You're Viewing the ‘Contest Entries’ Category

  • Tinkerbell Mushroom House Cake

    This cake is for my daughter’s 5th birthday. It is a Tinkerbell Mushroom House Cake and I used four 9-inch round cakes as well as a 1/2 box cake mix baked in a steel bowl (for mushroom house roof). This is the first large cake that I have ever made using dowels and I am [...]

  • Little Mermaid Cake

    This was a Little Mermaid cake I made for my younger daughter’s second birthday. It was a carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream filling. I covered the cake with fondant and the technique I used to decorate it was the gumpaste 3D decoration (in this case, Ariel) stuck to a styrofoam board that held her [...]

  • Tropical Island Cake

    I baked a circular cake and cut it in pieces to arrange them into an island shaped cake. I held the pieces together with icing. Then, I scooped out a hollow portion in the cake for the lagoon and proceeded to frost the island with a crumb coat. I made some blue and green Jello [...]

  • White Horse Cake

    For this Horse Cake, I used a 16 x 3 round pan. I used vanilla cake batter from scratch and filled it with chocolate icing. To make the horse’s head, I utilized a homemade cut out template. I rolled out white fondant and laid it across the cake. While smoothing it out, I put in [...]

  • Two-Tiered Rose and Butterfly Wedding Cake

    This was a two tier strawberry cake I did for an informal wedding reception for my friend’s 2nd wedding. She had butterfly invitations so I bought paper butterflies and roses for toppers. I also used sugar sheets on the sides. I hid the seams by piping on green stems and leaves. Then I piped small [...]

  • Lightning McQueen Fondant Cake

    Here’s my own take of a Lightning McQueen birthday cake! The cake itself is red velvet since the whole ‘car’ is red. I used the recipe for Southern Red Velvet that I found on the FoodNetwork site. This whole idea came from the scene in the movie “Cars” where Lightning crashes into the cactus in [...]

  • Cooking Stove Cake

    For this cooking stove cake, I covered every inch of the cake in fondant. I made use of rice krispie treats to mould the frying pan and knobs for the cake stove. Early on, I learned how to work with fondant and how heavy it could get so I used a small spring to lift [...]

  • Two-Tier Floral Cake

    This is my fourth time decorating a cake and I apologize if I use the wrong terms. I hope to someday take a course in cake decorating so that I can learn the proper techniques and correct name for all the tools. The Two-Tier Floral Cake cake was created using an amazing vanilla recipe I [...]

  • Walleye Fish Cake

    This is the first ever Walleye designed cake I ever made. I learned that working with rice krispies, fondant and molding chocolate wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Painting fondant was so easy and fun too. I made this cake for a friend’s father’s birthday, who is an advent Walleye fisherman from [...]

  • Bird’s Nest Cake

    I have always wanted to design an organic-feeling cake and after seeing a little bird’s nest in the tree outside my kitchen window, this cake became the perfect choice. The Bird’s Nest Cake is a made of two tiers- an 8″ three layer devils food cake with vanilla buttercream and a 6″ three layer vanilla [...]