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.
For my son, Ethans, fourth birthday, he wanted a horse cake. So this is what I created. I baked a cake in a two-quart Pyrex bowl, and in two 10-ounce Pyrex bowls. After leveling the large cake and one of the small cakes, I trimmed part of the small cake to fit snugly against the … Read more
I got the idea to use two pyrex bowls from others on this site for horse cakes and it worked out better than I expected! I greased and floured the bowls beforehand and the cakes popped right out. I cut a bit off the large one in order to attach the smaller “nose” cake and … Read more
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
This horse cake is done using a 9×13 made with a vanilla cake mix. Cut triangle out from the neck and use for the ear. Cut slant off of nose. I iced the cake with chocolate and accented mane with khaki (white with a little brown added). The reins are braided red licorice, and the … Read more
I iced the bottom 1/3 of horse cake with green buttercream icing and the top 2/3 with blue. Cut “mountains” out of wax paper and place outline at top and straight piece across the green and sprayed Wiltons blue food coloring in between. Trace a picture of Spirit (this was from “How to Draw Spirit” … 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