This was the largest cake, my father-in-law is a big hunter, and had given my boys both deer mounts for Christmas so me and my wife thought we would give him a deer cake for his birthday. We started by making a stand out of a 1×12 board then made a deer shape head for … Read more
I made this Jungle Birthday Cake for my daughter’s second birthday. This was my first ever attempt using fondant and my first layered birthday cake. The frosting and animals are all made of marshmallow fondant and it was surprisingly simple to make and easy to work with. The bottom part of the cake is white … Read more
My daughter loves elephants and giraffes so I knew she was going to want a safari themed cake for her 4th birthday. After looking around on the internet for ideas I came up with this Safari Cake Design. I made the cake in a larger rectangular pan. I believe it was a 11×17 pan. I … Read more
I wanted to make a special Zoo Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. This is a three layer cake. For the top two layers I used eight inch round pans, they are chocolate cake made from the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s CoCo can. For the bottom layer I used a 10 … Read more
My son wanted a jungle cake for his 5th Birthday I made two round chocolate cakes. Once they were cool I cut one cake in a smaller circle than the other and placed it on top of the bigger cake (tiered). My son just loved it! I got lots of comments at his party everyone … Read more
I got the idea for this safari cake from the Nick Jr. Web site. My daughter is a Diego nut! So a rainforest theme for her second birthday was a hit! The cake is simply two 8″ rounds with icing in-between iced green. I pre made all the edible decorations. The trees are easy. Buy … Read more
I made this horse cake for my niece who had a horseback-riding party for her 8th birthday. I got most of my ideas from looking at some other horses on this site, but the main difference was that I made a huge sheet cake to put underneath the horse, due to the large number of … Read more
My daughter had a craze about horses and the theme was horse-riding party! I had the party at a park and got 2 horses for the kids to ride, it was great! This Homemade Horse Birthday Cake was made using 2 round cakes cut into shape as seen. I then covered the cake with Nutella … Read more
This Horse Cake Design is a half sheet cake with butter cream frosting. I piped tiny brown roses on a vine for the top side trims and ran them down the sides. The horse was taken from a blown-up print of a water color that I found online. I traced it on plain paper, then … Read more
My daughter wanted a “full horse” cake for her 8th birthday. I tried to lead her to the cute, and easy looking, horse head cakes I have seen on here…but no…she wanted to whole Horse Birthday Cake Design! So I searched online for a very simple coloring page image of a horse to use as … Read more
This is the first of three horse cakes I made (so far!). My daughter especially liked real looking horses – and we found the “Horse Power” supplies to use for a party at home. I used a large round one layer pan. I took a picture of the horse head from the party supplies, sized … Read more
I had intentions of doing a 10″ double layer with a 3-D duck on top. However, something went haywire with the duck. So made another batch of cakes and did a stacked tier and went from there. Overall I was happy with the way the Ducky Cake turned out. It’s covered with Marshmallow Fondant. The … Read more