For the benefit of any who might not know. I do bake and decorate birthday cakes for my cousin's children. His daughter has a serious peanut allergy that nearly killed her when she was one year old. Her allergy is so serous that on her second birthday they had to scrap a cake because they got it from a bakery that cooks with peanuts in the area. I felt so bad for her that I volunteered to start making the cakes for their kids' birthdays. Though, that tended to pile up through the years since my cousin and his wife have gone on to have three children. I just felt that their kids deserve to have some nice birthday cakes and their parents should know they are safe to eat.

Understand that I have absolutely no training in cake decorating. My first real attempt at cake decorating came up when their son's second birthday came. He wanted a Spider-man cake. I made two sheet cakes. One was of Spider-man's chest design on it. The second was just a red cake with a bunch of webbing on it.

Now, we jump to 2011, and my cousin's youngest son just turned 4 years old. He wanted a chocolate Spider-man cake. Through the years I've been able to develop in cake decorating to the point where I can now stack the layers and carve the cake into the shapes I need. Carving the shape of Spider-man's head was pretty easy. I just sort of laugh that I now make such elaborate cakes for toddlers who have no idea the level of work that goes into these.

Looking in these images you can see the depth put into the cake.

These cakes come at no cost to them. I get the supplies and do all the work for free. Why, you may ask. It's easy. I'm a schmuck. lol I started working on decorating this cake soon after Friday's Big Live Live Show. Because I watched that instead of decorating, I was up all night finishing this in time.

I forgot to add a ruler in the pictures to give a sense of scale. This is a three layered cake that's roughly about 11 x 9 inches.These things are pretty big.

-Kristoffer Remmell (FoxxFireArt) is a freelance graphic artist, writer, and over all mystery geek.- Follow for news updates: @ animevice / @ FoxxFireArt