For my son’s 10th birthday I created a Penguin cake, (look under Penguin Cakes) so this year I needed to challenge myself. His Penguin-themed bedroom, claimed Micahrctica (a conjunction of his name and Antarctica) gave me the inspiration. For the cake I used a basic out of the box mix, in a spherical cake pan … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter in the shape of one of her favorite soft toys. This cake was made from two pudding basin cakes, one big one for the body and one little for the head.The cake decorating design ideas I copied from the toy. It is iced with sugar paste icing. The … Read more
I used a buttercream frosted cake with fondant penguin figurines and trees etc. on this Christmas Penguins Cake. The igloo is the Wilton Ball cake pan and the ball cake is also frosted with buttercream. The pond is colored piping gel.
When my 3 daughters had a combined Alaska themed party, I made this penguin one for my 7 year old who wanted penguins on her cake. I used store bought boxed marble cake mix. I used a rectangular shaped pan, about 10 x 8 and a few mini and regular size cupcakes. I iced the … Read more
This was for my seven year old daughters “Happy Feet” Birthday party. I got the idea from another cake I saw on the internet for cake decorating design ideas. We used a yellow butter cake from a box and I made the cream cheese icing from a recipe on the internet (mix room temperature 8 … Read more
This penguin cake was a birthday cake for a friend’s son who loves penguins. I just took a toothpick to draw a basic shape for the penguin onto a sheet cake. I then outlined the shape in black and filled it in with a small round tip. To smooth out the colors, I dipped my … Read more
My niece’s 9th birthday was an ice skating party and she asked me to make her a cake with penguins and snow and an igloo. This seemed to be way above the skill level of any other cake I had made her in years past, so after some internet research, this Ice Skating Penguin Igloo … Read more
I made this cake for a friend. Her son was in love with Happy Feet and wanted a cake just like his favorite character. I used two 10in round pans and I used two boxed cakes. I found a few cake decorating design ideas from this site.I made the tongue more life like by pricking … Read more
My son really enjoyed learning about penguins in school. So……he HAD to have a penguin birthday party! The Penguin Birthday Cake was so much fun to make and I think it turned out great. To get started I baked two 8×11 cakes. The first cake was the body. I didn’t have to cut this cake … Read more
This Penguin Birthday Cake Design was made for a teenage girl who loves penguins. All the penguins are made from fondant and hand painted. The penguin pond is made from melted down taffy and the cake was hallowed out at that spot. For ice I used clear rock candy. It was a chocolate cake with … Read more
My niece loves penguins and asked me to make her another penguin cake. Last year I did a flat penguin and thought I would surprise her with a stand up penguin. I used the Stand Up Bear pan and cut the ears off. I then frosted it with black, white and light orange frosting. This … Read more
I made this penguin birthday cake for my daughter’s second birthday, the night she was born was one of the coldest nights of that year and January around here typically is, so I wanted something wintery that did not have any ties to Christmas. I baked a regular yellow sheet cake from the box in … Read more