I got the ideas for this castle cake off of this website. I used 2 9 by 13 cakes and layered them with icing in between and two 6 inch round cakes with icing in between them. I cut the cakes to make them level. It took 3 boxes of cake mixes. One for each … Read more
I loved the Mr. Men books growing up and thought this would be a great and different 1st birthday cake idea for my son. I had only made one really basic snowman cake before this so I was a little cautious. I had to make a cake big enough for a large number of guests … Read more
Every year I make a Halloween Birthday cake for my son. Last year was a 3D zombie. This year he couldn’t make up his mind so I combined a few Halloween basics and put them all together! I baked 2 cakes in bundt pans and stacked them on top of each other to make the … Read more
This fondant castle cake was modeled after a picture that I found. I don’t remember what book it came from. This castle can be done in various sizes, however the smallest one that I have done has been an 8″. The cake in this picture is a double layer, 10″ round. It would feed around … Read more
I love to make cakes. Halloween is a really great time to get adventurous with baking and my kids love the Nightmare Before Christmas; we always watch the film at Halloween. This cake has two tiers, one chocolate with the crumbled flaked on the top, and one lemon with a lemon curd filling. It was … Read more
My son Wyatt was born on St. Patrick’s Day, so for his first birthday we had to go all out with the luck of the Irish! The base of the St Patricks Day Birthday Cake is cupcakes. We had his party at a different location from home and didn’t know if we’d have cutting utensils … Read more
This Castle Cake Idea was such fun to do! I couldn’t help but anticipate my 4 year old daughter’s reaction when she would see it and I think I captured that on pictures and video. What a treat! I started with making two different sized round cakes. It could of been three but I didn’t … Read more
I made this allergy free Linus and Snoopy Cake for my son’s first birthday. He sucks his thumb all the time and carries a blanket around. So we of course thought of Linus! Allergy Free Recipe: 1 1/2 cup flour 3 tbsp cocoa powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 5 … Read more
Homemade Halloween Witches Brew Cake, Halloween 2010 cake. I started by making two tiers of my mother’s Victoria sponge cake, through the middle of each cake, I filled with butter cream and champagne strawberry jam. For the icing I bought ready rolled white icing and added my own sugar paste food colorings and needed until … Read more
For my homemade Castle birthday cake, I created a three-tier cake. I added towers, which are paper-towel holders covered in saran wrap and then iced over. On top of the towers, I put upside down ice cream cones.
This cake was made for my nieces 4th birthday! It is a 2 tier cake! The bottom tier is 2-10″ rounds with 2-8″ rounds on top of them! They are both covered with homemade buttercream icing, one iced pink and the other left white! A couple of days before I cut out fondant/gumpaste circles from … Read more
This Halloween Graveyard Cake is a chocolate cake with ganache frosting. The Frankenstein is made from marshmallows. The spider’s legs are pretzels and his body is a cake ball with chocolate sprinkles to resemble fur. The tombstones, cats, pumpkins, ghosts are all sugar cookie dough. The mummy is a mini cupcake. The moon and bats … Read more