As if for inspiration for his birthday cake, my soon to be two year old, colored our WHITE dog BLUE with permanent marker. That answered the question as to what his birthday theme would be. I had seen a Wilson’s cake that was a safari theme with animals all around it and I knew this … Read more
I made this Cars Racetrack Birthday Cake for my son Liam’s 2nd birthday. He loves Cars! It was a single layer, half chocolate, half vanilla cake. I frosted the entire top surface of the cake with green vanilla flavored frosting. I then piped the outside edges of the cake to look like a racing flag. … Read more
This Corvette car cake was for a man who owns a 1974 Corvette that he displays in car shows. I layered a 3-stack chocolate cake, putting icing in between each layer, then froze it. After it was frozen I carved the body shape, then covered it with chocolate, buttercream. I made rolled (marshmallow) fondant, divided … Read more
I have been decorating cakes for a couple of years now, and my cousin asked me to make the groom’s cake for her wedding, as a wedding gift to them. The groom is a vet and has a lovable bulldog named Jax. He asked me if I could make a cake version of Jax, and, … Read more
Drawing inspiration from a photo of a cake in this section, my mother and her friends made this 3- layer cake that lit up the eyes of my 3 yr-old son! It took them about 10 hrs. to complete, but they insist that the 2 bottles of wine that were consumed throughout this process aided … Read more
I baked this train cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I purchased a 3-D cake train mold from Ebay. I baked the cake and two smaller ones in loaf pans. I used wafer cookies and Twizzlers for the track. Just use frosting to help stick. I just colored regular store frosting. For the smoke I … Read more
I made this Rubber Ducky Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I decided on a rubber ducky theme and wanted to make an original cake. Borrowing ideas and suggestions from other submitted cakes I created this. I started with a two layer yellow sheet cake (11×14 – each layer used one boxed cake mix) with … Read more
I baked three chocolate, two inch round cakes for this Diego cake. I placed one on top of another with butter cream frosting in the middle. The third cake I cut in half and stacked them together with butter cream frosting in the middle. I inserted three wooden dowels in the bottom cake to support … Read more
This Truck Birthday Cake was made for a close friend who is a lorry driver. I used two ready made coffee and walnut bar cakes from Sainsburys (his favourite flavour) and cut and stacked them on top of each other to make the cab and lorry. I placed these on top of 4 chocolate mini … Read more
I baked a sponge cake for the base of the Duck Birthday Cake and iced it with colored whipping cream. I used the 3-D duck pan for the duck. Anchored it with skewers to keep it standing and so it wouldn’t fall over. Just iced it and left it messy to look like feathers. Iced … Read more
My son loves Diego, so I made him this Diego Jungle cake because I just didn’t want to make a body or head cake. The cake is 2 9×9 with green frosting. The trees are preztel rods with melted candy wafers as leaves and runts. Bananas and monkeys are melted choc. wafers, jaguars are Nilla … Read more
I baked 2 rectangular cakes to make the shape of this train birthday cake – rectangular tin 12” x 9”. 1st rectangular cake – divided equally into 3 length ways. 1st length – nothing. (12”x3”) 2nd length – cut equally in ½. (6”x3”) each 3rd length – cut 2/3 to 1/3. (8”x3”) and (4”x3”) 2nd … Read more