My granddaughter Abby requested a princess Homemade Castle Birthday Cake for her 5th birthday. I made two lemon cake mix cakes into two 9 inch square pans, two small round pans and 5 cupcakes with silver liners. I used a simple buttercream frosting tinted pink. I brushed the ice cream cones with melted apricot jam … Read more
My 8 yr old is obsessed with Pokemon. His favorite character is Torterra, so I went about trying to figure out how to build him a Homemade Torterra Cake. I printed off a Torterra coloring page from clip art, then enlarged it to get an idea of the size cake pans I would need. I … Read more
I made this Old Man in Bed Retirement Cake for a mate of mine retiring. The cake itself is Madeira cake with buttercream filling. Although the cake was made in a square tin, I trimmed it to make it more rectangular. I covered the board in a light brown sugar paste, then used a paint … Read more
This little girls homemade castle birthday cake was made with two hexagonal cakes placed on top of each other. The cake board was also iced with white frosting for a nice and neater finish. The frosting was butter icing and was left a natural butter icing color. Ice cream cones with sweets (smarties) were used … Read more
This Mystery Machine cake was made for my son’s 3rd Birthday. I made a 9×11 chocolate sheet cake which I iced using buttercream icing. Then I made fondant from a recipe I found online using marshmallows. I added color using Wilton’s Paste Icing colors and kneaded the fondant until the color was evenly spread, adding … Read more
This Thanksgiving Cake was about 16″ x 22″ in size. It is a Mango Mousse Cake. The base is a Vanilla flavored Light Sponge Cake with Raspberry Filling and Mango Mousse on top. The Turkey pattern is created with Pineapples, Strawberries, Mandarin Oranges and Carrot for the beak and legs.
This Castle Birthday Cake is made of chocolate cakes – 2( 8in. x 12in. ) and 1( 6in. x 9in ). The sugar flowers were prepared two days before, this made of icing sugar. I prepared boiled icing for frosting.
This Spiderman Cake is a 2 layer 12″ round cake frosted with chocolate tub frosting. The web was made with vanilla tub icing and a #2 decorating tip. After playing around for a while, we found that the web looks better when the center lines are at differing widths. Since this was a spur of … Read more
In the UK we have a charity day called “RED NOSE DAY” where comedians try and raise money for the UK and African charities. So I decided to make a Red Nose Cake. I started by making standard sponge cakes in a loaf tin and a round tin then cut them up with layers of … Read more
My little princess (my granddaughter) wanted a pink and purple castle for her 5th birthday party, so I set to work on this Castle Cake Idea several days ahead of time. I had seen a number of kits out there but wanted the entire cake to be edible so I decided to make my own. … Read more
This Spiderman Cake was for a co-worker’s son’s 3rd birthday. All I was told was that he LOVES Spider-man. I found the Wilton Spider-man cake pan at my local library. I use the Wilton method for all my cakes; this ensures very moist cakes, not to mention,they are DELICIOUS. This cake was Red Velvet. After … Read more
I made this Hanna Montana birthday cake for my friend’s 8 year old daughter. I traced a real child-size guitar to get my pattern. I made a chocolate 13″ x 9″ cake and a yellow 13″ X 9″ cake and put them together end to end. The yellow cake formed the neck of the guitar … Read more