My nephew wanted a cool birthday cake. But, he couldn’t think of what he wanted. He was turning 12 so, it couldn’t be just a cartoon character or basic design it had to be AWESOME! The only thing I could come up with that I KNEW he liked was skateboarding. However he didn’t want JUST … Read more
My 6yr old daughter loves the game candyland so I decided to make this cake for her. I made the fondant out of marshmallow and powder sugar. I also made some gum paste out of confectioners sugar, glucose and gum tex for the characters.I made all the characters 1 week before decorating each character took … Read more
I had seen an idea for a merry-go-round cake in a magazine, and since my daughter loved to ride the “up and down”, I made this cake for her second birthday. It’s 2 round cakes stacked and frosted, topped with rainbow sprinkles. The merry-go-round posts are rainbow candy sticks I found at a candy store. … Read more
I was asked to make a dragon or Camelot theme cake for a friend’s birthday and I found some great ideas on this site. Thank you all. Here is my version of the dragon cake that many have done on here. It was supposed to be red but I didn’t have enough red coloring (didn’t … Read more
When my son asked me for a Race Car and Race Track Cake for his 4th birthday, I turned to the internet for inspiration and ended up in this site. First of all let me thank all the wonderful people who were so willing to share their ideas with the rest of the world. Chocolate … Read more
My son and I made this monopoly cake for a Cub Scout Father Son cake bake. He is a big monopoly fan so we decided to make a monopoly game board. The cake was made with rolled white fondant and different color fondant for the rest of the details. We had to make some of … Read more
These is a chocolate butter cake,with vanilla frosting.Cut into three layers each.The frosting is spread in between each layer. The cake is then cover with chocolate vanilla frosting. It is put to cool for half an hour. Then it is cover with fondant. It take me 3hours to decorate these cake. I am very pleased … Read more
For my son’s 6th birhtday we did a dinosaur birthday party, so I did two cakes, one rectangle pan and one I baked in a glass measuring bowl (for the volcano). I used chocolate fondant and painted it for it with food coloring inside the fondant and with a paint brush outside to look like … Read more
This cake was recently made for my Father-in-Law?s 61st birthday. It is a chocolate cake covered with white fondant. The green is also fondant as is the flag (on a wooden grill skewer) and the golf club. The flag marked hole 61 with numbers cut from fondant as well. The sand trap was made with … Read more
I saw several coolest Candyland birthday cakes on here and I was so inspired to make one for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She loves the game and though I’m definitely not a cake decorator it means a lot to me to make all of her birthday cakes. I combined the pictures I saw on here … Read more
This Carousel Child Birthday Cake was fairly simple to construct. I started with two 8″ round cakes and used some wedding pillars to support the 6″ cake top. I iced all of it with pure white buttercream. My daughter wanted “pink and blue stars with horses!” I searched far and wide for plain horses then … Read more
This Dinosaur cake was a request from my granddaughter for her birthday. I’ve been making cakes for them for some time now, and they get more and more elaborate every year. I think she was really trying to stump me when she asked for a ‘long neck dinosaur’. This was really fun to do, though. … Read more