My 12 year old daughter loves giraffes. I used two Betty Crocker devils food cake mix as I find they are really light and easy to sculpt. We made this Giraffe cake by baking first a rectangle cake and then a circle cake and cutting the shape, following a picture on a birthday card. The … Read more
I made this cake Hello Kitty Birthday Cake for my daugther’s first birthday. I made two cakes, a big one made with 8 eggs and a little one on top. I filled with Dulce De Leche (a very popular milk-based sauce in Uruguay). I covered with white icing and put sugar dots all around. A … Read more
This Penguin Igloo Cake was made for my son’s first birthday, his big sisters came up with the design and helped make it come to life! I used box cake mix, two 8 inch squares for bottom and pampered chef batter bowl for igloo, the door was a chunk of square cake. I frosted with … Read more
I made this homemade vegan chocolate horse decoration for a cake to go on my partner’s cake for her birthday. The design came from a photo one of us took of a Clydesdale X Arab, he’s a spunk. He looks like a Clydesdale but acts like an Arabian with his tail and and an extended … Read more
I love making Hello Kitty cakes as there’s so many possibilities with them and they are so very girly. This one I made for my friend’s little girl and she asked for bright and groovy. I looked through some pictures on the internet and adapted them to what you see in the final outcome. The … Read more
I made this Shark Birthday Cake for my son’s birthday, it is made from 4 Madeira cakes, which I coloured red and sandwiched together using red buttercream. I left the cake in the fridge over night so it was pretty solid ready for carving. I first cut diagonally across half of the top layer of … Read more
To make this Horse birthday cake, I found a horse picture online, enlarged it using Paint Shop and printed it off the computer. I then taped the two pieces together for a guideline on tracing it onto the cake. I used buttercream for the whole cake except for the hair and the bow. I used … Read more
First Id like to say thanks to all the people who gave their ideas on this site. I made this Homemade Hulk Birthday Cake after looking at your lovely cakes for my son Jake on his 7th birthday. I used two square 6” fruit cakes and after carving I still had plenty left over. I … Read more
My son wanted a pool party with a ocean themed cake for his 6th birthday. I took some ideas from other cakes and combined it to make my own. I used blue spray for the water part do avoid coloring frosting and it made cool shading. I also textured the frosting with a decorating tool … Read more
My friends loved this Safari Cake Design for a baby shower cake! The cake was red velvet with chocolate flavored buttercream frosting. The faces of the animals were made from gum paste.
My 9 year old son found his Uncle’s “vintage” Garfield comic books over the holidays and has been reading nothing else since. When he asked for a Garfield cake for his birthday, I started trying to find Garfield cake pans. There were a few, but none I liked so this is what I came up … Read more
My son was having his 4th birthday party at a swimming place and he really wanted a sea-life themed birthday party. I decided to make my own Sea Life Theme Birthday Cake because it would be exactly as I wanted it to be. I bought 2 boxes of white cake mix and made it according … Read more