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My Tiny Open Bible Cake 
This cake is a 4in.x5in. that I made to sit on a 18x24 sheet cake for 1 of our missionaries 50th wedding anniversary.

This cake was Definitely the HARDEST ...

Bella Bug Cake 
This was the cake I made for my daughter's first birthday. We call her Bella Bug and I thought the ladybug was perfect. The grass is green chocolate and ...

3D Thomas The Tank Engine Cake 
I was challenged with a Thomas the Tank Engine 3D cake for my great nephew's first birthday.

I don't make many cakes, but I had a good go and that's ...

Pastor's Cake Luke 10:2 
This cake I wanted to make for my Pastor, to try to show him how special he and his family is to us, everyone in our church and to all who know him. I ...

Bridal Shower Hat Box Cake 
This was my first attempt at making a hat box cake. The customer asked for green and ivory, and only asked for a big bow on top. I wanted to surprise her ...

Fisher's Of Men Cupcakes 
We had a fisher's of men campaign at church, between our 4 buses, and the bus that caught the most "Fish" (visitors) got a party hosted by all the other ...

Dora M&M Mosaic Cake 
I made this M&M mosaic cake of Dora the Explorer for my daughter's 3rd birthday. This was back in 2004, before you could buy the M&Ms by separate colors....

A Froggy Cake! 
This cake was made in ONLY 1 1/2 days (record time) for a VERY Special Young lady at our church who is graduating from college. She was 1 of the 1st bus ...

Gift Box Cake 
This was the 1st speciality cake that I had ever made! Plus I was making it for my PASTOR'S WIFE, whom is a very special and elegant LADY!

I have had ...

Sponge Bob Squarepants Cake 
I made this cake for my youngest daughter's 5th birthday, in March 2009. She LOVES Spongebob! This was only the 2nd speacality cake that I had ever made....

Little Einsteins Rocket Cake 
My daughter LOVES little Einsteins and I couldn't find a cake pan. So with a little luck and world-wide-web success I found a great idea for a Rocket ...

Wall-e Birthday Cake 
I made a Wall-e cake for my son's 4th birthday. I used four 8x8 square pans, 3 stacked for the body and one cut diagonally and shaped to size for the ...

North Carolina Tar Heel Helmet Cake 
I made this cake for a Tar Heel Fan.

Editor's Note: Another great looking cake Sandy! Among all our contributors, you are one of the best when it ...

Lightening McQueen Cake 
My Nephew wanted a Lightening McQueen Cake for his birthday and he asked me if I would make him one. This is what I came up with and it was a big hit....

Maisy Mouse 2nd Birthday Cake 
My son loves Maisy, so we had a 'Maisy Mouse Morning Tea' for his second birthday. I consulted this website for good ideas and decided to make his cake ...

Hello Kitty Birthday Cake 
I was asked to make a special birthday cake, a pink heart with a picture of Hello Kitty on the top. I made two square sponges, when cooled I cut a heart ...

Easy Pirate Ship Cake 
I made this pirate ship cake for my son's second birthday. We had a fully themed pirate party, and I wanted the cake to be the center piece for the day....

Colorful Flower Birthday Cake 
This was for my sister. I learned how to do it by taking a cake baking class (Wilton) at a local Joann Fabrics store.

It used fondant, and it took ...

Castle Cake 
It was a castle cake, but without all the Disney Princess stuff. I used the child's favorite color M&M Minis to decorate.

Wonderful Owl Cake 
Teen daughter loved owls, and we needed a big cake for our big family. I didn't have the supplies needed to pipe icing so instead decorated the cake with ...

Skateboard Cake For 11 Year Old Boy Birthday 
My son is big into skateboards so I TRIED to make a skateboard cake lol. Mind you it did not come out as great as I wanted it too.

I wanted to use ...

Tinkerbell Birthday Cake 
We made our daughter a Tinkerbell cake 3 tiers tall. It had a water fountain under the bottom. It looked like a wedding cake, but it was my daughter's ...

Spongebob Birthday 
For an 8 year old girl who couldn't get enough of Spongebob Squarepants! Used a Wilton Sports Ball cake pan, and buttercreamed the "pineapple". I used ...

Hamster Lovers Cake 
Daughter loved her hamster, Sweetie, and wanted a hamster cake for her birthday. Made with round pan, cut in half and two halves iced together. Lots of ...

Wubbzy Cake 
This was a birthday cake for my son's 4th birthday that I made in March 2008. It used a template from the Nick Jr. website, and yellow and brown icing,...

Lightning McQueen Cake 
My son loves the movie CARS so, I decided to try to make him a Lightning McQueen cake out of an old NASCAR cake pan. It is a 3d cake, it's not flat. It ...

Disney Character Cake 
My Seven Year old is in love with "The Incredibles" so we bought a race car cake from the store, and then we added the cool looking candles and found the ...

Coco Monkey Cake 
My little boy turned one year old on his birthday. He loved Curious George. She made two of these cakes and the first one was a practice one and it turned ...

Popcorn Bucket Cake 
My daughter wanted a movie themed party, and I was given the challenge of creating an appropriate cake. I make this bucket of popcorn using four layers ...

Survivor Birthday Cake 
I made this cake for my son's 6th birthday which had a Survivor theme. We are all big fans of the show and watch it together as a family. For the party ...

Little Mermaid Cake 
The Little Mermaid is one of my niece's favorite Disney characters. For her fifth birthday I made her this cake.

It was for a large group of kids. So ...

Nicholai's 18th Birthday Cake 
I made this German chocolate cake for a German exchange student boy I was hosting. He was extremely lonely for his family and I thought it would cheer ...

Pirates Of The Carribean Cake 
Both my children love Pirates of the Carribean. So I made this cake for my son's 5th birthday. I like to make cakes where I add small toys because the ...

Princess Castle Cake 
I made this Princess castle cake for my friends daughter's 3rd birthday. She loves the Disney Princess.

This cake is a kit cake. You can get the Disney ...

Berry Birthday Cake 
I made this birthday cake for my little sister.
It is not something big and fancy but it's my first cake.

My father helped me out on the cooking. He ...

Peppa Pig Cake 
I was inspired to make this cake, as Peppa Pig is the favourite programme of my two little girls and here in England it is impossible to find a Peppa Pig ...

My Son's First Birthday Cake 
In the tradition of my Mom, we have decided, as new parents, that each year we would make our son's birthday cake. For his first birthday, we decided to ...

Monster Truck Cake 
My grandson loves monster trucks so we decided to make him a monster truck cake for his 4th birthday. The cake was frozen before it was cut into the right ...

Simple Birthday Cake 
I have made this simple cake two years in a row, for my daughter's second and third birthdays. I am one of the few "old fashioned" people left in the USA ...

Little Einsteins Cake 
I made this Little Einsteins cake for my 3 year old daughter's birthday, but it could be used for a boy's birthday as well. I bought a toy that had the ...

Macaroni Cake 
This macaroni cake was for my 14 year old. We have a running family joke beacase she cooked macaroni for her brothers and when they bit into it, it was ...

Bratz Doll Cake 
I made a Bratz Doll Cake for my niece's 4th birthday. You don't need the Wilton dress mold. Just bake the cake in pans or bowls of different sizes, or ...

Birthday Cake With Chocolate Fondant Icing 
This cake took me almost 2 hours to finish. The chocolate fondant wasn't too bad, I've covered cakes like this before. The fondant flowers took forever,...

Race Track Cake 
Little boys love cars! This race track birthday cake has place for several cars, and is decorated with candies.

This cake was made for my son's third ...

Maisy Mouse Birthday Cake 
I made this Maisy Mouse cake for my daughter's second birthday. She is a huge Maisy Mouse fan and loved seeing her favorite character on her cake! I freehanded ...

My Best Cake 
Well, I bought an oven from the money I earned through blogging. I tried making cake for the first time in my life by looking at the recipe from a website....

Superman Cake 
I was inspired by the fact that my child loved superman, it's his favorite superhero. He was turning 7 that year. Some tips that I could give would be ...

Spiderman Cake 
This cake was for my 11 yr old son. He was really into Spiderman at the time.

I baked two 8-inch rounds and covered with white frosting. Not wanting ...

The Marzipan Way !!! 
My kid loves to play with dough and eat marzipans. I thought of making a cake which would serve both purposes.

The birthday boy was 8 yrs old.

The ...

Chest Of Gold Birthday Cake 
My son loves the Pirates of the Caribbean so for his 5th birthday I baked this cake and we had a pirate party.

Hello Kitty Birthday Cake 
My 2 year old daughter loves cats. She cannot get enough of them, but when it came to making a birthday cake that included one, I was stuck. It was then ...

Ashley's Pink Birthday Cake 
I absolutely love making cakes. My daughter loves the color pink!!!! She was turning 6 when I made her this cake. Its really easy to make, the funnest ...

Peanut Butter Monkey Cake 
I made this cake for my daughter little girl. She was four years old. The cake is for our monkey themed movie night.

Everyone loved it! My wife ate ...

Crown Cake 
My daughter was approaching her seventh birthday, and her mother was away on business travel. The job of providing a cake fell to me, her Dad. I could ...

A Different Kind Of Over The Hill Cake 
My husband is an amusement park fanatic. I decided to try my hand at something a little more fancy than a plain round cake. The result was this roller ...

365 Days Gone By 
The mix of different emotions during his first year of life!

Thomas The Tank Engine Cake 
I was inspired to make this cake because my nephew loves Thomas.

He was 3 years old.

I used licorice for the train tracks so that after the party,...

Betty Boops Big 40 
My parents are both big Betty Boop fans, so for my dad's 40th birthday my mom and I made him a special birthday cake. The toughest part was getting Betty ...

Ashley's 21! 
I made this cake for my best friend's 21st birthday party. My inspiration was of course alcohol. She loved it! It was simply a yellow cake mix, vanilla ...

Dragon Cake 
This was for my son's 6th birthday. For his dragon-themed party he wanted a dragon on his cake that he could eat, so I went searching for ideas on the ...

Pingu Birthday Cake 
My two year old daughter is crazy about pingu, so what else could we make her for her birthday. My husband and I struggled to make the pingu model out ...

Grover From Sesame Street Cake 
My son loves Grover from Sesame Street. So, with the help of my aunt who does this kind of thing regularly, I made a huge Grover face cake!

This was ...

Monster Truck Cake 
I made a sheet cake with a monster truck on it, ready to jump three hot wheel cars. I used white frosting and then sprinkled graham cracker crumbs on ...

1st birthday Elmo Cake and Smash Cake 
I made this cake for my nephew's first birthday.

He loved his Elmo doll he had so we decided that he would love an Elmo cake. This cake was made with ...

Sweet 20th Birthday Cake 
This birthday cake I made for my 20 year old sister. She's a lovely sweet girl and she likes sweeties too much.

It was easy to pepare and took me about ...

Steak Cake 
My mother is a cake decorator and she made this for my father. She made it look like his favorite meal: steak and potatoes!

Cubs Cake 
The Chicago Cubs were my inspiration for this pineapple scented sprinkle vanilla cake. The frosting is made using cream cheese, powedered sugar, marshmallow ...

Mickey Mouse Cupcake Cake 
A friend of mine asked me to do a cupcake cake in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head for her son's 2nd Birthday party. I used a cookie sheet wrapped in red ...

Car Race Birthday Cake 
My son is crazy about cars so I made this cake for his 2nd birthday. The sheet cake was chocolate, Cole's favorite. The road and road border is done with ...

Tinkerbell Cake 
A couple of years ago my niece, Jennifer, was going through a big Tinkerbell phase. She had Tinkerbell clothes, school supplies, you name it. On her ...

Sweet Sixteen Cake 
It was my little sister's sweet sixteen and she needed a cake. I decided to save the day with this sweet treat.

Lightning McQueen Cake 
My son inspired me to make this Lightning McQueen cake. He loves the Disney movie Cars. Before his birthday we made a trip to a craft store and he chose ...

Popcorn Cake With Real Popcorn 
I needed a gluten free cake for my hubby, and he is a popcorn nut! It was fun - not exactly the prettiest, but I think you can get the idea from the pic!...

Turtle Race Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my daughter's class in the year 2009 to celebrate everybody's birthday! Well, it comes out this character last week that my daughter'...

Halloween Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was designed for a 2nd birthday w/ a Halloween theme. It was a HUGE hit! Yellow butter cake with "white" frosting.

Camping Cake  Not rated yet
The cake was for a friend who loves the outdoors! He turned 30 and I wanted to make him something memorable that would bring to mind a lot of the things ...

Snow White Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Snow White cake for my daughter's third birthday. Snow White is her favourite Disney princess, so was thrilled with the cake.

[Editor's ...

Lady Bug Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
Hi, my name is Brandie...On my daughter's weekend of her birthday party i made a lady bug cake and also 50 cupcakes...For the birthday cake I made a round ...

Wubbzy Cupcakes  Not rated yet
These are cupcakes that I made for my daughter Sophie, who turns 3 on Tuesday (we had her party today). I just made some chocolate cupcakes, dyed some ...

Space Station Cake  Not rated yet
I found a great cake for a 9yr old. Space station. I altered it a bit from the book but it looks fabulous (I think it is better than the one in the book ...

Kailey's 100 Acre Woods Cake  Not rated yet
My sister made this 100 acre wood cake for my daughter's first b-day . This was the most beautiful cake I could ever have imagined and tasted great too...

Cake Full Of Violets  Not rated yet
This was the second cake that I had to make with my anniversary cake, in order to feed everyone at church. It is pretty simple, just violets and leaves....

Happy 50th Anniversary  Not rated yet
This cake I made for 1 of the best missionaries that I know. Our church is throwing them a surprize Anniversary celebration. With it being 50 years I really ...

Happy 50th Anniversary Cake  Not rated yet
This cake I made for 1 of the best missionaries that I know. Our church is throwing them a surprize Anniversary celebration. With it being 50 years I really ...

Fairy Treehouse Cake  Not rated yet
My little girl was turning 3 and totally obsessed with fairies!

She wanted to know where the fairies 'lived' and I told her in a Fairy Tree House - her ...

Pink Poodle Cake  Not rated yet
My 4 year old begged for a pink poodle party that she saw in the Oriental Trading magazine. After I got the napkins and plates I thought the design would ...

Camouflage Cake  Not rated yet
This is a family recipe chocolate cake, decorated with a mess of buttercream icing. My son-in-law, who was then in the Royal Thai Army, and daughter were ...

Princess Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my 3 year old daughter...She's crazy about everything related to the princess character so as a mother I wanted her to have a very ...

My Peppa Pig Cake  Not rated yet
I made the sponge from a recipe of :-
2 ounce of eggs = 1 egg
2 ounce marge
2 ounce flour s/r
2 ounce sugar

I made enough for 3 large round cake ...

A Mickey Mouse Cupcake Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday party. So easy...bake 24 cupcakes, then just set them next to each other to form the shape of Mickey's ...

Aidan's 5th Birthday Monster Truck Cake  Not rated yet
Like many of you, my son is totally into monster trucks (Grave Digger and Big Foot 5 are his favorite). For his birthday, I wanted to do something special ...

Virtory Martial Arts Black Belt Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for Victory Martial Arts School in Lake Mary Florida. It was their 13th Anniversary.

Little Bo Sheep Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my neice's birthday. I thought it was the cutest thing ever. It was the first time I made a cake using the rolled fondant. That part ...

Bridal Shower Doll Cake  Not rated yet
I was a Pampered Chef consultant, and my sister was getting married. I wanted to make her a doll cake for her shower. I checked out a bunch of sites online,...

Family Tree Cake For 80th Birthday  Not rated yet
One of our employees at work was going to Georgia for his grandma's 80th birthday party. He asked me to bake a cake for his grandma. He said she likes ...

Dinosaur Cake  Not rated yet
This is my first 3D cake. I made it for my grandson's 3rd birthday. I made two 9-inch round cakes and one 6-inch round cake. I cut one 9-inch in half ...

Hot Tub Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was made for a very dear friend of mine. She was turning 35 and needed her spirits lifted. I used just basic round pans in different sizes, and ...

Mickey Mouse Cake  Not rated yet
As a cake maker I get asked for a lot of designs and Mickey Mouse is one of them. I have used cake tin for Mickey Mouse and then cut out icing to fit the ...

Wonder Woman Cake  Not rated yet
My daughter is obsessed with superheroes these days - Wonder Woman being her favourite. So I ordered a vintage Wilton pan and voila! Hope you enjoy it....

Diego Cake  Not rated yet
This was for my friend's little boy. It was his second birthday & he LOVES Diego! I copied a coloring page with buttercream frosting onto wax paper and ...

Car Cake For 7 Year Old Boy Birthday   Not rated yet
Well, Brian is a 7 year old boy who is simply infatuated with cars; real functioning cars and toy cars. So it seemed like the obvious thing to make his ...

Thomas The Train Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My son Tommy loves Thomas the Train, so we made this cake for him. It was for his third birthday.

Black Forest Cherry Torte  Not rated yet
My eighteen-year-old daughter specifically requested a Black Forest Cherry Torte for her birthday. Of course, the temperature outside was ninety-plus ...

Present Cake  Not rated yet
It was my Mom's 60th Birthday and I wanted to make it big and really cool. She always appreciates things that come from your heart and hands more than ...

Princess Barbie Cake  Not rated yet
My daughter was turning 3 and she absolutely loved (and still does) love anything related to Barbie, princesses, and pink! This was prepared using round ...

Mermaid Cake For 7 Year Old Birthday  Not rated yet
My 7-year old daughter wanted a mermaid party, so this was the cake I made. I had a lot of fun, and she helped me with it.

I made the cake from a mix,...

Running Shoe Cakes  Not rated yet
This cake was made for my friend's birthday when she celebrated with her track team. It was made from confetti cake batter and frosted with cream cheese ...

Blue's Clues Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This Blue's Clues Birthday Cake was made with yellow cake and had a cream cheese icing. Very simple and easy. General idea came from a book of designs ...

Heart Shaped Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My first few ventures into cake making were in vain. Then finally I managed to bake this on my daughter's birthday on her request and there it is. Lovely ...

Milk Free Chocolate Cake  Not rated yet
A dairy-free cake for a birthday party in children day care. It was a milk-free chocolate cake, mainly used whole-wheat and the dressing was made of sugar ...

Wendy's Barbie Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This is Wendy's 6 year old Barbie birthday cake. It is three layers high with pink icing.

Third Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This ia a third birthday cake made for a little boy by Wanda. It has blue icing with a little train running on a plastic train track.

Pac Man Cake  Not rated yet
My husband likes to collect old arcade games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. For his birthday a few years ago I decided I would surprise him and make him ...

Pablo From Backyardigans Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This was a Pablo (from Backyardigans) that I bought the mold for. I also bought the Backyardigans colors so that I had the right ones. It was my very first ...

Don't Eat All At Once!  Not rated yet
Thought I would show you the latest in Birthday Cake Fashion. I wanted a Publix white cake really bad today. So I found the cheapest one and as I was walking ...

Castle Cake  Not rated yet
My wife and son made me a special birthday cake. We borrowed a simple castle cake mold from a friend, then our son decorated the castle with his Lego Knight ...

Fairy Birthday Cake Barbie Cake  Not rated yet
I made this birthday cake for my daughter's 8th birthday. She wanted a fairy/Tinkerbell themed birthday. At the time we had a very hard time finding anything ...

A Scooby Birthday  Not rated yet
My son absolutely loved Scooby and begged for a special cake of Scooby that his mommy made. My little boy was turning 5 years old. I made a regular chocolate ...

Fantasy Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This was a cake I made 2 years ago for my friends son's 10th birthday.

He is into fantasy characters, like dragons and aliens so I made him a themed ...

First Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
For my daughter's first birthday, I wanted to give her a cake of her own. You know the classic tale -- the birthday girl smashes her cake rather than ...

Dripping Strawbery Cake  Not rated yet
I made it up as I went along- that's how I do it. It's a one of a kind birthday cake I made for my daughter's 21st birthday bash!
Marbel Cake is her favorite-...

16th Birthday Cake For My Daughter  Not rated yet
I make cakes all the time, but my daughter always insists on a bakery made cake. For her 16th Birthday she asked me to make one of my homemade cakes. That ...

Baseball Field Cake  Not rated yet
My 6 yr old nephew loves baseball. He specifically wanted a baseball themed cake. So I baked two 8in sq. chocolate cakes and layed them. The field is ...

Sprinkles From Blues Room Blues Clues  Not rated yet
This cake was for my daughter's 3rd birthday. She loved Blues Clues at the time and so I made her a Sprinkles cake. Everybody loved it.

Elmo Cake  Not rated yet
I have two-year-old twins so there were actually two of these cakes. My kiddos love Sesame Street, and adore Elmo, so that is why I made this cake. I have ...

Blues Clues Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my son on his 4th birthday. He loved Blue's Clues and was so excited to see the cake. It is so easy to make. I just used a cake ...

Nathaniel's 20th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
For my brother, the theme of the cake was memories we had with him and things that he likes, such as a spilled glass of wine, the French flag, and the ...

For The High School Grad On Her Birthday  Not rated yet
This is the cake I made for our eldest when she graduated from high school. She was going to a culinary school for college so I took the card for that ...

Bug Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
Well, as my little son loves bugs, I decided to make this design for him. He was very surprised and happy for it. Since I dont like them, it was a little ...

Pirate Cake For Child's Birthday Party  Not rated yet
My son wanted a pirate theme for his 7th birthday party, so I wanted to try my hand at a pirate cake.

I used a 9 x 13 pan to bake the cake.

I used ...

Tom's 12th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
For my son Tom's 12th birthday I made him a simple "Punisher" cake. He is really into skulls and all that stuff so this was perfect.

I was short on ...

Nikolas' First Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
It was tres leche (traditional Mexican 3 milk cake). I put strawberries and crushed pineapple inside. It had buttercream frosting and Elmo decorations....

Aloha Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was for my six year old daughter's birthday. She wanted to have a Hawaiian luau. It is a white cake with pina colada frosting. I used a 9 x 13 ...

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My daughter had her first birthday on December 16, 2007. She loved Mickey Mouse, so I decided to create a Mickey Mouse cake for her. I used three boxes ...

Birthday Froggy Cake  Not rated yet
For my daughter's 6th birthday we were having a pool party and I wanted a cake to go with the water theme. I found instructions online decorating a butterfly ...

Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Frosting  Not rated yet
Well, it only cost me $3.00 to make it. A cake on a tight budget. Chocolate cake and vanilla frosting.

Home Made Cake With Coconut  Not rated yet
Well, it was a rush decoration. I made the cake out of a box but for decor I used a merengue and coconut topping. I was imspired on the tropical weather ...

Vykin's First Birthday  Not rated yet
This cake was delicious. I made this for my son's first birthday party. I wanted something easy but nice and boyish. I made a basic vanilla sheet cake ...

Photo Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I baked a cake for my niece and had her favorite picture photo copied on to the cake. This is a great sweet treat.

Happy First Birthday Dylan!  Not rated yet
Nothing fancy, just box white cake mix. Got those tubes of blue frosting that have the piping tip. Cheap and simple but I think it looks pretty good!...

Half Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My son was turning 6 months old so my husband and I decided to celebrate with a cake. It was yellow cake with chocolate frosting, and red lettering. Even ...

Lego Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake because my child loves lego. (don't all kids?) My son was 10 years old.

It's very simple - after you bake the cake cut it up into ...

Pirate Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
We had a pirate themed birthday party. The cake is german chocolate with coconut frosting. The little pirate on top was from a lego toy.

A Car Cake  Not rated yet
I was inspired to make this car cake for my nephew's birthday. He's always been fascinated by cars, particularly classic marques like MG etc. This was ...

Mason's Ducky Cake  Not rated yet
I made this duck cake for my son's first birthday. Although I didn't have a ruber duck cake kit, I did use a Wilton 3D rubber ducky cake pan (the party ...

Birthday Cake From India  Not rated yet
This is a birthday cake that was baked for Lakshmi's birthday. It was sent in by one of our contributors who lives in India.

Rose's Pink 11th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
It was a double-layer, strawberry cake with strawberry filling and pink frosting. Rose was turning 11 and she is quite the princess, so we made her a nice ...

A St. Patrick's Day Cake  Not rated yet
My step dad was born on St. Patrick's Day. We didn't want to celebrate on a Monday so my younger sister and I baked a cake for him. We kept it simple and ...

30th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my husband's 30th birthday. Less is more!

Spider Cake  Not rated yet
This was a fun idea I had for my nephew. I think the picture pretty much gives you the construction elements. We had a blast, brought it for his 6th birthday....

Sunflower Cake  Not rated yet
My friend went to culinary school, and it was my sister's 13th birthday, so together, we made a cake. It was 2 layers and had rolled fondant on the top ...

Chocolate Cake   Not rated yet
My husband made this cake for my birthday. Its the best chocolate cake I've ever had! He knows that it didnt really look nice and all but the taste was ...

American Flag Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
The red stripes are rasberries, and the union in blueberries. I used white icing to symbolize the white background and stars. I also used icing tools ...

Happy Birthday Kyla  Not rated yet
Since it was my daughter's 12th birthday, I wanted to make her cake special. I thought and thought, and I had it... I would make it myself instead of going ...

21st Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
What inspired us to get this cake was that my daughter was turning 21 and she was having a big birthday bash in honor of it. We wanted everyone to be able ...

Castle Cake  Not rated yet
I made this castle cake for my little girls 1st birthday. It was a white cake with white icing, and candy for the decorations.

Heart Shaped Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My wife is from Australia and I am from Bosnia. We ended up together by fate. I made this heart shaped cake for her 28th birthday. She cried when she saw ...

30th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This is my hubbys 30th Birthday cake. This cake was so special becaue we had to celebrate his birthday apart. He was here in the states and I was in another ...

The Incredibles Cake  Not rated yet
This is a simple chocolate cake and the icing is dyed using gel colours which are thicker and don't affect the consistency of the icing. Using a standard ...

22nd Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
Made this for my girl Lisa's 22nd birthday. Added a special ingredient or too, sure was tasty!

A Picture Of My Birthday Cake   Not rated yet
I personally made this birthday cake for my daughter. It was decorated with pink roses on the top and red writing. Besides being very pretty it was also ...

Gingerbread House  Not rated yet
This was a gingerbread house that I made for my flatmate (21st birthday). Since her birthday is in June, it's a summer gingerbread house, not a typical ...

Money Cake  Not rated yet
I made this money cake for my mother-in-law for her 80th birthday. The kids all went together and pooled $300.00 for this cake. I used real money, styrofoam ...

Strawberry Delicious Cake  Not rated yet
My daughter inspired me to make this cake because she told me she loves strawberries and cakes that have bread buns on the side, so I made this cake for ...

Jasmine Birthday cake  Not rated yet
Jasmine was my daughter's favorite princess at the time. This was made for her Ninth birthday.

I downloaded a picture of Jasmine from the Internet, enlarged ...

LEGO Brick Cake  Not rated yet
Using a purchased LEGO brick silicone cake pan, I baked several of the small cakes using a regular yellow cake recipe and allowed them to cool. I then ...

Pirate Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This particular year, my daughter was into pirates. Our budget wasn't horribly big this year, so for the birthday cake we used a generic cake mix (I think ...

Birthday Cake With Roses  Not rated yet
I made this birthday cake with roses for my sister, Tina. Her favorite colors are pink, yellow and blue, so that was the color of the large roses. The ...

Black Forest Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my boyfriend's 23rd birthday. Black Forest is his all time favourite kind of cake, so when I stumbled across this recipe for it I ...

Eiffel Tower Cake  Not rated yet
What inspired you to make this cake? My big sister's birthday! She wanted a theme of France and she loves the Eiffel tower. Therefore, I made her an Eiffel ...

Whale Cake  Not rated yet
This whale cake was created from a cutout from an Australian Women's Weekly Cape book.

I made this for my 4 year old son's birthday party which had ...

Dinosaur Cake  Not rated yet
As early as her third birthday Candice knew she loved dinosaurs. I had no idea how to make a dinosaur cake. I took some of her plastic dinosaurs and covered ...

Birthday Cake For My Sister  Not rated yet
For my sister's 26th birthday, I made this colorful and delicious cake with fresh raspberries. It was made up of cream and gelatine, so it had to stay ...

Cake For My Cousin's Birthday   Not rated yet
It was very delicious and as you can see, it was almost eaten by the time I took this picture of birthday cake for my cousin's 13th birthday.

We had ...

Basketball Cake  Not rated yet
Very simple chocolate cake with orange frosting and brown chocolate lines to make it look like a basketball.

Eight Track Cake  Not rated yet
When my son turned 8 he really like hot wheels so I made him an "eight" track with hot wheels on it. He thought it was really cool.

HTML Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
Actually the cake shown in the picture was made by my mom and I did the icing. I felt that my brother who, turned sixteen, would enjoy the icing because ...

Superman Cake  Not rated yet
I made this for my son's 3rd birthday. I got the cake pan shaped like Superman and with a lot of help from my mom we got all the frosting in the right ...

Farmhouse Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was made for a farm party. The house was from a standing house pan. It was supposed to have a silo but anything tried to create it did not ...

A Birthday Cake   Not rated yet
Cakes are always in season, and can be enjoyed anytime without any particular reason. But I was having one reason when I made this cake. It was my little ...

Cookie Cake  Not rated yet
I have seen similar cookie cakes shaped like this and decided to make it for my daughter's birthday. Christine was turning 6!

It is actually very simple....

Fish Cake   Not rated yet
This is a fish cake for Luna's 26th birthday. It was created from a large sheet cake and has a orange brandy cream filling.

Chocolate Espresso Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My husband made me this cake for my 25th birthday, which was two days before our wedding. Needless to say, this was the best birthday and wedding present ...

1st Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This was the cake from my son's first birthday. At the time, I was still very concerned about feeding him healthy foods, and he'd never had cake or significant ...

Mickey Mouse Cake  Not rated yet
My nephew loves cartoon characters. So for his fifth birthday I decided to make a cake that depicted the famous Mickey Mouse. I made the cake with the ...

Monster Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was for my 9-year-old son, who had a Monster Theme for his party. I used big marshmallows with chocolate chips in the middle for the eyes, and ...

Healthy, Processed-Sugar Free Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was made as an alternative to the often unhealthy, too-sweet and too-sugary cakes served at birthday parties. The birthday boy just turned 30 ...

Shrek Fiona Cake  Not rated yet
I just made a chocolate cake with strawberry jelly in the middle. For the decoration I made a meringue with sugar and egg white and added some green coloring....

Birthday Cake With Chocolate Icing  Not rated yet
We wanted to make a delicious simple cake for my brother's birthday. We made it three tiers high and crumbled up Oreos for the middle with frosting. It ...

Train Cake   Not rated yet
This was very simple to make. I used the non stick train pan available at William-Sonoma. I let the cake cool and used royal icing to pipe on decoration ...

Mickey Mouse Cake  Not rated yet
This Mickey Mouse cake is one of the best cakes I've ever made. The best part of which was that it came out in a good shape that resembled the famous cartoon ...

Mandarin Cake  Not rated yet
My brother's birthday boy, turning 12, loves fruits and chocolates and adores dipping both berries and fruits into hot chocolate. So, we decided to make ...

9th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
Not as elaborately decorated as usual, it is amazing that this 9th birthday cake with chocolate icing and colored sprinkles ever got baked.

Yesterday ...

Beach Cake  Not rated yet
My boyfriend's mother made this cake for my daughter's 9th birthday party. For the beach cake a funfetti cake mix was used. The cake was frosted with blue ...

Jungle Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was inspired by a combination of things on hand and happy accidents.

I wanted to make a cake for my son's second birthday. I planned to include ...

Homemade Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
It was my daughter's birthday and all she wanted was a simple chocolate cake with white icing. I'm no cake expert but I did my best, and well, I'm proud ...

Horse Cake   Not rated yet
This horse cake was for my daughter's third birthday. We were living in Bucharest, Romania and she was crazy about horses. My friend and I drew a horse,...

New York Giants Cake  Not rated yet
This New York Giants cake was for my husband. My 6 year old son and 2 year old daughter decided the theme should be the Giants football team. We were ...

3 Year Old Birthday Party Cake  Not rated yet
What inspired me to make this cake? Well we were going with the balloon theme party, lots of balloons and primary colors.

The birthday girl was turning ...

Homemade Angel Food Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake out of a homemade angel food cake. I decorated it with a low-cal frosting (using an artificial sweetener instead of part of the sugar ...

Blue's Clues Cake  Not rated yet
My son loved Blue so I put him on his birthday cake. For this Blues Clues cake design, I just printed out a picture that was the right size and traced ...

Barbie Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my daughter's 6th birthday. My daughter was a big Barbie fan at the time, so I made a Barbie cake!

I used Wilton's cake mold ...

Heart Shaped Chocolate Cake   Not rated yet
I made this heart shaped chocolate cake with vanilla icing and chocolate sprinkles for my eleven year old daughter's birthday. The heart shaped cake pans ...

Ipod Cake  Not rated yet
First I take the design of the Ipod and try to pour the cake mix into a square-ish type of bowl. Next you take some white frosting and pour it all over....

My Father's Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I wanted to made a birthday cake for my father with my own hands. I wanted make to feel him special.

My father is 55 years old.

I made sponge cake ...

Animal Cakes  Not rated yet
This is a giraffe and a pig made for my daughter's animal party. She was turning one. It was fairly easy to make with the cake pan we had. We loved ...

M & M Cake   Not rated yet
I first took some ingredients and put them together in a bowl. I took it out and added some icing and frosting. For the final touch, I put on M&Ms.

Light Sabre Cake  Not rated yet
This is a light sabre cake made for a friend's 19th birthday celebration.

You get a box of cake mix and bake it according to the instructions. Buy ...

Black Jungle Cake  Not rated yet
I made this black jungle birthday cake for my daughter. It has chocolate and cherries inside too, my advice is to cook with love, it's the best ingredient....

Blue's Clues Paw Print Ice Cream Cake  Not rated yet
At work one day my friend said what she'd really like for her birthday is a Blue's Clues ice cream cake.

The birthday girl was 24.

The base of the ...

Julianna's First Birthday Cake And Cupcakes  Not rated yet
I made a two-layer cake for my daughter's first birthday. The cake had both a chocolate and yellow cake layer. I used strawberry frosting to cover the ...

Blue's Clues Pawprint Cake  Not rated yet
This is a cake I made for my son, who was 4 years old at the time. He absolutely loved Blue's Clues.

To make this cake I used one 8-inch layer (flavor ...

Mike's MotoCross Cake  Not rated yet
Mike has been riding motocross since he got to be tall enough to reach the footpegs, so it made sense to celebrate his favorite sport along with his 19th ...

White And Pink Birthday Cake   Not rated yet
As my daughter celebrated her first birthday, I made this cake which had a plain look in white and pink, decorated with various simple items but everybody ...

Birthday Flower Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was a great opportunity to try out our new icing tips. It's decorated with pastel icing flowers and leaves. The cake itself is a basic white ...

The Heavenly Cake  Not rated yet
For my 19th birthday, my girlfriend and I decided to bake a cake together. Her culinary arts skills certainly paid off, and the masterpiece creted was ...

Zombie Hand Cake  Not rated yet
I made this zombie hand cake for my son on his 16th birthday based on his favorite type of movie (Horror) and his favorite genre of horror, Zombies. He ...

Deb's Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I have now started the baking my child's birthday cake myself, I usually pick up one from a bakery for our guests and allow the kids free reign over theirs....

3rd Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My son wanted to decorate cupcakes for his 3rd birthday so I made a bunch of them and had various toppings available to decorate.

Birthday Cake For 7 Year Old Boy  Not rated yet
My son's 7th birthday inspired me this cake.

7yo boy.

Love To Be 6 Years Old  Not rated yet
I made this birthday cake for my granddaughter. She is a girlie girl and loves hearts and anything pink and purple.

Thomas The Tank Engine Cake  Not rated yet
I made a cute Thomas the Tank Engine themed cake for my 3 year old daughter. She adores Thomas and his friends. A train-shaped cake form made this an ...

German Chocolate Cake For Ashley's Birthday  Not rated yet
German chocolate cake. The cake itself is made up of two layers. Top layer is milk chocolate and bottom is dark chocolate cake. The frosting is a mix ...

Butterfly Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake while taking a cake decorating class, and it worked out perfect because I also needed to make a birthday cake for my grandmother at the ...

Car Crash Cake  Not rated yet
My sister's birthday party ended up being a party celebrating the premiere of our favorite actor's new TV show, Drive. I made her a cake that looked like ...

Mixed Fruit Topping Cake  Not rated yet
It was for my sister. I had broken my leg hiking the week before and couldn't go out shopping so I just used some chocolate cake mix I had at home, whipped ...

Halloween Birthday Pumpkin Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my friend's 30th birthday. She was born on Halloween, so I decided to go for pumpkins.

The cake itself is marble cake (Betty ...

My Cake  Not rated yet
It was an awesome and delicious cake with chocolate dressing and butterscotch flavour...the view of chocolate dripping from the sides was cool!

It was ...

Sarah's Pink Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
My Mom made this for my birthday!

She made it after taking a class at Michaels. It was for my 24th birthday.

Pink Cupcakes For 1st Birthday Party  Not rated yet
I made pink cupcakes with pink frosting. I sprinkled clear sprinkles and added a cherry on top. Really cute and everyone loved them. I also went to my ...

Happy Birthday To Shiri  Not rated yet
I was planning to buy a cake for my son. But Friday came and it was late, all shops closed.

I had to prepare my cake. I called my father, to get a recipe....

20th Birthday Cake For My Girlfriend  Not rated yet
I made a simple cake for my girlfriend's 20th birthday (the second night of celebrations...:P). I took the recipe I had for a molleux au chocolat (chocolate ...

Cake With Butterflies  Not rated yet
This cake was for a 10 year old girl who loves butterflies. The butterflies were made using the chocolate transfer technique. The cake was a chocolate ...

Ananya's 2nd Birthday Cake.  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my two year old niece's birthday, the writing on the cake was done by an older niece. I had a blast making it, I am making another ...

My Friend's 19th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This is a cake I made for my friends 19th birthday. The outer coating is butter icing topped with quite a lot of chocolate drops, mainly white with milk ...

A Small Blue Birthday Cake For My 5 yr Old Cousin  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my little cousin he was turning 5 and my aunt was having a small get together at her home. So I was asked to bake a cake.

This ...

Gift Cake  Not rated yet
I decided to take a cake decorating class, so when the time came to make a birthday cake for my daughter I used my new techniques with fondant to make ...

Thomas The Train Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my 2 year old. He loves Thomas the Tain. It was pretty simple to do I made the cake for the base and used green food coloring for ...

Swirly Cake  Not rated yet
I used a regular chocolate boxed cake mix to make this 2 layer cake. I then used ready-to-use frosting. I let the chocolate frosting set for about 20 ...

Sachertorte - the finest cake you can possibly bake!  Not rated yet
As I am half-Austrian, I was inspired to bake something Austrian for my child. I chose to make a Sachertorte.

The birthday boy was 11 when I baked ...

Bardyard Cake  Not rated yet
The grass is shredded coconut with green food coloring. The animals and fencing are toys from the dollar store. The road is crushed graham crackers.

Personalized Doll Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this birthday cake for my friend Tara who loves dolls. It's hard to tell in the photo but I added 4 plastic dolls with ballons to the back. The ...

Girly Pink 1st Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was (obviously) for a little girl in the village. I made this upon special request. I searched around for a cake pan in the shape of #1, but ...

Happy Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This easy to make birthday cake was made with a box cake mix and was covered with homemade buttercream icing. It was just a plain birthday cake for my ...

Rescue Heroes Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was for my son's 5th birthday. He loves Rescue Heroes, so we used that theme for all the party decorations.

The cake is a yellow Duncan Hines ...

Construction Cake For 1 Year Old Boy  Not rated yet
This cake was made for a family friend's son. It was a construction themed birthday party and was very colorful. I made a white sheet cake and then made ...

Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
It was my husband's first birthday after our marriage and I wanted to make it special for him, so I thought of making a cake at home so I did that and ...

Hank The Cowdog Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my son's 10th birthday because he loved the Hank the Cowdog series of books. It is a three layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting ...

Chocolate Chocolate Sheet Cake  Not rated yet
I always make a sheet cake for my kid's birthdays. They always want sprinkles and lots of frosting!

This cake was super easy. It's a Duncan Hines ...

Betsy's Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
We were living in QingDao, China at the time and my family wanted to celebrate my sister's birthday the traditional American way!

My sister was 14.

Any ...

Simple Colorful Cake With Sprinkles   Not rated yet
It's a simple cake. Just add frosting & sprinkles.

Super Candy Cake  Not rated yet
This cake started out by using the funfetti cake mix. There are actually two very thin layers of cake, separated by a layer of icing and necco waifers ...

Simple Strawberry Clover Cake  Not rated yet
It was inspired by a clover. The boy was 4 years old.

1st Birthday Cake For My Daughter  Not rated yet
On my daughter's 1st birthday, I made a cake for her. As you can see in the photo, I decorated it with the Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck....

Goofy Clowns  Not rated yet
I made this cake for my daughter's 5th birthday. We were having an ice cream party and all the kids got to make clowns out of a scoop of ice cream with ...

My daughter's favorite birthday cake  Not rated yet
It was my daughter's eleventh birthday, and she couldn't decide on a cake. It was between a High School Musical themed cake or just a regular chocolate ...

Simple Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
I was inspired to make this cake because I wanted to give my cousin a homemade cake. My cousin was turning 18 at the time. If I can give any preparation ...

Pony Cake  Not rated yet
I was inspired to make this cake because the birthday party invitations had ponies on them and I wanted her cake to match.

It was for my daughter's ...

Fishy Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
For my daughter's third birthday, she decided she wanted a cake shaped like a fish. So I decided to do a themed birthday party for her. I made fish-shaped ...

Thing Cakes From The Cat In The Hat   Not rated yet
My son's birthday is a week before Halloween so I always tie his Halloween costume into his birthday party theme. This year he was Thing 1 from The Cat ...

Baby Shower Cake Picture  Not rated yet
This baby shower cake for my son who was about to be born.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
The party was a Nursery Rhyme birthday party for a 2 year old girl.

When using the star mold (or any other) it is very important to use crisco or butter ...