For the 2nd birthday of my twins, the theme was zoo/jungle. We had around 30 guests and 12 kids. I baked 2 cakes for this jungle scene cake: – a 2-tier 16×12″ rectangular vanilla cake with filling of vanilla pudding with fresh chopped strawberries and the other was 9″ 3 tier round chocolate cake with whipped cream with crushed Oreos as the filling.
I made marshmallow fondant(MMF)a couple of days ahead. The night before the party, I covered both the cakes in green butter cream frosting, then rolled out the fondant and laid it on top.
Since I am not very good at piping icing, instead took a paintbrush and foam brush and directly started painting trees and shrubs on the fondant.
The water was blue icing gel and sand was brown sugar. Then I placed all the plastic animals and trees and completed the scene.
The Jungle scene cake was a huge hit and all the kids took home the animals as one of the favors!
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Hey, this is a very nice idea and I bet it would have been quiet some effort worth the result.
Very nice.
Your cake is simply awesome…..
The cake is too cool for words! Looks like you have a lot of patience besides imagination. Wonder what the theme might be for the third birthday …
Congrats and best wishes!
The idea and it’s execution reveal the depth of imagination and effort this lady [Nitya R.] has. Am sure the kids are now counting the next 364 days very eagerly for the next surprise!!