Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake Roll

This is a lovely dessert for the spring and summer months!  It’s light and airy with a smooth sweetness.  I made this recipe using an angel food cake mix for time constraint purposes, but you can make your own sponge cake recipe from scratch and it will work just as well!  Your friends and family…

Cheesecake Soufflé

This recipe makes a very light and fluffy cheesecake soufflé, which is very different than what most people are used to.  My husband loves cheesecake, and usually we have a traditional graham cracker crust cheesecake, as seen the Apple Caramel Cheesecake. Recently, my husband and I came across this light and airy recipe and decided…

Apple Caramel Cheesecake

This my basic, and much loved, cheesecake recipe.  I wanted to tweak this recipe to make a cheesecake to compliment the fall season, so I decided on an apple and caramel topping.

Rainbow Star Cake

This rainbow cake was made for a cake competition and won three out of the four categories; Best Taste, Best in Show, & Most Creative. There are six layers of cake inside: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.  They are thinner layers, about a third the size of a regular cake layer.  The cake…

Mint Chocolate Chip Cake with Cupcakes

A mint chocolate chip cake is quick and easy to make, and I am very pleased with how tasty it looks too! While mixing the batter I added in some chocolate chips. After putting the batter into the cake pan, and cupcake papers, I added a few more chocolate chips on top. While everything was…

Sweet Sixteen Cake

I made this cake in honor my niece’s for her sweet sixteenth birthday party. She likes all colors, which suited me just fine! I wanted to make her a three tier cake since it was a special occasion. The top tier was just for her to keep and take home. The bottom tier was yellow,…

Painted Turtle Cake

This cake was made for a friend who loves turtles and bright colors. I had previously made the Spring Frog Cake for her and I wanted to continue that theme. To make this cake a little different I decided to use a square shape. I used yellow cake and put a strawberry filling between layers….

Mint Angel Food Cake

A great cake for St. Patrick’s Day! I’m sure it would look very nice next to a glass of green beer. First, I placed an angel food cake upside down on a cake board. Next, using mint flavored whipped topping (you can use Cool Whip and add mint extract and green food coloring.) I filled…

Faerie and Mermaid Cake

Here is a cake that was a lot of fun to do. This idea all started out in the imagination of my eight year old niece. She wanted a faerie and a mermaid on her cake. I wanted to do a two tier cake and decorate each according to the mythical creature that would be…

Polar Bears and Penguins

Two of my favorite cold weather animals, polar bears and penguins! The cake was first frosted with blue buttercream and then drizzled with white glaze around the sides. I added a ‘e’ shell border with white buttercream to give the cake a more finished look. Before adding the polar bear and penguin I sprinkled on…

Christmas Tree CupCake

‘Tis the season! Time to start decorating the house, and cakes, for the holidays! To make this cupcake cake I arranged twelve cupcakes in the shape of a Christmas tree. To give the tree ‘pine needles’ I used a #22 star tip and worked from the bottom row up to give it a layered look….

Turkey CupCake

A CupCake turkey for Thanksgiving! This pull-apart cupcake is made with twelve cupcakes, both chocolate and yellow. The cupcakes are ‘glued’ to the cake board with frosting to keep them from moving. First, the feathers are formed by using a large rose tip. Next, the body, head, and wings of the turkey are added with…

Haunted House Cake

This was a really fun cake to make! I started out with a large sheet cake and sculpted out a house shape. I used pieces I cut off to add part of the roof. After frosting it in buttercream I rolled out some orange fondant and arranged it over the top of the cake. I…

Mario Block Cake

This is one of my latest fondant cakes. I made this as a birthday cake for a couple of my family members who really enjoy playing Mario. I piled together yellow cake and made sure it was a perfect cube, then the whole cake was covered in gold fondant. Next, I cut a piece of…

Topsy Turvy Cake

Another fondant cake. This time I was experimenting with the ‘mad hatter’ style. The layers are cut diagonally and stacked together to achieve an unbalanced look. I put a filling in the cake. This probably wasn’t the best idea as the layers wanted to slide. It was a very interesting experience trying to get the…

Hamburger Cakes

This cake is not my original design, there are many hamburger style cakes out there. I have however taken the original idea and given it my own twist. The bottom and top ‘bun’ are yellow cake. The middle ‘burger’ is a chocolate cake sliced in half. To get a somewhat accurate ‘bun’ color I mix…

Monkey Cake

This cake always makes me giggle. For some reason it just always comes out looking goofy. Another egg-shaped cake, this time frosted in chocolate buttercream. After smoothing out the frosting I make the ears, adding pink for the inside of the ear. Next, I use yellow buttercream frosting to make the mouth area. On top…

Elephant Cake

One of my favorite animals is the elephant, so of course I had to come up with an elephant cake! This cake is similar to the race car cake in that it uses the same egg shaped cake. First, the cake is frosted in gray buttercream and smoothed out. Next, I add the ears, trunk,…

Race Car Cakes

I created these cakes for the store I work at. We offer a variety of novelty cakes, and I’m always working to create a new design. I came up with the race car because my father used to be a race car driver. Since first making this cake, I always use the number 82 because…

Castle Cake

I learned a great deal from making this cake. I had some triumphs and some disasters. After I finished this cake, I was disappointed with it. However, other people who saw it thought it was great. I think because I worked so long and hard on it and wasn’t able to present the initial idea…