This is a cake I recently made for a friend’s 30th birthday. It was a ‘villains’ party and she was attending as the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. I really wanted to create something striking and quirky to capture her personality. I actually made two cakes for the party but this cake was … Read more
My son wanted a TinTin party ( “Kuifie” in Afrikaans) for his 8th Birthday. I then decided to make the theme of the party “TinTin the journalist”. So I brought in the idea of newspapers, which I then used on the cake for a background, I printed that on rice paper. In South Africa the … Read more
For the Tinkerbell Birthday Cake I used the large round Wilton cake pan. I ordered the Tink cake topper online. The icing colors were Wilton’s sun yellow and leaf green. The small flowers and the large sunflower leaves were made of modeling chocolate and colored accordingly and brushed with a silver glitter.
This Diary of a Wimpy Kid book cake was for my nephew’s 11th birthday. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted and he said something to do with Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Not knowing much about the book except that my son had it, I thought a cake replica of the book … Read more
I have always wanted to make a doll cake for my daughter, but she is not what you would call a “Barbie girl.” She does, however love the Monster High dolls and Web cartoon. So this year I decided to make a Rochelle Goyle from Monster High doll cake for her. New dolls that she … Read more
This is a Tinerbell cake that I made recently for a friend’s daughter’s 12th birthday party. It was made by using the Wilton Tinkerbell Cake pan and Wilton Icing Gels. Hint to achieve the natural skin tone use the Copper (Light Skin Tone) and a hint of brown using the copper alone gave it this … Read more
Herbie the Love Bug was a vehicle that was put into a few movies years and years ago. Most young children might have seen the “Herbie Fully Loaded,” movie that starred Lindsey Lohan. For my younger brother’s 3rd birthday, I thought hard about what I could make his cake look like, or a certain character … Read more
This Barbie cake was made for my beautiful grand-daughter Tara. She really didn’t have a theme for her party, so after looking through the cakes on this site, I decided to do a Barbie cake. I made the base out of a 9″ by 13″ sheet cake pan. Barbie’s dress was made from a small … Read more
My daughter really loved Tangled the movie and wanted a Tangled 3rd birthday cake. Firstly, I baked a patch of Rice Crispy treats. Once they set, I used 2 sizes of round cookie cutters to build the tower. I used melted white chocolate to “glue” the tower together. I cut a small C out of … Read more
I made this Homemade R2D2 Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. I made four 6in cakes (2 yellow and 2 chocolate) for the body. The head was made from one half of Wilton’s ball pan. All supported with a wooden stick. Iced all with buttercream. The arms I made with rice cereal treats, covered … Read more
I made this cake for a very close friend of mines daughter for her 3rd birthday. I used the Wilton Wonder Mold pan with an original Barbie doll. I don’t particularly care for the doll picks that come with the pan, so I chose the Barbie that was suitable for the event. I sat the … Read more
My son requested a Wall-E cake for his 6th birthday. It took some creativity, but turned out to be not very difficult. I stacked 3 8″ x 8″ cakes (with frosting in between) on top of each other for the body. My cakes turned out a bit flat, so I probably should have used 4 … Read more