For my son’s 6th birthday he wanted an Army Tank Birthday Cake. I looked on this website- as it has become my favorite for finding ideas for kids cakes! From an idea of another cake, I decided to also make mine tan (buttercream frosting mixed with peanut butter). It was the best tasting frosting yet … Read more
I am preparing for my son’s 10th birthday, and he is the biggest Lego fan I’ve ever known. He decided that he wanted his cake to look like Lego’s but when I went to the grocery store to see if I could order one, they looked at me like I was crazy. He is a … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I wanted a King Kong-type theme with the giant baby smashing the city. (I have an odd sense of humor.) The King Kong cakes I found were too dark and gray for a first birthday, so I decided to go more whimsical and Dr. Seuss-like and made this City Scene … Read more
My son loves fighter planes. So for his 3rd birthday we decorated with F-22s and F-16s. For his F16 airplane cake, I took his favorite plane and drew it out on some graph paper. This helped me get the dimensions right. I then took those dimensions and optimized it to cut out the correct pieces … Read more
I made this Lego Indiana Jones Birthday Cake Design for my son for his fifth birthday. For the Indiana Jones figure, I used a Lego man silicone cake mold. I didn’t want him laying down, but I didn’t think I could make him stand up. So, I had him leaning against a boulder, which I … Read more
2011 ~ The New X Box 360 with Controller Birthday Cake for a kids 10th Birthday! Three chocolate cake boxes used! 2 jugs of Triple Chocolate Chip Frosting from Safeway! Frost each layer before fondant. Roll out a big black piece of fondant and lay over the cake. Trim excess off edges. Double layer square … Read more
This Jungle Zebra Birthday Cake I made for my son’s 1st birthday. The top layer is chocolate and the bottom layer is vanilla. All the animals are made by hand from fondant. I covered the cakes in butter icing (for flavour and to help make the rolled fondant stick). I then covered them one at … Read more
My grandson wanted an Army Tank Birthday Cake for his 6th birthday. I did know where to start, so I went online and found coolest-birthdaycakes.com. After looking at photos of Army tank cakes, I felt confident enough to come up with my version of an army tank. I hope you like it as much as … Read more
We made this cake for my mother in-law’s 65th birthday party. We used a 13X9 cake for the base and covered it in brown/marbled fondant and then gave it a brown wash over with Vodka and brown food coloring. I created the crossword so that it had all of the family names on it with … Read more
I made this Carousel Cake for my baby shower. It is made up of double layer 9″ round strawberry cake for the bottom. The top is cake sitting on a round cake board. It was baked in a metal bowl and cut to shape. The bottom was frosted then a round cake board was placed … Read more
This Homemade Fairy Birthday Cake Design was so much fun! I used regular store bought cake mixes and baked them in 3 different sized pans (the big cake on bottom: 11×14, the middle: about 5×8 (it’s short too), and the top: 8×8). Be sure to make your flowers for this cake at least the day … Read more
My son was turning 3 and nothing suited him better than a Backhoe cake. I got my basic ideas from this site and went from there. I started by baking cakes- one in a large loaf pan and 2 in small loaf pans. I cut the end off the loaf pan cake to make the … Read more