Super delicious birthday cookies

One way to make a character cake is to find coloring book images you like, place them in a clear ziplock bag and layer fondant shapes over the image. Use vanilla extract and a small paint brush to connect the pieces, then carefully lift the image with a spatula and place on a freshly buttercreamed cake. Take it slow though... or you'll have fondant pieces everywhere!

This was my technique for this Toy Story birthday cake. I then used fondant writers to finish the eyes and display the birthday greeting.

This cake took me about 3 hours to make... including kitchen clean-up (but not counting baking time).


Tags: Toy Story, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Birthday Cake

Tinkerbell and accents are fondant.

This is a my lame attempt to give my 9 year old a BumbleBee birthday cake. It's head is a helmet, so only the shoulders are cake. Making BumbleBee isn't all that easy to do, especially given every picture I pulled up of him online looked so different from the one before. I decided getting the color right was what I'd concentrate on and just go with a simple design.

This cake was made using a total of 3 sheet cakes (12"x18" pan). So... it's a lot of cake! I didn't smooth the frosting as I decided it added to the rough look of BumbleBee. By the way, I don't think I'm spelling his name right, so might be editing this post later! lol

If I had it to do again, I'd add a license plate to the front. Would have been cool, but I ran out of time!

It's been a long while since I posted a new cake here, and yet this isn't anything overly special! lol These cupcakes are very easy for a novice to copy, so thought for that reason alone, I'd post the photo. Maybe you're looking for a simple solution for your son's school party, or you wanted an alternative to plastic cupcake pics?

This was the first time I'd ever used pearl dust on fondant... or at least the first time I'd used it correctly. It really gives the metal portions of this truck a lot of depth and I'm so excited to know that I can use pearl dust without vodka! lol For some reason, I didn't realize you could use plain ol' vanilla extract!

Another Nemo cake. Very similar to the one I made previously, but much smaller. ; )

The fish are all toys, the coral and starfish are gumpaste. Everything else is buttercream!

When all else fails use tissue paper! My gumpaste made banana tree leaves fell apart while trying to assemble my tree, so went with tissue!
George is a store bought toy, lei is store bought too... everything else other than tree leaves is edible.



Tags: Curious George, Curious George Cake, Children's Party Cake, Luau Cake