This monkey cake was for my niece, who loves monkeys. We used a football shaped pan for the body, and a 5 inch on the face. We covered the face and nose in caramel wraps while still warm so the caramel smoothed right over it. The tail was also a long rolled piece of caramel. … Read more
This Sitting Monkey Birthday Cake was made for my daughter’s 20th birthday as we were off to Go Ape for the day. This sitting monkey cake was created out of two pudding basins. I used the traditional Victoria sponge cake recipe of 10ozs of flour, sugar and vegetable fat and 2ozs of coco powder, and … Read more
I made this Homemade Monkey Cake for my great nephew’s first birthday party. The party was a jungle animal theme. I did not have the shaped tins I required so in turn I lined a Pyrex dish and a smaller bowl with baking paper and filled both bowls with butter cake packet mix (required 2 … Read more
This Monkey Cake was made for my cousin’s baby shower but can be adapted for anybody who loves monkeys. I used two of my favorite scratch recipes, a yellow cake and a chocolate cake. I made two batches of each. The bottom tier is chocolate and made from 2 10″ rounds. The top is 2 … Read more
I made this Curious George cake for our niece Hayden’s first birthday party. I used a few of the ideas from this very website and designed my own version. The hat is made from two 6” round cakes stacked with one-half of a sports ball pan on top. The base of the hat is two … Read more
I made this Homemade Curious George Birthday Cake for my grandson’s first birthday. He was fascinated by Curious George on TV. I used a combination of designs from cakes on the Coolest Cake website. It was my first attempt at using fondant. I had always used icing with decorative tips. The fondant is so much … Read more
My soon to be three nephew, decided he had to have a Curious George cake and I was the one elected to make this monkey birthday cake. I wanted a bright and fun layered cake with all his favorite colors and I had an idea to make the monkey sitting on top but I had … Read more
I used three 6″ round cakes and one 6″ oval cake. One of the round 6″ cakes was used for the face and the sides were trimmed just a bit for the ears to fit. Carefully carve the ears from two of the 6″ cakes; the extra trim was used for the tail. The 6″ … Read more
The cake recipe is from Wilton and can be found at www.wilton.com. It is the Double Fudge Grooms cake and the frosting recipe’s are from the Wilton site too. This is a combination of their Chocolate Butter cream and Regular Butter cream. The cake template is from a Curious George mask I found at www.pbs.com. … Read more
I wanted to make a deer/hunting type cake for my brother in law’s birthday. I just wasn’t sure about doing a 3-d version of a deer. I started this Deer Birthday Cake with a chocolate cake mix and made an 8 inch square cake. I cut the cake and put a layer of homemade chocolate … Read more
I created this Homemade Monkey Jungle Cake for my wonderful granddaughter for her fourth birthday. This is the first time I have attempted to make a novelty cake with fondant and it was a real labour of love. I spent a month and many attempts to make the animals from fondant and had a lot … Read more
This was supposed to be for my sons’ 1st birthday party – I had in mind what the cake would look like and thanks guys for your pics too….. they helped me a lot. I started off believing that I was going to complete one cake with all the fondant jungle animals on top but … Read more