Monthly Archives: July 2012

Toy Story Cupcakes


Add the little dinosaur or alien heads to your cupcakes to dress them up.  I purchased the candy heads at Michaels.

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Two Tier Cake


This is really not as hard as it looks.  I took the Wilton Course on stacking cakes and the instructor told us, just remember you are just decorating two cakes.  Prior to taking the class I tried this but when … Continue reading

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Bike Cake


What do you do when you have someone ask you to make a cake for a bike nut?  I thought about making the entire cake a bike but instead purchased a bike from Toys R Us.  The road is chocolate … Continue reading

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Butterfly Cake


Butterflies are always a fast and easy cake for birthday, summer parties or just to make Mom feels like she is special.  This cake is made with the star tip.  The eyes are mini MM’s.

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Birthday Cake


This quarter sheet cake is decorated with fondant flowers.  I took the Wilton Cake classes at Michael and found they were fast and easy to make.  Make the inside to the cake as interesting as the outside buy adding 1 … Continue reading

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Thomas the Train & Percy


Thomas and Percy will make any little boy eyes light up.  The 3D pan was from Michaels but I had to change the from to make it look like a English train.  The tracks are Hershey’s bar, Oreo Cookies for … Continue reading

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Kitty Kake


This is a fast and easy cake.  The pan is from Michaels and you can make several different animals with the same pan, bear, pig, giraffe or cat.   If you want to make black icing take milk chocolate icing in … Continue reading

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Baby Carriage Cake


This pan I purchased at JoAnn’s.  The baby is a mini Nilla Wafer.  Pipe in the face and the rest of the cake is done with a star tip.

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Making Dinosaur Eggs


To make your own dinosaur eggs, gently crack the egg just enough to that you can get your finger nail in and chip a hole.  Put a knife in and cut the yolk.  This will help you get the egg … Continue reading

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Ice Cream Floats


One of my favorite treats when I was a child was Green Alien Floats and Brown Cow Floats.  My dad would take 7 Up and put a drop of green food coloring and swirl it around then drop in a … Continue reading

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Princess Carriage Cake


One of my friends at work wanted this cake for her daughter but we added a twist.  I laminated pictures of her daughter and husband as riders in the carriage.  Just use self laminating pouch to seal the pictures and … Continue reading

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Rice Krispy Train


Sand molds are for more than just the beach.  The next time you want to make a special treat, follow the instructions on the Rice Krispy box and press them into the plastic mold then put in the freezer to … Continue reading

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Merry Go Round Cake


You can make this little Merry Go Round Cake by using chocolate dipped sticks.    Attached animal crackers by a little bit of choclate.  The Top was made out of construction paper but you could us fun foam.  I used a … Continue reading

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Sail Boat Cake


This is fast and easy for the sailor in your life.  Use fondant for the sale.  Take a little white icing and mix it in to whip up the waves.  As a joke the person that this was for hated … Continue reading

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Crown Cake


This might be just the thing for your special celebration whether it is for the King, Queen or a little princess.  Almost the entire cake was made using the star tip.

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