I had been requested to make this Elmo cake for 2 years old kid -Daneen. My customer requested a colorful cake for her kid based on sample from earlier cake that I made. I really enjoyed making and decorating the cake although the whole process took more than 8 hours to be done. Since cake decorating is like a … Read more
This was a double birthday cake request – 2 kids, 2 diff ages, same party. “He likes Elmo, she loves ancient Egypt.” My first thought was to make an ancient Egypt cake with Elmo dressed in Egyptian costume like King Tut sitting on top of a pyramid. Cute, but not what the mom had in … Read more
A few years ago I bought a stand up Winnie the Pooh cake pan. Didn’t know when I was going to use it but I thought it would be cool to have. So finally about three years later I was asked to make a Cookie Monster Cake for a kid’s birthday party. I was like sure that … Read more
This Sesame Street birthday cake is my son’s 2nd birthday cake. He loves Elmo so it was the perfect choice for this birthday! This cake is a marble mud and absolutely delicious. The bottom part is edible and the top 2 layers are foam so that we can keep them as a keepsake. The hardest part … Read more
What a time I had with this Cookie Monster birthday cake. I decided I would make a birthday for my grand-son’s first birthday and what an experience that was! I did fine making the cakes for this project. I had to really put a lot of thought into this design made of chocolate, French vanilla, … Read more
My son loved Elmo and Cookie when he was 2. I made him this Elmo and Cookie Monster 2nd birthday cake. I used a sheet pan to make the base of the cake, which I frosted white. I used Wilton’s Sports Ball Pan and made 2 half balls. To make the eyes and nose, I had … Read more
I decided I would make a few cakes here and there to occupy my time now my little man has gone off to preschool a couple of days a week. I have been teaching myself off YouTube on the basic how too’s. I was asked by a friend to have a go at a Hootabelle cake for … Read more
Using a Dolly Varden Tin I made the head for the Owl birthday cake – nothing fancy just a standard supermarket packet cake. The challenge was to make it balance on a smaller upside down Dolly Varden Tin – this got too hard….so I used a small bowl covered in the icing and placed the cake … Read more
This cake i made for my son’s 2nd birthday who was mad on ‘In the night garden’. He absolutely loved it. It was my second cake ever, the first being his 1st birthday which i’ve also submitted! I got a couple of ideas off this site and then just gave it a go and this … Read more
It was my baby daughter’s 1st birthday recently and she loves the Australian kids TV characters ‘Giggle and Hoot’. I was really unsure as to what to do for her cake but thought I’d take on the challenge of Hoot. I have an eggless chocolate cake recipe that I use regularly and because I was trying something so … Read more
This is an Elmo cake that was made for a little boys 1st Birthday! I used the Wilton Elmo shaped pan. This was the first time that I had used a shaped pan and I love it! It made decorating so easy! I made sure to grease and flour just the bottom of the pan. … Read more
This was my first character cake, didn’t expect it to even turn out but I was pleasantly surprised. I just cooked two dome cakes with a Pyrex glass bowl. I used 2 boxes of cake mix and put 3cups in each bowl and then made cupcakes with the leftovers. Then I put them together and gave … Read more