My son turned one in August and I knew I wanted to have a jungle them birthday. I began my search for the perfect safari cake and the more I looked the more I thought “I can make his cake”! The idea for this cake came from a combination of several pictures I found online. … Read more
I was inspired by a professional cake in a magazine and decided to attempt my own amateur version, and was delighted with the results and thought I would share this Pony Birthday Cake with anyone looking for great pony cake ideas. I used a Betty Crocker cake mix and 2 standard 9″ cake pans. I … Read more
This horse cake is a practice for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She is getting a liberty horse, so I am planning a horse party. The birthday cake itself will have the true colors of the liberty horse, darker mane and tail, and the yellow around the blanket. I used a Wilton Carousel Horse cake pan, … Read more
My daughter loves horses and this year I decided to try and make her a Horse Birthday Cake Idea. I combined lots of ideas I found from other cakes on this site. I started by making (2) 9×13 chocolate cakes and cut each cake to make the horse. The frosting was fudge from a can … Read more
This Homemade Pony Cake was for my daughter Ava’s 4th Birthday. We went horse riding for the day and she had to have a pink pony cake. I made a regular sponge cake and cut the pony shape I drew out of it. I didn’t want to use too much food colouring so I iced … Read more
This is an Appaloosa horse cake made for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday. She requested Horseland, but I thought the Horseland characters and horses weren’t as cute as this. Her mom did buy the Horseland pics to add to the cake. The horse’s body was made using the Wilton 3D Rubber Duck pan. I cut off … Read more
This was made for a baby shower for my boss several years ago. The cake was made out of a sheet cake and cut to the desired shape copied from other horse cakes on this site. I colored buttercream with lots of food coloring to the vibrant colors. I used two sized star tips and … Read more
I made this Rubber Ducky Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I was so scared it would not turn out right because it was my first time using fondant but it came out great and was a big hit. I used marshmallow fondant, super easy and fun.
My daughter wanted a Build-a-bear party for her 7th birthday, which meant a 3D Bear Cake. Because a bear’s tummy needs to be fat and round I used a bowl to bake the cake in. I used a smaller version of the same bowl for the head. I make two large Swiss rolls for the … Read more
My son loved rubber duckies around his first birthday, so I chose rubber ducks as the theme for his party. Over a few days my mom, my husband, and I created a ducky cake with a rubber duck family out on a boating venture. The boat contained the mommy duck and the daddy duck, and … Read more
To make this Teddy Bear birthday cake, I used the Wilton teddy bear cake pan and then just iced the bear in both light and dark chocolate icing. It was actually very easy and, as my twins were turning one, I thought they could share their first birthday cake.
I made the teddies out of fondant icing with added CMC powder inspired by a lady called Lorraine Mckay (she is so fab). The teddy bear cake is a 8inch sponge with butter icing and jam, nothing special really but very tasty. I used more fondant icing with CMC to make the hearts, stars etc. … Read more