This is my first paid cake. Its my fourth cake ever made (with a theme/character). I have never taken a class in making cakes so I winged it. It is a double layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for the filling. I frosted it with buttercream frosting colored. I then made a third 9×13 cake … Read more
After finding farm birthday decorations online, I decided my mother and I (mostly my mother) should take on a barnyard cake complete with a 3-D barn for my son’s 3rd birthday. We could have used a little more practice on the barn itself, but after all our hard work, I think the end result wasn’t … Read more
With limited time the day of the party I opted to purchase two chocolate sheet cakes with chocolate frosting and decorate with my fondant, crispy cereal and graham cracker creations. The barn is made from graham crackers held together with royal icing and covered with fondant and melted chocolate for the roof. I inserted ¼ … Read more
I made this Old McDonald Farm Birthday Cake for my cousin Melissa’s 3 year old nephew. The bottom is made from two 11 X 15 inch layers of marble cake filled with butter cream frosting. The barn is made from one 9 X 13 inch layer of Funfetti cake cut into four sections and then … Read more
I baked two loaf cakes, and bought some chocolate covered donuts in two sizes. I sawed off the tops of the loaves (the rounded parts) with a serrated knife, and used one loaf for the base of the tractor cake. I then cut about a third into the next loaf (with a slanted cut) and … Read more
For my son’s 5th birthday he decided he wanted a tractor cake just like papa’s tractor. This was my first attempt at cake decorating, so after much researching, I took photos of the actual tractor from different angles and then enlarged them on the photocopier. Using a combination of tracing the photocopies and sketching freehand, … Read more
My son loves tractors so we had a tractor birthday party for him for his 2nd birthday. I found inspiration from this site for my Harvest Tractor Cake. Its not the neatest cake, but my son LOVED it, and it was very tasty. He loved watching me make it too. I used 2 loaf pans. … Read more
I made this cake for my brother-in-law. He is a farmer and I wanted to make something appropriate. I was having a hard time coming up with an idea. I had to make it the night before. I was getting a pan out of the cupboard for dinner, and a loaf pan and a 6-inch … Read more
I made this Farming Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. He wanted a combine cake, but I wasn’t sure I was ready to do that so we agreed on a number 5 with corn field on top and a combine picking the corn. I made the 5 by using a bundt pan and 2 loaf … Read more
Making cakes is a blast and this one was no different. The cakes were box cakes I made a few days before and put into the refrigerator. The icing was Wiltons icing (the box mixes) then we colored the icing with Wiltons icing gel. We made the grass with coconut and colored it green and … Read more
I started this Barnyard Birthday Cake with a 9×13 baking pan for the base of the cake. I made homemade buttercream icing to be used for the entire cake. I colored all the icing in each color that I needed. The fence is just crafting fence from the craft store, stained with food coloring. The … Read more
