My sister asked for a camping birthday celebration, so I decided to make her a tent cake, in the shape of our traditional rectangular cabin-style tent.
This cake was created based on a “doll house” pattern from the old Bakers coconut cut-up cake books. It’s two square layers. One is cut corner to corner, both ways, to make four triangles which, set upright next to each other, form the roof.
The other cake gets a strip cut off so that the base matches the width of the four triangles, and the extra strip is split horizontally and the pieces laid on top of the base for some added height on the walls.
I used lemon cake with chocolate ganache filling in between all the pieces (the thick ganache really helped glue it all together!) and lemon buttercream frosting. I frosted the whole thing green and then used decorating tips to detail the door, windows, tent poles, and loops over the poles using black, grey and lighter green icing.
For the campfire, I used “chocolate rocks” candies to make the ring, cinnamon red-hots partly coated in black frosting for coals (they don’t show in the photo but looked awesome), some grey frosting for ashes, and chocolate-covered cookie sticks cut into various sizes for logs. The flames are crushed hard candies (red, orange and yellow), melted on a cookie sheet in the oven, and broken into jagged shapes when cool. (I assembled the campfire on top of a graham cracker so that it would be a bit more portable — it didn’t fit right inside the cover of my cake carrier, and this cake actually went on a camping trip!)
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The cake looks wonderful, and your attention to detail (i.e., the campfire) makes it exciting to look at! Kudos!
GORGEOUS! The cake is really outstanding, and looks so real. Thank you for the detailed instructions. HUGE. Love it!
this is great ,I’m going to try making one for my lady ,in the shape of a Hilleberg akto … hehe top stuff..hope it tasted nice
this cake is awesome and I am going to have my 10 b-day a campout. can I use the idea?
love it
Love this cake – I am new at cake making, but will be doing this for my 5 year old daughter’s camping party. Her request for the tent colour? Pink, of course!
This is so cool! I’m going to have it for my b-day party, cuz it’s a camp-out
Thank you so much for the detailed instructions. Am making this cake for my 11 year old son’s ‘camp-out’ birthday sleepover. The boys will absolutely love it. Am going to do it all on a cake board which will be covered with frosting and Oreo crumbs (for dirt), then the campfire will just get set into the dirt. Thanks again, love it, love it, love it!
my birthday party’s in 3 days me and my mom both love this one and decided to have a camp-out this year….
This is such a great idea. My youngest grandson just crossed over the boyscouts and I think I’ll try to make this for his birthday in Nov. Thanks