Pokeball Cake

It's been a while since I posted regularly, but I wanted to share this:

 My son loves, loves, loves Pokemon, so for his birthday last year, I had so much fun making this cake for him. The best part...it was so simple!

It's just two round cakes layered, with red, white and black frosting. Then I got some yellow Peeps bunnies and decorated them to look like Pikachu. I stuck a toothpick in them to hold them on the cake and I was done!

My sweet boy loved it and said it was adorable, so we were happy all around! 

Paw Patrol Cake

My baby girl turned 3 this year and she is one of the biggest Paw Patrol fans you'd ever see! So of course we had to have a Paw Patrol cake...

Pikachu Cake

When I made a bunny cake for my 2 year old's birthday, my son said I could make his cake the same way...but a Pikachu cake! I think it turned out quite well, and my little Pokemon fan was happy.

The steps for making a Pikachu cake are the same as a bunny cake...you will need white frosting, yellow frosting, Fruit Roll-Ups, mini marshmallows, and chocolate frosting.

Chocolate Bunny Cake

Here's a perfect cake for your Easter festivities:

To learn how I made this cake, check out my original bunny cake!

My Little Pony Carousel Cake

When I was planning my daughter's birthday cake, she was very into My Little Ponies, so I thought a carousel with My Little Ponies was only fitting!

This cake was so quick to make, and she loved it!

Lizard Cake

My son starts planning what he wants for his next birthday cake the day after his birthday. This past year he went through dozens of cake ideas and finally set on a lizard cake...

I'll admit it turned out like a gecko, but my son loved it, and that's all that matters, right?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake

When my youngest turned 1, the only cake that seemed fitting for her was The Very Hungry Caterpillar! When we handed her that cake, she ate, and she ate, and she ate!

Thomas the Train Birthday Cake

My 3 year old daughter was obsessed with Thomas the Train when her birthday came around, so I knew that her birthday cake had to be reflective of this. After scouring Pinterest, I finally came up with this (and she LOVED it!):

And this is how I made it:

Bunny Rabbit Cake

My daughter has a lovey that was given to her on her first Easter... one of those bunny heads attached to a blanket. She has loved that bunny nearly to pieces, so for her second birthday, I felt that a bunny rabbit cake was only fitting!

This cake comes together easily and is made of 2 round cakes!

Sports Cupcakes

My boys had a combined birthday party last month, and since they are both playing sports right now, I thought these cupcakes were perfect:

I had a mixture of cupcakes (chocolate and vanilla) and only used two cans of frosting for the 48 cupcakes I made (chocolate and vanilla).

For the basketball cupcakes, I used red and yellow food coloring in vanilla frosting to make orange. I spread that on, and then piped chocolate frosting on to make the lines.

For the baseball, I frosted the cupcakes with vanilla frosting, and colored a little bit of vanilla frosting red to pipe the laces on.

For the football, I covered the cupcakes in chocolate frosting and piped vanilla frosting on for the laces.

For the soccer ball, I frosted the cupcakes with vanilla. Then, I piped hexagons onto it with chocolate frosting and filled in some of the hexagons.

I found sport invitations, plates, napkins and cups at Dollar Tree which tied it all together.
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Butterfly Cake

My sweet little girl turned one recently. I feel like I have whiplash from how fast this year went by! When I was pregnant with her, I decided to decorate her room with butterflies, so of course, it made perfect sense for her first cake to be a butterfly!

I used gum drops which I flattened with a glass cup, and Spree candy for the decorations. This was such an easy cake to put together! It only took one 9 inch cake, and one can of frosting.

I’ll be linking up to Making Your Home Sing Sunday, Mama Moments Monday,  Mom’s Library, Clever Chicks Blog Hop, The Mommy Club,
Inspiration found here and here.

Angry Birds Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my 7-year old’s birthday in the spring and loved how easy it was to make. I used the “Angry Birds Knock on Wood Game” which I got for $5 on clearance. I baked a 9x13” cake, leveled it and used the part I cut off as the base of the castle. My son was insistent that he got to help arrange the pieces, which were held together by frosting. The “rocks” are Milk Duds.

Simple, fun and my son now has a game to play as well :).

I’ll be linking up to Works for Me Wednesday, Mom’s Library, Clever Chicks Blog Hop, Share It Saturday, The Mommy Club, We Made That Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday.

Lego Construction Cake

For my 5 year old’s birthday party, I really wanted to make him a Lego cake like this, but he wanted one with toys on top, so this is what I came up with: I made two round cakes, layered them and frosted them green for the grass. I used a Hershey’s chocolate bar for the road so the Lego’s wouldn’t get quite as dirty. The Lego set is a “Lego Juniors Digger” set which was perfect for my 5 year old to build with minimal help and he was happy as could be with the final result!

I’ll be linking up to Works for Me Wednesday, Mom’s Library, Clever Chicks Blog Hop, Share It Saturday, TGIF, The Mommy Club, We Made That Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday.

Tank Cake

My husband requested a Tank Cake for his birthday recently and I was happy to oblige. After finding some inspirations from cakes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, I came up with this: The idea of trying to make the tank green camouflage stressed me out, so I decided to make a desert-colored brown tank, which was super simple! Though my husband said it looks more like a German tank in style.

Pirate Cake

I remember going to a birthday party with my boys 2 years ago, and the theme of the 4 year old’s party was pirates. I was amazed that a boy so young could be interested in pirates, but we’ve reached that stage in life, where both my 6 year old and my 4 year old are fascinated by pirates. My 6 year old chose pirates as the theme for his birthday cake and I think it turned out pretty awesome (if I do say so myself)…

I made a chocolate 9x13 cake and once it was cooled, I froze it over night so it wouldn’t be as crumbly.

Race Car Cake

My little boy turned 4 recently and he is totally into cars right now. When we accelerate quicker than normal while driving, he squeals with glee and begs us to drive like a race car again ;). So, for his birthday cake, race cars seemed fitting…

I just made a 9x13 strawberry cake (because his favorite color is pink right now). I leveled the top of the cake, made a road out of chocolate frosting, used white frosting to draw the lanes & finish line, and added grass.

My husband saw it and laughed because it’s another green and brown cake, much like this one, this one and this one, but C loved it and kept trying to drive the cars to the finish line :).

I’m so excited to see what C accomplishes as a 4 year old!

I’m linking up to Works for Me Wednesday, Kids Get Crafty, What are little boys made of? Mom’s Library, Look What We Did, Fantastic Thursday,Fine Craft Guild

Dinosaur Party: Dinosaur Cake

To wrap up our week of dinosaur birthday party ideas, I wanted to show off the cake I made for K’s birthday party.

I was pretty thrilled when both of my boys asked for a dinosaur cake this year since their birthdays are 2 weeks apart…it just meant a little less creativity required on my part and C’s cake allowed me to learn and practice before K’s party where more people would actually see his cake :).

K begged me for a volcano so I took the corner I cut off at slant for the water, layered it on top of another corner and put a Ding Dong type snack on top of that. Even still this cake is not done to scale, but K loved it and I was pretty proud of how it came out. I also got to use some of the cute little dinosaurs I bought for the fossil eggs I made.

Happy Birthday K!

Dinosaur Cake

Recently we celebrated my 3 (!) year old’s birthday and he requested a dinosaur cake…I love the simplicity of making cakes for my boys because they want the toys on top and they are fairly simple to decorate:

I just made a 9x13” cake. On one corner I cut the top off at an angle to make the beach/water and I put the corner that had been cut off on top of another corner for a little hill.

I can’t believe my little boy is 3 and am so excited to watch him grow and develop every day. Happy Birthday C!

I’ll be linking up to Works for Me Wednesday, Kids Get Crafty, Create and Share, What Are Little Boys Made Of? and Fun Stuff Fridays.

Construction Cake

Never mind the fact that the last 3 birthday cakes have been quite similar (like this cake, or this one), but K requested a cake with construction vehicles for his birthday last week and who am I to argue? It just meant my job would be slightly easier because I already know what I’m doing (for the most part) :)

Happy birthday to my handsome, big, 4 year old! Making birthday cakes is one of my ways to make my boys feel special and save a little bit of money.

How do you save money while celebrating birthdays?

I’m linking up to Tot Tuesdays, Amaze Me August, Anything Related, Penny Pinching Party, and Whatever Goes Wednesday.

Birthday Cake

My mom always decorated our birthday cakes with fun themes or things we were interested in that year and now that I have my own kids, I get to do the same…

C picked the car transporter truck out in Walmart over the other toys I presented to him and all I had to do was layer half of a round cake on top of a rectangular cake and slope it to make a nice little hill for the truck to climb. It’s so fun to decorate cakes with a toy because it’s like another fun little present for the birthday boy or girl :).

I’m linking up to What Are Little Boys Made of @ Seven Thirty Three and Tot Tuesdays @ Delicious Ambiguity.