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!
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
For my son Quinn’s first birthday, I made a homemade barnyard birthday cake. I used three different circle pans, and because I don’t like the taste of fondant I opted for Wilton’s buttercream recipe and then made all the animals out of fondant. It was my first time using fondant, and I loved it! I … Read more
I made an 8×8 cake for the Barn Cake, and trimmed the top third into a peak. The roof was “shingled” with graham crackers. Graham crackers were also used for the barn doors. Pretzel sticks were used for timbers, and yellow tinted coconut was used for hay. If I were to make this again I … Read more
I used only one 9×13 cake for the barn. The doors to the barn are “Chicken in a Biscuit” crackers with pretzels surrounding and the hay in the loft is Piknik shoestring potato chips. The grass is green dyed coconut. I then iced the cake with red tinted frosting and used a Pampered Chef Easy … Read more
I ordered the base cake in a local supermarket only with the white and yellow icing. I tinted green coconut flakes using food coloring. You need to let the flakes dry, so it’s best if you can do it the day before the party. Put the tinted coconut flakes on the barn cake and decorate … Read more
I made this homemade farmyard and barn cake for my friends son’s 1st birthday. Its a chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache and fondant icing. The barn is cake covered fondant. The birthday coincided with Easter so I included some Easter chicks in the scene. I also included the family cat and birthday boys big … Read more
This cake was for my daughter’s 1st birthday. Her party was farm themed, and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. The bottom two layers of the homemade farmy first birthday cake were red velvet with cream cheese filling. This was the first stacked cake I have ever done, so needless to say I was … Read more
First, a couple days before the party, I started on the barn. I used graham crackers (my friend helped me with this – it is helpful for more than two hands for this step!) We used graham crackers and held them together with lots of melted chocolate. As we “stuck” each piece (walls, ceiling, roof) … Read more
I made this special barn cake for the 2nd anniversary of my son Alexis. He loves tractors and I wanted to create this barnyard cake for a while now. After seeing a candy truck made of rolled fondant in a Wilton book, I got the idea to do a 3D tractor for my son. For … Read more