I looked at a picture of a tank and cut out the cake bottom from a 9×13 pan. The Turret is an oval cake pan trimmed to a proper size. The soldier is a 1.00 army man from Walmart. The tracks are painted bubble tape, and a leaf tip to make bumps along it. The … Read more
My son wanted a tank cake and I was wondering how in the world I was going to accomplish that. Then I stumbled on your website and couldnt wait to get started. I knew it was going to turn out awesome! I simply made a 9×13 cake for the bottom and then made two 9” … Read more
My son has always been fascinated with fighter jets. A few years ago, the Blue Angels were featured at our air show, and he has been requesting a “Blue Angels” birthday cake ever since. After being a fighter pilot for Halloween this past year, I figured I would attempt the cake for his 7th birthday. … Read more
I searched for kid birthday cake ideas until I found this hummer (which is actually an army vehicle). I baked 2 whole cakes and put strawberry filling and icing around them. I placed one layer on top of the other. I made yellow, blue, black, red and green icing (icing is easy to make).I made … Read more
I am not a baker at all, in fact my cakes usually fall apart. However, I decided to try my hand at decorator cakes for the first time this fall for my oldest and youngest sons’ birthdays, (each of their cakes are on this website) so my middle son was of course expecting the same … Read more
This is a cake that I made for my husband’s work. They were having some sort of ceremony and needed me to make them a cake. It is a basic cookie cake with the work logo on it. When they received this cake it was put on a sort of display. They refused to cut … Read more
This Camouflage Tank Cake is a lot easier than it looks, so don’t be afraid! What I love most is that the whole cake is edible! It is a 9×13 on bottom and a loaf pan on top. While the cake was baking I coated the pretzel sticks, pretzel rod and marshmallows in chocolate (I … Read more
I made this tank cake for my son’s 6th birthday for his army themed party. Thanks to this site I used some of the creative ideas from others. I used two boxed cake mixes one 9×13 pan, and one loaf pan for the turret that I trimmed to the appropriate size. I stacked the small … Read more
My son was having a ‘SPY/SWAT/ARMY’ birthday. He and his mom picked out a tank piñata so I figured a homemade US army tank cake would be perfect. The bottom is made out of two 9x13s with the tops shaved off of each so that they were flat. The turret is a single 8×8 cake … Read more
Want a slice of cake?! This Army Tank Birthday Cake was created by 2- 9″x13″ Pillsbury Yellow sheet cakes and 1- 6″ round cake. It was assembled using good ol’ Crisco and 10x sugar based icing. Wilton’s brown and green gel food coloring was used to create the sand, medium brown, and army green colors. … Read more
First layer was a marble cake with the vanilla colored green so the cake had the camo look when cut. Second layer was a devil food cake, and the cupcake on top was also camo. Icing was a homemade butter cream (with butter base) colored with green, brown and a little yellow for the olive … Read more
I am so excited to find your website! I was inspired by your website for the army cake! One thing that was tricky was finding the right color for the tank. I want to say that it takes a lot of green and brown coloring to get that perfect “army green”. I used a large … Read more