I’ve never attempted a fondant cake before and my son gave me quite a challenge for my first one for his 6th birthday. The brief was for a pirate ship that’s sinking with an octopus pulling it into the water. He initially wanted a treasure chest on the deck falling into the water as well, … Read more
I was asked to make a house warming cake by a co-worker. After giving it some thought, I came up with the frog cake idea. I baked a 9×13 chocolate cake and iced it with homemade buttercream icing. I found a frog picture online and used it as a pattern. I rolled out fondant that … Read more
This year my daughter for her birthday wanted a Hello Kitty birthday cake. I disliked baking cupcakes and cakes but I decided to give it a shot since most cakes I purchased at the store tasted horrible, (very dry and super sweet). The good ones where very expensive. So even though I had never made … Read more
I made this 6″ Pirate Skull cake and 85 cupcakes for a friend’s son’s first birthday. The theme was ‘Pirates, red and black’. Half of the cupcakes were vanilla cakes and half were chocolate. I made homemade buttercream icing from the C&H Sugar Recipe and colored half of it red and the other half black. … Read more
This is a homemade giraffe baby shower cake for a baby shower. I used 9-in round for the bottom tier, and 6-in round for the top tier. The bottom tier is yellow colored fondant, I made the green and brown colors from the left over yellow. The top tier is white fondant with brown giraffe … Read more
I made this Hello Kitty cake for my niece’s 8th birthday. I used an 11X8 pan to carve out Hello Kitty’s face. I covered the cake with marshmallow fondant. I also made the facial feature and bow out of fondant painted with food coloring.
I made this Treasure Chest Cake for my son’s 7th birthday. He rally wanted to have a pirate birthday party so I made 2 13×9 chocolate cakes and added chocolate butter icing between the layers of the cake and frosted the top and the sides of the cake. For the lid I used foil covered … Read more
My daughter and I worked together to make this Jumping Horse Birthday Cake for her 11th birthday. It is made from (2) homemade 9×13 sheet cakes. We froze one layer – wrapped in foil then wrapped in plastic wrap. My daughter used a 9×13 piece of paper to draw a jumping horse. We cut it … Read more
I was asked to make a Hello Kitty cake for a neighbor’s daughter’s 11th birthday. Easy peasy! I made a chocolate 1/2 sheet cake and chocolate ganache filling (she LOVES chocolate)! The cake was cut in half and layered. The chocolate ganache is super simple, just bittersweet chocolate blocks and heavy whipping cream. Bring whipping … Read more
This Homemade Pirate Treasure Chest Cake is a yummy scrumptious chocolate cake I made for my son’s Edwards first birthday. It’s basically a rich dark chocolate cake. It is actually a chocolate muffin recipe adjusted to make up a whole large cake. It has pure chocolate as the frosting and royal icing to make the … Read more
Just follow your recipe for making chocolate chip bar bookies. For the picture on the horse cake, I had ‘Spirit’ in mind even though it doesn’t look like Spirit! I drew the horse on the cake freehand with black piping gel. It was easy to wipe off if I made a mistake. Once I had … Read more
I made this Hulk Birthday Cake for a 10yr old boy and all he asked for was ‘A Hulks head’. So that’s what I did. I cooked a large cake in a hexagon tin so I got the width at the top and I cut down the cake so when I was finished I had … Read more