I made this Slot Machine Cake for my friend’s 30th birthday party. We gave her a surprise Vegas-themed party. I used a 13×9 for the main body, and a 9″ round for the top & tray. I did all of the letters and numbers using a run-out technique. About a week before the party, I … Read more
I made this Fairy cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I used the Wilton cake tin for the cake & decorated it with butter icing. I made the wand and wings by cutting out some cardboard and spray painting it silver. I used ready made sugar craft flowers to decorate. Decoration took about an hour.
My son Zach LOVES trucks, so we decided on a BIG truck construction party theme for his 3rd birthday party. I wanted to make a dump truck birthday cake for him and looked on this website for inspiration. I got some great ideas to add to the ones I had in my head. Turning them … Read more
This Sock Monkey Cake Design was a first on many levels! 1st birthday cake, first time to work with fondant, first Topsy-Turvy cake, first baby – okay, maybe I was crazy from oxytocin poisoning from all that breast feeding! The cake was a banana cake (Martha Stewart website for recipe)with chocolate butter cream icing (traditional … Read more
This Metallica Birthday Cake is my son’s 15th birthday cake. He is a diehard Metallica fan and Kirk Hammett is his favorite lead guitarist ever. I wanted to find a way to make a rockin’ cake that he would love and show incorporate his favorite things in life. Music, guitars, Kirk Hammett… So, I searched … Read more
This Flip-Flop Birthday Cake I saw made on a TV show but not with fondant, but since I love fondant so much I thought I’d give it a try. The cake got it shape from cutting a cardboard cut out of the shape of the flip-flop on my foot. I made a regular rectangle sheet … Read more
My Dad John, collects tractors, toy and real. They are his life. I was asked to create a John Deere Tractor cake for his 71st birthday. I included my memory of him and I as a child with him on the tractor. I used gumpaste, fondant, buttercream with a yellow cake dyed green and yellow … Read more
This Homemade Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake was my first attempt at making a “home-made” cake. I had inherited a couple of metal tips from my mother-in-law and when the time came that I could not find a cake that I liked for my daughter, Emelia’s, 1st birthday, I thought I would attempt to make one … Read more
I made this Pink Carousel Cake for my daughter’s 2nd Birthday, the idea was from the Woman’s Weekly Cake book. It was about a three day job (I work full time). Most important part of this cake is that the inner cylinder and the eight dowel sticks MUST be the exact same height – I … Read more
This is a toadstool cake I made for my daughter’s 2nd Birthday. I was 8.5 months pregnant at the time and whilst the cake wasn’t really that much work, the party was a little bit tiring and my second bub arrived just 5 days later. So if you’re 36.5 weeks pregnant and over it, just … Read more
This Fire Truck Birthday Cake is my second cake I ever made, this I made for my son’s 3rd Birthday, as he loves fire truck’s and all other trucks. After I made my daisy cake I got inspired and thought I should make a cake similar to the daisy one for my son, also so … Read more
My daughter, Beatrice, and her friend were turning 6 and love Monster High. They live an hour from each other and cooked up a joint birthday party while having a sleepover together. This Homemade Lagoona Monster High Birthday Cake was my first attempt at making a doll cake. I used the Pampered Chef Batter Bowl … Read more