Monster Cake and Smash Cake's

Here are some cute little Monster Cakes I made for my nephews first Birthday. The recipe is from Little and Friday's new book Celebrations.

They had lots of fun playing with the bright Icing.

Iraia liked using the candle to swirl the icing around.

Chassin had a go at touching the icing

But didn't like that to much :)

This is what the inside of the Mummy Monster cake looks like. This effect was made by colouring vanilla cake batter in three different shades, baking them in a cake pop mould then once baked and cooled bake them in a chocolate cake batter. This was such a fun cake to make.

Recent Cake projects

Here is a bunch of cake projects I have made over the last few months.

Purse Cake

This is my latest cake I made for my Nieces 5th Birthday. I found this really easy tutorial here at Jessicakes blog.

Titans Cake

This cake I made for a family member who was turning 21, my sister helped me out with this one since I had 3 cakes to make over one weekend.

Dog Cake

This cake was for my friends sons 1st Birthday, the fondant dog topper is suppose to look like his pet dog.

3 Tier Cake

I love the colours of this 3 tier cake I made for a joint childrens party.

Skylander Cake

This cake was for a 5th Birthday for a little boy who loves the Skylander video game.

Yellow Ruffle Cake

I made this yellow ruffle cake for my Nieces 6th birthday, the cake topper is made from coloured paper and a butterfly all from the $2 shop, easy and cheap to make.

Fondant Safari Animal 

I made these cute little animal cake toppers for a little boys birthday, his mum made the cake for these to go on top.

Fondant Frangipanis

30 Frangipani fondant flowers for a a friends wedding cake.

If you would I to know how I made all these cakes leave me a comment and I'll be happy to get back to you.

Banana Chocolate Cake

This recipe makes a very large cake that has a lovely texture and is very moist. It is great for birthdays and family gatherings

Banana Chocolate Cake

200g butter,softened

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

3 eggs

1 cup plain yoghurt

1 tsp Vanilla extract

1 cup (2-3 banana's) mashed banana

3 cups self-raising flour

1/2 cup cocoa

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups boiling water

Chocolate Icing

3 cups icing sugar

2 tbls cocoa

2 tsp butter,melted

hot water for mixing

Pre-heat the oven to 180c. Line a 26cm or 28cm cake tin with baking paper.

Beat butter and sugars until pale and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in yoghurt, vanilla and banana. Sift flour, cocoa and salt together and gently mix into cake mixture. Lastly add baking soda dissolved in boiling water. Pour batter into cake tin. Bake for 1 hour or until skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the tin before turning out to cool completely on a wire rack.

To make the icing, combine icing sugar, cocoa, butter and enough hot water to make a spreadable consistency. Ice cake when it is cold.

Minnie Mouse Cake

Here's a Minnie Mouse Cake I made over the weekend. Its a two tiered chocolate cake covered in ganache then fondant. The topper is made from black fondant, then I attached the ears with spaghetti pasta. I found this Tutorial for the pink bow on top. I'm really happy with how this cake turned out. I tripled my chocolate cake  recipe for this cake.

Pink Ombre Cake

It was my Niece's Eleventh Birthday and she asked for a pink ombre cake so I couldn't wait to get started on this cake. I found a great recipe over at with sprinkles on top for the cake, but the original recipe is from Glorious treats you must go over and check out there amazing ombre cakes.

Pink Ombre Cake

Recipe Source: Glorious Treat

Cake:

3-3/4 cups cake flour

3-3/4 teaspoons baking powder

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1-1/2 teaspoons salt

6 eggs

2-1/4 cups sugar

4-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1-1/2 cups vegetable oil

1-1/2 cups buttermilk


1. Preheat oven to 180c
2. In a medium bowl, add cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Stir together with whisk, and set aside.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, add eggs and beat 10-20 seconds.  Add sugar and continue to beat on medium speed about 30 seconds.  Add vanilla and oil, beat.
4. Reduce mixer speed to low and slowly add about half of the flour mixture.  Add half of the milk, then the rest of the flour and the rest of the milk.  Beat until just combined.  Scrap down the side of the bowl.
5. The batter will be thin.  Divide the batter, as evenly as possible, into 4 smaller bowls. Dye the batter various shades of pink. I started with the darkest shade first and worked my way toward the lighter shades, I used Wilton gel colorings. There’s no way to do this step perfectly — just use your eye as a judge and make the best color gradient between the 5 bowls as you can.
6. Prepare cake pans by spraying with non-stick spray. 
7. Bake the cakes for about 20-25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool the cakes entirely before assembling.

Assembly and icing:
2 cups(450g) butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon of salt (only if using unsalted butter)
8 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2-3 Tablespoons heavy cream or milk


1. Using a large knife, level off each cake so that the top surfaces are flat. Assemble cake on a plate or stand, starting with the darkest layer on the bottom. Spread a thin layer of frosting between each layer. Once all of the layers are assembled, spread a crumb coat of icing over the entire cake. [the "crumb coat" is just a very thin, messy layer of frosting -- just cover the cake up and you'll make it look more pretty in a bit!]
2. Divide the remaining frosting into 4 batches and again, dye each batch a different shade of pink. I decorated my cake by using a 1M Wilton star tip. I piped Rosettes all over the entire cake.

21st Birthday Cake

I made this cake for two of my friends 21st Birthdays. They wanted to have them both on the cake, one doing the Pukana and the other was suppose to be hanging up the washing but I found it really hard to make the figures standing up so I made her sitting down by the washing line with a bunch of book. I think it turned out really great but will make sure I use a better glue next time cause the heads and eyes were starting to fall off at the end of the night. I doubled my Chocolate Cake Recipe for the cake then covered it in my Favourite Ganache recipe from Planet Cake.

Chocolate Ganache

Adapted From Planet Cake.

300g Nestle Dark Chocolate

150mls Cream

Place chocolate and cream in a bowl and melt in the microwave for 1 minute stir then place back in the microwave again for 30 seconds until chocolate has melted. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes or until firm and cooled. Once cooled its ready to use.