This was for a Fourth of July/Housewarming party for my uncle when he got his first house. It’s a funfetti cake covered with buttercream frosting. The flag is just star tipped and the stars on the flag just larger stars. The fireworks have a star tipped middle and then just a regular piped line for … Read more
I made this cake for a farewell party. I traced out a stencil on wax paper, then re-traced with piping gel and placed on frosted cake. For cake decorations I piped in no. 16 stars for the Ukrainian flag and poles. I used a rose tip for the USA stripes and standard butter cream icing.
This cake was made for my brothers summer school history class he was teaching. We figured simple yet effective was the way to go since there was little notice. I started out with white cake and colored a section blue and added red stripes by putting food coloring on a knife and just mixing it … Read more
This is actually a giant chocolate chip cookie (16″ diameter). My husband is in the United States Marine Corps so I wanted to attempt to make the Eagle Globe and Anchor Marine Corps logo for a party we were having. It turned out really well. The EGA is made of Fondant which I have just … Read more
The 4th of July has always been my favorite summertime holiday! So much to look forward to, parades, fireworks, and BBQ’s! I decided this year for my family’s BBQ I would make an extra festive cake. I came up with the idea for decorating by combining a few things I saw by doing a simple … Read more
I covered this entire cake with red, white, and blue roses.
We decided that our son’s 1st birthday party would be a safari theme. There are many different cakes that can be created for this theme but my husband came up with something a little different. We wanted a special occasion cake for our first birthday. Safaris are taken in Africa so we chose to make … Read more
My Sunday school class was having a welcome home party for one of our friends that is in the Marines and was serving in Iraq. I thought it would be nice to have a cake with the Marines logo on it. As you see from the birthday cake picture, I took a small marines flag … Read more
I made this 4th Of July Cake using 14″ & 10″ round cake pans, 3 balloon weights which I bought at the dollar store and took them apart and used most of the material, a dozen star picks(purchased at a cake supply store), homemade fondant(which I tinted red, white, and blue), and an under layer … Read more
I made this for my July 4th party we had. It was a huge hit! I used buttercream frosting and chocolate cake. I used clear vanilla so my white would be a true white. My red was a Christmas red from Wilton. I got this idea for Patriotic cakes from Peggy Weaver. She explains it … Read more
I made this special occasion cake for the bicentennial of St. John the Baptist parish in Louisiana. I baked four cakes and cut out the shape of Louisiana. Its just a basic white cake, the layers have white icing in the middle and the icing is fondant with butter cream under it. Then I used … Read more
This 4th Of July Cake was fun! I made this cake for a friend’s 4th of July party. I used a Wilton star cake pan. The cake is covered in fondant (tinted in royal blue). I used a star cookie cutter and cut blue stars out of the cake which I replaced with white stars … Read more