I made the candy following the recipe and instructions from The Whimsical Bakehouse cookbook. I used chocolate cake and cookies-n-cream filling for one cake and a vanilla cake with custard and strawberries for the other layer. It was a lot of work to have so many colors but I made the candy about a month … Read more
I used a couple of ideas I had seen online for a safari cake but also added a bit of my own. The flowers and the animals on the top are made from white fondant that I dyed with food coloring gel according to which color I wanted. The animals on the sides are just … Read more
After lots of looking to get inspiration, of both real crocs and other croc cakes, I made a template from baking paper and worked out how many cakes, and what shapes to cook. For my crocodile,( it was for my son’s 2nd birthday combined Naming Day, so had to feed 40 people and look great!), … Read more
We have a pet alligator named Archie that my son just loves. So for his 3rd Birthday I thought a alligator cake would be a lot of fun for him. I was right, he loved it and he called it his Archie cake, and he’s still talking about it. I made 2 10×13 cakes and … Read more
When asked for a tiger cake I was a little anxious but took the challenge. A huge sponge slab cake was the best for carving my tiger from a hand drawn stencil. I iced it all with orange and white icing and then started with the black stripes. Licorice provided guidelines to pipe in some … Read more
The idea for this Snake Cake came from another submission on this site, (Coolest Burmese Python Snake Cake 46). I used 2 boxes of cake mix and, like the other submission, a Bundt cake pan for the bottom coil and a Williams-Sonoma donut cake pan for the top two coils. The head is made from … Read more
I was so thankful to find photos on this site of how to start this snake cake. I used 4 bundt cakes – one strawberry, one chocolate, one vanilla and another vanilla to cut apart and shape the head and tail. I cut them in half and alternated them into this shape. I just used … Read more
I made this Homemade Tiger Birthday Cake after looking at several pictures of others, combining ideas I liked. It was two layers. The cake was just a boxed yellow cake mix – nothing fancy – and I just used a standard buttercream frosting recipe for the outside icing and filling. I used a 9 inch … Read more
My son was turning 7 and wanted a Tarzan cake. I came to this site and even though there were no cakes of Tarzan, there were plenty of Jungle and Safari cakes to get ideas from. I created this Jungle Safari birthday cake based on many of the cakes I saw on this site. I … Read more
I decided this year to take my kids cakes into my own hands. This lion cake was for my youngest son who was turning two. What I found, was that in planning a party for him he really had no interests, so I chose a wild animal safari theme, since he loves the zoo. I … Read more
This Hippo head cake looks like a lot of work but it’s really easy to make. My 12 year old daughter Alivia loves hippos. She has very large hippo collection. When she asked me last year to bake her a hippo cake I thought, “she must think I’ve got talent!” I was quite surprised at … Read more
My two year old loves animals, so he had specifically requested a lion cake. I simply drew my idea on paper before cutting, it’s always best to do that, and found a way to use two 9 X 13 sheet cakes to make this. I may have had a few pieces left. The hardest part … Read more