After a trip to the zoo with the twins that I have been babysitting for over a year I decided to design and make a safari cake for their birthday. I reviewed many other submissions to gather ideas and decide how to make it work. To give myself more time for the fondant details I … Read more
I make my kids birthday cakes every year. And I let them pick what they would like on their cakes. My son is into horses and that’s what he wanted. So I made him a love of hoses cake. You will need a box of cake mix of your choice, icing, green food coloring, toy … Read more
I made this Horse Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday. Being horse mad she loved it! I made a square cake then cut the corners off to made the basic shape. I shaved the edges to get a rounded finish and used a spoon to create eye and nose. I used Just Choc fondant … Read more
For my daughter’s 6th Birthday, she decided to have a Pony Party at the Farm. And I decided -inspired by all the great cakes on this website- to make her Pony Birthday Cake. First, as with other similar cakes I cut the shape out of a 13×9 inch cake pan and used the cutout between … Read more
This Horse Birthday Cake Design I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday. She’s a Breyer horse fan! Never decorated a cake before but figured how hard could it be….well I was up till midnight making this “simple” one. I traced the bottom of the 9×13 cake pan on paper so I could make a stencil. … Read more
It is hard to make an adult birthday cake themed with horses, but this Dressage Horse Birthday Cake is what I came up with after browsing eBay horsey toys section ( i had several months to create this cake ). It is from normal 11 x 13 Pyrex casserole pans, two to be exact with … Read more
For the body of the horse I used two 9 X 13 inch cakes stacked on top of each other. For the hind quarters I used a 9″ round pan and a round Pyrex bowl. Trim to get the horse shape. I cut the top off of the Pyrex bowl for the top half of … Read more
To make this homemade duck cake I just used one box of cake mix and cooked it as directed in a 9×13 square pan. While the cake was cooling I went online and found a picture of a duck that I thought was cute. Once I found the one I wanted, I printed it out, … Read more
First of all, I made 3 cakes, 2 round cakes and a square one and cut out the pattern from a stencil I drew. I held it together with caramel. I started icing it, it was meant to be a panda cake but landed up to be a bear cake. The icing was butter icing, … Read more
When I ask my friend what her interest were she replied, “Beer, Cigarettes and Ducks!” So I used the 3-D ducky cake pan but when I didn’t read the directions to wait 3 hours before removing the cake, I ended up with 3/4 of a duck. So I fixed it. I simply baked an 11 … Read more
My daughter and I got the idea for this Ballerina Bear Birthday Cake from the Wilton website. She is very into ballet and all her presents were ballet themed. So this cake was perfect. I hired the cake tin, I made one and a half packet mixes as apposed to the 2 it recommended. It … Read more
I made this Teddy Bear Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st Birthday. It took about 2-3 hours to ice but it was so worth it. My sister gave me the cake pan and I followed the instructions and it came out better than I expected.