My husband got his Commercial Pilots License and challenged me to make him an airplane cake to celebrate. He wanted one that looked like the planes he was flying in flight school, but I wanted to make one to look more like the airliners he would be flying soon, and a women always gets her … Read more
I used the same technique that the other Blue Angel cake on this site used but to make the cockpit and tail wings I made sugar cookies. As you can see from my cake pictures, the tail wings were simply triangle cutouts and the cockpit I made by baking the cooking on the backside of … 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
Homemade Cessna Airplane Cake Homemade Cessna Airplane Cake I made this Cessna airplane cake for my sons 4th birthday. He loves planes and wanted a T41 cake (his made up name after watching to many WWII documentaries with daddy). I fashioned this after my father’s Cessna 172 as I know what that looks like. I … Read more
Homemade Turbo Otter Float Plane Birthday Cake This Homemade Turbo Otter Float Plane Birthday Cake took a lot of time and effort. It is about 90% edible and only feeds about 6 people.Both the middle of the plane and the floats are real cake with buttercream icing and fondant. The wings, prop, supports and back … Read more
This Airplane Birthday Cake I made was actually my son’s second cake. He is two and truly fascinated with airplanes of any kind. I just really wanted a silly looking cake. We had a large family party before his birthday and then I made this one for his actual birthday. It is very small and … Read more
I used the airplane cake pan for my cake idea and then made the clouds from cool whip frosting with some blue food coloring mixed in.
I made this B-2 Stealth Bomber Birthday Cake Idea for my husband’s birthday. I wanted to make some kind of airplane and this one seemed easiest due to the straight lines and minimal sculpting. As long as you can pull up a picture of the real thing as a reference, it’s very simple. Bake your … Read more
I made this cake idea for a pilot leaving the company (a going away party). I began with a square cake pan for the sky. I used blue food coloring in fluffy white frosting and then swirled plain fluffy white frosting for clouds. Then I placed a round cake pan for the plane. I used … Read more
My Dad was a pilot so it was obvious he should have an Aeroplane Birthday Cake for his 70th birthday! I also had the idea of having all his family as passengers so had pictures taken of us all looking in the correct position and had them printed on edible rice paper. I drew out … Read more
Directions are on Shindigz. It’s an easy cake idea to create. It’s just a rectangular cake cut up and placed on a board. I did use a rice krispie treat for the upright tail section. It worked really well.
