We decided for my son’s second birthday to have a Jungle Theme. I found the Wilton Animal crackers pan which takes one regular store bought cake mix for this lion cake. Once the Giraffe cake was cooked I covered with bright yellow icing and star tipped the entire thing with yellow and brown. To make … Read more
I made this Guinea Pig Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 9th birthday. I baked 2 x 9″ square cake tins and baked two vanilla sponges with my 225g butter, 225g self raising flour, 225g caster sugar and 4 eggs splash of milk and vanilla essence cooked on gas mark 4 for 50 mins. When they … 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
This Homemade Baby Sheep 1st Birthday Cake was for my sister’s little girl. There is a thing in my family that the child’s first cake has to be a baby sheep no matter how its don’t, just as long as it is. This cake took me about 2 hours to do, that with the baking … Read more
This lion cake made for my sweet daughter. I made this cake for her 1 year old birthday. This is chocolate and I made the color from carrot because I don’t want to use any food coloring. Every one loved the cake!
My daughter had a ‘Creepy Crawly’ party. Someone came from Really Wild Enterprises and bought Spiders, Giant Land snails, etc, so I thought what better than an appropriate cake! I made a Lizard Chamelian Cake. First I made a 12″ square cake coloured green! Once cool I cut down about 5 inch in. I then … Read more
I made this homemade owl birthday cake for my best friend’s 22nd birthday. I decided on an owl themed cake because I thought it would be cute and easy to make. To start off, I made the bottom tier of the cake out of rice crispies. It provides a sturdy base and nobody would eat … Read more
My daughter’s school mascot is a purple panther and we needed a cake for her teacher’s birthday! No Panther pans around! So, I made this cake with the Animal Cracker’s Wilton cakes pan. I printed a picture of the Pink Panther, blew it up to the size of the pan and trimmed out the lower … Read more
I made this Piggy Birthday Cake for my cousin’s little girl for her 3rd birthday. I was inspired by the other pig cakes on this website and my sister and I decided to give it a go. Previously we have only really made fairy cakes! The cake is a Victoria sponge with buttercream and jam … Read more
We had a Pig Themed Birthday party for my son’s 1st Birthday and made this Piggy Birthday Cake. The body of the pig is a 10″ round cake and the face is a 6″ round cake. I frosted both cakes and then covered them both with fondant that I colored pink (warm up the fondant … Read more
I used pink buttercream frosting on the body using a small star shaped tip. I used white frosting for the eyes and outlined them with black. The mouth is made with bright pink frosting using a round tip. This was the first shaped cake I have ever made. It was easy to make and my … Read more
Okay, so let me say first that I am the Dad writing this and not familiar with cake lingo so please excuse any improper terms. My wife and my mother-in-law convinced me to help them make this Burmese Python Snake Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He really wanted a snake cake and we liked … Read more