This is a Hello Kitty Birthday Cake that I created for my daughter’s 7th birthday. It is a Madeira cake covered in pre-rolled icing and I created the Hello Kitty with another piece of icing and stuck it on the top and used a icing pen to go around it and added the pink (Morrison’s … Read more
I went on this site and took a few ideas from several of the other pirate cakes. I started with 2 9X13 cakes for the base. I then baked 2 loaf pans as well for the ship. The base of the ship is one full loaf and then part of the other to make the … Read more
These two cakes were made for my daughter’s 2nd birthday which was Bollywood themed. The pink elephant cake was a solid chocolate biscuit cake and we dyed the icing and hand cut the elephant shape. The golden elephant cake was a strong Madeira sponge (to take the weight of the icing). It was iced with … Read more
This Homemade Hello Kitty Birthday Cake was requested by my youngest daughter for her 5th birthday. I hired a Wilton cake tin from the local cake shop and made a 4 egg cake mixture and a 2 egg chocolate cake mixture. I just used basic cake recipes I had from one of my recipe books. … Read more
My son likes pirates and the Veggie Tales, so I decided to make him a pirate birthday. I don’t like skulls so I made everything, from the invitations to the cake. I used some images that I downloaded from the internet. I made the cake from scratch, using a Puertorrican wedding cake recipe. Its a … Read more
At first my daughter wanted a “Happy Pink Captain Hook” cake – but that was NOT happening. We finally managed to settle for a pink Elephant Birthday Cake, made from two circle cakes, one for the body and the other for the legs, trunk and ears drawn freehand but inspired from the basic Google “elephant” … Read more
My son really loves Felipe on Handy Manny so I decided to give it a try. Since there aren’t any molds for this, I made a 13×9 cake and cut out a rounded rectangle for the top and a narrower rectangle for the bottom of the screwdriver. I just used gel and liquid food coloring … Read more
First time I’ve ever tried a shaped cake and it didn’t turn out half bad, actually. I used two loaf pans as it didn’t need to serve many people. The pirate ship cake is chocolate marbled pound cake with peanut butter buttercream icing on top, and chocolate buttercream on the sides. I put the bottom … Read more
I made this Frog Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s birthday. She loves frogs and I try to find anything I can that has to do with frogs so this is what she got for her cake. I used a 7″ round for the base, a heart shape for most of the body (the head and … Read more
For my niece’s first birthday I decided to make her a Hello Kitty Birthday Cake after I got the idea online. I’ve never worked with fondant or carving cakes before. I wanted to be sure I could make it before the day of her birthday party. My first attempt was not horrible but I knew … Read more
I decided to do a Chocolate Pirate Ship Birthday Cake after doing a bit of research as it lends itself to being the right colour for the ship. The process was a lot easier than I thought. I baked a 9″ x 13″ Madeira cake (5 eggs, 240g each of self raising flour, butter and … Read more
I made this frog cake to sit atop a cupcake stand for my sister’s bridal shower. I used the Wilton Mini Stand-Up Bear pan. I trimmed the ears and positioned them atop the head to form eyes. For eye color I used plain M&M’s. I piped using a large star tip the legs an arms. … Read more