I made this monkey cake for my son Blake’s 2nd birthday. He LOVED monkeys so he had a monkey themed party and I made a monkey cake and a jumbo cupcake monkey just for him. I used regular boxed yellow cake mix and baked it at 350 for about 40 minutes in a well greased … Read more
This Cinderella with her coach cake was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It was a standard 9×13 cake with icing dyed green (for grass) and pink (the birthday girl’s favorite color). The stones/pebbles on the path are chocolate rock candy. The body of the coach/carriage was shaped with rice crispy treats, frosted with icing. The … Read more
This Homemade Noah’s Arc Cake was inspired by a cake in the Wilton book. For the most part I followed book directions, but made a few changes. I used round cakes instead of oval, and also marbled the “water” blue instead of rolling out strips of multiple colored blue fondant. It was much easier and … Read more
My four year old daughter wanted an owl cake like her favorite character, the good snow owl, on Legend of the Guardians, mask and all. My twelve year old daughter and I designed and made this cake. This is our first prototype. It is my first attempt at “cake boss” type of cake! We made … Read more
For anyone who’s ever made any cake, this Dora’s World Cake is simple and rewarding. This ‘Dora Cake’ we made for our daughter features a tootsie roll bridge, gel icing stream, nerds for wildflowers, gumdrop bushes and everyone’s favorite, fudge mountain! Complete with trickling chocolate syrup and topped with powdered sugar. First use any cake … Read more
For Halloween, my work has a chili cookoff contest for lunch and invites everyone to contribute either for the contest or a side dish for the lunch. I love cakes, so this Homemade Monster Cake is what I decided to make. I baked 4 round cakes (2 cake mix boxes) and stacked and iced them … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday we decided to go with a farm theme. I found some pictures online of other pig cakes and thought I would give it a try and make him a Piggy Birthday Cake. I had a cake pan that was rounded (so that I could make a ball shaped cake) and … Read more
I made this Dora birthday cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She really wanted a Dora cake and I decided to use a puzzle technique. This was my first attempt at using this technique. I made a round sponge cake and filled it with chocolate mousse. That was the easy part. I decorated the cake … Read more
I made this Pink Polka Dot Mickey Cake for my 2 year old daughter…we just came back from Disney and I knew I wanted to make her a Mickey cake! And, I also wanted it to be girly, so that is where the pink polka dots come in! I used homemade marshmallow fondant. This was … Read more
Like many on this web site, I made my Snake Cake using two bunt cakes. I cut both bunts in half and placed three of the halves together in opposite directions, then I cut the final piece in half again. I used one of those halves as the tail and the other as the face, … Read more
For this Dr. Seuss cake, used a full cake sheet and filled it with three cake boxes of batter. I made the cake red velvet so it would be a fun color when it was cut. The longest part was making all of the different colors of frosting – red, yellow, blue, purple, and black, … Read more
My son’s fifth birthday was approaching and he loves monsters so we adopted this as the theme. I searched around on the internet for inspiration and found this great site where I found Molly’s wonderful interpretation of a cake she found (thanks Molly!). This inspired my Mum and I to have a go at a … Read more