I made this giraffe cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It was my first attempt at a cake this large. It turned out to be 3 1/2 feet tall. I used my son’s giraffe toy as a guide. I took the toy measurements and multiplied them by 4 to get the size that I wanted. … Read more
I made this giraffe cake for my daughter. The cake is gluten free and lactose free and Melman was created using a Rice Krispie base, coat hanger for his neck and lollipop sticks to reinforce his legs. His feet are pecans. I molded his body first and allowed it to dry and then created his … Read more
I made this 1st Birthday Elephant Cake for my son’s first birthday. I traced the picture from a wall sticker in his room and then made it bigger by photocopying it to the size I wanted. Once the cake (vanilla) was made I put the template on top and cut around to form the elephant. … Read more
For my son’s first birthday party we wanted to make a lion birthday cake (to go with the invites and decorations). So we looked online and found lots of pictures to try to copy. I made a vanilla sponge cake (the easy vanilla cake from the bbc good food website) and put cherry jam and … Read more
I made this Elephant birthday cake for a little girl’s 4th birthday. I was stumped when she said she wanted an elephant cake. I didn’t want to use an elephant pan, but wanted to create my own! Also, I hate fondant, so I wanted to be able to use regular butter cream frosting. So, here … Read more
This is a homemade giraffe baby shower cake for a baby shower. I used 9-in round for the bottom tier, and 6-in round for the top tier. The bottom tier is yellow colored fondant, I made the green and brown colors from the left over yellow. The top tier is white fondant with brown giraffe … Read more
This Jungle Birthday Cake was a surprise 40th birthday cake for my sister in-law. She likes lizards and frogs so I thought to make a jungle scene. I looked at cakes from this website for inspiration. Since it was an adult cake I added a little humor. The base cake is a 13×9 sheet cake … Read more
My son was having a hard time deciding what kind of party to have. He was turning 8 and had kind of grown out of a lot of those kid birthday themes so, we decided to come up with Indiana Jones birthday party. It was going to be a hit. I made him a Serpant … Read more
To make this birthday cake decorating idea I used two 8″ round pans and cut the shape for the snake from those. I pieced them together using frosting to hold everything in place. It was then frosted using a star tip, mini chocolate chips and M&M’s make up the snakes spots. I also used a … Read more
I came up with this cake decoration idea for my son Lukes 6th birthday because he LOVES Steve Erwin, the crocodile hunter.So, for his birthday I shaped this creature out of two sheet cakes. Then, added food coloring to my home-made butter cream frosting and simply used two different sized star tips to decorate. The … Read more
The crocodile cake idea came after being on holiday in Australia and seeing a croc for real in a wildlife park. Our son was crocodile mad for quite some time. I used a plain sponge cake and found pictures on the net of crocodiles. I then cut out a page template of the shape I … Read more
The elephant & tiger for this jungle cake is one cake mix split into 2 round pans. The tiger ears are cupcakes. The trunk is the part cut out between the ears. The jungle cake is iced with store icing tinted with gel. The elephant is decorated with rope licorice. The monkey ears are cookie … Read more