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  • Alice in Wonderland Topsy Turvy Cake

    First Name: Deedra
    City-State: Bloomfield,NM

    This is my Alice in Wonderland Topsy Turvy cake. I first made 3 batches of cake batter: 2 chocolate and 1 vanilla. My pans were 10, and 6 and 4 inches. I made two cakes of the size 10 and another two of the size 6. Make sure to allow the pans [...]

  • Bronco Birthday Ice Cream Cake

    First Name: Nikesha
    City-State: Phoenix, AZ

    This is an ice cream cake I made for a customer at work. They wanted a Bronco themed birthday cake.
    After letting the layers of cake and ice cream freeze overnight, I frosted the cake with butter creme icing. I hand drew the design into the icing with the tip of [...]

  • Romantic Cake

    First Name: Melissa
    City-State: Kansas City, Kansas

    I started taking cake decorating lessons a couple months ago and googled my way to making gum paste flowers. I sat down one evening, popped in a chick flick, and started making these white gum paste flowers. It took me a couple tries to place the flowers on the cake. [...]

  • Tarantula Birthday Cake

    First Name: Tamara
    City-State: Everett, WA

    I enjoy making unique cakes for my family on their birthdays. I make 6 cakes a year for birthdays but have never taken a decorating class. This is a cake that I made for my youngest son who asked for a tarantula cake.
    The base of the cake is a full [...]

  • 25th Wedding Anniversary Cake

    First Name: Sara
    City-State: San Antonio, TX

    I made this cake for a friend’s 25th Wedding Anniversary. The bride and groom topper was from their wedding! The cake is a traditional white wedding cake with buttercream frosting. I iced each cake layer with the buttercream, let it crust for 15 minutes, then went back with a Viva [...]

  • Flower Birthday Cake

    First Name: Diane
    City-State: Lebanon, PA

    This cake was made for my co-worker’s 50th Birthday party. She presented me with a picture of what she wanted. In the picture all the flowers were made of buttercream, but I wanted to see if I could challenge myself to do them all in gumpaste. Gumpaste is [...]

  • Easter Egg Cake

    First Name: Gretchen
    City-State: Milford, CT

    I made this cake for Easter brunch. The bottom round layers are my cousin’s super-secret carrot cake recipe with cream cheese filling. But, because we have some picky eaters in the family who won’t eat carrot cake, the top eggs are made of white cake, baked in a Wilton egg-shaped mold.
    The [...]

  • Twilight Theme Cake

    First Name: Jeannette
    City-State: Stoke on Trent, UK

    The idea for this cake came from the book Twilight.
    I used a 12″ square cake tin and made a light sponge cake. I filled the cake with jam and butter cream.
    To make the book shape I sliced 3″ from one side, this then made a perfect book shape. The [...]

  • Last Minute Wedding Cake

    First Name: Debbie
    City-State: Brisbane, Australia

    The cake is called: Last Minute Design
    This is the night before my wedding and I had approx. 5 hours to design a wedding cake, I WAS UNDER ENORMOUS PRESSURE TO PULL IT OFF.
    After Christmas they had Christmas cakes for sale at Woolworths and Bi Lo so I bought 2 of them. [...]

  • Bridal Shower Butterfly Cake

    First Name: Sarah
    City-State: Glendale, Arizona

    This beautiful Butterfly Cake was made using 12×3 and 8×3 round spring form pans. It is a Yellow Marble Cake frosted in a vibrant orange vanilla butter cream frosting.
    The cake was for a bridal shower where the Bride’s wedding colors were a sunset theme. I wanted the cake to fit into [...]