For this Horse Birthday Cake Design I traced a picture of a horse head, baked 2 12x 14 sponge cakes and cut out the shape. I then put some pieces of sponge on the cake to make the raised features of the horses head and covered it in chocolate fondant icing . I used a … Read more
For this cake, I cut a basic arch shape out of a partially frozen sheet cake. I used chocolate frosting for the face and neck. I iced the nose a bit thicker and put a little dent in the frosting for the nostril. After icing the inside of the ear, I mixed the remaining white … Read more
I made this for our sons fourth birthday. He asked for a cowboy birthday. I got my ideas from other horse cakes on this site. I made a two layer chocolate cake and froze it for two days. I then cut it to the shape of the horse’s head (cutting the triangle for the ear … Read more
My husband made this horse cake for me for my 31st birthday. I had just put my horse down and was really sad. We made the cake with a 10X10 and a 10X13 pan and the horse was a cut out and placed on top. The whole bottom cake was frosted with butter cream frosting … Read more
My great-granddaughter is taking riding lessons this winter and requested a Horse Birthday Cake for her birthday. I prepared a large dense cake recipe in two 9×13 pans, one a little thinner than the other. Using ideas from this site, I copied, enlarged and cut the horse head shape out of paper. When the cakes … Read more
My daughter loves horses and ponies and I wanted to make her something different from what I usually make. I got the idea for this Horse Birthday Cake Design from a horse picture I drew on her bedroom wall. Firstly I baked a basic Victoria sponge mix in a baking tray. For this mixture I … Read more
My daughter wanted a horse for her cake so we searched the internet for a nice picture (which I can’t find anymore) and I freehand drew it on the cake. This Horse Bust Birthday Cake is only my wife and my third custom cake, so we’re lucky it looked as nice as it does.
For my son, Ethans, fourth birthday, he wanted a horse cake. So this is what I created. I baked a cake in a two-quart Pyrex bowl, and in two 10-ounce Pyrex bowls. After leveling the large cake and one of the small cakes, I trimmed part of the small cake to fit snugly against the … Read more
I got the idea to use two pyrex bowls from others on this site for horse cakes and it worked out better than I expected! I greased and floured the bowls beforehand and the cakes popped right out. I cut a bit off the large one in order to attach the smaller “nose” cake and … Read more
This was a race horse cake made for a birthday party for a former horse racer. They had asked for a horse done in icing on the cake but I decided that I would try a 2D sculpture. I used a few images of horses on the internet and drew a sketch of the size … Read more
I created this homemade horse cake for my friend’s daughters 5th birthday party. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, she told me “painted horse cake and I want the horse to have wings.” After doing a bit of research I discovered that a “painted horse” is a horse with spots that … Read more
My niece wanted a Horse Birthday Cake that looked like Secretariat! I googled the horse and sketched a pattern from a closeup of the horses face. I baked 3 9x 13 cakes and froze them ahead of time. I layed the frozen cakes out on my cake board and layed the pattern on it and … Read more