How to Make Tires for Car Cakes
In this post I’ll show you how to make tires for car cakes using easy techniques.
Creating realistic-looking tires for car cakes is a fun and essential part of designing any car-themed cake. Whether you’re making a race car or a classic car, tires add a great finishing touch. In this post, I’ll show you how to make tires and rims for car cakes using modeling chocolate or fondant, plus a few tools and techniques that will ensure your tire designs look professional and detailed.
These tires are perfect for my Red Race Car Cake, but you can scale down the technique depending on the size of your cake. I’ll walk you through step-by-step instructions on how to create realistic-looking tires with a focus on easy, accessible techniques, as well as tips for creating fancier rims with a soccer ball silicone mold.
Read MoreHow to Make Chocolate Balls / Spheres
If you’re trying to learn how to make chocolate balls / spheres to decorate your cakes, I’ve got the easiest way to show you. I have both half-sphere silicone molds and full sphere ones and, in my opinion, using the full sphere molds below plus the method I’m presenting is the easiest way to make … Read More
Ninja Birthday Party – Dessert Ideas + Activities & Games
In this post, I will show you how to organize a Ninja Birthday Party and give you ideas for desserts (with full tutorials on how to make them) as well as for activities and games you can organize for your kids. Our kids went through a Ninja phase two years ago. They would literally wear Ninja … Read More
Egg Bears
These egg bears are super cute and even easier to make that my very popular egg snowmen. They are fun to make with the kids and a great addition to your appetizer platters this holiday season! … Read More
Jungle Safari Cake
I made this Jungle Safari Cake a while ago for Daniel’s 1st birthday party. This post ends my series of posts about a Safari / Jungle Themed birthday party. Here are all the other posts in case you missed them:Part I – Dessert IdeasPart II – Appetizers, Finger Foods & Snack IdeasPart III – … Read More
Canned Pears
You can enjoy canned pears straight from the jar or in cobblers, pies or sauces for ice cream or pancakes. They can be canned in simple sugar syrup or you can add in some spices like vanilla, cinnamon and cloves for an extra kick in flavour. When you pick your pears, make sure they are ripe but firm … Read More
Spider Cake
While the Ghost Cake was the kids’ favourite one, this Spider Cake was my favourite. I loved creating a cute 3D cake without having to use fondant for the details (which I almost always use for my custom 3D cakes). Also, I enjoyed covering the Spider Cake with the velvet texture made out of … Read More
Ghost Cake
Out of the three Halloween cakes I made this year, this Ghost Cake received the highest number of votes from the kids - for both flavour and looks. I used a chocolate cake. However, if you don’t like this, you can use a vanilla cake or have a look at this section of my blog and you’ll … Read More
Halloween Pumpkin Bucket Cake
This Halloween Pumpkin Bucket Cake is easy to make and is great if you don’t like working with fondant. It's also a fun cake to make... the kids are undecided what they like more - the cake or all the goodies in the “bucket” :-)! I used vanilla cake. However, if you don’t like this, have … Read More
Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Frosting (1:1:1)
This chocolate ganache buttercream frosting is great for covering cakes or piping details. The recipe is extremely easy! No matter how much you want to make, the ratio of white chocolate to whipping cream to butter is always the same 1:1:1. The ingredients below are for covering an 8-inch cake. … Read More
