This tiger cake was for my nephew’s birthday. He loves Auburn and he is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and the patch on his uniform is of a Siberian tiger. I lucked out when I made this, I did not know he was struggling with which kind of cake he wanted and this covered them both!
It is two layers of yellow cake (9″ rounds) with Wilton ready made white icing that I tinted orange for the face, black for the details and yellow for the eyes. I simply piped the whiskers on after everything else was finished.
I had printed off a few pictures from the internet of tigers and I made copies to enlarge the eyes and stripes for detail and did it all freehand. He absolutely loved it as did everyone else that was there. While it was in the carrier he hugged it and told us we could not cut it.
You did a great job. That was a lot of detail and is looks great!
serious, this cake is the coolest tiger cake going! I’m online trying to find inspirations for a contest my son’s tiger cub scouts group. and, this is totally awesome – I may be borrowing some of the detail ideas! thanks!
Wow, the best looking tiger cake I could be inspired by for a 35 year old.
How did you make the black icing?
It’s just white buttercream dyed black. Same goes for the orange. :)
FROM MY EXPERIENCE IT IS BETTER TASTING TO USE FUDGE ICING AND ADD (LESS) BLACK FOOD COLORING–THIS CAKE IS PHENOMENAL THOUGH.. LOOKS AWESOME!
WAR EAGLE!!! great looking cake!
I never thought about fudge icing, that’s awesome! I always hate making black icing since it turns everyone’s teeth and mouths black. Thanks for the advice!
The cake looks terrific!
How much did this cake cost you?
Wilton makes icing color gels. Instead of adding food coloring to dye your icing, you can just use a little bit of the gels and your icing will change color.
Would love to copy your cake for my grandson. Do you have more pictures of it and would it be possible to receive them by email?
this looks great! I would love to make this cake for my son! Is it possible to have more pictures? any extra ideas you can share with me? thank you so much! marahsilvestre@hotmail.com