I was asked to make a cake for a young lady turning 12 years old on 12/12/12. Her color theme for the party was pink and red, and she wanted rock candy somehow incorporated into the cake. I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do with this idea! After much thought, I … Read more
I found the recipe for this Candy Corn cake on a website that emails me recipes. I thought I would give it a shot and it actually turned out pretty good. I used 2 9 inch round cake pans with 1 box white cake mix. I iced both layers of the cake with chocolate icing and … Read more
I used a chocolate cake with homemade peanut butter frosting for icing. Then I made my own fondant from marshmallows and icing sugar. I then colored it with yellow and red food coloring and rolled it out. I also made yellow fondant for the letters. I made this cake for my sister. We didn’t have the chance to grow up together … Read more
To create this cake I mixed my cake mix and separated it into 5 bowls. With it being a skittles cake I felt the birthday boy needed to “taste the rainbow” feeling with the batter. I colored the batter red, yellow, green, blue and purple. Then placing a little batter at a time I created … Read more
This was the first homemade cake I have ever made beside putting batter in a cake pan and pouring frosting over when cool. I looked everywhere for a place that made a M & M cake as that was my son’s favorite thing ever at 2. I found not one company! So my mom and I took … Read more
I made this Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake for my dad who LOVES Reese’s peanut butter cups. First, I baked a regular 9×13″ cake and another round 6″ cake. I frosted both of them and set them aside. Using different colored fondant, I next rolled out some orange (the color of the Reese’s package) and … Read more
I made this Pez cake for my niece’s birthday. The body and head of the cake were made out of vanilla cake and tinted buttercream, the Pez candy were made out of chocolate cake baked in a loft pan, and covered in buttercream and fondant. It was a lot of fun to make.
This egg was very scary when I was originally asked to do it but turned out to be very simple. The egg was just homemade cake recipe for a yellow cake made with the Wiltons 3D egg pan covered in chocolate ganache. The “foil” around the cake was fondant and the unwrapped foil was just … Read more
Although this Caramel Apple Cake looks more appropriate for Halloween, I made this cake for Thanksgiving. I didn’t want to bring the usual pumpkin or apple pie so I thought I’d make one for my family. I made the cake and caramel from scratch using splenda so my mom, who is diabetic could eat it. … Read more
This Hershey Bar Cake is a chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing. I used vanilla icing for the writing and some yellow for the “with almonds.” I used real almonds on the cake to give it a whimsical feel. I gave it to my boyfriend for our six month anniversary because this is his favorite … Read more
My good friend Sharon adores dark chocolate so for her birthday I decided to treat her to a chocolate overdose. However knowing that she only likes to eat a bit at a time I figured that the best bet would be to make something which could possibly be deconstructed and saved for whenever the chocolate … Read more
My 3 yr old granddaughter, Gracie wanted a Bubble Gum party. This is my Bubble gum machine cake. I baked a round white cake for the glass ball and a square strawberry cake with red icing for the base. I used gold chocolate coins. Just before the candles, I let the kid add the bubble … Read more