This cake was for my granddaughter’s first birthday. The party theme was Luau. My son and daughter in law thought it would be fun to have a pig for the cake. When they first asked me, I was worried little kids would freak out when we started cutting into the cake. So, the design for … Read more
This Peppa Pig Fairy cake was a 3 layer chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge frosting. Iced in white chocolate butter cream. I first put the blue for the sky icing on and let it set a bit in the fridge, then I used a grass tip to create the grass for Peppa to sit on. … Read more
I’ve been seeing pigs in mud cakes all year, but this year was the local fair’s Year of the Pig, so what else could I submit? I was sure there’d be many similar ones, so I made the pigs extra special. I made a dad leaning against the side of the pool wearing sunglasses and … Read more
I had never attempted a proper birthday cake for my children before as they were too young to appreciate it (and I hadn’t got the time!) so this was my first attempt at a novelty shaped cake, though I do enjoy baking. My son has just turned three and as he has just discovered Peppa … Read more
Well this Peppa Pig cake was the 4th cake I had ever made from scratch so I was really happy with how it turned out. And so was my daughter Molly-Rose. It was a 9″ round chocolate mud cake (2 layers) filled and covered with white chocolate ganache. I did some google research on making … Read more
I can’t take credit for the idea because I saw this on another site and attempted to re-create it. For the cake I used a Devils food cake mix in 8 inch pans. The frosting is a peanut butter frosting. The mud is chocolate ganache. The hot tub is made of 12 full Kitkat bars … Read more
My son’s 5th birthday was coming up and I hadn’t organised his cake because he was changing his mind everyday on what shape he wanted. It got to about 2 weeks before his birthday and he announced he would like a warthog cake! I laughed thinking he couldn’t be serious, what child would ever want … Read more
I made this pig cake for a manager of the bank where I worked who was retiring, and as she kept pigs we wanted something appropriate for her hobby. I had a week’s notice when asked to do this cake! I drew this out first and made it with 2 pudding basins (one smaller than the the other) and then covered in … Read more
My 2 year old son is slightly obsessed with Peppa Pig and her brother George, so for his 2nd birthday I thought I would try to make a George Pig cake. I used tips from a blog about making a Thomas the Tank Engine cake I made the cakes (a large square and a round … Read more
This George Pig Birthday Cake is for my son’s third birthday! He is a huge Peppa pig fan and thus I decided on attempting making him George! I made four small round Victoria sponge cakes, filled with jam and cream. Two I used for the head, one for the body and one (which I didn’t bother filling!) for the little … Read more
I made these Piggie cupcakes for my granddaughter’s 8th birthday. My grand daughter loves pigs. She has a stuffed animal pig that she has had for several years that she sleeps with. She loves that pig so much that I have had to re-stuff the pig several times. So when she saw the pig cupcakes she said that was … Read more
Who doesn’t love to see little pigs rolling in the mud? For this muddy piggies birthday cake, I wanted to try a few new recipes and techniques. I went online and tried to search ways of creating miniature sculptures out of cake, then I went straight to my kitchen to play! I discovered that I … Read more