This Python Snake Cake just wow-ed the party! The body is just like any other snake cake – bunt cakes work the best, but if you get fancy and use sheet cakes, you can add gummy worms in the layers as guts. The poof was the zillion milk chocolate, white chocolate & butterscotch chips the … Read more
When I asked my son what cake he would like for his birthday, he replied a cake that looks like fluffy, our pet snake. Well, after searching the net for a Snake Birthday Cake, I found black plastic icing, rolled it out into the shape of a snake, then coiled it up to look as … Read more
This National Animal Tiger Cake is my son’s idea for his 8th birthday party because he loves animals. We live in India and on his 8th birthday, he wanted our national animal tiger on cake. I baked one 9in and one 6 in circle cakes. After cakes cooled, I made two layers of each cake. … Read more
Mom and I made this hippo cake for my daughter Margaret’s 3rd birthday. She is a hippo fanatic. We combined ideas from other pictures and worked out a design as we went along. We used the marshmallows as teeth to prop the mouth open and added fondant eyelashes and lips! We also put on a … Read more
My daughter’s 1st birthday cake was a lion cake. We used 3 packet cake mixes and mixed them up putting the batter in 3 rectangle pans. We then used a template to cut the shape of a lion and his mane and then I layered his head which was part of one of the rectangle … Read more
My daughter loves the show Jungle Junction on Disney and insisted on having a “Blue Lumpy” (it’s what she calls Ellyvan her favorite character) cake for her 3rd Birthday. I searched and searched for someone who made a Jungle Junction cake or a pre-made cake kit and had no luck. Even Disney hasn’t released figurines … Read more
This giraffe birthday cake is the second cake I have done for my boss’s daughter who is 17 this year. Last year she wanted Hello Kitty. This cake was made using the Wilton One (1) shaped pan. I used one white box cake mix and the Wilton butter cream icing recipe tinted with buttercup yellow … Read more
My daughter wanted a giraffe cake for her birthday, so I went with a safari theme. A giraffe and lion was made. The giraffe cake was a french vanilla cake with butterscotch chips. The frosting was store bought and colored. The picture of the giraffe was done freehand by my husband and then I piped … Read more
I made this Homemade Jungle Animals Birthday Cake for a friend’s 4 year old boy. I got heaps of inspiration from this website and then mixed it with my own ideas. The cake is a chocolate Madeira cake (made with a whole bar of melted chocolate mixed in!). The icing and animals are made from … Read more
This Astrological Birthday Cake was created for my mom for her birthday as a representation of her astrological sign. She is a Taurus and yes this is a Lion, I never said I was not special. When I saw the picture of a similar cake in a magazine I knew she would like it and … Read more
I made one chocolate cake and one vanilla cake, each in a bundt pan. When the cakes cooled, I cut each cake in half and laid them out on the cardboard. When I laid them out, I flipped every other 1/2 so to get the curved appearance. I cut the tail end into a point … Read more
The 10″ chocolate cake had a center filling of butter cream. The next step was to spread a thin layer of the butter cream over the sides and top making sure that the cake had a square even edge. The cake was then refrigerated while I colored the fondant icing to form the lake. The … Read more