As is tradition, I had the exciting task of making a birthday cake for my wonderful nephew. This year was a little different in that we aren’t gathering for a party due to the pandemic, and I was unable to get together with my SIL to create it. Thankfully, mother nature cooperated, and we were…
Category: Cake Decorating Ideas
Idle Miner Tycoon Birthday Cake + Nailed It Party
This year for my nephew’s birthday, he requested a really cool mashup – Idle Miner + Nailed It! Not ones to run from challenge, my MIL, SIL, and I created an epic party that was the perfect combination of both. It probably comes as no surprise that we were on our own for this one…
Dinosaur Jungle Island Birthday Cake
My niece is suddenly so grown up! Gone are the cutesy birthday parties. Instead, birthday girl requested a dinosaur party!Rawr! To create this cake, I baked two 9″ round chocolate cakes and two oval cakes, using the One Bowl recipe I love so much. I coated both in chocolate frosting, stacked them, and added pirouette…
Pink and Blue Gender Reveal Cake
A few weeks ago I was discussing a friend’s 18 week ultrasound. She didn’t want a big gender reveal party, but since this was the first time she and her husband had decided to find out their child’s gender before birth, she still wanted to do something more special than just having the technician tell…
Pikachu Birthday Cake
I couldn’t be more excited about my nephew’s choice in birthday theme this year – Pokemon, and a pikachu cake!As is tradition, my SIL and I made this together, and it was SO fun. To create pikachu, we baked 2 round cakes, one for pikachu’s head, and then we cut the other into his ears….
Easter Bunny Cake { keto, gluten free }
This year for Easter my mum jokingly told me I should bring a bunny cake, which is the dessert my brother and I often made for Easter as kids. Little did she know, I was going to take her up on that suggestion. 😂 This cake was as much fun to make as I remembered,…
Glittery Chocolate Retirement Cake
My mum recently retired, and to mark the occasion we set up a surprise celebration for immediately after her final shift. Not wanting to play into any of the traditional tacky retirement cake themes (fishing boats, knitting needles, sunsets, the list goes on) I decided that the best theme would simply be pure glee, and…
Fancy Naked Truffle Cake with Raspberry Icing
As I’ve mentioned about a million times, I do my best to bake something special for all of the birthdays at my office. This month, we had a particularly special birthday – the [total foodie] co-owner’s 50th – and I really wanted to try to hit one out of the park for her big day!…
Winnie the Pooh Birthday Cake
Just like in years past, my sister in-law and I came together to lovingly create a birthday cake for my niece. This time around, we made this super cute Winnie the Pooh bear cake and Honey Bee Cupcakes! This cake was a little less involved than some of the cakes we’ve attempted, but I still…
Floral Buttercream Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Whiskey Tiers
Omigosh you guys, it has been a whirlwind month! Over Memorial Day weekend we headed for Des Moines to throw my husband’s grandmother a surprise birthday party (and his cousin a Bridal Shower.) No birthday is complete without cake, but everyone was worried about spoiling the surprise, so we made the cake in Minneapolis, loaded…
Paw Patrol Birthday Cake
This cake was so much fun! Every year, I bake a cake for my nephew’s birthday. He’s turning five this year, so he’s actually having two parties – one for family, and one for his friends. Usually my sister-in-law and I will tackle baking the cake together, but since we needed to cakes, I handled…
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Overload Brownie Cake (Katherine Sabbath inspired)
I am SO excited to share this cake with you guys! Like everyone else in the food world, I am positively inspired by Katherine Sabbath and her incredible creations. If you’ve been living under a rock, Katherine Sabbath is an amazing cake artist who has been featured in magazines far and wide. She has a…
Giant Cupcake Smash Cake and First Birthday Party
If you follow me on Instagram you may have noticed that my beautiful niece (aka my birthday buddy) just turned one! My sister-in-law and I continued our tradition and baked a cake together to mark the occasion. We waffled on the theme a little. At first we wanted to do strawberries in honor of the…
Superhero Birthday Cake
My sister-in-law and I have a tradition of baking cakes for my nephew’s birthday. This year, life took over and she had to sit this one out. She suggested we could just buy a cake, but I couldn’t let that happen! Initially my nephew requested a chocolate cake with lemon and strawberry and I said…
Chocolate Cake Roll
When I made my first cake roll for Easter, I failed to get it rolled as tightly as I would’ve liked. I had extra pattern batter left over, so I figured I might as well try again. For the second cake, I made a chocolate sponge cake, applied a more elaborate decoration (again inspired by…