Posts Tagged ‘Theme Cakes’

Construction Cake Ideas For A Construction Birthday Party

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Construction cake ideas to help make your construction birthday party fun and fabulous. Quick and easy construction theme cakes that are made in lickety split time.

If you’re planning a construction birthday party or a Bob The Builder birthday party, and are in need of some quick and easy ideas for creating a fun and fabulous construction cake, here’s a few possibilites to get your creative juices flowing:

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #1

Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it with chocolate and green frostings. Create mounds of “dirt” by placing blops of chocolate frosting onto the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs or brown sugar. Add plastic dump trucks, bulldozers, excavators, trees, shrubs, signs, etc. to finish your site.

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #2

Make or buy a white cake and tint frosting appropriate colors to make roadways, dirt, sky, and grass. In the alternative, you can use brown sugar to create your roadways, and airbrush blue onto the cake for your sky and green airbrushing for your grass. Also, you could tint some coconut green and add it to your airbrushed grass area to enhance the look of grass. Top with plastic trucks and construction workers. Write “Happy Birthday Foreman (Child’s Name) in cake gel.

DUMP TRUCK DIRT CAKE

1 pkg. Oreo cookies

1/2 c butter, softened

1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened

1 c powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 (3 1/2 oz.) pkg. instant chocolate pudding

3 c milk

1 (12 oz.) tub Cool Whip, thawed

Gummi worms (one for each child)

Crush Oreos. Put 1/3 of the Oreos into a new or clean, foil-lined dump truck. Beat the butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together. Set aside. Combine the milk and pudding mix. Fold the Cool Whip into the pudding. Fold together pudding mixture and cream cheese mixture. Alternately, layer the pudding mixture and the cookie crumbs in the dump truck. Put worms in “soil” so they are seen emerging. Chill 3-4 hours and serve with plastic shovel.

EDIBLE DUMP TRUCK CAKE

Fill a new or clean foil-lined dump truck with chunks of chocolate pound cake. Right before serving, add scoops of ice cream and top with whip cream or whipped topping and sprinkles.

DUMP TRUCK BROWNIES

If you are looking for a cake alternative, you could fill a clean, foil-lined dump truck with brownies. They will look like your truck is filled with dirt. You can have ice cream and/or whip cream available for topping the individual servings.

CONSTRUCTION HARD HAT CAKE

Bake your cakes in a Pyrex bowl and a small single layer cake pan. After cakes have cooled, place the small cake slightly underneath the hard hat to create the hard hat rim. Frost them both bright yellow and write the birthday child’s name and “BOSS” on front of the “hard hat.”

CONSTRUCTION CAKE QUICKIES

Buy a frosted sheet cake and top it with an edible sugar art image of a construction scene or a construction cake topper. Add your Happy Birthday message and you’re good to go.

Celebration Cakes – Let the Good Times be Better

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

No celebration is complete without cakes. They are those yummy treats both to the eyes and the taste buds, which make them quite an integral part of any kind of jubilation. But when it is a special reason, can we be satisfied with just an ordinary looking, common place cakes? Special occasions need special decorations. Not just the walls and floors of the venue of celebration, but also the garnishing of food and also celebration cakes. But in case of cakes, why settle for simple garnishing, when we can have designer celebration cakes.

Now what are designer celebration cakes? Designer cakes are special cakes that are made for special occasions. These cakes are decorated in a very special way. Sometimes the decorations are so beautiful that it surpasses our expectations and definition of a cake. For instance, a wedding cake would get you thinking of a cake with many tiers and a bride and bridegroom on top of it. What if the design is changed and the couple is made up of flummery who are created in a way that looks different from the mundane and monotonous.

Now, let us see how can birthday cakes be different. Birthday is a special day, needless to say that. But how about making a birthday different from the rest of them. How about trying something new? Yes, celebration cakes can help you do just that. Now for instance, the birthday boy is fond of guitars, why not order a cake that looks like a guitar. Or you can simply order for a cake that has a unique appearance and looks yummy too.

People today are going for theme parties. You may also have planned some celebration on similar lines. Something that should not worry you is the availability of the celebration cakes that would confirm to your chosen theme. You can place your order for theme cakes with well known cake boutiques and add magic to your good times.

Your Wedding Cake – Make It Special

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Your wedding cake will be the centerpiece of attention at the reception. There will be many pictures taken during the cake cutting and it will also be the last item on the menu that your guests will eat. Learn how to make sure you have a memorable cake by following these three steps.

Step 1: Pick the right baker

Wedding cakes tend to be in two categories. They tend to either look beautiful, but do not taste that good, or are not that beautiful, but are delicious. Pick an experienced baker who is capable of making sure your cake is both beautiful and tastes fantastic. It may cost a little more, but may be worth the expensive.

Step 2. Decide on the color, type, frosting and shape

Color. The color of the cake should coordinate with the color of and theme of your wedding. Determine the style of your wedding. Try to make it more traditional if the wedding is formal and be bolder with the ideas if it is a semi-formal or casual affaire. Also consider the season of your wedding. Let your personality shine through on the choices you make by coordinating your wedding colors and theme into the cake.

Type. Wedding cakes are no longer just the traditional yellow or white sponge cakes. They can be anything from cheese cakes to carrot cakes, coffee cakes, chocolate cakes, mouse cakes, ice-cream cakes, and angel food cakes – anything to your liking:

Frosting. These are three basic types of frostings: butter cream, whip cream and fondant:

Butter cream. Butter cream has a buttery flavor and is not too sweet. It needs to be refrigerated until a few hours before cake cutting, otherwise it’ll melt. It’s the least expensive option. Whip cream. Whip cream is very delicate and will not hold up in higher temperatures. Like butter cream, the cake will need to be refrigerated. The decorating options are limited because it has a much lighter texture. Fondant. Fondant is flat and smooth and doesn’t need to be refrigerated. It doesn’t really taste good and is hard to cut, but it looks great and, unlike butter cream, will let you put all kinds of decorations on the surface.

Shape. Cakes usually are either round or square in shape as these are the easiest to cut and have served. However, if you have a hearts theme in your wedding, think about incorporating that theme across into the shape of the cake. There are many unique shapes that can be created by an experienced baker.

Step 3. Don’t be afraid to be creative

Instead of a traditional wedding cake, which often costs $2.50 to $20 per serving, you can consider serving cupcakes, which has become popular. Or, alternatively, you can serve cakes of different flavors and designs at each of the individual reception table. The guests will have fun cutting and serving themselves the cakes and comparing flavors to each other.

Jennifer Moy

Jennifer Moy is a wedding consultant, planner and author. She provides recommendations on ceremonies, receptions and other aspects of weddings. She is a co-founder of Bright Wedding Ideas, the site focused on providing unique wedding ideas: http://www.brightweddingideas.com

I am looking for cake decorating supplies. Can anyone share inexpensive websites to find a good variety?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I recently started taking cake decorating classes and would like to expand to “theme” cakes. I hope to start selling cakes soon. Can anyone give me a few good inexpensive websites that I can purchase cake kit supplies? Any other suggestions would be great! Thanks in advance!
Carrie

Birthday Cakes – as Beautiful as the Celebrations

Monday, February 8th, 2010

We cannot imagine a birthday celebration without a cake. No matter how small or big the celebration, there has to be a cake to mark the completion of another glorious year on earth. A cake is also cut to welcome many fruitful years ahead.

Today, people are preferring birthday cakes with a theme over simple, ordinary ones. Theme cakes are specially designed cakes that are made to portray something related to the theme of the birthday party. Even if you do not have any particular theme for the birthday party, you can still go for birthday cakes with themes and set the right mood.

A birthday cake with a theme also makes the birthday girl/ boy feel special. You can opt for a cake designed in a particular shape that looks like some object or something that the person likes or loves. For instance, if the birthday girl is a music aficionado, you can get a guitar shaped birthday cake. Or if he follows a certain sports passionately, you can gift him the whole field along with the right equipments designed in the cake.

With the help of the Internet and web based suppliers, now you can also get cakes of your choice ordered online. There are some really good sites and online cake vendors who can prepare for you designer cakes. You can place customised orders with some of them and they deliver something that you are looking for.

It is very simple to place the order and pay for the cakes. You can choose from the varied options that they provide in designer cakes. Or you can simply tell them if you have any special demand, and they would prepare the birthday cake according to your requirements. The online option is particularly helpful as it provides the customer the facility of choice as well as the much-appreciated expediency.

Daniel hudson

Mr. Daniel is an expert author on cakes, by virtue of his extensive knowledge and meticulous research, he produces informative articles on cakes. The article given here covers the arena of Wedding Cakes.

The Basics of Making a Diaper Cake

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Diaper cake is an impressive baby shower gift and if you decide to purchase it from a store, then it can cost you between $80 and $150. The process to make a diaper cake is not only an easy task, but is also a cost-effective way to present your friends with elegant gift.

You may find little difficulty in making a diaper cake by following manual instructions. In addition, you may waste your time by making mistakes and may frustrate a lot due to this process.

The ideal way to learn is by someone showing systematic and basics of making a diaper cake. If you do not have such person to guide you, download some online videos that help you to make diaper cakes. Learning through online video is also an easy and fast way to produce creative and attractive diaper cakes.

You can make creative diaper cakes by adding toys, ribbons, trinkets, lotions and photos. You can consider creating a fantastic theme for every diaper cake you create. This can be a theme based on nursery, color, popular TV program, animals, and fairies. Certainly, the options for theme based diaper cakes are myriad.

Diaper cake is an ideal gift, since they cheer up a dull home. They make an astonishing centerpiece for any baby shower celebration and a welcomed souvenir for parents.

You may just need to spend as less as $40 to make a diaper cake. To cut down the cost additionally, consider discount materials available in the market. At times, some stores offer special discounts on diapers to persuade parents.

If you do a little bit of research, you can certainly buy high quality toys, creams, teddy bears and ribbons at an affordable rate. Of course, if you decide to buy in bulk quantity, you can save huge number of dollars in your pocket.

Be creative and make a wonderful diaper cake today.

Shawn Lim

You can learn how to make a beautiful diaper cake by 2 ways. One is by reading lengthy and boring books, and get tired after reading it. Or, the second way is by watching videos how to make a perfect diaper cake.


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