My daughter’s first birthday theme was princesses. I wanted to make a Barbie doll cake so,I did, with the help of my mom, and wow was it fun and easy. Only thing is that you do need to make sure the dress is in proportion to the doll’s top part or it looks like she’s … Read more
I made this Yo Gabba Gabba Brobee cake for my son’s second birthday. I got the idea from the Brobee cake 5 on this website. It was very easy to make. I used two 9″ x 13″ cake pans. The cake was made from scratch. The body was chocolate cake while the arms and horns … Read more
I found this swimming pool birthday cake in the Women’s Day magazine (I believe it was April or May ’06 issue) and decided to make it for my Grandson’s 1st birthday. I am far from a baker, but I know I wanted to give my first grandchild the ultimate 1st birthday cake. It was a … Read more
This fresh flower wedding cake was one that I made way back in 1989 for a friend. At the time I had a business called Lorelie’s Luscious Cakes. A lot of the cakes I made were more complex than this one, but the simplicity of this cake is what I love about it and is … Read more
I made this Barbie Mariposa cake for a friend’s daughter. She is really into Barbie and Mariposa had just come out at the time. I used a fairy Barbie instead of the Mariposa Barbie because of the size of the wings on the Mariposa Barbie. I used the Wilton doll mold for this cake. I … Read more
I could not find a Yo Gabba Gabba Cake anywhere when I was shopping for my son’s first birthday and that is his most favorite thing ever! I got a set of three glass bake ware bowls for $9 at Target and used the smallest one for the cakes. Instead of buying a ton of … Read more
Basically, I baked an oval shaped cake to make this Pool Party Birthday Cake. I used different icing colors to decorate the swimmers. The swimmers were teddy grahams. I used M&M’s and Life Savers. The kids enjoyed the cake!
This Wedding Bells cake is the cake that I made for my co-worker’s wedding party. I used a few different techniques and designs that I’ve never tried before and I was pretty happy with the results. I had to use 4 slab cakes for this. One half was a lemon filling and the other half … Read more
My daughter, Haleigh, wanted a Cinderella Doll Birthday Cake for her 5th Birthday. I searched and searched online for a cake that I thought I could make myself. After researching several sites, I found the instructions for the perfect cake on www.howdini.com. They showed a video of how to assemble the cake with step-by-step directions, … Read more
I made this Pooh and Friends Birthday Picnic Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I used the butter cake recipe from the Huggies website. I doubled the mixture and used a roasting pan to bake the cake. It took a bit more time to cook than stated in the recipe due to the size of … Read more
Greetings from Australia. I came across this website last week which gave me some fantastic ideas for my daughter’s 7th birthday pool party cake. I took a few ideas from different cakes and came up with this Pool Party Jelly Cake: I baked a 22cm x 30cm slab cake using 2 packet mixes. I drew … Read more
I made this Barbie Birthday Cake for my niece’s 4th birthday. I made the cake in two different pans. For the bottom part of the dress I baked the cake in a 8 inch (3 inch deep) pan. I then used a glass Pyrex bowl for the top part of the dress. After I layered … Read more