Things get a little topsy turvy on this episode of Cake This! Hy-Vee cake designer Stephanie creates a tea party-inspired tiered cake that's draped in textured fondant; decorated with diamonds, hearts, and flowers; and topped with a teapot.

Tea Party Cake

This wedding cake is sure to be a showstopper, with bright yellow blooms and a hand-painted effect. Inside all the pretty yellow and white is a chocolate-and-fudge layered cake. It looks like a dreamy waterfall and tastes even better!

Cascading Floral Wedding Cake

For expert Hy-Vee cake designer Stephanie, more is more! This funfetti drip cake is loaded with your favorite sweets, from donuts and donut holes to a melting ice cream cone to technicolor sprinkles.

Funfetti Drip Cake

This Swimming Pool Cake is ready to make a splash at your next pool party! Watch how Hy-Vee cake designer Stephanie built this multi-level cake masterpiece out of white cake, icing, and festive decorations.

Swimming Pool Cake

It's patriotism in cake form! Watch expert Hy-Vee cake designer Bryant build a custom Firecracker Cake, complete with lit sparklers, from scratch.

Firecracker Cake

Just as flowers need time and attention to bloom, designing a custom Garden Party Cake takes some time and special attention! Watch as Hy-Vee Cake Designer Sara builds an elaborate garden scene, complete with pavement, a garden hose, and a friendly snail.

Garden Party Cake

Get the inside scoop on how this Giant Ice Cream Cone Cake came to life! Watch as one of our expert Hy-Vee Cake Designers constructs this masterpiece with tapered stacks of cake and buttercream frosting.

Giant Ice Cream Cone Cake

These mini mermaid cakes and oyster cookies are packed with decorative details and just about every shade of purple. Watch how Hy-Vee Cake Designer Bryant Myers adds seashells, edible coral, and plenty of glitter and pearls to create a dessert bar fit for Poseidon himself.

Mini Mermaid Cakes

Oh, the Things You'll Do! You won't see a more fitting graduation party cake than this one, and we owe it all to our favorite childhood storybooks. Watch how pastel icing, cake pops, and cupcakes come together to create a novel cake.

Bright Future Graduation Cake

Surprise a Hy-Chi superfan with a super realistic cake! Cake designer Heather outdid herself by adding an anti-gravity feature to this one-of-a-kind design.

Hy-Chi Cake

A margarita, taco, guacamole, cake. Or just cake. It's all about the over-the-top details with cake designer Bryant's margarita cake.

Margarita Cake

It's what's on the inside that matters! Surprise guests with a geode cake filled with attention-grabbing rock candy.

Geode Cake

There's nothing ordinary about cake designer Molly's candy pour cake! Impress your sweetheart with a Valentine's Day dessert from Hy-Vee Bakery that sends the right message.

Valentine Candy Pour Cake

Don't pass on the opportunity to see designer Kelly's football jersey cake. Any festive fan will delight in digging in, so give it your best shot!

Football Jersey Cake

Top off any celebration with a cake aged to perfection. Cake designer Sara's wine bottle cake is as much a work of art as it is appetizing. Serve up a slice with your favorite glass of wine.

Wine Box Cake

Chill out with cake designer Stephanie's nifty cooler cake! Made for eating and sipping, it's the sort of treat that everyone will enjoy.

Cooler Cake

Anyone else have a crush on this sandwich cake? Cake designer Sara's recent creation stacks up as one impressive cake! It's got everything you need: meat, cheese, lettuce and, of course, an olive on top.

Giant Sandwich Cake

Celebrate any couple's special day with mini wedding cakes! The variety and simplicity of cake designer Sara's decadent desserts are sure to make a statement. There's a cake for every special occasion, from trendy to traditional small cakes.

Mini Wedding Cakes

Create all the buzz at any baby shower with cake designer Sara's cute bee cake! With a honeycomb design inspired by the latest cake trend, little bees flying above the cake and beehive themed cupcakes, this cake has it all to make your celebration as sweet as can bee.

Bee Cake

Cake designer Stephanie serves up one classic combo! With realistic burger patties, buns, tomato, lettuce, cheese, condiments and a side of fries – this giant creation is made using only cake, fondant and icing.

Cheeseburger Cake

Peaches, apples and corn, oh my! Cake designer Dana's produce cake looks like it came straight from the garden. With an assortment of fruits and veggies made from cake, buttercream, fondant and more, it's appetizing to both look at and eat.

Produce Cake

Even the Easter Bunny is social distancing by burrowing into this cake! Watch cake designer Sara create this adorable Bunny Bum cake, complete with layers of cake and colored buttercream. This whimsical cake includes great details like a bunny tail, Easter basket, carrot top and more!

Bunny Bum Cake

Make your graduate's milestone even bigger with cake designer Stephanie's four-tier graduation cake. It's the perfect mix of fun and formal with twists of color and a silhouette of a graduate in the center!

Graduation Cake

Cake designer Sara's basketball cake is sure to score points at any party. Complete with an iconic basketball, shoe, whistle and even confetti, this cake is perfect for anyone who loves basketball.

Basketball Cake

Celebrate all things love with Hy-Vee cake designer Sara's sweetheart cake! Using a heart-shaped template, fun-colored fondant and food coloring, Sara transforms cake rounds into realistic, oversized candy conversation hearts. This cake is sure to send the right message this Valentine's Day!

Sweetheart Cake

Lights, camera, cake! All eyes are on cake designer Dominique's movie theater cake. Complete with buttery popcorn details made from marshmallows and touches of Hollywood glamour made from fondant and edible image paper, this cake will steal the show.

Movie Theater Cake

Enter the New Year with a pop as cake designer Bryant creates a New Year's Eve inspired cake. He completes this celebratory cake by using Rice Krispies, gold foil, isomalt sugar and edible paint to create a lifelike champagne bottle.

New Year's Eve Cake

A classic seafood dish transforms into a realistic cake masterpiece with this crab boil cake. Detail, texture and color are cake designer Bryant's keys to turning fondant and gum paste into crab, shrimp, corn cobs and potatoes.

Crab Boil Cake

Get ready for a sweet treat full of surprises as cake designer Dana creates an extravagant four-tier fault line cake. She adds details of wafer paper flowers, lots of sprinkles and even tops it off with macarons!

Fault Line Cake

Cake designer Stephanie shows off her spooky skills with this Halloween-themed cake. Stacking three pumpkins, she creates three iconic characters: a pirate, a ghost and a witch.

Pumpkin Cake

Cake designer Rebekkah puts the pancake in cake with her beautiful breakfast cake. Inspired by her breakfast favorites, she creates bacon, eggs, pancakes, strawberries, a muffin and more with some fondant fun.

Breakfast Cake

Fresh-picked produce provided inspiration for cake designer Bryant's veggie cake. Creating a variety of veggies like corn, cauliflower and carrots with moldable fondant makes this cake a realistic and tasty treat.

Veggie Cake

This swim-inspired cake makes a big splash at pool parties. Cake designer Samantha dives into the details by creating a tiered fondant creation complete with a beach ball, towels and pool noodles. It's fun, bright and screams summer fun.

Pool Party Cake

Cake designer Bryant mixes fruity with fun to create a picnic-inspired watermelon cake. Served with assorted fresh fruits on top, this sweet treat is perfect for sunny summer days.

Watermelon Cake

Cake designer Sara turns a couple's wedding shower cake into a masterpiece tuxedo illusion using wafer paper, buttercream and fondant. This flirty and sophisticated three-tiered cake is the perfect addition to any wedding shower.

His and Her Cake

Cake designer Linda creates a forest-themed cake perfect for birthday parties and other celebrations. This single-tiered cake looks just like a stump in the middle of a forest, complete with whimsical woodland animals.

The Forest Cake

Cake designer Sara shows you how to make unique, contemporary wedding cakes. She unites vibrant colors with clever touches that can help you work your personality into the big day.

Wedding Cakes

Cake designer Stephanie creates a single-tier cake that is perfect for dinosaur fans. A combination of air brushed colors, cake and fondant is the perfect way to celebrate fans of the prehistoric era.

The Dinosaur Cake

Cake designer Sara creates a backpack cake just in time for graduation season. From the backpack to the edible notebook paper, this buttercream and fondant covered cake can be personalized for your graduate.

The Backpack Cake

Cake designer Linda creates a graduation cake for the ages. Fondant molded in different ways create a cap, gown, medals and everything needed to celebrate a student's achievements.

The Graduation Cake

Cake designer Sara creates an adorable gender reveal cake. This cake takes the saying bun in the oven to another level, complete with a cute cupcake and a stud muffin.

The Gender Reveal Cake

Cake designer Stephanie creates a three-tier cookie themed cake. Combing two dessert favorites - cookies and cake, this gravity-defying masterpiece goes great with a glass of milk.

The Cookie Cake

Cake designer Linda creates a four-part proposal cake. Complete with a cupcake bouquet, box of chocolates, love letter and a little blue box- who could say no?

The Proposal Cake

Cake designer Katie creates a merry-go-round masterpiece that makes a big statement. Braided rope technique and cupcakes that complement the color scheme produce a carousel cake that’s both fun and festive.

The Carousel Cake

Cake designer Stephanie creates a four-tier confection the happy couple is sure to love. Lettering and scroll techniques, plus a little bit of bling for sparkle, result in a wedding cake well-suited for the special day.

The Wedding Cake

Cue the Christmas music! Our cake decorating expert is creating a gorgeous knit sweater look for her cake with buttercream frosting and special piping tips.

3-Tier Christmas Sweater Cake

Make your own festive holiday cake with the same tools our expert cake designer used in this episode. Shop fun shaped cake and muffin pans, mixers, pastry decorating sets, cake stands, and more.

Christmas Cake

Try your hand at a cake masquerading as winter fashion using the same tools our expert cake designer used in this episode. Shop cake and muffin pans, spatulas, pastry decorating sets, cake stands, and more.

Knit Hat Cake

Make your own wintery baked goods with the same tools our expert cake designer used in this episode. Shop cake and muffin pans, mixers, pastry decorating sets, cake stands, and more.

Winter Wedding Cake

Make your own festive winter desserts using the same tools our expert cake designer used in this episode. Shop cake and muffin pans, mixers, pastry decorating sets, cake stands, and more.

Cozy Winter Wedding Cake

﻿Channel the flannel with this mad for plaid towering fall cake!

Lumberjack Plaid Cake

Cozy up and slice into cake designer Stephanie's cute cinnamon roll and coffee mug cake!

Cinnamon Roll & Coffee Mug Cake

It's the coolest cake on the planet—watch our star cake designer create this galaxy cake!

Galaxy Cake

Cake designer Stephanie creates a Thanksgiving spread like you've never seen before.

Realistic Turkey Cake

 Happy fall, y'all! Sweeten up any seasonal celebration with cake designer Stephanie's birch forest tree cake.

Birch Forest Tree Cake

This spice cake with painted buttercream flowers is nothing short of pure artistry.

Hand-Painted Buttercream Fall Cake

This cake honors breast cancer warriors with supportive and inspirational messages.﻿

Breast Cancer Awareness Cake

Celebrate fall with an apple cake layered with apple cinnamon spice filling and caramel icing.

Apple Cake

With a cauldron, potion bottle, and spider webs, this cake is sure to bring the magic to any Halloween party.

Witch Cake

This Halloween cake is getting downright scary (and delicious)!﻿

Spooky Halloween Ombré Cake

We're putting a fun, retro spin on this cake masterpiece.﻿

Retro Gumball Machine Cake

Kick off football season with a tailgating cake that's perfect for a birthday or special celebration.﻿

Tiered Tailgate Cake

Cake designer Stephanie's realistic grill cake takes edible art to a whole new layer. Focusing on the details, she creates a fun take on a summer BBQ with fondant, Rice Krispies treats, gum paste and an air brush.

Grill Cake

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