My mom made this Thomas the train cake for my cousin on his 4th birthday. She decided to make the 3D Thomas train cake using the 3D Thomas train cake pan and horse shoe cake pan. We decided to place the train in between the horseshoe so that it looked more real against its background. … Read more
I made this Homemade Willy Wonka Cast Party Cake for the cast part of Willy Wonka Junior at my son’s school (he played Charlie!). I just made three round cakes of different sizes, stacked them up and decorated! I am no chef, so I made the cakes from mixes (two Devil’s Food and one white), … Read more
This is a ladybug cake I made for my niece’s birthday party. It was very fun to make. I took a Pyrex bowl and cooked the cake for the round ladybug. Then I made a base for it to sit on. It was a 12 inch cake pan for the bottom. I covered the bottom … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell birthday cake for my daughter’s second birthday. She adores Tinkerbell! I bought Wilton’s Wonder Mold at AC Moore. I also bought their prepackaged fondant. This was my first attempt at using fondant for a cake so I thought I ought to use, tried and true! I dyed the fondant green using … Read more
This is a cake that I made for my 25th birthday party, a Kill Bill Themed birthday cake with yellow and black fondant. It’s a three layer red velvet cake, with marshmallow butter cream frosting and marshmallow fondant. The cake itself was made entirely from scratch, and the frosting was almost entirely from scratch (I … Read more
I wanted to do a cute 1st Birthday Ladybug Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. We call her our little lady and decided that it would be an appropriate theme. The bottom layer is an 8” square chocolate almond cake with a white chocolate ganache filling. The flower cake I made from a tall jello … Read more
For my friend’s birthday she wanted a cake of her favorite Disney character: Tinkerbell. Being a huge fan of everything Peter Pan and, of course, Tinkerbell, I was inspired. I’ve never been into cake making before and so kind of made this Tinkerbell Cake up on the fly. The cake was made by scratch as … Read more
My son wanted to have the full picture and face of Indiana Jones. I searched the web and couldn’t come up with anything that I felt would do justice to Indiana Jones. So while on the “official” Indiana Jones site the silhouette image appeared while the web page was loading and “bam” my cake idea … Read more
I made these garden bug birthday cupcakes and cake for my grand daughter’s 3rd birthday. The theme was flowers and garden bugs. It was a white vanilla cake, lightly frosted in vanilla butter cream and covered with fondant (blue for the sky and green for the garden). I used a flower biscuit cutter to cut … Read more
This Thomas The Train Birthday Cake I made for my son’s third birthday and he loved it. I have never made anything quite like this before. It was very fun to make.
This year my niece was into Twilight and asked me for a Twilight Themed Cake Idea. I don’t like the Twilight movies/books but for my niece I’d do it. The bottom tier is a 10 inch vanilla cakes with cookies and cream pudding as filling, and the top tier is a 8×2 small cake also … Read more
Very easy to do… Items needed: Cake mix Food coloring (lime green, hot pink, and purple) White icing Icing bag with tips (I used the cheap ones, one for each color) Two different size round cake pans Instructions: Bake cake as directed on box. Add a thin layer of icing to cake. Decorate cake using … Read more