I made this Bass Guitar Cake for my boyfriend’s 23rd. I modeled it off his Ibanez Bass Guitar. I didn’t want to make a life size cake so I found an image of the guitar on the internet and resized it to print out on an A3 sheet of paper. The hardest part was cropping … Read more
This Donkey Kong Bowling Cake was my 6th cake to make. It is a plain white cake with buttercream under marshmallow fondant. I printed out a picture that I wanted to use for the cake and then drew on the picture so I could use it to cut the cake to scale. I used a … Read more
I used a 9″ round cake for the head of the monkey cake, and used the round cake pan which is used to make 3D balls (I used only the one side) to make the belly a little more round. Then, I made a regular cake for the tail, hands, legs and an extra nose/cheeks/mouth … Read more
My son wanted a Diego party for his 3rd birthday. I found the idea on the Nick Jr. website for the Diego Jungle Birthday Cake. For the cake I baked three 8″ round cakes. I stacked two together and left the 3rd on it’s own and frosted them all green. For the palm trees, I … Read more
This guitar cake that was made for my daughter’s 17th birthday…was supposed to be a surprise but as it was full size I couldn’t hide it! I made this cake by baking 3 14X14″ square cakes using a basic Victoria sponge recipe. In total I used 23 eggs, very boring, adding one by one but … Read more
My almost 4 year old son loves playing the ‘Angry Birds’ game on my iPod, so I decided to do a cake for his birthday that would use that same theme. In order to make all of the little fondant creations, I had to start about 2 days in advance. I baked two 9×13 cakes, … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I wanted to do something special. I really had no experience in making specialty cakes and tried to do something simple but memorable. This is 2 round cakes, with 7 cupcakes (4 paws, 2 ears, nose). Nothing fancy, chocolate and cream cheese icing and red gel icing. The claws are … Read more
I made this Garfield Birthday Cake for my brother’s daughter. She loves Garfield and he could not find a good store cake. The cake is an apricot brandy pound cake with real butter cream frosting. I covered the cake with yellow fondant and made the happy birthday sign to look like a comic bubble. Garfield … Read more
For my granddaughter Madelyn’s 4th birthday, she requested a pink & green camo cake! Her favorite colors are pink & green. I wrestled with the idea of how in the world to do this, as I had only seen one other cake done in pink camo and it was not exactly what we wanted. Then … Read more
My son, now 8, was very specific about what he wanted the Mario Bros. Power-Up Mushroom Cake to look like. It had to be a Power-Up mushroom that stood up on the cake, not flat. I started by baking a 12×16 base cake. I iced that with green icing so it looked like grass. I … Read more
A friend was having a birthday party for her son turning one, she had plates and napkings with this pattern and I copied them to the cake. Everything on cake is fondant except the sticks to hold up the monkey heads. I also made a individual small cake for the boy. I frosted the cake … Read more
I was asked to make a homemade Club Penguin cake for a boy’s birthday party that was Club Penguin themed. Club Penguin is an online game where penguins can chat to other penguins, etc. The birthday boy’s penguin in the game is green, so I made a frozen buttercream transfer of a green penguin. The … Read more