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
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
A fun cake pan and a lot of special talent from my mother always makes for a fantastic Birthday Cake! This John Deere Birthday Cake took her about 2 hours to decorate. We made the cake using the John Deere cake pan and from there it was all about the decorating. She poured chocolate into … Read more
I took a cake pan and made the tractor cake then I took 4 cups marshmallows, added 2 tablespoon of water and microwaved it, and added about 4 cups powder sugar to make fondant. I then covered the tractor birthday cake with fondant, and then iced it. The baler is a 10′ round cut to … Read more
It was Hunter’s 3rd birthday party and we had it at the local petting farm. What better to do than a Farming Tractor Cake Design. And what tractor is more famous than the John Deere? The 3D cake was a little harder than expected, but well worth it in the end. The base of the … Read more
This tractor cake was for my two year old grandsons birthday and we didn’t need a huge cake so I baked a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting in a Pyrex loaf pan. It wouldn’t hold the entire recipe but I wanted it to be as tall as possible. I baked the remaining batter in … Read more
This country cake is my sister’s birthday cake for the year that she moved from rural Virginia to Washington, D.C. Because I needed space I made it in in a 12X17 inch jelly roll pan. I used one box of cake mix per layer (three layers). I used chocolate cake mix both because she requested … Read more
My son had a John Deere tractor birthday party on a farm. This tractor cake was 2 9×13 sheet cakes that I put together. They weren’t completely even and that worked out perfectly because it looked more realistic of the ground. I used a grass tip to pipe the green grass. The garden is chocolate … Read more
I made a 9″ chocolate cake and frosted it with a vanilla butter cream frosting colored green for this Barnyard Child Birthday Cake. Then I baked the house cake from the Wilton house pan and held it on the round cake with large skewers. I frosted the barn red, shingled the roof with graham crackers, … Read more