Take a look at these cool homemade Lion King cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
Every year I do a birthday bash for 10 to 13 people who live up on the hill with us, here in Naivasha and all have birthdays in August. I try to do one large cake that incorporates everyone. This was one of these cakes done for my “rafikis” (Swahili for Friends). All the figures … Read more
My client asked me to match the Lion King decorations for her baby shower including Baby Simba and a green giraffe print. She also loved the look of the baby tushy so I added that to the top and to carry the animal theme, I painted on the cheetah print to the baby’s blanket. The … Read more
This hand painted Lion King cake a simple chocolate cake. The lions and the rocks are made out of fondant then surrounded with green butter cream for the grass. I used edible market for the writings. I hand painted the whole cake with red, orange, and black food coloring. I painted the silhouette of the elephant, giraffe, birds, trees, … Read more
My 3 year old daughter is mad for The Lion King at the moment, and since we were going to the zoo for her birthday, I thought that she would love a Simba cake. Even though I have only ever made one birthday cake before, I thought I would give it a go. I started … Read more
I made this Lion King birthday cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. The cake is red velvet. I used food coloring to color the fondant and covered the cake. I used the Wilton fondant and gum paste mold to mold the leaves and also had dyed them the same colors they show in the … Read more
For this Lion King Birthday Cake, I baked 3 layers in different sizes (12″, 8″ and 6″). Instead of centering the layers on top of each other, I lined them all up so that the waterfall would have more room to look like it was flowing down a hill. I mixed green food dye in … Read more
My son requested the Lion King Cake for his 3rd birthday and I was stressing as cake decorating is not my best characteristic but I decided that I would do this. However, I cheated, and bought the characters but constructed the 3 tier cake. The fondant was a homemade marshmallow fondant which I think tasted … Read more
This is a Homemade Lion King Birthday Cake I made for my best friend’s daughter’s 4th birthday. It was a 2 tier, 10 and 6 in round cakes. The tiers were stacked offset for the waterfall effect. The bottom tier was strawberry and the top tier was white with buttercream icing. The leaves, rocks, daisies, … Read more
My daughter chose the picture for her theme birthday cake from Disney’s Lion King Book. I made a basic cake from a mix in a 9×13 pan. I spread a thin layer of white butter cream frosting over the entire cake first. Then I mixed royal blue for the top layer of skyline followed by … Read more
Coolest Lion King Theme Birthday Cake Photo Gallery and How-To Tips 1
This Lion King theme birthday cake was baked in a standard 9X13 pan. The swirly pattern on the theme birthday cake surface was made by a paper towel, which was used to smooth the cake surface after the icing had set. I then sprayed the top of the cake with green food color mist spray. … Read more
My 3yr. old daughter had been addicted to The Lion King. Sadly its not a theme cake the stores carry, so we made it ourselves.s not a theme cake the stores carry, so we made it ourselves.