As my little boy’s 2nd birthday started approaching, my mind was spinning with a million and one ideas for his theme, and more importantly, his cake! He wasn’t a big fan of any one thing, but did have a love for animals. As my husband and I were on a budget, we figured this baby … Read more
I made this Lion cake for my 10yr old, it’s very gooey and but really very easy to make, I used a 10inch sponge cake, filled and lightly covered with ready made fudge filling, also 2 tubs of ready made chocolate cream icing for the mane and 1 pack of regal ice in teddy bear … Read more
This Jungle Zebra Birthday Cake I made for my son’s 1st birthday. The top layer is chocolate and the bottom layer is vanilla. All the animals are made by hand from fondant. I covered the cakes in butter icing (for flavour and to help make the rolled fondant stick). I then covered them one at … Read more
This birthday cake decorating idea was a huge hit! We decided to have our sons 3rd birthday Animal-themed since he loves animals. Thanks to this site I was able to browse through many animal cakes and ultimately I decided to go with this birthday cake decorating idea.I followed the suggestions of using 2 bundt cakes … Read more
I made this cake for my sons first birthday. We didn’t want to do a theme really so I made this snake cake. The cake was made out of two pound cakes cut in half. I used a basic pound cake made from one of my easy cake recipes. I used store bought white icing … Read more
For my two year old I made a Hippo birthday cake design. He is crazy about Hippos. I used a couple of 8 inch rounds for the mouth, a 4″x 9″ loaf with the corners rounded for the back of the head, the tops of cupcakes for the nostrils and the bases for the eyes. … Read more
My son loves alligators so I decided to have a jungle theme party for his 2nd birthday. I had 15 adults to feed and three children (from 2-4 years old). The tail of the alligator cake is a bundt cake cut into 3 sections. The body of the alligator is two – 9in rounds, the … Read more
I got my whole idea for a crocodile cake from the alligator/crocodile site. There was a diagram on how to assemble by Abby Q. I baked two cakes, one rectangular and one bunt and three cupcakes. The rectangular was cut into a rounded triangle for the head. Two of the left over pieces were fitted … Read more
This safari cake was made using a half slab three layer cake baked from scratch. Once it was iced I used a grass tip to cover most of the cake leaving out the middle. I made the middle into a lagoon by icing it blue and adding some gum paste flowers. The writing is also … Read more
This Gator Birthday Cake was not as difficult as I thought it would be considering I haven’t baked a cake in over 30 years. It was easy since the night before baking it, I drew up a template on sketch paper in the actual cake size that I wanted but it still took 5 hours … Read more
We made this tiger cake for my son’s 2nd birthday using the Wilton 3-D Loveable Animal pan, #502-135 (also sometimes called the Lion King or Simba pan). This is an old pan, and I had the pan, but no pictures of how to decorate a cake with this pan. I looked up pictures of tigers … Read more
This snake cake was made by using 2 bundt cakes, cut in portions and then twisted around each other to create a snake shape. I frosted with green and then sprayed green in various areas for effect. The eyes are chocolate kisses and the tongue a fruit roll up.