Bathtub Cake

my daughters 21 st birthday cake

by David Sunderland
(Australia)

Thanks Lorelie.

Took your advice and used only the fondant without buttercream.

Regards

David Sunderland

David That is awesome. I love this cake. I posted it on my facebook page too. Very cool. So you did not use the buttercream icing underneath? Well it looks amazing. Link to David's Question about fondant and buttercream Thank you David for sharing your daughters 21st birthday cake.

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The Wilton Cake Decorating Way

by Lorelie Carvey
(USA)

Johnathons 4th Birthday Cake!

When first starting out I happened to have some old Wilton Way of Cake Decorating Magazines that a friends mom gave me. I learned a lot from these magazines and would scan the pictures to find ideas. I also took Wilton Cake Decorating classes.

For my son's 4th birthday I decided to use the lion design, that I believe is still in the books today. I love this lion. It wasn't so difficult to make, but naturally was time consuming with all of the colors and piping. I used a star tip to fill in the outlines and to make the lions mane.

He loved it and we all devoured it. That was 23 years ago now. My little Johnny is now a grown man, but he still loves his cake!

Giant Cupcake!!

by Yani
(Burlington, ON)

A Giant Cupcake For My Father.

Elmo cake

by Yani
(Ontario, Canada)

My Elmo Cake Story

A friend of mine contacted me on Facebook a couple of days before the date of the birthday party. Seems that the home cake decorator she had hired a few weeks ago to make her little boys 1st birthday cake had canceled on her that morning. Apparently this home cake decorator lives close to my friends house & my friend didn't want to bother me with her kids cake.lol

When I finally called her, she was relieved & happy that I obliged by accepting to make the cake. In a way it was good for me to take this opportunity to practice & see what new things I would learn on this journey.

Sesame Street Character

Wow she wants Elmo, she wanted me to use colors that pertain to a little baby boy like yellow, blue, white and of course gotta use red for Elmo. I decided to mold Elmo out of gumpaste, it came out looking weird so I put it away and decided to do a plaque with running royal icing of Elmo. On the afternoon before the day of delivering the cake, got to re-try shaping Elmo again...after a while it actually looked cute and a baby Elmo was born..lol

He liked it

Baby & mother were very pleased with the cake. It sure is exciting to see people's happy expressions when they are presented with their cake. Usually its more than what they were expecting.

Thanks,
yani*

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X Box Video Controller Cake

by Michele Owen
(Beachwood OH, 44122)

X Box Video Controller Cake

This is my second attempt at sculpting a cake. My client ordered an x box video controller cake for her son's birthday.

I made a template, pinned it to a half sheet cake and cut it out. I covered the (white cake) in fondant and placed the gadgets on the the cake with piping gel.

During the process my niece asked me if i knew what a video controller was and I said "now I do!" Thank goodness for the internet!

Barrister's Cake

by Naomi Samson Ayuba
(Kaduna State, Nigeria)

A friend wanted a cake for his fiancée's call to bar and he wanted something unique and uncommon, and I assured him of giving it my best. That prompted me to making this unique cake. it's a 2 tier cake with a barrister"s wig which I made using gum-paste and royal icing with tip 99, the scale and the hammer was also made from gum-paste. it wasn't easy, but I enjoyed the process.

Learning as I go, 18th Birthday Cake.

by Kim
(New Zealand)

Ideas Anyone?

I hardly ever get asked to make a cake and when I do they almost always let me do my own design. I have no idea why this happens to me.

“Surprise us, you never let us down” Sometimes it is not easy to come up with ideas but it can be a lot of fun. This was one of my first cakes and even back then I was trusted to do my thing.

You think you know a family member but you really don’t. I ask them for colour they prefer and if you dig a little you find out all sorts of interesting stuff about someone you thought you knew well. To my surprise my niece was training for a marathon which got the ideas started and as it was an 18th we added photographs of important times in her life and put those around the bottom layer.

Bake and construct.

This was a chocolate cake (not from this site) on all layers. I was still learning the ropes at the time so my frosting and fondant was from the local supermarket. I filled the cake with a thick chunky cherry jam that I had in the fridge.

I make everything myself now, but if you really want to decorate and have lots of fun, you can get everything you need from the shops. I feel that if you are new to all this and you don’t make cakes often then the key is buy everything and just have fun. You could even grab a sheet cake ready made if you feel you can’t bake.

Learning by my mistakes

I didn’t know much about fondant at the time when I made this cake. The shoes took me forever and I didn’t cover them with plastic wrap when it was not being used. It kept cracking! It dried too quickly and I had no idea that modeling fondant was different than normal fondant.

I didn’t know that you could get gel colours and I used the supermarket runny stuff. Oh my – I am not sure that I did anything right.

Proud as punch

Everyone loved the design and the chocolate cake I had made. I had no tools and used bits and bobs we all have in the kitchen. Like a toothpick for the stitching of the shoe – yes, if you are wondering, it took forever!

Having read all my mistakes and cheats, I think it just shows that everyone can give cake decorating a go and enjoy the fuss that is made when you walk into the party with your creation.

Awesome , Thanks Kim, Great cake design and thank you for your tips, advice and inspiration. I love the fact that you just winged it like that.
~Lorelie~

Heavenly gift

by Barbara McCorkle
(Charlotte, NC )

One thanksgiving I decided to make my daughter Christal a special cake and cover it with fondant. Never had a class, never did this before...just thought I would try it for something special. The cake turned out ok, we both had a chuckle about the big bubble on the side.

As a birthday gift my daughter gifted me a two night gum paste flower class. The rest is divine intervention. No formal training (yet)just passion, prayer and the faith and encouragement of my greatest fan...my daughter.

Looking forward to cultivating the gift. Learning a lot from you as well. Thanks...

Barbara What a gorgeous cake and the gum paste flowers are beautiful. Your cake colors match my website so well too LOL. I think you have something special, and I am so glad that you are learning here as well. Looking forward to seeing more of your cakes and reading all about them too. Happy Baking and Cake Decorating!

Harry Potter Marathon

by Kimmy
(New Zealand)

Did you ever find that a quick chat with the kids means you have agreed to something you don't remember agreeing to!!! This happened to me this week. I have 8 kids in my lounge watching 7 Harry Potter films, over two days.

I was asked to make cupcakes (because I am obviously full of tricks and my middle name is sucker). No thought taken to the fact that I will be too busy, shopping, pulling mattresses into the lounge, and cooking all the food for the little angels and wearing my taxi for hire hat too - I SAID NO!!!!

The result being a very nice evening spent watching my kids plus one boyfriend make all the little toppers. The cupcakes (over filled but very yummy) were made on the day and I relented and made the frosting. A raspberry topping - sounds very good but if you want the recipe, just add a large blob of jam to normal frosting.

I love the result and I am so glad I didn't make them. They had lots of fun and learned a bit about fondant too. Also, how to make paint out of food colour and a bit of vodka.

Oh happy days and sweet memories.

Thank you Kimmy! What a great idea that the kids came up with for you :-) It sounds like fun too watching them all make the fondant decorations. Maybe you should consider "Cake Decorating Parties for a living?"

Western Cake!!!

This western cake was made for Calgary Stampede.

Hi, Thanks for sharing this really cool western cake. It is very detailed and well done.