I made a cake using the “lofthouse”brand of sugar cookies for my mom’s 50th birthday. She loves those cookies more than any other sweet on earth. My husband was away for basic training for the Air Force and with three kids under the age of 7, I really couldn’t put a full afternoon of work … Read more
I was having a joint party for my 1 and 3 year old boys, and we decided to have trains as the theme. I started looking around online for ideas and ended up on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, of course! I got most of my ideas for the cake on this website. For the base of the cake, … Read more
I made this Box of Candy cake for my husband for Valentine’s day. It is a red velvet cake, covered in butter cream. I used marshmallow fondant that I tried to tint red. I am not very happy with my red, but next time I make this I may just order red fondant. I traced … Read more
My son requested a cabin cake for his 4th birthday. So this camping cake is what I came up with. The cabin is kit kat’s stuck together with candy melts. The birds and bear are candy melt molds. The tree is a tootsie roll molded down. The bunnies are freehand candy melts and the deer … Read more
This car birthday cake was made by baking two 7×11 (casserole size) cakes and stacking then on top of one another. The top cake was cut at an angles at each end to create a hood. Spoiler and mirrors were kit-kats. Car was frosted in dark chocolate and sprayed blue. I covered some areas with … Read more
I made this Martini Glass Birthday Cake for my sister-in-law’s 21st birthday. She loves cosmopolitans so I figured a Martini Glass Birthday Cake would be perfect. I used a box mix and baked it in a 13×9 pan. Once it was cooled, I cut two large chunks off the bottom corners to make the glass … Read more
This Camping Cake is a double layer carrot cake (from scratch) iced and filled with vanilla butter cream. The trees, fish and bear are fake, obviously, from Michael’s. The marshmallow sticks are toothpicks. Everything else is edible. The bugs and rocks are jelly beans, cut in half. The fire logs are pretzels, the fire is … Read more
This is my first cake I’ve made. I used a plastic motorcycle shaped pan and made a simple buttercream stiff frosting. The cake I used was a Pillsbury simple mix. I used the Wilton coloring gels to dye my frosting.
This homemade beer tankard and beer can birthday cake was made for a friend’s dad’s 70th birthday, he is a real ale fanatic! The tankard was fruit cake. The Fosters beer can was Swiss roll for the kids.
I made this Camping Birthday Cake for my husband’s birthday. He loves to go camping and is very into the fire and cooking while there, so of course I had to include that. It was my first time trying to mold with fondant and my first time using a writing tool (writing is not my … Read more
When my son told me he wanted a Monster Truck Cake for his birthday I purchased the Wilton Cruiser Cake Pan and the Wilton “Cars” Food Color because I didn’t think I could make black dark enough for the tires. I also did a practice cake the week before so I could determine what worked … Read more
I got the idea for a Gumball Machine Cake from a friend and the recipe from a cake magazine (I forget what it was called) she had. With ideas from the internet and the cake magazine recipe, I made the cake to my liking. I used a 9in round and a 9in square pan for … Read more