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Mega Zygarde Cake

My nephew’s birthday cake request this year was the Pokemon Mega Zygarde. It’s a little glowing guy with a big rocket.

Leigh Henderson 9/19/25 Leigh Henderson 9/19/25

Comedy Tragedy Cupcakes

I made mini cupcakes with flavors inspired by comedy and tragedy.

Leigh Henderson 3/23/25 Leigh Henderson 3/23/25

Sukuna’s Fingers Cake

My niece and I are big fans of Jujutsu Kaisen. For her birthday, she wanted a cake based on the roll of Sukuna fingers that Jogo unrolls during the Shibuya Incident.

Leigh Henderson 1/12/25 Leigh Henderson 1/12/25

Shadowcaster Cake

My nephew wanted the final boss from the video game Shadows Over Loathing for his birthday cake. We think it’s called the Shadowcaster.

Leigh Henderson 10/26/24 Leigh Henderson 10/26/24

Armoire Monster Cake

I made this cake for my sister’s 50th birthday party. It’s an armoire that is also a monster and also has other monsters emerging from its drawers.

Leigh Henderson 3/10/24 Leigh Henderson 3/10/24

Fancy 18th Birthday Entremets

For their 18th birthday, instead of a cake, my niece requested a triple layer (dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate) mousse that I sometimes make, but fancy enough to celebrate such an important birthday.

Leigh Henderson 1/14/24 Leigh Henderson 1/14/24

Castle Bowser Cake

For his birthday, my nephew asked for Castle Bowser from Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Leigh Henderson 1/14/23 Leigh Henderson 1/14/23

Koraidon Cake

Koraidon is a Pokémon from the new Pokémon Scarlet game. My nephew wanted him in his battle form for his birthday cake.

Leigh Henderson 4/22/22 Leigh Henderson 4/22/22

Rainbow Cake

My niece wanted a simple rainbow-shaped rainbow cake. I’m not very good at simple.

Leigh Henderson 2/11/22 Leigh Henderson 2/11/22

Julia’s Cake

It’s chocolate genoise, soaked with Chambord, with chocolate crème fraîche, vanilla crème fraîche, and fresh raspberries inside, with a chocolate glaze, decorated with more fresh raspberries and ruby chocolate hearts. I made it for my dad’s birthday.

Leigh Henderson 2/8/22 Leigh Henderson 2/8/22

Meatloaf Cake

My sister had to make a meatloaf decorated like a cake for work, so I volunteered to do the decorating. The icing is mashed potatoes colored with beet juice.

Leigh Henderson 1/15/22 Leigh Henderson 1/15/22

Sushi Pusheen Cake

My nephew loves sushi and he loves Pusheen, so his request for his birthday cake was Pusheen wrapped up in a California roll (otherwise known as Susheen).

Leigh Henderson 9/24/21 Leigh Henderson 9/24/21

Nectarine Bavarian

I made this for my Mom’s birthday. I’m delighted by how much it looks like something you would see in a magazine in the 1960s.

Leigh Henderson 3/7/21 Leigh Henderson 3/7/21

Jason Cake

My niece’s 15th birthday cake features Jason, a character from an expansive world of her imagination.

Leigh Henderson 2/14/21 Leigh Henderson 2/14/21

Valentine Treats

These are little heart-shaped mousse cakes that I made for my family on Valentine’s Day. I was hoping that they would be extremely elegant versions of my Bleeding Heart Cake, but when we first cut them, the raspberry was too frozen to bleed and when we cut another one later, too much of the raspberry had seeped into the mousse, and it still didn’t bleed. So I still have that to work on.

Leigh Henderson 2/7/21 Leigh Henderson 2/7/21

Relatively Successful Entremet

I made this cake for my dad’s birthday, from a recipe in one of my cookbooks from The Great British Bake Off.

Leigh Henderson 1/10/21 Leigh Henderson 1/10/21

Hollow Knight Cake

In keeping with our Hollow Knight Halloween costumes, Sam wanted a Hollow Knight cake for his birthday this year.

Leigh Henderson 12/19/20 Leigh Henderson 12/19/20

50th Anniversary Cake

We couldn’t celebrate my parents’ 50th anniversary in person, but that didn’t stop me from making them a cake!

Leigh Henderson 8/1/20 Leigh Henderson 8/1/20

Valkyr Pusheen Cake

Another cake celebrating my wonderful niece! It’s Pusheen dressed as Valkryr, one of Alex’s favorite frames from Warframe.

Leigh Henderson 6/28/20 Leigh Henderson 6/28/20

Raspberry Charlotte

Not as neat as I would have liked it to be, but it does look kind of like a brain, which is a plus in my book.