I made this Dinosaur Volcano Cake at the request of my four year old nephew – Charlie – who is mad about dinosaurs. The cake itself is a three tier chocolate sponge covered in sugar fondant icing. The volcano that tops the cake is covered in chocolate fondant and I made shards from sugar paste … Read more
My friends loved this Safari Cake Design for a baby shower cake! The cake was red velvet with chocolate flavored buttercream frosting. The faces of the animals were made from gum paste.
My son is crazy about dinosaurs right now, so for his 3rd birthday thats what we chose as the theme. I decided that I really didn’t like any of the cakes from the store for that theme, so I set out to make his dinosaur birthday cake myself this year.I started out by getting the … Read more
My son wanted a jungle cake for his 3rd birthday. The bottom tier is a 12×12 square, the second is a 8 inch round and the top is a 6 inch round. I crumb coated and then iced the cakes with green icing, and then stacked them (make sure you use straws or dowels for … Read more
I got an idea for dinosaur cakes from one on your sites actually! I baked 2 round cakes, frosted the top of one and put the other on top. I frosted that and put a cupcake on the top for a volcano. After tons of frosting I decorated with orange frosting for lava. I sprayed … Read more
Coolest Homemade Cake Recipes and Ideas for Birthdays 7
This safari cake was for my nieces first birthday. I made a single layer sheet cake (pound cake) with buttercream Icing. I covered it in white fondant. Since this was my first time using fondant I practiced making the animals, trees, rocks etc. earlier in the week. However most of them turned out too big … Read more
My son really wanted a dinosaur cake so checked out the dinosaur cakes on this site which gave me lots of great ideas. I used the two circle cake idea to create this cake as previously mentioned. I used a crumb coat of icing then just iced a second layer over top( much quicker than … Read more
This patriotic cake was for my Godson who loves American History – especially the Presidents. Since this is something he loves I decided to do a sort of replica of the Presidential seal emblem. It is a four layer vanilla cake. I used buttercream icing for the decorations which were made using a paper template. … Read more
This dinosaur cake was made by the mother of the child, I just did the decoration. His mom wanted a cake with something of the childhood of the boy. When he was a child he loved dinosaurs, and other things like every little boy, for example, skate and tennis. So I decided to make a … Read more
I made this Handy Manny birthday cake for my son’s 3rd Birthday. For this cake I focused on the tools. My son got the Handy Manny Toolbox with tools for Christmas. I used the removable tools as my stencils for my cake. After cooling an 11×15 inch sheet cake, I iced the sides of the … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake for my nephew’s third birthday using store bought cake mix and butter cream, and fondant. I made 4 sheet cakes, two side by side (the smaller ones you can buy at any $1 store), used a template I cut out of cardboard. After I got the shape I wanted … Read more