Playing with Cake
Making birthdays better with amazing 3D cakes--and giving you step-by-step directions to make them yourself.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Pirate Cake
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Planet Cake
- Make two cakes in round bowls. For our cake, we used one large round metal bowl for each piece. However, it took two cake mixes for each half (for a total of four cake mixes). We used two white and two chocolate. We had to bake our cakes at 250 for two hours and 350 for one half hour to finish them. Be sure to grease the bowl liberally.
- Remove the cakes. Flatten the flat side.
- Cut a hole in the center of each cake, if you want to fill it. We filled ours with gummy worms and Oreo cookie crumbles. Angle a knife toward the center of the cake and cut in a circle to form a hole. Fill it until the filling is level with the surrounding cake.
- Frost the flat surface of the cake (and filling). Stack the cakes flat-side together, using this frosting layer as glue.
- Frost the entire outside of the cake. We used green-tinted buttercream frosting.
- Create the rings by sliding colored Twizzler licorice onto skewers. Insert the skewers at regular intervals around the cake. Connect pipe cleaners into a long rope and weave them between the skewers to finish the rings.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Welcome!
Best Birthday Cakes is a family business based on family tradition. Instead of birthday presents, the children in our family are more concerned about what cake they will get. To us, a birthday cake is a statement of personality and is fully-customized for each and every birthday boy or birthday girl.
If you are looking for a plain, flat sheet birthday cake with icing, go to your local grocer or bakery. If you want a dynamic, customized, three-dimensional birthday cake, you've come to the right place. The best part is, our birthday cakes cost about the same as the birthday cakes you'll find mass-produced at your commercial store.
In addition to the birthday cakes we bake, we will update this site often ideas, suggestions and tips for DIY birthday cake bakers.
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