Coolest Wilderness Theme Birthday Cake

Homemade Wilderness Theme Birthday Cake

My daughter requested a hunting/wilderness related cake for her 12th birthday and this Wilderness Theme Birthday Cake is what I came up with. I started with a basic 13×9 cake mix cake. I dyed buttercream frosting light green to go on the entire cake. I then created evergreen trees using decorator icing dyed dark green … Read more

Coolest Camping Tent Birthday Cake

Homemade Camping Tent Birthday Cake

Bake a 9×13 chocolate (dirt) cake for this Camping Tent Birthday Cake. Frost it green, very smooth. Build tent using chocolate pop tarts, pretzel sticks and brown frosting. Make a circle of brown frosting and add campfire, using chocolate rocks, pretzel sticks and orange/red frosting. Fill one sugar cones with frosting, pipe out “needles” using … Read more

Coolest Camping Theme Cake

Homemade Camping Theme Cake

My son had to make a cake and decorate for a Scout competition. I decided a Homemade Camping Theme Cake would be most appropriate. I searched this site to see what others had done. Using some of the tips and coming up with my own, I have my rendition to share. Use a decorating icing … Read more

Coolest Teddy Bear’s Picnic Cake

Homemade Teddy Bear's Picnic Cake

I made this Teddy Bear’s Picnic Cake for a three year old boy, but I suppose it would suit many ages and gender. The cake itself was a square vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream and seedless raspberry jam centre, then I applied a butter cream crumb guard and placed it in the fridge to … Read more

Coolest Birthday River Tubing Cake

Homemade Birthday River Tubing Cak

This homemade birthday river tubing cake is my first fondant birthday cake, made for a friend of a friend’s 50th birthday. I made the fondant (marshmallow recipe) which was pretty easy to make. My grandson age 9 was visiting so I tinted some brown and yellow fondant and asked if he thought he could make … Read more

Coolest Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake

Homemade Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake

My son finally received his Eagle Scout rank (yay!) and as part of his Court of Honor, I wanted to celebrate with an Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake. This cake is a 2 layer, coconut rum cake covered in marshmallow fondant. The bottom layer is decorated with the gold scout fleur de lis which … Read more

Coolest Waterfall Birthday Cake

Homemade Waterfall Birthday Cake

My daughter wanted a Waterfall Birthday Cake with a surfer girl on top for her sixth birthday. On the bottom, I did 2 nine inch round cakes with pudding for the filling. On the top, I did one 6 inch round. Had some fun with the frosting, and that was it! I’ve done lots of … Read more

Coolest Mountain Cake

Homemade Mountain Cake

I called my dad to ask him what flavor cake he wanted for his birthday, so we started talking. He wanted a yellow cake with cream cheese icing, a regular sheet cake. I asked him what his favorite color was, and he said, “Hmm, well I guess blue or green. That’s really what I love … Read more

Coolest Camp Birthday Cake

Homemade Camp Birthday Cake

I got most of my ideas for this camp birthday cake from this website so I thought it would be good to share the results! My son wanted a German chocolate cake so I made the cake. I had intended to weave green food coloring in it before baking to give it a camouflage inside … Read more

Coolest Campsite Cake

Homemade Campsite Cake

I got most of my ideas for this Campsite Cake from this website, so thanks to all of you for posting! My son and I made this campsite cake for his cub scout cake bake off contest. It’s two 9 x 13 cakes, one yellow and one chocolate. I made my own butter cream icing. … Read more

Coolest Teddy Bear Picnic Cake

Homemade Teddy Bear Picnic Cake

I made this Teddy Bear Picnic cake for my 2 year old’s birthday. A friend had seen something similar and sent me a photo so I gave it a go. The cake is a basic circular chocolate cake, which, I then covered in chocolate cream cheese and butter icing and finished with marshmallow fondant icing. … Read more

Coolest Dirt Track Cake

Homemade Dirt Track Cake

This Dirt Track Cake was a cake for my 13 year old grandson Eric. He is one of twins and he likes truck races. The bottom layer is a 11×15 cake pan. The other layers are 9×13 carved to fit, with a total of four layers. It is frosted with IMBC over the entire cake. … Read more