Wednesday, June 10, 2009

THEME CAKES MADE EASY



Parenting.com has a beautiful cake gallery with designs to suit a variety of themes. But what makes this gallery stand out is that they use common candies and products to produce truly professional looking cakes.  




I love these diagrams they provide of each cake, along with a comprehensive tutorial. You can find the tutorial for the shark cake here. (Buffett fans take notice!)






The face is a sugar cookie! Brilliant!












Parenting.com has a beautiful cake gallery to suit a variety of themes. But what makes this gallery stand out is that they use common candies and products to produce truly professional looking cakes. 

Be sure to check out the whole gallery for more great designs. And while we're talking about cakes, here's a great idea from Real Simple for simplifying the serving of ice cream at parties. Perfect for summer parties where the ice cream tends to melt quickly! 



From Real Simple:
To prevent a sticky situation, start scooping before the party starts. Place individual scoops in a cupcake tin lined with paper baking cups and transfer the tray to the freezer for up to several hours. After the cake is cut, remove the scoops from the paper baking cups (or not) and drop them onto the waiting plates.

3 comments:

Jessica said...

Oh my Gawd, I am so loving the shark cake!!

It's so cool.

Crafty P said...

love this site. That's where I got the twin's monkey cake idea from.

AND I have to say that ice cream scooping idea is stellar. I did that for the twin's first birthday party. I used foil muffin cup holders and it was the perfect amt of ice cream. IT was helpful that I had a walk-in freezer to store them all in!

From Janes Oven said...

Cute cakes!
You do everything with frosting? or have you done any fondant?