This chocolate train cake is for my son’s fourth birthday. He loved it. Got the main idea from Annabell’s website. I Googled – ‘no bake train cake’ and hey presto got her site. Easy, yummy & my son was jumping up down when he saw it.
This idea for a spider cake isn’t new but I tried to make the cake and icing all out of chocolate. The cake itself is three tiers of chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache buttercream frosting/filling. Drizzled over that is a Sacher/ganache icing. To make it you need good quality dark chocolate (12 oz), cream(12 … Read more
I started this Strawberry Shortcake Hat Birthday Cake with two strawberry cake mixes. Baked the bottom layer in a 9 inch round pan, the second layer in a cereal bowl(oven safe, of course). The buttercream icing I made myself, tinting it light pink. After icing the cake, I piped strawberries onto the hat (tinted a … Read more
My son wanted a monster truck theme for his 5th birthday this year. Sadly, I had extreme trouble finding anything with Monster Trucks on it….believe it or not. I really thought this would be an easy theme but not so much! I ended up making my own invitations, party hats, and birthday shirt for the … Read more
This ladybug cake was my first 3D cake. Not to bad I guess. I just used a bake N fill pan and a small Pyrex bowl for the head. I used store bought white icing and attempted to tint it red, well as you see after an entire bottle of color I ended up with … Read more
This Spongebob birthday cake is a homemade pound cake recipe, doubled. I baked two 9×13 cakes, cut 4 equal rectangles, and stacked them on top of each other using frosting and dowels. I frosted with butter cream tinted yellow, and covered the cake with marshmallow fondant that I tinted with gel paste. Spongebob’s arms, legs, … Read more
I made this First Try Dinosaur Theme Train Birthday Cake for my 4 yr old girl whose favorite show is Dinosaur Train and got my inspiration from this site and the how-to video by Betty Crocker. This whole cake was made from scratch, except for the candies and licorice and ice cream cone. The ‘island’ … Read more
My son wanted a Spidey Cake for his 8th Birthday. I just baked a 9 x 13 chocolate and a 9 x 13 vanilla cake and laid them side by side on a cake board covered with foil. I covered the whole thing with generic white frosting from a can. Then I colored my own … Read more
I’m a 16 year old girl, and my next door neighbor was turning 5 during the summer. Last year I had made him a race car cake and this year he asked me if I could make him a Spongebob cake! So I Googled a picture of Spongebob and thought this Spongebob Birthday Cake Idea … Read more
For my son’s second birthday we decided to do a truck theme, since trucks are his absolute favorite thing in the world. I loved the idea of the farm/pick-up trucks with the pumpkins in the back, that I saw on this site, for an October birthday. I made two loaf pound cakes and froze them … Read more
This butterfly birthday cake was a first try for me. My daughter turned seven and was really into the Camp Rock theme. She had asked for two cakes a Camp Rock and a butterfly. I made the butterfly in sponge. I used ready mix sponge cake recipe. The butterfly I just used my imagination. It … Read more
I got this idea from my son’s T.V. tray. I planned this to be easy and inexpensive. The homemade Sponge Bob Square Pants cake was created using 2 boxes of Betty Crocker Devils Food stacked on top of each other. Always level the bottom cake so the top fits flat on top. Level the top … Read more