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 was asked to make this Tractor Birthday Cake for a friend’s 2 year old son. I realized when making it that I did not have the right colour green dye for a tractor. Found online I should have purchased a Wilton one but I could only get to a normal supermarket at this stage. … Read more
This Homemade Tractor Birthday Cake was super easy and really fun to make! I used ideas from this site. I made it in 2 separate loaf pans leaving one loaf whole and cutting the other in half. I put half on top of the whole loaf and used toothpicks in between to help hold it. … Read more
I looked online at hundreds of cakes with a John Deere theme, but couldn’t find any one particular cake that matched what I had envisioned for my son’s first birthday party. I knew I wanted to do a tiered cake with fondant. I had never made a cake covered with fondant, so I did a … Read more
This tractor cake was sculpted out of pound cake backed in a Wilton loaf pan. The tires and fenders are made out of Rice Krispies. Johnny John Deere is an actual toy that John Deere makes. The smoke stack is fondant/gum paste mixture wrapped around a small dowel. The windows were brushed with silver luster … Read more
I did this tractor birthday cake for my 5 year old son’s birthday. He loves tractors and John Deere. The cake is made of 2 oblong cakes put together. To do the brown plowed field it is chocolate icing that I put on then put in the refrigerator to get the icing stiff. Then I … Read more
Use any type of cake mix and make a rectangular cake. Use white whipped icing and mix it with either green food coloring or green gel coloring (I used the gel). Use the green frosting as your base color. Then make a road through the center of the cake with crushed graham crackers 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