This is a cowboy boot birthday cake I made for my dad’s 50th birthday. The actual boot on top is made out of rice krispies and covered in fondant. I made it to look like my son’s boot. The rest of the cake is just 14′ and 12′ square cakes covered in fondant. The hardest … Read more
I made this homemade wild west birthday cake for my son’s fourth birthday party which had a Cowboys and Indians theme. I am a bit of a novice, but was quite pleased with the result. I baked two Madeira sponges a 13 x 9 inch rectangle and a 9 x 9 inch square, and iced … Read more
I made this Cowboy Boot Birthday Cake for my friend Elisha’s 30th birthday. It is covered in fondant and the bottom has black fondant cut outs that I got wet on the back so that it would stick to the white fondant. The boot is made from rice krispies and covered in fondant. I also … Read more
I made this Cactus Cake for a May meeting that fell the day after Cinco de Mayo. It is 2-15 inch round cakes. The filling is coconut cream. The frosting is yellow butter cream. The Cactus and pepper vines are green butter cream. The four sleeping Mexicans are white butter cream with black butter cream … Read more
One of my friends, Sheena, is from Oklahoma and is a barrel racer so I thought a western themed cake was fitting for her birthday party. She is a member of the national barrel horse association (NBHA), hence the barrel on the front of the cake. I started this Western Birthday Cake with two 10 … Read more
This was a cake for my grandfathers 79th birthday. He is really into the western stuff so searched your site for western birthday cakes and this is what I made. I just used a character pan and iced it using tips #4 and #16. Buttercream icing works great when doing cakes, doesn’t melt and holds … Read more
We are snowbirds that spend the winter in the desert, and love the cacti. I made this Homemade Flowering Cactus Cake for a couple from Germany. It is a round yellow cake, with green buttercream filling. I piped the flowers and needles with royal frosting as well as the plant itself. The dirt is graham … Read more
I did this cake for Wells Fargo bank! I used a 9×13 pan and cut in half to stack then shaved it to shape the stage coach. I used pretzels for the top and miniature candies for luggage. For the cactus I just used a square pan and cut out the shape of the cactus … Read more
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday, we did a cowgirl themed party and I wanted to find the perfect cowgirl hat cake but could not find one or a pan to make one, anywhere so I made one myself. I started with a 13 x 9 sheet pan for the base of the cake/brim and then … Read more
I made this cake for Western day at my school to put in the teachers lounge. My idea came from other cakes on the Western birthday cakes site. (Of course the fact that it was chocolate made it disappear really fast!) I just baked and iced white a regular 9×13 cake. I used a very … Read more
This cake was easy to make. The larger cactus is three cupcakes stacked on each other and each of the small cacti are cupcakes as well. The small cactus is green and dark green. I put green food coloring inside the decorating back to make it different colors when it came out. The flowers aren’t … Read more
I am from Oregon and my Grandpa is in Montana. As my grandpa was a pastor I was honored to have him come perform my wedding ceremony. A year later I got the honor of doing his grooms cake. My step grandma requested a six tier wedding cake that was next to impossible to do … Read more