This Over the Hill cake was for my brother-in-law’s 50th Birthday party as well as my mother’s 71st. It’s an over the hill cake and the idea came after looking at various over the hill cakes online. To make this cake I used 3 different sized round cake pans and pieced the cake together. I … Read more
The Mario Land Birthday Cake is only 2 9in square cakes covered with fondant. All of he figures on the cake are made from fondant. My husband and I looked at various cakes on the web an some pictures of characters to make this for my son. We wanted to add more detail but due … Read more
Here is a cake I created for my niece and nephew’s birthday. They wanted pigs rolling in mud. I used the Wilton mini ball pan for the pig bodies. I made heads and tails from fondant a couple days ahead of time and let them dry. Tails were wrapped around pens to dry overnight to … Read more
This Cat in the Hat cake was such a FUN cake to make & decorate. I baked 1 10″ round cake and 1 11X15″ sheet cake. I made a pattern out of a grocery sack first and then was able to carve my cake from this pattern. I didn’t want to waste cake when I … Read more
My mother in law takes a water exercise class regularly, so when they renovated the pool area and threw a party for it, she decided to model a cake after the new pool. We worked on it together, and the first thing we did was look through the “coolest cakes” archives for ideas for a … Read more
I made this homemade Pac Man birthday cake for a good friends’ surprise party. My friend wanted her hubby to have an 80’s party, so we looked around for ideas. I saw a lot of tiered cakes that included Pac Man and we decided just Pac Man would be cool enough. The cake is a … Read more
This Turtle Pull-Apart Birthday Cake was my 1st attempt at decorating a cake! I made it for my son’s 2nd birthday and he absolutely loved it. I got the idea from the Betty crocker online site. The body is made of 7 cupcakes arranged closely in a circle and I used glaze icing to frost … Read more
This Diego Birthday Cake is a cake for my three year old. My first attempt at “cake decorating”. Usually I just ice and put a candle on it. This year I used 3 – 9″ cakes with one of the cakes cut in half and stacked to create the “mountain or hill”. A total of … Read more
This Homemade Rainbow Birthday Cake is my 1st attempt to do the rainbow cake. It was requested by my party planner. Actually, I bake cakes as my hobby and like to try new designs and taste. So I took this opportunity to bake this cake. It’s quite difficult to do this cake because you have … Read more
I love this website. I have used it to help me make several birthday cakes for my kids. I have built a train, airplane, and fire engine, but this year my son wanted an Angry Birds birthday cake for his 5th birthday. The cake itself wasn’t the challenging issue, it was designing cake top structures … Read more
This homemade tiger cake was for my daughters best friends 10th birthday. She loves tigers so I looked through a book about tigers and found a picture to use as my inspiration. Everyone loved it, some people even thought it was a stuffed animal. I used an oval pan for the body and a round … Read more
My granddaughter Amy loves Fifi, so when it was her birthday we decided to make a Fifi and the Flowertots Cake for her. I baked two round sponge cakes. I used one for the main part of the cake, and then the other I used a round cutter to make the flower petals around her … Read more