This Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake Design was made for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It is a two tiered cake with a double layer 9 inch bottom of dark chocolate fudge cake and a 6 inch top double layer of yellow cake. It was iced with buttercream and covered with fondant. All the decorations are fondant … Read more
The party theme was pirates, but I couldn’t find any cool decorations so I decided to use my son’s Playmobil pirate toys and just make the Treasure Island Scene cake. I gathered them up, designed the ship on the water side in blue and placed the land pieces in sand, the tan section. Because I … Read more
My daughter wanted a Belle cake and I didn’t want to try to draw Belle, so I decided to attempt a castle cake. I baked two 9×13 cakes, one for the second layer and one cut for the third layer. The first layer is actually the cake pan iced over! I thought 3 cakes was … Read more
A friend of mine and I actually made this Ninja Turtle Cake Design for my husband who was turning 30 and struggling with the thought. I wanted to take him back to his childhood and he LOVED ninja turtles so we went with that. To get the face outline on the cake I just printed … Read more
I layered two ten inch round cakes for the bottom tier and two six inch round cakes for the top of this Pirate Birthday Cake. I covered the two tiers with white fondant and then made red and brown fondant for the balls around the top and bottom tiers and cut out strips and laid … Read more
Whew! This cake was not easy, as you will learn as you begin to make one for your little princess. By the time it was finished, my back was killing me, but it was so worth it. My three-year-old is truly a princess (which makes me the queen!). My daughter and I made a different … Read more
My sister and I made this Minnie Mouse Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. We made 2x 7″ sandwich cakes for the face and 4x 3.5″ tins for the ears. All cakes where just plain sponge. We then used royal icing with a peach colouring all over the face and used black dyed icing for … Read more
I made this Treasure Chest cake for my son’s 5th birthday party that was pirate themed. I used white cake mix in a sheet pan, cut it in half, and stacked one half on top of the other. I then used a casserole dish and added it to the top, to finish giving it it’s … Read more
Our friend was having a Princess party and wanted a castle cake. I bought the Wilton castle decorating kit and basically “dressed up” all of the plastic pieces that came in the box. The Turrets were covered in fondant, the windows were “painted” with colored piping gel, and the door and shutters were used as … Read more
I made my own butter cream and I bought a spray gun. That’s how I got the black and the skin tone of Mickey. It took me about 2 hours to do the whole cake making sure I had the head the right way. The cupcakes were the challenge for me because I had to … Read more
This Pirate Ship Cake was for my good friend’s son for his daycare family picnic. I decided instead of making cupcakes, I would do something that would be fun for the kids. It is just 2 white boxed cake mixes, baked as directed, only I used two different pans. I used 2 9×13’s and a … Read more
I had to make a cake for two little cousins who were sharing a 4-year-old and 3-year-old birthday – a girl and a boy. I wanted to make this castle cake badly, so in order to make sure the cake worked for either a girl or a boy, I came up with the “Blues Clues … Read more