like it is half open. In order to do this, I had to figure out a way to make the lid … Read more
For my son’s first birthday party we wanted to make a lion birthday cake (to go with the invites and decorations). So we looked online and found lots of pictures to try to copy. I made a vanilla sponge cake (the easy vanilla cake from the bbc good food website) and put cherry jam and … Read more
This Hello Kitty Cake Idea was made for my twin girls 5th birthday party. As one of them thinks she’s a princess and the other thinks she’s a dinosaur, Hello Kitty was the only thing they could readily agree on. The cake was made using an extremely large square cake pan approx 20X20X2. I made … Read more
My 4 year old son couldn’t decide on which design he wanted on his Pirate Theme Cake, so I did all three. A Skull Head, Treasure Island and a Pirate Ship. So much fun and he LOVED them! I bought a large tub of plain white cream icing that I dyed for most of the … Read more
My granddaughter wanted a frog cake for her 3rd birthday party. I tried to convince her that a frog cake is more suitable for a boy, but she insisted on a frog cake. Then we decided to make her party theme “The Princess and the Frog”. I couldn’t get a frog cake tin, then I … Read more
I knew that I wanted to make a Hello Kitty cake but I also had never succeeded in creating a good cake for my daughter. So I needed to come up with a design that wasn’t too complicated, so I went to the store to see what I could find. I decided I would make … Read more