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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.

Minion Birthday Cake – Bake of the Week

February 24, 2016 by Helen 23 Comments

Minion 5th Birthday Cake

I'm sure I can hear you thinking, "What? Another Minion Cake!" and you would be correct. For the 3rd year running, Little Miss Tara has requested a Minion party and cake. Our littlest lady was 5 at the weekend - Just blown away how quickly ...

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Minion Birthday Cake & Party – Bake of the Week

February 25, 2015 by Helen 42 Comments

minion birthday cake

Well, its a bit of a different Bake of the Week from me this week. I hadn't realised how long it had been since I did a properly decorated cake until Tara said 'Wow Mummy, did you do that ALL by yourself?!' Bless her! We had our crazy happy ...

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Tractor Cake & Rice Krispie Treats Tutorial

February 13, 2014 by Helen 10 Comments

I've come out of retirement AGAIN! My brother-in-law was 40 last week so out came the sugarcraft equipment. Since I last did a 'proper' cake, our one and only sugarcraft shop in St Helens has closed so it was a bit of a challenge to get the ...

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Creme Egg Minions – Despicable Me 2: Creme Egg Creatures

June 23, 2013 by Helen 3 Comments

I've been having a play this afternoon - The Creme Eggs have been transformed into Minions. The country is going Despicable Me 2 crazy as the film comes out this week. I've well and truly jumped on the bandwagon! Its not exactly Creme ...

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Scooby Doo Birthday Cake

May 13, 2013 by Helen 3 Comments

Why did no-one tell me about the joys of plastic figures earlier? I spent years of my life that I will never get back making teeny sugar figures and now I discover how brilliant pre bought figurines are. When I was asked to make a Scooby ...

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When it goes wrong – A cake maker’s story

November 20, 2012 by Helen Leave a Comment

One of the most common arguments I had during my cake making years, was when I wasn't happy about how a cake was turning out or worrying about how I would go about making a design. I know people were either trying to be nice, boost my ...

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Ice Age Cake

October 22, 2012 by Helen 8 Comments

Two tier white ice age cake with marzipan figures

I've got a confession - I've never seen Ice Age. In fact, there's tons of children's films I have never watched. I've never seen Shrek either but I can more or less repeat the script word for word thanks to my girls watching it on the iPad ...

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Numberjack 4 Cake

June 25, 2012 by Helen 2 Comments

A bold coloured cake can either be a complete success or a complete disaster in my experience. I had major doubts about this cake before I made it. The shade of blue and the shape of the 4 had to be spot on to do the number 4 ...

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Cake of the Week – Birthday Cakes

June 3, 2012 by Helen 1 Comment

The cakes for this week may not be the biggest or the most elaborate but they are definitely no less special. I'm giving you two cakes for the price of one this week. The first cake is a 21st cake for Daniel. Daniel is the son of a good ...

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Harley Davidson/JCB Cake – Cake of the Week

May 20, 2012 by Helen 1 Comment

Another crazily busy week but am so much chirpier than last week's Cake of the Week post. A lot of smaller cakes this week (including some Jubilee cupcakes that I forgot to take pictures of! Gasp!) It seemed that each of the cakes from ...

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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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