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Birthday Cakes

Discover a selection of Birthday Cakes at Casa Costello. Many contain tutorials for beginner cake makers with designs for experience sugar crafters.

Ombre Ruffle Cake Tutorial

March 18, 2024 by Helen 3 Comments

pink ombre ruffle frosted cake on a white board with a sparkly 18 cake topper inserted

This Ombre Ruffle Cake post was originally published in 2017 and has been newly updated for 2024. I love the simplicity of this Ombre Ruffle Cake. Once you learn how to make a ruffle cake, you will come back to this style of decorating ...

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One Direction Cake

April 13, 2023 by Helen 14 Comments

Title page for a one tier pink and white striped One Direction Birthday Cake

This post contains some affiliate links. I've entered into the world of One Direction cakes - Argh! When Clare asked me to make her daughter's 6th birthday cake, I'll admit to being stuck for ideas. Clare showed me a pic of the logo that ...

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Rainbow Drops Birthday Drip Cake

June 5, 2020 by Helen 3 Comments

Title picture for Pink Rainbow Drop Birthday Cake

We've had our first lockdown birthday this week, No excuse for not getting a birthday cake though (even though we knew we would end up eating it all due to the lack of visitors). Middle child was 14 on Wednesday so celebrated with a super ...

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Everton Football Birthday Cake

May 19, 2019 by Helen 17 Comments

Everton Football Cake

I really thought I had shared this Everton cake but seems I forgot. Football cakes are so versatile - I really do love making them and setting myself the challenge of each one being that little bit different. An Everton football cake is ...

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Football Cake for Girls

March 9, 2019 by Helen 13 Comments

Girls' Football Cake

Tara is 8! How has that happened so quickly? I swear she has only just started school and all of a sudden she has grown so tall and can hold a proper conversation. Her love of football is well known around here - no synchro for this one. ...

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Joint 40th Birthday Cake with Teddy Cake Topper #BakeoftheWeek

June 10, 2018 by Helen 14 Comments

Joint 40th Birthday Cake with Teddy Cake Topper

If you follow me on social media (or you are in fact Clair & Andrew), you may have already seen me sharing this cake. I made it a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our good friends' 40th birthdays. I wanted to make their joint 40th ...

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Football Dome Cake – Bake of the Week

February 1, 2018 by Helen 38 Comments

Football Dome Cake

Do you remember me saying a couple of weeks ago that I hardly ever do cakes? Well, I've made another. A last minute request for my youngest cousin who was 14 last week. The only theme suggested was football which seemed perfect for ...

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Yoda Cake Topper Tutorial (Star Wars)

January 23, 2018 by Helen 22 Comments

2 tier black Star Wars cake with a marzipan Yoda sat on the top

I may not take cake orders anymore but it doesn't mean I don't enjoy having a play. My 7 year nephew is a huge Star Wars fan and celebrated his birthday party at the weekend. I offered to make him a cake as he tends to miss out, having a ...

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Book Lover Cake #BakeoftheWeek

August 3, 2017 by Helen 27 Comments

Book Lover's Cake

This is one of the most time consuming cakes I can remember doing during the past couple of years. I know I made life hard for myself by making each book individually on the side of the cake and piping so many authors and novels but even ...

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New York Cake #BakeoftheWeek

June 14, 2017 by Helen 26 Comments

New York Lover's Cake

Its been a while since we had a decorated cake as our #BakeoftheWeek but I just loved this one and wanted to share. I don't say yes to many cakes any more, I'm just not around most weekends to be able to deliver them but sometimes I can't ...

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Hi, I'm Helen. Mother of 3, Wife of 1. Tired since 2002. To be found in the kitchen or poolside.
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