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  • SpongeBob SquarePants Cake

    First Name: Rachael
    City and State: Legana, Tasmania

    This was a rectangle buttercake, decorated with fondant in a Spongebob theme for my son’s birthday.
    I covered the cake in a thin layer of soft butter icing first, so the fondant woud stick, and to smooth out any bumps in the cake. I used a wooden spoon handle to [...]

  • Cake Decorating Contest II

    The first cake decorating contest was quite a success. We had several outstanding entries. Thank you again to everyone who participated.
    Due to the positive response to the first contest, a second contest is beginning immediately. We already have several good entries to review, however not all them will be posted. In the past 95% [...]

  • Contest Winners – Cake Decorating Contest 1

    Contest Winners – Cake Decorating Contest 1
    Thank you to everyone who entered our first cake decorating contest. We appreciate all the entries.

  • Fish Cake

    First Name: Janita
    City and State: Melbourne, Australia

    I used Willow’s sugar glass in yellow and dyed the soft sugar icing a darker shade of yellow (using a little orange) so that the ‘glass’ would contrast.
    To get the water effect I used three techniques: 1. used light green dye to get consistent base colour, then [...]

  • Wall-E Birthday Cake

    First Name: Jamie
    City and State: Burt, Mi

    I made this wall-e cake for my sons 9th birthday party. It is a three layer Chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling. I used 10 in square pan (3 layers) to create the body and then I used two layers of a 8 inch to sculp [...]

  • Jack Daniels Fondant Cake

    First Name: Kiana
    City and State: Dingmans Ferry

    A classic Yellow cake w/chocolate pudding filling covered in Black Fondant & royal icing JACK DANIELS logo which I copied from a print from my computer. This was my first time trying fondant, I am 17 years old and new to cake decorating but would like to make it [...]

  • Clown Cake

    First Name: Milly
    City and State: Cleburne, TX

    This is “CLOWN CAKE” and this was actually my project
    On this cake I used 8 x3″ round pan, for the Clowns I used tips 21, 3. and for the dots I used tip 3 and 5 and for the star border I used star tip 21 and [...]

  • Turkey Cake

    First Name: Geri
    City and State: Joshua, TX

    The things you will need are as follows, 1 cake baked in the large Wilton Egg shaped pan, 2 small cake baked in the small Wilton egg shaped pan, 2 ice cream cones with the pointed bottom, a couple skewers, fondant in green, oange, and white. and a roasting [...]

  • Sushi Cake

    First Name: Alice
    City and State: Chesapeake, VA

    I used a round three layer vanilla cake, added coconut flakes to the top, and iced the sides with green icing to mimic the look of a seaweed wrapper. The decorations on top were made out of “airheads” that I heated in the microwave (5 seconds) to soften [...]

  • Synthesizer Birthday Cake

    First Name: Jessica
    City and State: Forest, VA

    This is a synthesizer birthday cake! It’s a marble cake, covered in buttercream then wrapped with marshmallow fondant. The white keys and Happy Birthday decorations are made of Wilton fondant. I wanted to use other materials rather than having a completely fondant cake. So for the lights I used [...]