I made this Tractor Birthday Cake Design for my grandson Billy’s 3rd birthday. He lives in the country side near a farm. He loves tractor’s. I have made cakes for my other grandchildren in the past, but nothing with dark icing. I tried to colour the icing with liquid colour. This was unsuccessful as the … Read more
The Pink Antique Tractor Cake is made with 11×13 pan, 3 layers for the main part, carved on the top to give a bit of roundness. Fondant overlay, then painted with the spray paint. The chair is a round cake carved to look like a seat, covered with fondant. The wheels and steering wheel are … Read more
I made this cake for a friends son. I used two 9×13 cakes and put them together. I iced with green and brown dyed icing to look like the field and garden. I used green icing to make the plants in the garden and used pieces of his favorite farm toys for the toppers.s son. … Read more
After searching the internet for a tractor cake to surprise my soon-to-be-three year old son my mother showed up with a Wilton pan. (Whew one step easier!) I didnt start baking this until 8:00 pm. I made the tractor of chocolate and the rebuilt-rectangle-cake wagon of vanilla. The family is large and each has their … Read more
For my son Gavin’s second birthday party, we chose to have a farm themed party. The invites were little barns and when you opened the barn door there was a picture of my son dressed as a farmer. And this is the Farmyard Birthday Cake. All the kids received cowboy hats and bandanas and cowbells. … Read more
I am not good at making cakes so about a week before my sons birthday party I made all of the animal figures, hay bales and flowers out of icing and kept them in an airtight container. The day before the party I made a square sponge cake which I filled with jam and covered … Read more
This farmyard cake is a beautifully moist mud cake with a chocolate muddy looking ganache icing. The farm animals were made from a plain modeling fondant coloured to suit each piece. I created the barn house out of red fondant and added some raffia for straw. There is a little grey rat with a pink … Read more
I made this homemade barnyard cake for my daughter’s second birthday, she loves cows so I thought this would be perfect. The barn is made out of 2 chocolate cakes baked in a round pan. I then trimmed the cake to make a square and used the extra for the roof. I covered the barn … Read more
I made this barn cake for my son’s third birthday. I used 2 cake mixes to make 4 cakes in loaf pans, cutting the top off of two of the loaf pans. Then staked a “domed” loaf on top of a flat loaf and put them side by side. In the “valley” I used 2 … Read more
I used plastic fencing and animals. I made the water with grass around it for the ducks. I made a mud hole for the pigs to play in. The sheep are following the ducks to the water hole. The horses are eating out of a plastic trough filled with graham crackers crumbled to a fine … Read more
I made these farm animal cupcakes for my daughter’s second birthday party, a “barnyard bash.” I found the idea for the pig cupcake on this site and the lamb cupcake on another (?) site. The pig has pink frosting and uses half of a large pink marshmallow for the nose, one pink mini marshmallow cut … Read more
My idea for a Homemade 3D John Deere Tractor Cake started out with thinking that I would use a tractor loaf pan and then add a three dimension to the wheel on the back. However, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted it to stand up completely and really have a 3D … Read more