Baymax Cake

For 11 months Benjamin said he wanted his 4th birthday cake to be a TRex.  Then, for the last month before his birthday, he said he wanted a Baymax cake.  Since that is the month that mattered, Baymax cake it was!

We made a two-layer yellow cake.  Iced with a basic buttercream dyed red.  Marshmallow fondant used to create Baymax.  Finished with a circle bead of basic buttercream along the bottom.  

Wonderfully yummy and cute!

Triceratops Cake

My son's obsession as he turns three is dinosaurs!  So, what better cake than a triceratops for our three year old's birthday cake!

Will and I are so proud of this one!  Most of our cakes are someone else's design with our creative perfectionist selves tackling it.  This one, we found the idea after googling dinosaur cake images.  But, we didn't get anything specific.  We are quite proud of what we came up with.

The one clue we were given was one circle cake, cut in half and stood together like on the right.  A second cake baked in a loaf pan, cut into pieces for the head, tail, feet.  

Here is what we came up with un-iced.  Will drew the general shape of the head, tail, and feet on a loaf pan shape to make sure we had enough cake for the slices.  Then we arranged them.  Added ice cream cones for the three horns.  (We just used a steak knife to saw them to a more appropriate size.)  We used a tostada for the frill.  It was the perfect size and crinkly shape, just the only piece that wasn't sweet and yummy.

And, now the iced end product.  (We used the dairy-free vanilla cake on the blog.  Iced with a store-bought vanilla icing, turned green with 75 green food coloring drops and 25 blue food coloring drops.  Tubes of white and chocolate icing for the eyes and beak.  Mini chocolate chips for down the back and on the frill.  Regular chocolate chips for the toes.)

Horse Cake

We love making our kids' birthday cakes!  It feels like it is part of our gift to them and we have really enjoyed the creative outlet for us!  So, when our daughter turns 5 and she requests a horse cake, we turned to google images to see if there was going to be any way to make that request happen!   

I was so excited to see this image among all the pictures of intimidating professional horse cakes!

HERE is the full "how-to" we followed.

This is our process:

the cakes turned into the head of a horse.

We used this cake recipe and this frosting recipe with all of these to help with decorations!

Fruit by the foot bridle.  Oreo cream for the eye and the circle with the bridle.  

Jr. Mint for the eye and the nostirl.  Chocolate sprinkle eye lashes.  Chocolate Twizzlers hair.

One happy 5 year old with her horse cake!

Checkerboard Birthday Cake

How cool is this cake?!

I saw the Cake Boss Buddy Valastro teach Rachael Ray this trick on her morning show a bit ago.  I knew I had to try it!  I was really proud of how it turned out.  A few notes for next time:   4 layers are perfect, but use less cake mix so that the layers are less tall.  I think a strawberry and vanilla cake would be so yummy and really cute for a girl-themed party!

First, bake the cake layers.

Second, using biscuit cutters 

punch out the inner circle and one thick ring.

Then, interchange the rings and circles to create an alternating pattern.

Place a thin layer of icing between each layer.

Ice the cake.

Decorate.

Eat!