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
This Elephant Cake was made for a lady that loves Elephants! The top cake was a Wilton elephant cake pan on top of a 12×18 sheet cake! The elephant was iced with star tip #16 and outlined with tip #5! The flowers, stems, leaves and bow were all made a few days before out of … Read more
I took several ideas of a Safari Jungle Birthday Cake off of this site and put them all together. This was a very fun cake to make and I had never done a decorative cake like this before but it turned out really well. I just bought store frosting because it was WAY easier than … Read more
This Jungle cake was my first attempt at sculpting anything. I am taking a class and this was my final project. There are two versions so you can see how I finished up. The cake was prepared using a book shaped pan. I just baked a basic yellow cake recipe. And covered it with fondant. … Read more
I got quite carried away making the animals for this Animal Farm Birthday Cake Idea. It was so much fun. Both cakes are butter Madeira, layered with vanilla buttercream and fondant covered and the animals are 50/50 fondant and gumpaste.
My son has been asking for a snake cake for six months for his fourth birthday. My brother and I prepared the snake using an angel food pan. We baked two cakes from one of my easy cake recipes and pieced them together. Using a star tip we iced the cake in the colors my … Read more
Coolest Homemade Elephant Birthday Cake Pictures and Tips 2
I took ideas from another alligator cake but I changed a few things. First I cut the shape of a head from a small oval cake pan. Then I used the bunt cake pan for body but shortened on piece for the tail. I used mini round cake pans (larger than cupcake size) cut in … Read more
We got the idea for a crocodile cake from this website. However we changed the instructions and made due with what we had at home. We made a 9×13 cake and a bundt cake. The bundt cake was cut into three equal sections turned opposite each other for the body. The 9×13 was cut into … Read more
A teacher at my sons school wanted a simple animal theme cake for her 2 year-old boy. The animals are toys, and I decided to make a scene for them: hippo in the water, lion behind the bush, and giraffe under the tree. The other animals went around the cake.s school wanted a simple animal … Read more