My grandson Ryan wanted a gator cake for his 5th Birthday party, this is what we wound up with. I started out with a 14×3 round cake pan for the body, and a 14x14x3 square to make the gators tail, nose and feet. For the head I used 2 lg cupcakes. I used butter cream … Read more
This King Snake cake was made from 2 bundt cakes. Each cake was cut in 1/2 and place end to end to form the snake. A serrated knife was used to carve away cake forming the head and tail. Using buttercream icing (purchased from a local grocery store bakery by the pound) I piped on … Read more
I used 2 bundt cakes, one vanilla and one chocolate, and cut them into two equal halves for this Birthday Snake Cake. I slid them into S shapes and used frosting as the glue to make them stick. I tapered the tale and used the two wedge shape pieces to make a head. It took … Read more
I used the same method for this Snake Cake as the others on this web site which is awesome! I’ve used this site twice now for cake ideas. I did two bundt cakes, cut both in half then arranged and trimmed. Pretty easy right? Just note that when trimming, it’s always best to trim on … Read more
This tiger cake is a birthday cake for my 7 year old daughter, who loves tigers at the moment. I colored white chocolate with orange, brown and green, which is not a very good idea, because the chocolate isn´t creamy anymore after mixing it with the tints. Anyway, I made thin chocolate stripes from each … Read more
My son’s favourite giraffe that never leaves his side (TY Pluffies Tip Top Giraffe) cake that I made for his third birthday. Materials: 1 10″ cake pan, 1 Betty Crocker cake mix, 1 jar white icing Betty Crocker, 1 pkg. Wilton white rolled fondant, Wilton frosting tip # 233, chocolate sprinkles, Wilton gel food colors … Read more
I made this elephant cake for my college Republican club campaign party. I made a rectangular cake and printed a picture of the elephant off of my computer to use as a stencil, sorta, and cut each of the three colored sections out separately then put them together with icing. I think that it gives … Read more
I made this Lion Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. His nursery had a jungle theme and he loved the lion I had painted for his wall. I took inspiration from this site and a few others to get me started. Firstly I drew a sketch of the lion’s face and then drew this … Read more
At first my daughter wanted a “Happy Pink Captain Hook” cake – but that was NOT happening. We finally managed to settle for a pink Elephant Birthday Cake, made from two circle cakes, one for the body and the other for the legs, trunk and ears drawn freehand but inspired from the basic Google “elephant” … Read more
The inspiration for this Safari Scene Birthday Cake was a combination of two Wilton Safari Scene cakes – one from the most recent Wilton Yearbook (2011) and the one featured on the Wilton website with the how-to video. I got the Wilton ‘Animal Pals’ cookie cutter set to make sure the sugar cookie animals were … Read more
This Homemade Jungle Birthday Cake is a 3 tier vanilla cake filled with fresh cut strawberries and buttercream icing. Each layer I made a different animal print. The print is made from fondant layed over buttercream icing. The bottom layer is tiger, the middle layer is giraffe and the top layer is zebra.
This Jungle book cake is a page from my son’s favorite Curious George book. It’s where the painters go to lunch and George paints the apartment to look like a jungle while they are gone. It was my favorite book too, and I used to love this page! In fact, I read to him from … Read more