I used 9 inch round pans to make the cake (any smaller, and you wouldn’t have enough room to decorate). Cool cake and cut irregular lake shape out of one layer, can freeze first to make a little easier to cut. Either use buttercream tinted brown or chocolate buttercream to ice the cake. The lake … Read more
I made this picnic table cake for a family camping weekend after seeing similar cakes on this site and other websites. It was my first attempt at this kind of cake. It is a 10″ square cake with chocolate frosting. The picnic blanket is marshmallow fondant – two colors cut into squares and made into … Read more
I made this cake for my sisters Father-in-Law’s 60th Birthday / Retirement party. He loves fishing so it was appropriate! The bridge is a Crispy bar and the sides, trees and fish are pieces I got from a local Cake Supply store. It was Super easy to ice (I used butter cream icing and paste … Read more
My husband and my oldest son made this cake for the “Fellers Cake Bake” – a yearly tradition for our annual Baden Powell Banquet. He used two boxes of white cake mix (my son’s choice). The body of the shirt is one rectangular 9×13 with some pieces added on from the other cake to complete … Read more
My son loves Diego so I wanted to make him a Diego Birthday Cake for his 3rd birthday. I made 2 13 by 9 cake mixes and put them together. Then made a bundt cake and put it at the end of the cake. For the water I got piping gel and dyed it blue. … Read more
My son wanted a Diego party so the first thing I did was come on to this website for some great ideas. I saw a Waterfall Birthday Cake already posted on here and then added some of my own ideas to it. I added a third layer of cake. The first layer had the waterfall … Read more
This campfire cake is a round cake made with strawberry cake mix. Frosted with chocolate frosting, the best part about this cake is that if it looks a little messy- its OK! The “logs” are cookies, found in the cookie isle. The flames are melted butterscotch and cinnamon candies.
I used fondant for the people on this camping cake. I melted chocolate for the tent and for the grass I used #233 icing tip and also #67 icing tip. I got the general ideas form this web site and just used my imagination for the rest.
For my son’s 8th birthday, we decided to have five friends “camp” over in the backyard. The cake had to be one that featured a tent. Using a few ideas from other cakes, this Camping Birthday Cake is my adaptation! The cake started with one 9×12 chocolate cake and two 8×8 lemon cakes. I used … Read more
My partner is a keen camper and we like to camp in quite out the way places. This cake is a Dundee cake (his favourite) and because of the effect I want to create I iced it the risen side up to get a bumpy ‘rough ground effect’. I used some apricot jam and then … Read more
I made this Picnic Birthday Cake for a church picnic. The cake is chocolate and yellow layers. The grass is made from butter cream icing and the picnic table and picnic foods are made from home-made marshmallow fondant.
I made this cake for my sons cub scout Blue and Gold banquet. I wanted to make a cake that had all the badges on it. I used a 14″ square pan. I used two boxes of cake mix, probably should have used three as it wasn’t as thick as I’d like. I frosted it … Read more