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
I made this Farming Tractor Cake Design for my son’s second birthday; he loves trains and tractors. I used a Nordic Ware cake pan for the tractor shape. The cake is made of chocolate, cut in half; in the center there’s a layer of chocolate fudge. The cake is also covered in fudge, and for … Read more
This Personalized Tractor Cake Design was a mess when I pieced it together out of a 9×13 and two 8″ rounds, but the frosting totally saved it! One full sized 8″ is the back wheel, then I used a baby formula lid to cut the smaller wheel out of the second 8″ round. The remaining … Read more
This year my twin grandchildren’s birthday theme was John Deere. I ordered the girl and boy JD stuff on line and then worked cakes to coordinate. My grandson’s cake was a John Deere Birthday Cake. I had looked for other John Deere cakes and nothing inspired me. I used the Pantastic tractor cake pan and … Read more
I made this tractor cake for my nephews first birthday which was a John Deere theme. I used Wilton’s tractor pan and put it on top of two 9×13 sheet cakes. I used yellow cake mixes for all three cakes. I used chocolate icing for the sheet cakes and made the grass using white icing … Read more
My friend’s little boy turned three and is really into tractors, so I asked if I could make him his tractor cake as a present. I purchased the tractor and wagon as part of his gift so he can play with it when the cake is done. It was pretty simple. I used a cupcake … Read more
This is a chocolate square cake iced in dark green. I frosted one corner in brown and used my “cake rake” to make the appearance of rows. Then I iced a blue pond. I used pieces of toothpicks topped with a little brown icing and added leaves to make “cat tails” by the pond. I … 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