Coolest Monkey Birthday Cake

Homemade Monkey Birthday Cake

This Monkey Birthday Cake was for my son’s first birthday. I also had cupcakes with monkey flags, stuffed animal monkeys and bananas hanging from the trees in our yard, monkey face cookies I made. So much monkey stuff – even a monkey pinata! For the cake I used a 6 inch round cake pan and … Read more

Coolest Mod Monkey Cake

Homemade Mod Monkey Cake

I made this Mod Monkey cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It consists of a 3-layer 8 inch cake and a 3-layer 6 inch cake. His party was at lunchtime on a Saturday, so I baked the cakes (chocolate) on Thursday afternoon, leveled them, put the layers together with buttercream and then crumb-coated them. I … Read more

Sweet Homemade Curious George Cake

Homemade Curious George Cake

This Curious George Cake was made for my son’s third birthday. The base layer is a 9×13 chocolate cake with vanilla icing tinted yellow. I used the Wilton tints and they work great. For the monkey face, I used an 8″ round and cut a cupcake in half for the ears and used another part … Read more

Easy Homemade Curious George Birthday Cake

Homemade Curious George Birthday Cake

I made this Curious George Birthday Cake for my daughter’s birthday. She just turned three. As you can see she is a big Curious George fan. I used the animal crackers pan. It was very easy to use and decorate.

Coolest Homemade Monkey Face Birthday Cakes 1

The idea for this monkey birthday cake came from the coolest-birthday-cakes website. I baked a 9×13 sheet cake. I used a basic cake recipe but a boxed cake would do. After baking I froze the cake to make it easy to cut. I cut the shape of the monkeys face out of the sheet cake. … Read more

Coolest Homemade Monkey Birthday Cake Ideas 5

I got the idea for this monkey birthday cake online but I cant for the life of me recall the website. I baked a regular cake-mix cake in a 9″ x 13″ Pyrex pan. Then I frosted it a very light blue with buttercream. Make sure you put only a thin layer of icing on. … Read more

Coolest Curious George Cake Photos and Tips 4

I used tan and brown frosting and copied the mouth, nose, and eye placement out of a Curious George book. I was afraid I would screw up the pupils in the eyes so I used peanut m&m’s to solve that problem.

Coolest Homemade Curious George Cakes 2

I made a second batch to use for decorating tinting a bit at a time to use for Georges face, the lettering and the border. For the dark brown portions of George’s fur I went ahead and used some of my leftover chocolate frosting from the inside of the cake. It was the perfect color! … Read more

Coolest Deer and Camo Cake

Homemade Deer and Camo Cake

My best friend asked me to do her 4 year old a deer hunting cake and this is what we came up with. This Deer and Camo Cake is a basic 9×13 cake with home made BC icing. I printed a deer picture off the computer in mirror vision and the put a piece of … Read more

Cute Homemade Safari Cake with Animals

Homemade Baby Safari Cake

This safari cake was made for a baby shower at a local hospital. It is two layers on bottom and two layers on top of a homemade yellow cake and homemade buttercream icing that I colored green for the bottom layer and blue for the top (grass and sky). I tinted fondant with gel food … Read more

Coolest Pink Jungle Safari Birthday Cake

Homemade Pink Jungle Safari Birthday Cake

I made this Homemade Pink Jungle Safari Birthday Cake for my niece’s first birthday. It was only my third cake ever to make, so I was nervous about trying something so challenging! The bottom layer was made with 12″ rounds, a ‘funfetti’ flavor, the middle was vanilla 8″ rounds, and the top was chocolate 6″ … Read more

Jasmin’s Cool Animal Cupcakes 81

Homemade Cool Animal Cupcakes

These are Jasmine’s cool animal cupcakes that she made all by herself today. Jasmine is 5 years old. The green one started off as a frog but then she changed her mind and turned it into a dragon instead. The monkey’s mouth and ears are made with Oreo biscuits. Her favorite is the pig because … Read more