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Ariel's Splashy Celebration Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Home Sweet Home Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Home Sweet Home cake stands over 12 inches high! This dreamy two-story confectioners’ cottage is made using our Dimensions® Large and Mini Cupcake pans.

Mega Mug 'a "Joe" Cake

Difficulty: Medium

This will wake ‘em up at any celebration! This colossal hazelnut coffee flavored cake features a sunny fondant-covered mug filled to the brim with a dark, glistening brew.

Dazzling Dancer Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Isn’t she lovely? Dressed in a tutu crafted from White Tuk-N-Ruffle and piped-icing fur, this Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan cake is sure to capture guests’ eyes and hearts.

Dinosaur Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Think of the Dinosaur Pan cake as your canvas and buttercream icing as your artistic medium. Use our Icing Colors to create a vibrant palette for painting personality-plus cakes and cookies.

Do Your Birthday Upright! Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

This year, give him a gridiron! Top a Sheet Pan cake with piped-icing goal posts and a realistically iced First and Ten Football Pan cake to create a personalized end zone.

Hello Kitty Mini Cakes

Difficulty: No reviews

Construct a colorful tower for a Hello Kitty Icing Decoration. Stack two candy-coated cake rounds atop a candy base formed in a cutter from our Nesting Blossom Cutter Set.

King of Cupcakes! Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Dimensions® Giant Cupcake Pan bakes a jumbo cupcake over 8 inches high! Cute King of Cupcakes! fondant bear seems to be bursting out of the top, prepped and ready to join the birthday party.

Teddy Bear Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Serve this heartfelt cake anytime you want to say, “I love you.” After icing a Teddy Bear Pan cake, finish the fuzzy-wuzzy critter with a piped-icing heart to showcase your true feelings.

There'll Be a Hot Time! Cake

Difficulty: Easy

Heat up a birthday party by creating a fire-breathing dragon that exhales a personal greeting written on parchment paper. Create the shape from two Heart Pan cakes and appendages cut from cookie dough.

Acoustic Guitar Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Unplug from the rest of the world and create this Acoustic Guitar Cake. The main parts of the guitar—the fingerboard, tuners, bridge, headstock, and sound hole—are made with candy plaques.

Candy Castle Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Fashion a fairytale fortress around a tiered cake. Our Romantic Castle Cake Set supplies reusable architectural pieces—including towers, windows and doors—that can be decorated with icing or melted candy.

Floral Fantasy Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Roses, daisies and forget-me-nots encircle and top this gorgeous cake, perfect for birthdays, showers and more. Decorating this cake is a breeze with our Trim ‘N Turn ULTRA Cake Turntable. It lifts your cake off the work surface so you can easily decorate borders and add flower embellishments.

Get Star Struck Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Let your fondant stars shine with brushstrokes of silver and gold Pearl Dust. This easy decorating touch creates a cake with all the glamour you want for showers, birthdays and New Year celebrations—and it’s carried by a fondant-covered board with the sensational texture of our Star Power Imprint Mat.

Serenity by the Sea Castle Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Set imaginations soaring with a simply constructed “life’s a brown-sugar beach” cake. Build the castle with two stacked 6 in. Round Pan cakes and components from our Romantic Castle Cake Set.

Spidey’s Bird’s-Eye View Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Stage an action sequence atop a Sheet Pan cake. Construct a city scene from fondant and add a ready-to-leap candy plaque formed in our Spider Sense Spider-Man Pan.