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  • Ballerina Hippo Cake

    I started with two 9 x 13″ chocolate cakes torted and stacked. I first carved the rump and body of the hippo and then the head. I used cupcakes for the feet. After carving the entire cake was covered with buttercream and then covered in purple fondant.
    The cake board was covered with green royal [...]

  • Zebra Striped Star Cake

    To make the Zebra Striped Star Cake, bake three cakes of each size pan. I used a 6, 8, and 10 inch pans. Stack the cake layers using buttercream between. When you put the top layer on, cut it at an angle and then cut a hole in the center that goes down to the [...]

  • Cherry Blossoms Cake

    The cake is a lemon-flavored Madeira cake. I have covered it with white readily-bought sugarpaste and used modeling paste to create the tree and its boughs. The main trunk was attached to the side of the cake and then I laid the rest of the boughs over the surface of the cake to have [...]

  • Zoo Animal Cake

    This was my first ever go at decorating a cake. I spent hours looking on the internet for inspiration, and couldn’t find the perfect cake, so I ended up taking ideas from about 5 different cakes to come up with the final concept.
    I used Petinice ready to roll icing and food colouring to make the [...]

  • Three-Tiered Hexagon Cake Set

    This cake is the sixth cake I’ve ever made and/or decorated that I’ve made especially for my mother’s wedding.
    It’s a three tiered hexagon cake positioned on a 17-inch fountain set with a 15-inch Styrofoam base, a 12×5 inch tier of french vanilla cake with strawberry filling and 5-inch crystal pillars separating them. The last tier [...]

  • Realistic Kidney Cake

    A good friend of ours was celebrating the 2nd anniversary of a successful kidney transplant, and his partner asked if I could create a kidney cake for him. I decided to make the cake a little more “realistic” rather than “fun”, although i did have a concern that the visual may take away from the [...]

  • Blue and Yellow Cake

    To make the cake, I started by hand kneading the fondant to the perfect shade of soft powder blue (my daughter picked the color) and covered the entire cake with it. I also used extra stiff yellow butter cream frosting and a open star tip to pipe two layers of shell border around the base [...]

  • Tree Cake

    This tree cake was made for a 6 year old’s birthday that had a Tinkerbell theme. The base of the cake was made of Red velvet cake and iced with buttercream and marshmallow mint fondant. The trunk is made from homemade Rice Krispies Treats that is supported with a 3/8″ dowel rod and then covered [...]

  • R2D2 Star Wars Cake

    This is my steampunk version of R2D2. The cake is yellow butter cake with chocolate buttcream frosting, then covered in fondant. I used four 6″ round cakes with 2 half ball cakes. The half ball cakes are on the top and bottom. The arm/legs are made from rice krispy treats covered in fondant.
    The body has [...]

  • Tractor and Farm Animals Cake

    This is just my second cake that I have decorated for someone using fondant and it was so much fun to see it come together. I had a friend ask me to make it for a baby shower after she had tried a cake that I had made for an anniversary.
    The cake is a [...]