My first experience in making and decorating my 3-years-old girl birthday cake was relatively fun and easy! It added a fantastic detail to the farm party theme. I used basic white fondant to cover the cake, cut different round shapes sizes by using three sizes of cookie cutters. After fixing the circles on the cake … Read more
Cows are my daughter’s favorite animal, so I made her this Cow cake for her third birthday. I made a chocolate cake using two 9″ round cake pans. One cake was used to form the body of the cow. The head, ears, and legs were cut from the second cake. The trick is, to make … Read more
To make this 3D elephant cake, I used the Wilton 3D bear cake pan. After the cake was cooled, I cut off the bear ears. Then I iced the cake smooth with a blueish grey icing. With some fancy paper, I fashioned a party hat and taped it together. I attached some ribbon to the … Read more
At first my daughter wanted a “Happy Pink Captain Hook” cake – but that was NOT happening. We finally managed to settle for a pink Elephant Birthday Cake, made from two circle cakes, one for the body and the other for the legs, trunk and ears drawn freehand but inspired from the basic Google “elephant” … Read more
I made this giraffe cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It was my first attempt at a cake this large. It turned out to be 3 1/2 feet tall. I used my son’s giraffe toy as a guide. I took the toy measurements and multiplied them by 4 to get the size that I wanted. … Read more
I made this Pink Giraffe Baby Shower Cake for a friend. I started with the invitation, and then printed it larger on my home printer (it took 2 8 X 11 sheets of paper). I then cut out the template. I baked 4 9.5 x 13 French vanilla cakes, and filled with vanilla butter cream … Read more
Many forms of chocolate come together to form this Cute Hedgehog Cake Idea. A chocolate Hostess Snowball was covered in melted chocolate (double boiling method works best for this) to form the head, and cut down the sides to form a triangle nose. A single mini marshmallow was cut in half to create two beady … Read more
For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, we were doing an animal theme and I wanted to make her a lamb cake. I baked the cake using 2 – 8 in. round cake pans, which I greased and flowered for easy removal, the day before her party. Level each layer by cutting off the rounded tops and … Read more
My son’s one year birthday was coming up and because of his strawberry blond hair, I thought an orange-maned lion would be the perfect birthday cake animal for him. I combined ideas from different lions in the Wilton 2010 Decorating Yearbook to make it. I used the cuddly bear cake pan to make the lion … Read more
I got the inspiration for this cake on this website. This was for my sons fourth birthday. Lions are his favorite animal so the choice was easy. I made a rectangular sponge cake that I then cut to shape the mane. I shaped a cut bit of cake in a triangular kind of shape to … Read more
I used my horseshoe shaped pan for the body of the gecko and my daughter suggested using a cupcake heart for the head which turned out to be the perfect shape. I ended up only using 1/2 of the horseshoe, cutting that in half and putting it back together in the shape of a 1/2 … Read more
My sons teacher, Mr. Copeland was retiring after 30 years of teaching. He loves animals and my son wanted me to do something with an animal on it. He suggested a moose so it could say “we will ‘moose’ you”! The cake is a half sheet cake (Duncan Hines white) with my Mom’s ‘wedding cake’ … Read more