Pikachu Birthday Cake

Last year we had big time Pokemon fans in this house. So of course when my son turned 5 he had  to have a Pikachu cake.

I baked the cake in a 9x13 pan and then cut out the shapes I needed for the face and ears. It fit perfect. Then I just used my star tip and covered the cake. It came together pretty quickly.

Also just for fun, we made these little Pikachu/peeps pops!

Doctor Who Tardis Birthday Cake

We are huge Doctor Who fans in this house. So when my oldest had his last birthday I was not surprised when he requested a Tardis birthday cake. It was fun and easy to create this cake.

I baked a cake mix in a 9x13 glass pan and covered it in blue frosting. I didn't plan ahead to make sure I had the right shade of Tardis blue. So I wish it was darker, but my son didn't mind. After covering it in blue, I quikly piped some outlines of door and windows and did some writing. Nothing fancy, but lots of fun.

Super Mario Brothers Birthday Cake

My Son wanted a Super Mario Brothers cake this summer. I was mixing up the frosting colors after midnight, and that was obviously a mistake. Somehow I got a funky teal color instead of sky blue, but oh well! It was super humid this summer as well, so the frosting was sweating a lot as well. It was still fun. Everything was done with Wilton's Buttercream frosting.

Big Hero 6 Baymax cake and cupcakes

It's Birthday season around here. My son wanted a Baymax cake from Big Hero 6. We love that show. For this body I baked a cake mix in the pampered chef batter bowl. Once the cake was cool I covered it in homemade marshmallow fondant and made the head, arms and legs from fondant as well. It was a really hot and humid day, so the fondant struggled and the gel icing ran for his eyes, but my son loved him and he tasted good!

We also made Baymax cupcakes for his classroom treat. All the kids loved it.

We found the idea on pinterest. Using a large round tip I swirled white butter cream onto the tops of our cupcakes. Then placed large marshmallows with Baymax eyes drawn on, on top.

Spider Man Birthday Cake

This was a Red Velvet cake with cream cheese filling. All the frosting is butter cream. I did buy a tube of black Wilton frosting from hobby lobby for the black details. 

Harry Potter Cupcakes

The Hedwig cake was for our family party. But I also had a friend party a few days later. I wanted simple cupcakes for that.I just swirled butter cream on top of fun-fetti cupcakes. I sprinkled them with yellow cake sparkles. Then with yellow candy melts and melted those and drew out lightning bolts. Then while they were still wet, I sprinkled gold Wilton shimmer dust on to get them to sparkle. Once they were dried I put them on the cupcakes. Very simple and easy!

A Harry Potter Hedwig Birthday Cake

My oldest son wanted a Harry Potter cake. We decided to do Hedwig, Harry's pet owl. After a lot of internet searches we came up with this:

I used three different cake pans. The base of the cake is an 8 inch round cake. Then the body was baked in my Pampered Chef batter bowl - which is comparable to the Wilton Wonder Mold pan (the one to make barbie cakes). Then the head was baked in an oval pan I got from the 2 Wilton class, in my class kit. I just used a knife to make it kind of bean shaped. I stacked the cakes together, with frosting in the middle and put a dowel down the center. Then I crumb coated it with butter cream. I then used almonds for the face and belly. Cashews for the beak and claws. Peach o's where the eyes with recees pieces in the middle. The ears were white chocolate fudge oreos, cut in half. For the rest of the feathers, I used the Wilton leaf tip (which I do not use to actually make leafs) and piped long feathers layered around the body. End result: a very happy 6 year old!

Little Mermaid Birthday Cake

This cake was so much fun to make. I want to do another one! Chocolate must be the summer flavor of choice. It's all in butter cream, except the shells and sand. The shells are molded chocolates I made, and the sand is actually brown sugar! Yum. Lots of sugar!

Pixar Cars Cake

My son changed his mind all month on what type of birthday cake he wanted. About a week before we settled on a Cars cake from the Pixar movie. This was a fun cake to make. It's all chocolate with butter cream frosting, candy, and real cars from the toy section at Target.

Scooby Doo Birthday Party

A few weeks ago I tried my hand at kids Birthday cakes again. My friend had me do two Scooby Doo cakes and matching cupcakes. It was a pretty crazy weeks and this is what turned out:

This was the first cake. I was in a time crunch to get this one done, as you can see. But I had fun. Its a vanilla cake with butter cream frosting. Everything was done with the Wilton star tip.



These are the cupcakes that were served with the cake below. Once again, Vanilla cake with butter cream frosting and Wilton Sparkle Gel for the swirls. The sparkle gel was the kids favorite part. The swirls were done with the 1M tip.





Then this was the final cake. I drew Scooby's head on with a toothpick and then filled it in with starts. The swirls are done in the sparkle gel and the border is also the star tip.

Pixar's Up cake

My oldest wanted an "UP" cake for his birthday. So this is what I came up with. I baked a lemon cake in a 13x9" pan and cut out all the pieces. It's three pieces. The house, the chimeny, and the bay window/gable piece. Then I used a mini muffin pan to bake cupcakes in for the balloons. Everything is decorated in butter cream frosting. A fun cake to make!