r/cakedecorating

12 hours went into bringing this Mystery Machine-inspired cake to life and I pushed myself to try something I’d never done before: a windshield on a cake, with a fully detailed interior you can actually see through it. 🚌🍰

Inside, you’ll find the steering wheel, a quilted dashboard, a hanging rear-view mirror, and of course Scooby and Shaggy surrounded by their cookies. 🍪👻

The whole scene takes place in the desert, with the monster they caught secured up on the roof. But on the way back… things took a turn. 🧟‍♂️⚰️ Zombies started crawling out of the graves along the road which explains the fake blood splattered across the van.

There are so many more little details packed into this cake that deserve a closer look.

Ps I had to cover up the monsters parts because Reddit kept flagging my post 🥲 you know where to find the uncensored pics!

My daughter loves Handyman Hal. I decided I wanted to make a 2 tiered cake. I got a massive headache the night before and couldn’t finish the bottom tier (only had the handyman Hal buttercream transfer on there) plus the other tools I had made for the top of the cake kept breaking. I got up 2 hours before the party and had to just make it work. I almost skipped the bottom completely but opted for orange chocolate melts as a last ditch effort to have something on it and make the two tiered cake happen. The melt wasn’t the best but it was something and I persevered because what’s a handyman Hal cake without Handyman Hal?!

I’ve only ever done a two tiered cake 2 years ago and that was for a party at my house. This time I had to drive the two tiers separately to a park and assemble it there as if I’m some kind of professional. Luckily, it worked and I was able to pipe the top and middle sections on the spot. Unfortunately, Handyman Hal melted off the cake but I had expected that so we got all pictures in before the party started 😅

Thank god my son’s birthday isn’t until April cuz I can’t keep this up 🫠

Everything on the cake aside from the candle is made out of chocolate melts or almond bark and handyman hal was piped and transferred.

Cake and some cupcakes for a birthday party ☺️

Before and after 🩸

Celebrating 50 years of my favourite movie

The sides of each cake were done in a single pass using the different sides of the tool pictured. All buttercream.

Making a toothless cake. We can't stand fondant, so someone recommended rolled buttercream. The crumb coat was a pita. It's in the freezer now. Can I put the rolled buttercream on top of the crumb coat? Or could I have just put it directly on?

Hello everyone! I like making and decorating cakes! I do this for all my friend’s and even friend of friends/family of friend’s celebrations. I’m not professional by any means, but I love doing it! Mostly, I make cutesy cakes like vintage piping on hearts, but I have a done fruit cakes, mousse cakes, cheesecakes, etc! My friends, including guys, are into the cutesy cakes but I appreciate it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

My brother’s birthday is coming up and I want to make him a cake for his party. He’s turning 21 and in college so the party will be a lot of his bros and I don’t wanna show up w a cake that will embarrass him. I asked what he wants and he said “idk”. Last year, he just said “chocolate”. Can I ask those more turned into a dude frequency what makes a good birthday cake for a cool, nonchalant college dude? He likes fishing so I thought like I could do a fish cake but that seems ambitious.

Pictured: recent Dulce de leche x chantilly cake for my friends grad; a blueberry lemon cake with cheesecake inside for my friends birthday; and last year’s death by chocolate cake for my brother’s birthday

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Cake was a PAIN. Made Mississippi mud batter, cut er up and added buttercream for glue. Carved it out, filled it with the typical marshmallow/fudge topping, layered cake and buttercream over that. Then blue ganache, and chocolate dipped Oreos. It took forever to make a "paint" that was edible and wouldn't entirely smear on the melting wafers I used but I got there! Also made rice Krispy treats, and dipped those in chocolate, using mini m&m for the "studs" :)

I just started doing cake 4 kids cakes. (A non profit providing celebratory cakes for kids in need) and I’m just loving it! I get to be so creative and it’s so fun to see what these kids come up with. Here’s the few I’ve done!

Last year I got into making cupcakes because they make the perfect sweet treat for me to have in the fridge. I would give cupcakes away to people and would get questions if I was selling. So a few months ago I started selling them and here's my decorating progress!

I recently took a cake decorating class at a community center. This was my “finals” cake at the last class. Before this class, I didn’t know how to crumb coat, smoothing a cake, piping..anything, really. Very happy with my first cake that I made from beginning to the end.

The cake itself was not that great. Very dense…but this was a cake decorating class so I was not too hurt about the taste 😁.

Not the most accurate one but I love it.

My mother in law ordered a cake through Dairy Queen, this is how it looked when she picked it up.

We had a garbage themed birthday party, complete with a trip to the dump. I don’t make the prettiest cakes, but luckily that wasn’t necessary for this one.

I made this cake (2nd pic) yesterday, and had some leftover buttercream sitting in the bowl overnight (1st pic), to discard this morning; I noticed that the green on the cake started to develop white spots before serving it, and the buttercream that was left over has white spots all over it as well. Any clue as to why this happened?

Edit: solved, thanks for the great comments and tips!

I think where I went wrong, was thinking that my butter was too soft as I was beating it, and I actually started cooling off the bowl as the butter was beating. It may also be the butter that was stuck in the beaters, and trying to clean the beaters off too much.. and I bet you those little bits were the little bits stuck on the beaters that I incorporated too late into the process. Lessons learned 💕🙌

Birthday Cake recipe from Dessert Person