I basically took ideas from the frog cupcakes already posted. I made chocolate cupcakes, tinted frosting green and frosted the cupcakes. Then I took large marshmallows and cut them into thirds making three circles. I then cut the bottom quarter off each marshmallow circle to make it flat on the bottom (think dome). I took … Read more
I searched through a lot of easy cake recipes until I found this one. Reptile Man came to the party bringing with him a huge snake amongst other creatures. I got the idea for the cake from this site and it worked like a dream. I made two chocolate chip bundt cakes using one of … Read more
I browsed this site for ideas for dog cakes to make for my son’s birthday party at school. He is very devoted to his school, the Vicksburg Bulldogs! It was made with a 9×13 cake pan. I cut 1/3 of the end off and then cut a two inch strip off of the third (to … Read more
I looked at another dog cake on this website and didn’t have all the resources to copy them so I had to come up with some other ideas. Thanks to the Food Network and brainstorming I had my dog out of Rice Crispies and sat her on top of a double layer rainbow cake covered … Read more
I browsed the Web and found some really cool dog birthday cake recipe ideas. This dog is about 20 inches long, 12 inches wide and about 9 inches tall. It was for my son’s first birthday and we had a Dalmatian that he loved. I stacked three sheet cakes and carved the basic shape, carved … Read more
My nephew really wanted a crocodile cake for his birthday and we couldn’t find a cake tin. I searched the net to get some ideas and thought this can’t be that hard. I cooked three cakes to make him – two rounds and one rectangle. I drew a pattern out of paper for each section … Read more
My husband and I made this for our four year old daughter for her birthday. We got lots of ideas from other crocodile cakes on this site! What we did was make two 9 x 12 cakes, and then we cut out shapes that reminded us of an alligator. There was a lot of piecing … Read more
I am not a pro and only make cakes for friends, family and friends of family. My first attempt at making an animal was a daunting one. This die-hard University of Georgia fan wanted a cake resembling Uga, the college mascot. He is not only a huge fan of this college and their football team … Read more
This is a celebration cake. My grandson has autism and had a rough couple years at elementary school. But things were looking up. He was making great effort and for this grading period. He came home with a great report card and we all felt it was worth a celebration. We took him to our … Read more
I browsed through a lot of themed birthday cake ideas for kids until I found this one. My son was quite insistent that he have a whale cake for his fourth birthday. This is the first novelty cake I made and as I don’t have any birthday cake ideas for kids, was pleased with his … Read more
My husband’s favorite movie is Jaws so I made this shark picture cake for his 39th birthday. The characters and the shark are molded from caramels, six for each character and 40 for the shark. Microwave them for 10-20 seconds to make it warm but not too hot and easy to work with. I worked … Read more
I couldn’t find a round sports pan to use for the head so I bought a 5″ half-sphere pan and baked one half of the head then did that another time for the other half and glued them together with frosting. It didn’t come our perfectly round but worked out alright., I just used an … Read more