I baked two 9×13 Super Moist Devil’s Food cakes and then stacked them when they were cool, using canned chocolate frosting in the middle to stick them together. Then, I trimmed off a small triangle from each corner of the rectangular cake to create the van shape. I didn’t measure the triangles- I just eyeballed … Read more
I was asked to make my brother-in-law’s birthday cake. He recently became a police officer so I wanted to make a police car cake that celebrates his hard earned achievements along with his birthday. I purchased the Wilton 3-D car cakepan and transformed it into a police car with a little creativity. The cake itself … Read more
I had a friend who wondered if I would make her niece a birthday cake, since I love to make cakes, of course I said yes. This cake is a combination of many designs and what I thought looked good. The bottom cake is a rectangle 2 layer sheet cake and the top layer is … Read more
I made this Spiderman Birthday Cake for my nephew’s first birthday. I looked up a picture of the empire state building and tried my best to carve out the cake to match. I had to split the building into different layers and cover each individual layer with fondant then stack them together each layer being … Read more
This cake was for my nephew’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from a book about fondant decoration. I don’t like fondant so we improvised. I used Betty Crocker yellow cake mix. I used whipped icing (bought by mistake) and added vanilla and powdered sugar to improve the consistency. The cake consists of two 9×13 … Read more
My daughter requested a princess cake for her 5th birthday. I combined some ideas from the internet as well as added some unique ideas to make the perfect castle cake! I prepared 2 boxes of white birthday cake mix and baked in 1 9 X 13 pan, 1 9 inch round and one 4 inch … Read more
I made this Shrek Birthday Cake for my son’s 9th birthday party and it’s the first cake I’ve planned and made from start to finish. He and 7 friends had gone to the cinema to watch Shrek Forever After, so it seemed appropriate to try and make a Shrek themed cake! It was made from … Read more
Thanks to all the great ideas I saw on this site, I was able to make my nephew Dodge this train cake for his 3rd B-day. I free hand cut the engine, putting pieces together until it looked the way I wanted it. I cut the top in a round shape. The cars and cabose … Read more
This Softball Diaper Cake was for a friend that I play softball with, for her new baby girl. I usually put stuffed animals on my diaper cakes, but I decided to try something different. I bought a pack of 182 diapers and made 2 cakes out of them. So this one has about 91 diapers.
I made this Spiderman Birthday Cake Idea for my nephew, he turned 6. I used a 1 layer 8inch cake. I used fondant to cover the cake. I piped a spider web then used a star tip for borders. I just added a Spider Man toy and spider rings and sprinkles. This was really easy … Read more
This Monster Truck Cake was an exact replica of our friend’s truck and we made this cake for his graduation. It was all edible, some pieces were made from fondant, others were just piped on with butter cream. We started with a yellow half sheet cake as the base. Then I made another yellow half … Read more
My 12 year old daughter and I designed this Homemade Butterfly Diaper Cake Design for a baby shower. The colors are lime green, blue and magenta. The cake consists of about 55 to 60 diapers. I prefer using size 1, all white diapers so no color shows on the outside. If, there is color on … Read more