Elmo Cake

This cake is based on Elmo’s World.  If you haven’t seen it, it’s a world that Elmo has created with crayons, hence the squiggly lines.  This cake was for a child’s first birthday, and normally I wouldn’t make a 3 tier cake for this, but what made this cake fun was that after the Happy Birthday’s were sung, the top tier turns into the baby’s smash cake.

Hockey Teddy Bear

I know this will come as quite a shock…but this cake was brought to you by the same boy that brought you the Hockey Puck cake. He is his father’s son!

This again uses my beloved 3D Teddy Bear pan. I told you it’s my favorite! I actually found this cake on the Wilton site and copied it. I find those are my best cakes because I can see what I’m attempting.  Just like the Easter Bunny Cake this one is double piped. It just makes them plushier!

The 2nd (Cooler) Guitar

This cake fits under the category “My mom can do anything!” Not that it’s true, but to my 11 year old…he certainly thought it with this guitar! This wasn’t my first guitar, but it was definitely my best. But even now, after it’s finished I discovered a new fabulous way to make the strings…spaghetti noodles! I tried to pipe the strings for both guitars and you know, it’s just not that easy. Then I watched a cake expert make Elvis’ birthday cake…and he used spaghetti…I LOVE it!

Optimus Prime

With a blockbuster movie, it was only a matter of time before someone asked for a Transformer cake. This cake was SO MUCH fun to make, but as with previous customer orders….SO MUCH STRESS!! Every piece is carved from a two layer cake, covered in fondant, painted and then embellished with fondant details. His face was the first time I’d ever actually sculpted something out of fondant, and you know, I was surprised at just how easy it was, and how cool it turned out.

Toot Toot Chugga Chugga

What a fun cake this was! This was another “quickie” Costco sheet cake with my own cake sitting on top. I used the spray cans of food coloring (from the grocery store) to create the four Wiggles squares under the car.

As for the car it’s another Wilton shaped pan, the 3D Cruiser. I simply carved it to create a convertible, used fondant logs to make the actual car shape and then painted it red! The Wiggles themselves are from a Big Red Car toy that we had lying around.

This one is both the toy and the cake…kinda fun!