1/50Del Jefferies made this cake, which is an amazing replica of a 'rat rod' car. It was so good that the recipient loved it so much he refused to cut it!
Gold Coast’s 50 most amazing cakes
They’re the sweet treats that look as good as they taste. Take a look at the 50 most incredible cakes made on the Gold Coast.
2/50This cake has a wonderfully Gold Coast flavour, from the surfboard and thongs at the top, right down to the very clever use of 'sand' at its base. The creative genius repsonsible was Sue Lyckman, who made the cake for the father of a friend.
3/50Amanda Golding is no sloth in the kitchen - she made this incredible cake for a friend's birthday.
4/50Cup to tea with your cake? This colourful creation was made by Erika Rhodes for her daughter-in-law's 21st.
5/50Forget chocolate eggs, this is the only treat we want next Easter! Responsible for this bunny brilliance is Katrina Jasper, who made this cake when her daughter's birthday fell on Easter Sunday one year.
6/50Alicia Gee says she is "self taught and lucky enough to have wonderful family and friends who trust me to make their cakes." Looking at these, we reckon her family and friends are the lucky ones!
7/50Clever kids, and a very clever mum too! This cake was made by Melissa Slade for her daughter's Prep class to celebrate the completion of their first year at school.
8/50First birthdays are always special occasions and Jess Worthe certainly marked her daughter Ivy's first birthday in style by making this magnificent cake.
9/50Rachel Feng made this spectacular Pokemon-themed cake and matching cupcakes for a boy’s 7th birthday party. She says she "had lots fun making these and they are absolutely one of my top favorites." We bet the kids at the party loved them too!
10/50Hayley Sharpe made this amazing Harry Potter cake for "sweet little one-year-old Harry". The level of detail is incredible. "I can only hope he grows up to love and appreciate the books and look back on photos and love his cake," she said. We're sure he will!
11/50Leon Unus will certainly have set tails a-wagging with this wonderful canine creation.
12/50The force is strong with this one! Clirissa Le Feuvre made this for partner Mikey Kane's birthday. It was "the best cake ever", Mikey said. "You do not know the power of the dark side - totally vegan and tastes delicious!"
13/50What a magical cake for a child - we love the merry-go-round in this My Little Pony-themed cake Helen Bailey made for her niece's fifth birthday party.
14/50The Gruffalo has to be one of our favourite children's books, now it's one of our favourite cakes! Philippa Morris did a superb job bringing the Gruffalo to life with this magnificent cake she made for her daughter's second birthday party.
15/50This Halloween cake is scarily good! The brains behind it? Take a bow Juju Flower.
16/50What an absolute beauty! Verity Robinson made this fantastic Beauty and the Beast cake to enter into the Canungra Show.
17/50The story behind this cake is so wonderful. It was made three years ago by Linda Williams' grandmother for her great grandson - when she was 95 years young. And he wants her to make this year's cake too!
18/50Send out the bat signal, this pair of cakes made by Abbey Shaw for her twin boys might just be the finest batman creation we've ever seen.
19/50Lani Hearfield started baking 12 years ago when she was 15 and has made hundreds since. These impressive creations are some of her favourites - and ours! The pirate ship really grabs our attention - just look at those tentacles emerging out of the water!
20/50Shelly Monroe made this cake for her grandpa when he was sick in hospital. "I couldn’t travel to see him," she said, "so I made a cake and sent it on a 7.5 hr drive, just so he knew I was thinking of him even though I couldn’t be there." The best medicine!
21/50What a great mum Anja Ede is for making this incredible jungle cake for son Max's first birthday. We love the detail, right down to the bananas in the monkey's hands. And the elephant is soooo cute!
22/50Amazingly, this cake made by Kate Hawkins for her husband's 50th birthday was all completely edible. Brilliant work.
23/50There are few things people on the Gold Coast better than KFC, so what better to celebrate an 18th birthday than this amazing KFC cake. This time Iroa Abigan is the one with the secret recipe.
24/50Kylie Johnston must have spent a long time making this dinosaur image with m&ms, mini m&ms and penut butter chips, but the result was fantastic. You can almost hear the roar!
25/50The photo just doesn't do this cake justice. It was topped by a giant chocolate dinosaur egg which had to be cracked open by a lucky little boy. The game was a huge hit with fascinated kids at his sixth birthday party. Sarah Leonard says the cake was made by her mum, who "always goes the extra mile for her grandbabies."
26/50Have a little boy that likes chocolate and construction vehicle toys? You might find some inspiration in the way Steph Delaney brilliantly combined the two for her son Hendrix's first birthday cake.
27/50Waiter, there's a bug on my cake, and it's delicious! Marilyn Hide made this for her granddaughter’s 3rd birthday recently.
28/50What a fun wedding cake! And delicious too - creator Charmaine Woods reports that, remarkably, the figures were all cake. We have no idea how she does it!
29/50Amy Filicietti said she couldn't pick one favourite cake to send us. "It's like picking your favourite child", she said. So she sent these four - and they're all wonderful!
30/50Every baker will relate to the story of this cake. Amy Foxe put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into making it, staying up into the wee hours to get it done. "The next day people were amazed," says Amy, but after her night of stress she chopped its head off! "It felt goood," she says. Lucky it tasted good too!
31/50How cute are the animal faces peering out from the middle of this jolly jungle cake, made by Leah Matheson for her son's second birthday party. Must have been a shame to have to cut it!
32/50There are magic tricks at work in this cake, made by Megan Towner for a friend's daughter, who had a "super cute" Alice in Wonderland party.
33/50The mermaid on this 21st birthday cake looks like a doll but was actually made with fondant by creator Gina Hamilton.
34/50This handpainted cake by Emma Court is simply stunning.
35/50Ahoy there mateys! Lyuda Pavlyuk made this fantastic pirate cake for her son's best friend.
36/50Louise Rickit says she is "just a hobby baker". You wouldn't know it from this superb Minions cake made for her son's first birthday.
37/50We just love how flower decorations have been used to stunning effect here by Michelle Moir.
38/50Croccy cupcakes, what a great idea. It's just one of the cakes shown here that Todd Murray has made for his boys.
39/50Everything is awesome when you've got a Lego cake like this one by Josephine Spark to bring to your party.
40/50What to do when two girls have birthdays on the same day and both want unicorn cakes? Use two different colour schemes, brilliantly done here by Jessica Mundy.
41/50Judging by these enticing looking cakes Paige Lovell has a sweet tooth, and there's definitely nothing wrong with that!
42/50Caroline Binnie made this fantastic PJ Mask cake for her friend Stephanie Bohn's son. "We all loved it," said Stephanie, who said the cake was "awesome". We agree, looks pretty awesome to us too!
43/50Deanne Brennan says she "loves loves loves creating personalised cakes for friends and family". And Deanne, we love love love your work! Check out the paint pot cake in the middle of this collage - a masterstroke in more ways than one!
44/50This cake by Madison Elliott is a masterpiece, just like the movie it's based on. It's the circle of life in one scrummy circle of cake goodness. Even the decorations are handmade and edible.
45/50These have to be the prettiest pumpkins you'll ever see. Melissa Slade made the cake for one of her children's teachers, whose birthday falls on Halloween. Top marks!
46/50There are christening cakes, and then there is this fabulous creation by Trish Ivison. And we love the creative paint pots in the artist cake too!
47/50The pointy end of baking? We love how chocolate fingers have been very cleverly used by Tracy Koops Green to make this super-cute hedgehog cake.
48/50Rayana MacGregor chose to recreate a beautiful moment from the movie Moana, and we reckon she's done an absolutely beautiful job.
49/50This is such a jolly, goofy monster, sure to bring a smile to anyone's face. Lozz Brown, take a bow!
50/50Simple, elegant and brilliantly done. This cake by Anais Bricknell looks so good, we wish we could have a slice!
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