Coolest Homemade Giraffe Cake for my Granddaughter

Homemade Giraffe Cake

This giraffe cake was made for my granddaughter on her 6th birthday. It was made using the wonderful cake decorating book by Lindy Smith. What an inspiration this cake decorator is! Using sugarpaste to cover the board I used diluted paste colours to paint the board using creams through to golden brown. I made the … Read more

Cool Homemade Giraffe Cake

Homemade Giraffe Cake

My 12 year old daughter loves giraffes. I used two Betty Crocker devils food cake mix as I find they are really light and easy to sculpt. We made this Giraffe cake by baking first a rectangle cake and then a circle cake and cutting the shape, following a picture on a birthday card. The … Read more

Cool Homemade Pink and Purple Giraffe Head Birthday Cake

Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

This Giraffe Birthday Cake idea was shamelessly borrowed off this site from Tami B. of Del Rio, TX after I couldn’t locate a giraffe cake pan for the pink and purple giraffe cake requested for my Goddaugther’s birthday. (Thanks, Tami!) I printed off the picture of Tami’s cake and used it to draw a 9×13 … Read more

Adorable Homemade Giraffe Cake

Homemade Giraffe Cake 16

I baked this giraffe cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday. She was in love with giraffes. First I scanned her invitation that had a giraffe on it. I then blew it up on my greetings program. I made two 9 X 13 cakes. Put them side by side. I put the giraffe template on top … Read more

Coolest Homemade Gluten Free Cake With 3D Edible Giraffe Topper

Homemade Giraffe Cake

I made this giraffe cake for my daughter. The cake is gluten free and lactose free and Melman was created using a Rice Krispie base, coat hanger for his neck and lollipop sticks to reinforce his legs. His feet are pecans. I molded his body first and allowed it to dry and then created his … Read more

Sweet Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

This Giraffe Birthday Cake was my first attempt at cake decorating, being for a special occasion, my first child’s, first birthday. He has a jungle themed nursery so I had to go with a giraffe cake. I got some great ideas from this website but ended up drawing my own design and cake template based … Read more

Giraffe Cake

Giraffe Cake

We decided for my son’s second birthday to have a Jungle Theme. I found the Wilton Animal crackers pan which takes one regular store bought cake mix for this lion cake. Once the Giraffe cake was cooked I covered with bright yellow icing and star tipped the entire thing with yellow and brown. To make … Read more

Adorable Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

This Giraffe Birthday Cake was for a friend’s little girl. It may not look it on the photo, but this was really a tall horse, more than a meter in length. I used sponge cake that I cut up to form the basic design. I cooled the cake to prevent crumbling and gave it a … Read more

Coolest Giraffe Baby Shower Cake

Homemade Giraffe Baby Shower Cake

This is a homemade giraffe baby shower cake for a baby shower. I used 9-in round for the bottom tier, and 6-in round for the top tier. The bottom tier is yellow colored fondant, I made the green and brown colors from the left over yellow. The top tier is white fondant with brown giraffe … Read more

Cute Homemade Buttercream Giraffe Cake

Giraffe Cake

My daughter wanted a giraffe cake for her birthday, so I went with a safari theme. A giraffe and lion was made. The giraffe cake was a french vanilla cake with butterscotch chips. The frosting was store bought and colored. The picture of the giraffe was done freehand by my husband and then I piped … Read more

Coolest Giraffe Birthday Cake

Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

This Giraffe Birthday Cake is one of my son’s first birthday cakes (yes we had two – one for home and one for the party at nanna’s). The idea for this cake came from my son’s favorite toy. It was a giraffe dangling from his play gym. I found a recipe for a giraffe cake … Read more

Coolest Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

Homemade Giraffe Birthday Cake

The inside of the Giraffe Birthday Cake was like a giraffe’s skin colouring when the cake was cut. She then covered the cake with ready to roll white icing and painted green leaves on it so that when the giraffe’s (Geoffrey apparently) head was placed on the cake, it would look as he was looking … Read more