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Coolest Farmyard Birthday Cake 58
by Susanne
(BC, Canada)
Coolest Farmyard Birthday Cake
I wanted to make my son a Farmyard Birthday Cake for his first birthday because he loves his Fisher Price Barn he got from his Grandma and Grandpa. I looked at a lot of different barn and farm cake ideas online, but so many used the Wilton stand-up house pan, which I do not have and couldn't get ahold of. Instead I made the base in a small rectangular baking pan (I think it's 8"x10") and made the barn itself from an 8" square cake which I cut the corners off to give the roof shape. I used a chocolate pound cake recipe because I wanted a firm cake that wasn't going to collapse when I stood it up.
The green coconut "grass" in the barnyard was a much better idea in my head than it was in reality. The coconut was impossible to write on with icing, so I had to sweep it off of the area where I wrote his name.
I ended up making a much smaller cake than I had envisioned originally since it's just going to be us for his birthday. The recipe I used gave me enough batter to make the rectangular base cake, the square barn cake and a small round cake (probably about 4")for the birthday boy to have to himself.
This cake was really fun to make, and super easy!
