My daughter loves elephants and I was browsing online to find inspiration for a cake for her birthday party. I came across some photos on this site that inspired this adorable cake that we called “Ellie”, we consider her as Horton’s girlfriend. She is made from an oval pan for her body, a small round … Read more
I started this Elephant Birthday Cake by using a 10 inch, rather deep (3 inches?) square cake tin and made a cardboard cut out of my elephant that fit within the pan. Then I lined my tin with baking paper and doubled my banana cake recipe. I baked the cake at approx 160-170 degrees, so … Read more
I could not find a bakery in Los Angeles willing to attempt this Homemade Elephant Birthday Cake for under $500.00; and that was without the handmade touches and a much, much smaller Ellie made of gumpaste for the top. So, I decided to do it myself. This was a first for piping flowers, but I … Read more
I baked this giraffe cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday. She was in love with giraffes. First I scanned her invitation that had a giraffe on it. I then blew it up on my greetings program. I made two 9 X 13 cakes. Put them side by side. I put the giraffe template on top … Read more
I used a 15x11x2 sheet can pan for this Jungle Rainforest Theme Cake. This size pan takes 2 1/2 cake box mixes. I used 2 boxes of chocolate and 1 box of white. Then I marbled the cake batter by putting the chocolate on the bottom and adding the white on top. I then took … Read more
This is the lion cake I made for my daughters 3rd birthday party (I also made a giraffe cake for the same party). The theme was safari. We made a lion and a giraffe. This lion cake was a store bought “orange” cake, which I added chocolate pudding and dark chocolate chips to. The frosting … Read more
My daughter’s school mascot is a purple panther and we needed a cake for her teacher’s birthday! No Panther pans around! So, I made this cake with the Animal Cracker’s Wilton cakes pan. I printed a picture of the Pink Panther, blew it up to the size of the pan and trimmed out the lower … Read more
Did this for my friends son’s party! 2 Bundt cakes cut in half to form the body, M&M’s for the back, gumballs for the eyes and a construction paper tongue! The Cupcakes topped off the birthday cake decorating idea.s sons party! 2 Bundt cakes cut in half to form the body, M&M’s for the back, … Read more
I decided on the giraffe for obvious reasons and iced leaves for the bottom of the #1 so it looks like he is sticking his head through the trees. This was so easy as you can see from the birthday cake photo and I enjoyed making it. It was a big hit!
For my sons 7th birthday we had a jungle theme. I found a cute crocodile cake pattern in the Family Fun magazine we used. Since we had so many coming we also decorated some cupcakes to look like a crocodile bobbing in the water. We decorated with vines made from paper sacks and cut big … Read more
Steve Irwin was and still is my sons hero. So after watching his memorial he decided he wanted a Steve Irwin party. Silly me asked him if he wanted me to make him a crocodile – alligator cake. Of course he did. I ended up using a heart pan for the head and used a … Read more
I got the inspiration for this cake on this website. This was for my sons fourth birthday. Lions are his favorite animal so the choice was easy. I made a rectangular sponge cake that I then cut to shape the mane. I shaped a cut bit of cake in a triangular kind of shape to … Read more