My 4 year old daughter loves the Carebears. We have to watch them at least 3 times a day. I had never made a birthday cake like this so I thought I would give it a shot this year and came up with my own design of a Carebear cloud birthday cake after looking at … Read more
My daughter wanted a pink and purple Hannah Montana Guitar Birthday Cake this year for her family birthday party. Not being able to find an actual Hannah Montana pan or any of the plastic face things I decided to free hand it. I found a picture of a guitar and a picture of a butterfly … Read more
This Golf Theme 30th Birthday Cake was the first cake I had made which was iced with figures. My Hubby was 30 and he loves golf and football. He also owns a fire extinguisher company so I made a fire extinguisher out of fondant icing. He used to work at a newspaper so I made … Read more
Pretty simple. This cat cake was for my 1 year old, who was in love with the family cat. I used a 9 inch round and made a few cupcakes, which I cut up and fashioned the ears with toothpicks. The eyes are Mint Oreos with the pupils being brown M&Ms. The tongue is fruit … Read more
I made this Homemade Care Bear Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s fourth birthday. Several days before baking and decorating the birthday cake I designed the decoration layout and used color flow icing to create the Care Bears, rainbow and other decorations. I ALWAYS make at least two sets of color flow icing items due to … Read more
I made this Guitar Birthday Cake for my brother’s birthday. I used Marshmallow fondant and tinted it blue. Kept a portion of it white for the strings, tinted a portion black for the middle. The fondant was really easy to work with. Much easier than regular frosting. I just rolled it out thin and had … Read more
My daughter’s 10 birthday was in August 2011 and Soul Surfer the movie had just come out and she LOVED the movie so she wanted her birthday cake to be a “Soul Surfer Cake”. I am not an artist by any means so trying to picture how to do a surf board birthday cake was … Read more
My daughter Hannah and I decided to try one of the cat cakes from your site. I wanted to try out something using fondant for the first time and she wanted to help. We picked the Kitten cake with yarn ball we found off this site. Wanting a larger cake we decided to use 2 … Read more
Yes, this is another Lightning McQueen birthday cake. There are already many beautiful Lightning McQueen cakes on this site! It is too bad I’ve found this site after making the cake. There are a lot of good tips on the site! But about this cake. My mother and I made this cake for the celebration … Read more
This Fender Guitar Cake was made for a retirement party for an officer at work. He is a guitar collector. It is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. I used a picture from the internet and traced around the edges to give me the shape of the guitar. Although this was a fun cake to … Read more
I made this skateboard cake for my boyfriend’s son for his 8th birthday. I used regular box cake mix in and I used regular vanilla icing colored with food coloring. I baked a 9 x 13 cake and cut it to the shape I needed. I did a base layer of white then covered that … Read more
I made this cow cake for my son’s second birthday. I had napkins/plates with a farm scene on and copied the cow off of those. The cake itself is made from one yellow and one chocolate cake mix in regular 9 x 11 cake pans. I placed one horizontally for the body and one vertical … Read more