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Alice In Wonderland Birthday Cake
I used ideas from others on cakecentral to make this cake for my daughter turning 7. I don't know how to use fondant, so everything is cake, cookies, and cake frosting. It's supposed to be the Cheshire Cat on the bottom, the Queen of Hearts / Playing Cards in the middle, and the Tea Pot on the top. Alice is a purchased figurine.
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Spring Flower Pot Cake
I made this cake for my daughter's 6th birthday. The cake is 3 layers of dark chocolate fudge cake, with the bottom 2 layers cut slightly to be smaller and curve in a bit. Iced with butter cream frosting in terra cotta color. The flowers are sugar cookies baked on skewers and frosted with buttercream frosting. The "dirt" is just the extra chocolate cake sprinkled on top.
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Carousel Horse Cake
I made this carousel cake (inspired from something I saw online). It's definitely not perfect (I only make cakes a few times per year for my kids' birthdays). It would be even cuter if someone is good at making the icing smooth/even. Here is how I made it: I made a 2 layer round cake for the bottom of the carousel. I didn't have anything to use to hold up the top layer, so I cut the center of the cake out and stuck a metal can (of food) in the center, with another can stacked on top. I just peeled the labels off to get a smooth surface to ice. The hold up the top layer, I took the cake pan and used it as a stencil to cut out a piece of cardboard from a box. Then, I wrapped it in foil and put another round layer on top (don't shave off the top - the raised center makes it look more 3D like the top of a tent would be). To make the horses, I made sugar cookie dough, sketched a horse on a piece of paper and cut it out to use as a stencil, then used a knife to cut the horses (I didn't have horse-shaped cookie cutter). As soon as they came out of the oven, I poked 2 little holes in the saddle area to thread a piece of string through (to attach the horse to the straw pole). Just ice the saddles, and you can't see the little holes. The little cake is the smash cake (you can even stick a slightly-shaved candle in the top of the straw!).
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Caterpillar Cake
I made this caterpillar cake for my daughter's 4th birthday. Thank you to the other cake makers that I used for inspiration! I'm adding a description of how I made the cake: I bought a cake pan that had 4 small dome-shapes in it (to make 4 mini dome-shaped cakes). I used it twice to get enough "segments". I set them all next to each other and iced them. I made sugar cookie dough, rolled it, and used a knife to cut out letters, the antennae, and a flower (the best I could, at least). I used a small diamond-shaped cookie cutter and cut out a bunch of them to write "Happy Birthday". My letters came out so huge that I had to use little wooden skewers behind them to keep them from falling over.
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Fish Bowl
I made this fish bowl cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday. Adding a description of how I made it: I made 2 round cakes - you don't need to cut them make them flat because the slightly raised center makes it look more like a real 3D fishbowl. You put the 2 layers together (with the 2 non-flat ends pointing out) and cut off a piece from the bottom and the top so that it stands up and has a flat "top". If you put icing between the layers to glue them together (and a little on the bottom), it's very sturdy and won't fall over. I actually had to really push it to knock it over when we were ready to cut it (I started by cutting it standing up, but it didn't work as well as I thought it would!). You don't have to get the blue icing very smooth - the ripples just look like waves. And don't worry if you get little finger dings or messy spots - just stick a fish there! The plants are "gogurts" (they're like fruit by the foot, which are similar to fruit roll ups). The only problem was that they were striped. I spent awhile cutting out the stripes (I won't admit to how long this took me). Then I cut them and twisted them and such to get the plants to look the way I wanted. It was actually quite a challenge due to the crazy stickiness of those things! The bubbles from the fish's mouths are white Nerds, and the rocks are pink and orange nerds. The fish are multicolored goldfish (I actually used a regular marker to makes eyes because I didn't have anything else handy, so you couldn't eat them). A little fish on a toothpick on top looks like it's jumping out. My daughters loved it!
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Ducky In A Barrel
I made this cake for my daughter's first birthday. Thank you to the other ducky barrel cakes that I used for inspiration! Here's how I made it: The base cake is 2 8-inch round chocolate cakes with white icing. On top of that is coconut that I died green. The top cake is a tiny chocolate cake (using the same pan I made the smash cake with) with chocolate icing. I used the chocolate icing to glue on the kit kats (which I cut a little off of the bottoms, since they're slightly too long). The water is blue jello that partially set in the fridge and then poured on top of the little cake (first you have to use icing to close up all the seams, or else the jello would ooze out of the "barrel"). The soap bubbles are the white icing that I partially froze and rolled into little balls. The ducky is a rubber ducky. The ribbon and the cattails came from the store (I'll be honest, I was thrilled with my bow, since I'm not usually a good bow maker - but it came out pretty). The lady bugs and the flowers are sculpted from air heads and tootsie rolls. The smash cake is a blue iced chocolate cake with blue crystal sugar sprinkled on top.