Create-CAKE-tivity

Family Circle keeps sending me magazines. Every so often I'll glance @ a recipie but, I'm a lot LESS adventurous than I once was.
Anyhow, there are these AMAZING creations that don't even look like cakes, and supposedly any average wife can make them. The most recent was a cake that looked like a fishbowl with little fish swimming inside, gravel in the bottom, and seaweed on the side. In the past FC has also had a cake that looked like a hamburger, one that looked like a footlong subsandwich, all very interesting & supposedly eadible. Recently I went to this restaraunt that I love and they had an amazing variety of cakes to choose from Geen Tea, Blueberry pillow, Almond "cheese cake", the list goes on.
I have a great-aunt who's specialty used to be a pineapple upsidedown cake, not terribly original but definately not terrible :)

I have a new found interest in cake making/baking I'll definately take some suggestions.