This Mario Karts Cake was made for a combo birthday party. My boys love Mariocarts, the oldest is 12 he and I planned this without the 4yr old knowing and what a great surprise the little guy had. The track is made up of the black part of cookie leaving out the cream. We decided … Read more
Someone requested a Monkey cake from me, but gave me no idea as to how they wanted it to look. I looked on the internet but nothing really grabbed my attention. I wanted a unique Monkey Cake Design for them. One day I was shopping and came across a chocolate mold of monkeys. I wasn’t … Read more
I used 2 sheet cakes. One for the bottom layer, the second I cut width-wise 1/3 off. Then stacked the 2/3 on the bottom layer, and the 1/3 on the 2/3 to be the top layer. I dug out a waterfall area in the ceter-line of the cake. Used icing tips to create grasses off … Read more
I made this Easy Guitar Cake for my friend’s 17th birthday. He plays guitar so it was perfect for him. I wanted to make a cake without fondant, since I’m not a pro at this. I’m really happy with how it came out, and it was really EASY–no special materials, no special molds, just a … Read more
My then 5 year old is really big into Mario and all the Marioland characters at the moment so I thought I’d give a go at making him a nice Marioland Birthday Cake for his birthday. I’ve never used fondant before but I thought it couldn’t be that hard as my plan wasn’t that ambitious … Read more
I made a monkey face cake for my grandson’s 2nd birthday. I used 3 round cake pans, 1 for the face, 1 for the 2 bananas, and the last one for the monkey ears and muzzle. The most difficult part was frosting the cut sides of the cake pieces. I discovered that tossing them in … Read more
I made this white layer cake for my daughter’s 3rd Curious George themed birthday party. I used boxed cake mix with frosting between the layers. I used canned frosting for the entire thing and colored it as needed. I started by frosting the entire cake in yellow. I had found the picture that I used … Read more
For my husband returning from being on tour drumming for 7 months I really wanted to this Drum Cake. I followed the drum cake recipe from another submission on this site and used 4 chocolate fudge box recipes, frosted it with chocolate frosting overnight and used marshmallow fondant. It’s cheap and tastes great. I used … Read more
I made a Super Mario Bros. Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He loves Super Mario Bros. and wanted a cake of it. I had a lot of fun making it for him and he loved it. All I did was make two round cakes and frosted them. I used the fondant to make … Read more
This Monkey Birthday Cake was for my son’s first birthday. I also had cupcakes with monkey flags, stuffed animal monkeys and bananas hanging from the trees in our yard, monkey face cookies I made. So much monkey stuff – even a monkey pinata! For the cake I used a 6 inch round cake pan and … Read more
My husband joined me in the kitchen to make this fun Curious George cake. I began with a printout of Curious George’s face, enlarged to fit the pan. I taped the printout to a cutting board, and over that I taped wax paper. For each color I used candy melts and chocolate chips, piped out … Read more
This was my first Guitar Birthday Cake Design – I used a guitar hero game guitar as a template to cut the correct shape from a basic butter almond flavored cake, crumb coated it twice with buttercream then covered it in black fondant and added fondant and gumpaste details. To get the gold details on … Read more