Stack of CD's Cake

Ok, you know when you have a cake idea in your head, but it doesn't quite come out in cake form??? Yep, that's what happened here. Not quite what I had pictured in my head but it's ok. It is supposed to be a stack of music cd's side to side so you can see the titles then headphones over the top. I baked a square cake and cut it into four equal squares. Then I stacked those on top of each other to make the cube. I frosted the whole cube white and sprinkled the left side pink to represent the back of the first cd. The opposite side is sprinkled in purple to represent the front of that cd. The top of the cube (aka the top of all the cd's) I sprinkled in gold. The seperating lines I just made with a knife in the frosting. I added candy and writing to represent the title side of the cds. I used Hostess snowballs for the headphones (ear part) and piped chocolate for the cord. The top of the headphones troubled me the most. First I tried taffy, but it just sagged/broke and I tried more than once :( so next I tried to pipe chocolate like I did for the princess tiara cake. It broke because I didn't have the right curve on it. SO, I broke my own rule and added a non-edible part to my cake--a handle off of an ice cream bucket! It worked. I think she likes it! If you attempt this I'd love to hear what you used and how it worked!! Leave a comment here for me!

Music Note

This cake started with a bunny!  I baked a chocolate cake and turned it out onto a platter.  After tilting in to the right and trimming it where needed, I frosted it with dark chocolate frosting and clear sprinkles.

The final product...a 16th Note for a 16 year old's birthday cake!!

Radio Cake

I made this cake for my daughter's dance party (which explains the pink radio)! It is two layered cakes that were baked in loaf pans, then frosted and decorated as shown. The top circle was a fruit roll-up. The other candies include M&M's, Dots, Rolos, licorice, etc.

Microphone Cupcakes

To celebrate the American Idol Finale, we made these cupcakes in a cone. Actually , we didn't bake the cake in the cone because we needed it to go higher. So, what we did was fill the bottom of the cup with M&M's for weight and then put frosting around the top of the cone for 'glue'. We placed the unwrapped cupcake on the top and frosted all the way around. Then we rolled it in a bowl of chocolate sprinkles. There you go--a microphone you can eat!

Drum

Not a great picture, but this is a drum. It is a layered round cake and decorated with pretzels, M&Ms and suckers for the drum sticks. It was much cuter in real life than this picture wants to tell!

Microphone Cake

This cake was for my daughter who LOVES music! I simply made a circle cake and a square cake and cut the square into the handle. I frosted in brown instead of black because it tastes better! If anyone has a way to make black frosting taste good, let me know! I added sprinkles and kept the brown theme by adding chocolate licorice for the microphone stripe and cord.

iCake

This cake was for a 14th birthday. Pretty self-explanatory! Licorice for the cords and kisses for the earbuds ('glued' with frosting).