When I asked my daughter Trista what cake she wanted for her 5th birthday party she replied “I want a horse mummy”. So I used a large rectangle tin to bake my Pink Pony Horse Cake. And then I made a template from inspirations from all the wonderful horse cakes on this very useful site. … Read more

My daughter wanted a horse cake for her 7th birthday. I decided to make an 11×15 “pasture” out of red velvet cake filled with cream cheese frosting. The horse was made with a two layer 9×13 chocolate cake filled with cream cheese frosting, and carved to the shape of a horse’s head. For the horse … Read more

For this Horse Birthday Cake Design I traced a picture of a horse head, baked 2 12x 14 sponge cakes and cut out the shape. I then put some pieces of sponge on the cake to make the raised features of the horses head and covered it in chocolate fondant icing . I used a … Read more

My husband made this horse cake for me for my 31st birthday. I had just put my horse down and was really sad. We made the cake with a 10X10 and a 10X13 pan and the horse was a cut out and placed on top. The whole bottom cake was frosted with butter cream frosting … Read more

My great-granddaughter is taking riding lessons this winter and requested a Horse Birthday Cake for her birthday. I prepared a large dense cake recipe in two 9×13 pans, one a little thinner than the other. Using ideas from this site, I copied, enlarged and cut the horse head shape out of paper. When the cakes … Read more

My daughter loves horses and ponies and I wanted to make her something different from what I usually make. I got the idea for this Horse Birthday Cake Design from a horse picture I drew on her bedroom wall. Firstly I baked a basic Victoria sponge mix in a baking tray. For this mixture I … Read more

My daughter wanted a horse for her cake so we searched the internet for a nice picture (which I can’t find anymore) and I freehand drew it on the cake. This Horse Bust Birthday Cake is only my wife and my third custom cake, so we’re lucky it looked as nice as it does.

This was a race horse cake made for a birthday party for a former horse racer. They had asked for a horse done in icing on the cake but I decided that I would try a 2D sculpture. I used a few images of horses on the internet and drew a sketch of the size … Read more

I created this homemade horse cake for my friend’s daughters 5th birthday party. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, she told me “painted horse cake and I want the horse to have wings.” After doing a bit of research I discovered that a “painted horse” is a horse with spots that … Read more

My niece wanted a Horse Birthday Cake that looked like Secretariat! I googled the horse and sketched a pattern from a closeup of the horses face. I baked 3 9x 13 cakes and froze them ahead of time. I layed the frozen cakes out on my cake board and layed the pattern on it and … Read more

My daughter requested a horse cake for her birthday but could not decide between a 2D and 3D version. After much debate and the only requirement she gave is that it must be black horses this is what I have come up with. Let me start by saying that there are a total of 4 … Read more

I used one of the cakes on here as a guideline to to create this homemade horse cake. It’s a chocolate cake. I cut the basic shape out with a sharp knife and covered the whole thing in white sugarpaste and then cut the brown bits out of chocolate sugarpaste (which were added at the … Read more