My 2 year old niece gets so excited when she sees the ice cream truck that her mom decided to have an ice cream truck cake for her birthday. I looked on this site and online to try and find pictures, but there aren’t many available. Therefore, I decided to submit my first cake to … Read more
My name is Sarah Campbell from Long Island New York and this Heineken Beer Bottle Birthday Cake is my second cake on the website. It is a red velvet Heineken bottle cake made for my boyfriend Leon’s 29th birthday! I started off using two separate pans to create the general shape of the cake. One … Read more
This Belly Dancer cake is again a Madeira cake which is filled with strawberry jam. It is covered in fondant coloured apricot colour and decorated by fondant snakes on each 4 corners. The cake is then topped with a belly dancing figure made from fondant and decorated with sugar balls. The sides are piped in … Read more
For my son’s fifth birthday he requested a Mach 5 race car from the Speed Racer movie. I was a little nervous at first but I was very proud of the end result of this Racer Race Car Birthday Cake. I made the cake using 2 – 13×9 cakes (2 box cake mixes). I layered … Read more
I made this Beer Bucket Cake for a friend’s birthday party this past week. The cake itself is a 6 layer white cake made from scratch. Each layer was colored either white or blue. I used home made butter frosting and food colored fondant strips on the sides. I then made the ice from sugar/corn … Read more
This is my version of the “Barbie cakes”. This snow angel cake was my first attempt to make a cake like this with no directions or guidelines. I kind of figured out how to do it with what I had at home. None of the fancy kits that you see in craft stores! I simply … Read more
I made this Train Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I used cupcakes for the wheels and smoke. I used a 9 x 13 cake and cut it in the shape of the train that I wanted!
For this cake I baked 3 x 4″ round sponge cakes. These were stacked on top of one another I then used butter icing and jam in between them. I then coated the cakes with spreadable icing leaving to dry over night. I used Teddy bear brown fondant icing for the sides of the glass … Read more
My daughter is obsessed with the ocean, and was turning 7, so I thought I’d combine these things in her cake and make a Sand and Surf Birthday Cake. I made 3 chocolate bar cakes, and trimmed the corner off of one, to make the 7 shape. I then coloured the fondant ready made icing … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday I decided to make a homemade Choo Choo train Cake for him as he loves choo choo trains. I worked from my imagination only and created a 3D sculpture of a train by stacking together various sponge cake shapes, iced with coloured frosting and lollies to create grass and train … Read more
I just stared making cakes on the side (my 3rd cake) and a friend of mine was turning 30. His wife got in touch with me and wanted me to make a fun cake for his birthday. I decided to do an old timey “bucket of beer” cake for him since we were having his … Read more
My daughter asked for a “nature cake” for her 9th birthday. I already knew I wanted to do some kind of waterfall and I happened to find a cheap pack of animals at the store which even included a couple of trees and rocks. I used a simple from-scratch yellow cake recipe but doubled it. … Read more