Coolest Birthday Cakes

[...] This Monster Truck birthday cake is a combination of ideas from this site. The cake board was covered in chocolate icing with graham cracker crumbs to make it look like a mud track. I [...]

[...] few close friends, she asked me to make him a number 30 cake. This is what I did. I covered the cake board in blue icing and set aside overnight to dry out. The next day I baked two A4 size cakes and [...]

[...] and then chilled in the freezer before covering in white fondant icing. I also covered the cake board at the same time. I then pipe iced around the base of the cake and when the icing hardened I [...]

[...] cakes. I then positioned the smaller cake on the top of the square cake and then covered the cake board in white icing. When the board was covered I used one of my flower cutters and made a flower [...]

[...] his 1st Halloween and his mommy, my daughter, decided that that would be the theme of his 1st birthday party in January! She asked if I would be up to doing cookies, cupcakes and a smash cake for it! [...]

[...] it was so heavy that it slid right off the cake. By now it was pushing 11pm and the birthday party was scheduled for noon the next day, and it was an hour drive away.  I started to [...]

[...] This castle cake is a design that I came up for my daughter’s frozen themed birthday party. For this cake I purchased the Wilton castle kit, rock candy and frozen figurines to place on [...]

[...] frosting.  Add a little icing sugar to stiffen if needed. 4.  The day before the birthday party I laid out my loaf pans on a board  to see how long I would need it. This was a 2× [...]

[...] QUESTION:  Carl LOVES Spiderman!  Could you do his birthday cake like Spiderman? ANSWER:  YOU BET! I baked a 16 “- 1 layer FUNFETTI cake. This pan [...]

[...] her 11th birthday party. So I scoured the internet looking for ideas on what to make for the birthday cake. There are not a lot of examples out there but I found a few ideas for a laser tag vest cake. [...]

[...] I have been asked to do for family and friends! It all started from making my mum’s 50th birthday cake and everyone was totally amazed that it was the first cake I had ever made and from that my [...]

[...] I made this 1st birthday cake for my god-daughter so I wanted it to be special and cute for her! I used a 9×13 sheet [...]

[...] and handlebars from grey fondant as well. For the wheels, I rolled out a small ball of white fondant and flattened it. Using a knife, I gently cut out the spokes. This was quite difficult and [...]

[...] I would have covered it with white fondant after I cut out the center piece). I covered the top section and placed it on top. The Shrek [...]

[...] butter icing then in fondant which I had colored green. Then I rolled a large ball of white fondant the size of a golf ball for the eye. I added some green fondant halfway over the eye as [...]

[...] with fondant. I made a 9 by 11 cake, iced it with butter cream. I rolled out white fondant and covered the entire cake. I cut out the pocket and placed it on one side. The collar [...]

[...] a toothpick after looking at a picture I printed out of the logo.  I traced the logo with black icing then with a star tip I traced the inside of the black line with white icing. After that I [...]

[...] freezer to chill When chilled I covered the cake in white roll out icing and then using some black icing I had previously colored the day before I cut out thin strips and attached to the cake like a [...]

[...] to draw in the areas of the face and areas to outline.  I then outlined those areas in black icing. I then tinted the remaining icing all the appropriate colors and used a star tip to fill in [...]

[...] , I outlined with a toothpick the design of a soccer ball and then drew in the lines with black icing then added black to the appropriate areas and used a star tip with purple icing in the [...]

[...] glass bowl for creating dome on the top. I made green trees using ice-cream cone and green royal icing. Sand was created using brown sugar; waterfall was created using gel and blue color. Took lots [...]

[...] placed on top and glued securely. The decorations were fondant, and the horses attached with royal icing. My daughter was thrilled! [...]

[...] some more royal icing around the base of the cake and spread brown sugar as sand. I then added sugar pearls to spell [...]

[...] made the laptop and when it had hardened I attached it to the woman’s lap using royal icing. I made this a week before to make sure it had all hardened. I baked a 7″ square 3 [...]

[...] layer, and two chocolate marble layers. As the cakes were cooling, we made homemade marshmallow fondant. We pulled the fondant apart as it started to cool and harden into a play dough like [...]

[...] . It was an absolutely delicious orange creamsickle cake with butter cream icing and marshmallow fondant. Our Dad rarely eats cake and he went back for seconds – that’s how [...]

[...] a regular chocolate cake. I frosted it with chocolate ganache butter cream frosting and marshmallow fondant. Everything is from scratch except the board and wire to hold the ghost. Everybody loved it. [...]

[...] to the coins to the little mushrooms are all hand sculpted or cut out from my homemade marshmallow fondant. The eyes of the stars and mushrooms were drawn on with edible markers. The Mario is solid [...]

[...] I used 2 x 13″ sheet butter cakes and layered with chocolate icing. I carved the cake and used a template. I then  crumb coated the cake with chocolate [...]

[...] . I then drew a TMNT on the cake with a toothpick. I outlined the toothpick areas with chocolate icing. I then tinted the butter cream the colors I needed for the turtle and filled in those [...]

[...] black icing to draw a tunnel on the side of the cake. Of course I used good old fashioned chocolate icing for the mountain itself. It took about 3 hours for the whole thing but I go pretty slow [...]

[...] loaf I carved a chimney and secured it with a wooden skewer. All was covered with chocolate icing. Using a long flat spatula I lifted the locomotive and placed it onto the tracks. Step [...]

[...] with 3 cake pop sticks. For the finishing touches, I used marshmallow fondant for the cake topper (the number 6 on bamboo skewers), my son’s name (letters on toothpicks), climbing stones, [...]

[...] experimented with layering candy melts by making a red number one with white polka dots as the cake topper. Remember to draw the shape backwards because once dry, you flip it over. Luckily had just [...]

[...] My niece asked me to make a cake with a woman sitting on a green chair as a cake topper. She must be playing Bingo on a laptop. I started by making the chair with the woman on it and [...]

[...] shape cake for her mother and father in law’s ruby anniversary. I had to make the cake topper first, I started by making the sofa and this was left for a few days to dry out before I made [...]