Take a look at these cool homemade Barns and Animals cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
My boy Phillip turned 1 year old on 16 Jan 2012. He absolutely adores animals, all kinds, so I decided on a cheerful farm-themed birthday party. I used a large sheet cake for the ‘farm yard’ and cut a second sheet of cake into 4 pieces, stacked them and shaped the top to form the … Read more
I made this cake for a barn themed party. I used the Wilton house cake pan then frosted it red for the barn. The hay on the ground is toasted coconut. For the haystacks I used cupcakes and the Wilton mini dome pan – the dome cakes are the haystacks next to the barn by … Read more
For the barn I used 4 8 x 8 cakes and then layered them together and cut the two sides of the top layer on an angel so the excess came out as two triangles and then I just placed the two triangles on the top of the cake to make one big triangle. I … Read more
I wanted to make my son a Farmyard Birthday Cake for his first birthday because he loves his Fisher Price Barn he got from his Grandma and Grandpa. I looked at a lot of different barn and farm cake ideas online, but so many used the Wilton stand-up house pan, which I do not have … Read more
What you will need for making cakes is: * White Cake Mix * 2 Loaf Pans * Red and Green Food Coloring * Vanilla Frosting * Oreo Cookies * 1 Pinwheel Cookie * Bag of Coconut * Chocolate Sprinkles * Tube of White Drawing Icing * Farm Animals or other miniature barnyard toys. I first … Read more
I made this Barnyard Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. I baked 2 sheet cakes as the base and layered them. I baked a 9X13 cake to make the barn and about 9 cupcakes for the silo and the haystacks. I cut the 9X13 cake and stacked it up using dowels to hold it. … Read more
This Homemade Barnyard Birthday Cake was made for my co-worker’s son’s first birthday. They live on a farm and he LOVES animals so we knew right away we wanted to do a barn yard cake. The base of the cake was made with two cake mixes in a 10×15 cake pan. This was a marble … Read more
I made this cake for my 4 year olds horseback riding party at the farm. The girls always want strawberry cake so I did a single sheet for the base and then pound cake for the barn using the 3D house cake pan. I used sugar cookies with a hole in the middle for the … Read more
My daughter wanted another pet pig for her birthday and talked about wanting a mini farm. She lives out in the country and has a vineyard. For her birthday cake I made her, ” Her mini Farm”. I had seen a cake that was somewhat like it and then decided to make my own Barnyard … Read more
I made this two tiered Farm Birthday Cake for my son’s third birthday party. The bottom tier is a two-layer 10” round; the top tier is a two-layer 6” round. I used two boxes of cake mix—each box made one 10” cake and one 6” cake. It took a total of three cans of icing … Read more
COW HEAD: with Royal Icing, Use tips 2, 3, 4, 12, 81. Use tip #12 and hold bag at a 45° angle to cake. Starting at neck, squeeze with medium pressure and move bag upward, increasing pressure to build up head, with a continuous shell-like motion, return to neck. Pipe a tip #4 dot snout … Read more
The front barn cake is a standard 9×13 sheet cake iced in white buttercream then decorated with Little People toys and fence. The pigs “dirt “ is chocolate icing. The yellow haystacks are cupcakes turned upside down and then iced using the Wilton grass tip. The red barn silo is made with sandwich cookies stuck … Read more