My four year old daughter wanted an owl cake like her favorite character, the good snow owl, on Legend of the Guardians, mask and all. My twelve year old daughter and I designed and made this cake. This is our first prototype. It is my first attempt at “cake boss” type of cake! We made … Read more
I made 24 of these cute little Piggy Cupcakes for my friend’s daughter’s first birthday party, which was held at a local farm park. I frosted them with pink butter cream. Then I colored some fondant pink and pinched off little bits with my fingers to make the ears. You make little discs and then … Read more
We used a regular box of chocolate cake mix and filled an 8-in round cake pan for this piggy cake. We used the remaining batter to fill small loaf pans (I believe we filled 4-6 of these). After the cake cooled completely, we cut one of the loaf cakes into an oval for the snout … Read more
I work at a pet store and the girl that worked in the reptile section was leaving to go to school and I wanted to make her a special cake so I looked at some of the cakes here and came up with this python cake. I baked two bundt cakes (carrot cakes) and cut … Read more
I created this Rattlesnake Birthday Cake after finding the “coolest cakes” site and viewing lots of other original snake cakes for my son’s 5th birthday. We invited a park ranger to bring a bull snake to the party (and talk about how to tell the difference between a bull snake and a rattlesnake), so I … Read more
I made this slithering snake cake for my daughter’s birthday and she was really into snakes this year. I baked a tubed cake and then cut it into 3 pieces and alternated the bend for each and the the ends line up to make is look like a squirming cake. I tinted butter cream frosting … Read more
My niece and little cousin are both animal and reptile lovers. For their 9th birthdays (they are born two weeks apart and are not only cousins but best of friends) they asked me for a snake birthday cake. For this birthday cake decorating idea I used a 9×13 pan and made her favorite chocolate cake. … Read more
This is a swan cake I made after reading your useful tips on the other swan cakes you featured on your web site. I used chicken wire too for the neck. The whole cake took me 10 hours in total. I made the body from sponge cake using a round tin, I cut a section … Read more
My daughter wanted a tiger birthday cake for her 4th birthday. So what I did was find a picture that I liked and that was easy enough for me to decorate. I found two coloring pictures and combined them together to get the tiger that I liked. Made a butter cream icing recipe and colored … Read more
My husband loves birds particularly exotic ones so I decided to make a Toucan cake for his birthday. I couldn’t find any bird cakes on your website so I kept it pretty simple. I found a picture of a toucan that I liked and enlarged it to suit the size of my cake tin. I … Read more
I made this turtle cake for a lady’s birthday who loves turtles. It really is pretty easy to make. First, I baked and stacked 3 round cakes and then carved them for the shell. Next, I baked a fourth round cake that I used to make the head and the 4 legs. I thinned out … Read more
I used a glass Pyrex bowl to make the shape of the cake look like a shell. Head, legs, tail are all molded from fondant. The swirls on the shell were piped with butter cream.