30 Creative Cake & Cupcake Ideas
September 27, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Cooking
I have never purchased a store made cake for my kids’ birthdays. For a few years, I was fortunate to have my mom make the cakes for me. Due to travel reasons, my mom can’t make the cakes any longer so I try to save money by finding something cute that I can do myself. Usually I do quite a bit of searching on the internet, decide on some options I can do myself, and then present those to my kids to choose from. Here are some cool cakes and cupcakes I’ve found.
Animals
frog cupcakes
barn cake with farm animal cupcakes
pony cake
panda cake
monkey cake
dinosaur cake
Sports
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24 Creative Cakes for Your Kids
July 27, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Cooking
Alligator girl turned six this month and Cuddlebug is turning four tomorrow. I’m not a skilled cake decorator so I’ve been looking online for something cute yet easy that I could make for their birthdays. I just spotted some cute and creative cake ideas from Better Homes & Gardens.
These fun flower cupcakes caught my eye. They are so adorable! You simply use pipe cleaners for the flower stems. Instead of using flower shaped silicone cupcake holders it would be less expensive to cut out construction paper flowers to put under the cupcakes. I think this would create a very similar look.
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