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Simple Halloween Cakes that Anyone can Make

These are extra easy and can be made from cakes out of the box! Pumpkin or Jack-o-lantern Make your favorite cake mix in and divide it between two round cake pans. Bake as directed. Allow to cool. Add red and yellow food coloring to white frosting (or red color to yellow frosting) to make orange. Frost each cake. Use skinny black licorice whips to make “lines” to add more dimension to the pumpkin shape. Cut them where you need to place eyes, nose, and mouth. You can use black frosting or gel from a tube to create facial features, or … Continue reading →

Simple Cake Decorating Ideas

Decorating cakes does not have to be difficult or time consuming. It should be fun! There are lots of cool ideas available and of course you can find some great cake pans too. Still, there is something to be said for simple ideas as well, and the following are super simple, but still cute and fun. Smiley Cakes Bake a round cake. You can make two smiley cakes using the layers separately, or you can make a layer cake. Frost your cake(s) with yellow frosting. You can use lemon or add some yellow food coloring to your favorite white frosting. … Continue reading →

More Fun Cake Ideas

Add some TLC and lots of your own creative touches to your cakes instead of ordering from the bakery. Surprise your kids, or let them have fun helping. Even if you don’t consider yourself artistic, you can make lots of cute cakes. They are really pretty easy and remember they don’t have to be perfect. Your little tike will think that dinosaur cake is way cool, even if it isn’t a perfect, realistic reproduction of a T-rex. Just have fun with it! Dinosaur Cake Bake a 9” x 13” cake and allow it too cool completely (you will need two … Continue reading →

Teddy Bear Cake

One of my daughters just loves teddy bears. She has quite a collection ranging from stuffed teddy bears to magnets, picture frames, ceramics, and even blown glass. If it looks like a teddy bear or has teddy bears on it, she adores it. One year for her birthday I decided I was going to order a teddy bear cake. I searched everywhere but just couldn’t find anything that great. None of the offerings were shaped like bears, and the ones that were decorated with teddy bears, just weren’t that cute. So, I decided to make my own teddy bear cake. … Continue reading →

Fun Cakes to Make with Your Kids

Why buy a pre-decorated cake when you and your kids can have fun making one together and add your own special touches? While most of the ideas I’ll share are fairly simple, they turn out really cute. You and your children will not only be making cakes, you will also be making memories. Horse Cakes *Makes two horses. Mix up your favorite cake recipe or a boxed cake mix following the package directions. Pour the batter equally into two round layer pans and bake as directed. Mix up some sugar cookie dough or purchase ready to use dough. Make two … Continue reading →