to make George look like George I got my daughters stuffed animal and then used home made buttercream frosting tinted brown and also lightened to make tan to create the George we all know and love. He was a huge hit with my daughter and everyone at the party!s stuffed animal and then used home … Read more
I made this Deer with Antlers cake for my brother’s 60th birthday. He is a hunter and avid outdoors man and I thought this deer cake would be perfect. I made the antler frame out of copper wire and covered them with fondant, decorated with chocolate buttercream icing. I made holes in the tips to … Read more
This jungle cake was for my daughter’s second birthday The cakes are chocolate with chocolate butter cream. Then I used marshmallow fondant to cover each cake. The bottom layer is white. I used a pizza cutter to cut triangles out of black fondant. The top layer is yellow/brown fondant with dark brown spots. The animals … Read more
My daughter loves the show Jungle Junction on Disney and insisted on having a “Blue Lumpy” (it’s what she calls Ellyvan her favorite character) cake for her 3rd Birthday. I searched and searched for someone who made a Jungle Junction cake or a pre-made cake kit and had no luck. Even Disney hasn’t released figurines … Read more
This Safari 1st Birthday Cake was made and designed by my sister and I for my son’s 1st birthday party. We are in the process of starting a new business called Simply Sisters Cake Creations. All of the animals are hand made out of marshmallow fondant. We also made 2 heads of each animal for … Read more
I made a 4 layered flour-less chocolate almond cake (gluten free) with a jungle theme for a friend’s 21st birthday who had the theme “jungle”. I decided to look for some ideas and discovered a few through this website and others and decided to have a go at recreating my own and this is how … Read more
A teacher at my sons school wanted a simple animal theme cake for her 2 year-old boy. The animals are toys, and I decided to make a scene for them: hippo in the water, lion behind the bush, and giraffe under the tree. The other animals went around the cake.s school wanted a simple animal … Read more
This was a race horse cake made for a birthday party for a former horse racer. They had asked for a horse done in icing on the cake but I decided that I would try a 2D sculpture. I used a few images of horses on the internet and drew a sketch of the size … Read more
I created this homemade horse cake for my friend’s daughters 5th birthday party. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, she told me “painted horse cake and I want the horse to have wings.” After doing a bit of research I discovered that a “painted horse” is a horse with spots that … Read more
My niece wanted a Horse Birthday Cake that looked like Secretariat! I googled the horse and sketched a pattern from a closeup of the horses face. I baked 3 9x 13 cakes and froze them ahead of time. I layed the frozen cakes out on my cake board and layed the pattern on it and … Read more
My daughter requested a horse cake for her birthday but could not decide between a 2D and 3D version. After much debate and the only requirement she gave is that it must be black horses this is what I have come up with. Let me start by saying that there are a total of 4 … Read more
This horse cake is done using a 9×13 made with a vanilla cake mix. Cut triangle out from the neck and use for the ear. Cut slant off of nose. I iced the cake with chocolate and accented mane with khaki (white with a little brown added). The reins are braided red licorice, and the … Read more