Coolest Piggy Birthday Cake 22

by Linda R.
(Foley, Alabama)

Homemade Piggy Birthday Cake

This Piggy Birthday Cake was for my daughter, Caymen's 6th birthday party that was farm themed and held at a petting farm with pony rides and a hay ride. My daughter loves pigs and I wanted to try to make a pig cake. I have never done anything like this and Googled pig cakes, which led me to your website. I took different ideas from several cakes and between that and youtube cake decorating demonstrations, I was able to make a pretty good cake.

I baked the cakes and cupcakes two days before, let them cool, wrapped them in Siran wrap and aluminum foil, and froze them. I started with a large chocolate sheet cake and two round yellow cakes. The body was 10" and the face was 6". A carved cupcake was the ears and a cupcake for the nose. They are easier to cut when frozen.

The chocolate cake was iced in milk chocolate icing (the mud) and later trimmed with a dark chocolate. I frosted the two round cakes with buttercream frosting tinted pink and drew the eyes and mouth in with black and white frosting.

I bought a small Wilton decorating kit at Wal-Mart. I had never used one but found it easier than I expected. After assembling the cake, I did a "shell" border along the edges and seams with dark chocolate and a darker pink.

I made pig cupcakes (for her class party the day before) that came from this site and used the tops of 4 of these for the piglets.

My daughter loved it, as did friends and family. Thank you to this great site.