Like many on this web site, I made my Snake Cake using two bunt cakes. I cut both bunts in half and placed three of the halves together in opposite directions, then I cut the final piece in half again. I used one of those halves as the tail and the other as the face, … Read more
I got this idea for a Siberian Tiger Ice Cream Cake from a cake on this site. Thank You! I wanted to share my version as I wasn’t able to find the Wilton Lion Pan that the submitter had suggested but I followed her frosting ideas and it turned out great! Here is what I … Read more
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