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Cricket Cake

I made all the items on this cricket cake with gumpaste and marzipan. Edtor's Note: Thanks for allowing our readers to see another one of your wonderful

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Flowers, Fairy And Mushrooms Cake

This cake was for my twin granddaughters' 2nd birthdays. The cake is just a square cake, covered in fondant and decorated with fondant fower shapes, a

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Cowboy Boot Cake

This cowboy boot cake was made with boxed cake mix, homemade cream cheese frosting, store-bought chocolate frosting and M&Ms. It took a while to make but the final product looked amazing!

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Two-Tiered Heart-Shaped Cake For Valentine's Day

We made this two-tiered heart-shaped cake for Valentine's Day. We used two different sized Wilton heart-shaped pans that we bought from Hobby Lobby.

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Poppy Cake

This cake was to celebrate the birth of my grandaughter, born 11-11-11, hence the poppy theme. I carved it from a chocolate cake using a 'veterans paper

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T-Rex Cake

This T-Rex cake was for a friends son's birthday. The body is cake and I used cereal treats for the head (it was my first attempt using cereals treats).

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Dog Cake

My First attempt at a dog cake. This cake was for my nephew's birthday. I carved it out of chocolate cake, covered it with fondant and scratched it with

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Happy New Year Cake

We were searching for a Happy New Year cake and found a pretty colorful one at our nearby Wal-Mart. The only problem was that it cost $24.95. So we decided

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Colorful Christmas Cake

This colorful Christmas cake was made with store-bought cake mix and frosting. We placed an assortment of red, green and white candies and sparkles to make a one-of-a-kind holiday cake.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake

I made this cake for my son's first birthday. The outside is marshmallow fondant painted with green and yellow food coloring to give it the tissue paper

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Homemade Coconut Vanilla Wedding Cake, The Icing Was Great!

The cake was made the day before the wedding, and assembled and iced the day of. It was so delicious, moist and cheap! We spent 27 dollars making the whole

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Red Bull Racing Car Cake

This is my first car cake. I made a large cake, layered it with jam and buttercream, then carved out the shape, covered it with fondant, then added all

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Monkey N Around Cake

I made a three-tiered cake for my niece's birthday. She loves monkeys. The top layer is a marble cake, middle chocolate and bottom layer white. Her favorite

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Spooky Halloween Cupcakes

These spooky Halloween cupcakes include a boo ghost and a Frankenstein. They are colorful and pretty easy to make.

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Ruby Anniversary Cake

This is my first attempt at fondant roses, I made them with circle cutters (because I just couldn't get on with those bought rose cutters) & I dusted them

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Candy Corn Cake

This colorful candy corn cake is perfect for Halloween but it is a sure bet to delight your family any time of the year.

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Princess Barbie Cake

For my daughters 5th birthday, she is very much into princesses right now. Editor's Note: It is gorgeous, Billie. I was wondering if you used an entire

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Iron Fist Shoe And Shoe Box Cake

My friends partner loves Iron Fist Shoes and asked me to make a cake using a picture of her own shoes, this is what I came up with, all edible, even the

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Halloween Cupcake Ideas

These Halloween cupcake ideas include a spider cupcake and a really creepy gummy worm cupcake.

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Three Layer Halloween Cake

This three layer Halloween cake was mostly made from a magazine recipe, but we used boxed cake mixes to save time.

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Spiderweb Applesauce Cake

This spiderweb applesauce cake tastes fabulous and would be a perfect dessert for Halloween.

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Donald Duck Birthday Cake For My Friend

My friend Jackie loves Donald Duck. This is the surprise birthday cake I made for her. Editor's Note: Thanks, Lesley. This is another example of your

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My Daughter's Sloth Birthday Cake

My daughter loves sloths. This is a sloth cake I made for her. Editor's Note: Thanks for sending this one in, Lesley. We have thousands of cakes on

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Liam's Football Boots Birthday Cake

This cake I made for my grandson's birthday using his own soccer boots for inspiration. Editor's Note: Thanks for sharing this with our readers, Lesley.

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Aleah's Princess Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my grandaughter's 3rd birthday. It's my first attempt at a princess cake. I layered up 6 cakes for the skirt and carved them to the

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Shrek-Elvis Cake

I made this cake for my friend's 40th birthday. People tell him he resembles shrek (awwww!!!) and he loves Elvis so I combined them both and came up with

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Halloween Birthday Cake

I am actually the child and I made my dad a cake for his birthday. He has an October birthday and loves halloween and spooky things. I am not that great

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Piano Cake

This cake was for a friend's younger sibling (age 11). She loves playing the piano and has been taking lessons for several years so we decided to make

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Fondant Animal Cake

I made this cake for my son's first birthday last month. This was only the second fondant cake I had ever made. Surprisingly, it isn't as hard as it looks!

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Beach Wedding Cake

This couple was married in Jamaica. They asked for a beach inspired theme. We used graham crackers for the sand and molded a variety of shell shaped chocolates.

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Backyardigans Birthday Cake

This Backyardigans birthday cake was for a one year old girl. We drew on two of the characters free handed. The only thing about doing this, is that it

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White Birthday Cake With Red Roses

This is a birthday cake that we purchased from Marguerite's Cakes in Slidell, Louisiana. It is a white flavored cake with almond-flavored buttercream

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Firetruck Cake

For our little boy's 1st birthday I made a firetruck cake. Daddy is a fireman so thought we would go with that theme, besides, our gorgeous boy is obsessed

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Our Beach Wedding Cake

This is not a homemade wedding cake, but I wanted to share a picture of it. We had a beach wedding at Henderson Beach State Park in Destin, Florida on

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Camping Cake

A camping birthday cake. Our 27 year old son wanted to go camping on his birthday but he had to work so we made him a camping cake. It was hand made

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Football Shaped Cake

As my children get older their interest change. So for my son's 21st birthday we (his sister and I) made him a football shaped cake to celebrate his favorite

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Peppa Pig Cake

I saw another one of these cakes on your website and was inspired to try and recreate it (my first ever cake making attempt!) I did email the girl that

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Coca Cola Cake

My girlfriend knows I love Coca Cola, so she made me a Coca Cola theme birthday cake. It turned out amazing! Editor's Note: Thanks for sending in the

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My First Wedding Cake Ever

I had sticker shock with all the wedding cake prices this week. I have 2 daughters getting married 1 week apart and I am having to cut corners wherever

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Indiana Jones Cake

My son turned four this year, and wanted an Indiana Jones party. I knew this would be challenging due to the fact that Indiana Jones party supplies are

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Eme's Ice Cream Birthday Cake

I made Eme an ice cream birthday cake because I'd found a recipe several weeks earlier and was dying to try it out. Eme turned 2 that year! I followed

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Twinkies Mini Muffin Cakes

A small company that I used to work at invited all employees and their family for a Day of Fun. And so I asked my sisters to help me bake something for

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Homemade Wedding Cake For A Friend

I love making cakes and with the high costs of most weddings, I try and help friends by doing the cakes for them at a huge discount. This is a cake that

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15th Birthday Cake For My Cousin

My cousin Erin was turning 15. It was her last hurrah as a kid. After this it is PSATs and temporary driver's licenses. I did not use a special pan

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Carrot Cake

I was inspired to make this cake because it is my husband's favorite and it was for his birthday. I followed a simple carrot cake recipe and added a hand

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Panda Bear Cake

When I was little this was a cake my mother made for me, I absolutely loved it. So to my surprise years later I find the mold for this cake in the basement

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CSI Cake

My inspiration came from my son who loves CSI. In the future he wants to become a crime scene investigator. My child is 17 years old. I did not use a special

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Army Tank Cake

Made this cake for my grandson. He loved it. He showed it to all his young friends and said...my grandma made this cake for me

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First Holy Communion Cake

Made this for my grandaughter's communion. It servered nearly 80 people. Made a sheet cake then made the cross cake and put it on the full sheet cake.

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Cherry Topped Chocolate Cake

I made this cake for my daughter's birthday party. She was five years old turning six. I made the cake in two pieces, one layer baked in each a separate

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