I started this Deer Cake with 2 9×13 pans and 3 6 inch round pans, baked a white cake in them. I cut the 9×13 cakes in half and frosted vanilla butter cream in the middle and crumb coated it. I then cut the 6 inches in half and used 2 halves for the legs … Read more
I made this Jungle Safari cake for my great nephew’s 5th birthday. I used a combination of several ideas from this site (thanks!) and other online pictures to come up with how I wanted it to look. The cake is an 11 x 15 yellow sheet cake with buttercream icing, dyed two shades of green. … Read more
A friend of mine wanted me to do a cake for her son’s 4th birthday. When they came over to discuss the theme I asked the little boy what he liked best and he promptly told me ‘animals’ and ‘dinosaurs’. Therefore I wanted to create a cake which shows animals and also dinosaurs and came … Read more
My friends loved this Safari Cake Design for a baby shower cake! The cake was red velvet with chocolate flavored buttercream frosting. The faces of the animals were made from gum paste.
My son wanted a jungle cake for his 3rd birthday. The bottom tier is a 12×12 square, the second is a 8 inch round and the top is a 6 inch round. I crumb coated and then iced the cakes with green icing, and then stacked them (make sure you use straws or dowels for … Read more
I made the candy following the recipe and instructions from The Whimsical Bakehouse cookbook. I used chocolate cake and cookies-n-cream filling for one cake and a vanilla cake with custard and strawberries for the other layer. It was a lot of work to have so many colors but I made the candy about a month … Read more
I used a couple of ideas I had seen online for a safari cake but also added a bit of my own. The flowers and the animals on the top are made from white fondant that I dyed with food coloring gel according to which color I wanted. The animals on the sides are just … 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