I got the idea for this tank cake from this great site. My husband is a military history buff but he really wanted an ice cream cake for his birthday. So I made a layered ice-cream cake in a 9×13 inch pan lined with plastic wrap. When it was completely frozen I inverted it onto … Read more
I baked this Homemade Airplane Birthday Cake for my husband’s 26th birthday. I followed his wish and sculpted a vanilla cake with vanilla cream and vanilla fondant in the shape of a F22 Raptor. I baked two pieces of cake dough in a large pan (aprox. 30/30 cm). Then I cut them in a shape … Read more
I made this Homemade Call of Duty Cake for my nephew Jacob’s birthday. He is always playing the game on his ps3. I bought a couple packs of army men and tanks. The garnade actually works when you squeeze the trigger. And it being an army type cake I had to use dog tags. I … Read more
This Camo birthday cake is a 2 layer cake for my son’s 8th birthday. It is a marble cake with chocolate frosting. Then I made the camo colors using for the tan: white frosting with a little chocolate and for the camo green. I used white frosting with 15 drops of green food coloring and … Read more
I baked this Smoking Gun Cake at the request of a friend who’s spouse teaches firearms classes. They wanted to serve it at the end of the year picnic. The cake is a vanilla batter and the frosting is butter cream. I printed out pictures of the gun online and used one to outline it … Read more
After looking at some of the tank cakes on this site I thought I’d give it a try. Basic 9 x 13 bottom and a bread pan for the top. Used half the cake from the bread pan. Adding a touch of cocoa to green food coloring can give you the olive green army color. … Read more
Thanks to all the wonderful ideas from this site, I was able to provide the army tank cake my son really wanted. We used a 9×13 cake pan and a loaf pan suggested by others who had done this. We mixed store bought chocolate icing with white icing to get the brown we wanted. We … Read more
This was a cake for my nephew who loves anything “Army”. I came up with the idea to make him a Tank cake. The inside is camouflage colors…pretty neat trick! The bottom tier is a chocolate box cake mix baked in a 9*13 pan. I trimmed the edged to make it a bit more narrow … Read more
Bake two sheet cakes and two 5″ diameter round cakes for this Army tank cake. Cool. Layer sheet cakes and place chocolate frosting in between. Place one round cake in center. Trim second round to 3″ diameter and place on top of larger round, placing chocolate frosting in between. Cover and place in refrigerator to … Read more
This is an easy cake to make, apart from the icing! I used three rectangle trifle sponges. Jam two together and cut to the size of the base of the tank. Cut the 3rd sponge to the size of the top of the tank (I cut it in half, then a bit off the back). … Read more
I made this army cake for a birthday party where I used a whole camouflage theme for the table as well. The army tank cake seemed to be the perfect fit. The bottom portion of the cake was a 9×13 pan and the top was portion is a loaf pan. However I cut the loaf … Read more
For the Red Arrow cake pictured I used the Madeira Sponge Cake Recipe and cooked it in a loaf shaped tin. I also used the Gelatin Icing recipe and colored it red to make the wings. Gelatin Icing needs several hours (preferably overnight) to dry and harden preferably turning half way, so I suggest doing … Read more