My son loves owls, and for his 6th birthday he requested a crazy cake. He wanted a “mystery” which is a question mark, his full name and the colors red and blue. While he was at school, I started browsing on this site, and decided to decorate his cake box with the above mentioned request, … Read more

My 2 year old daughter loves owls and I visited this website for inspiration in creating her Owl Birthday Cake. Needless to say, I was in awe of everyone’s creativity. I borrowed a few tricks from many previous posters. Many thanks! Since I did not have access to special cake molds, I made this cake … Read more

My granddaughter was graduating from HS so I wanted to make her a special cake. She likes Hello Kitty, but not as much as she used to. She really likes Owls so I decided to make her an owl cake. The bottom layer is a choc cake, top is vanilla. I iced it with vanilla … Read more

I had this crazy idea to make an upright Owl birthday cake for my son, Asher’s first birthday. Boy, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I made the whole thing from scratch. I made a vanilla cake with a butter cream frosting. I used two 6″ Pyrex bowls for the body, a … Read more

This homemade owl couple cake was made for my in laws combined birthday party. My mother in law loves owls so the cake happened from there. The bottom layer is a chocolate fudge cake with a chocolate ganache filling and the top tier is a lemon and coconut cake with a lemon curd filling. The … Read more

My four year old daughter wanted an owl cake like her favorite character, the good snow owl, on Legend of the Guardians, mask and all. My twelve year old daughter and I designed and made this cake. This is our first prototype. It is my first attempt at “cake boss” type of cake! We made … Read more

I used two of my glass Pyrex bowls to bake the cake, one small (for the head) one big (for the body). Once they were cooled I cut a small piece of the big one so it could sit on it’s side. I did the same with the small one so I could set it … Read more

A friend asked me to make a cake for his mother’s birthday. He told me she loved owls and had 3 grandchildren. So I started looking for ideas and found this site. I loved the cakes and decided to make a large owl (shown) and 3 little ones (one partially shown). I used the Wilton … Read more

I made this Owl Birthday Cake for my friend on his 24th birthday. This cake took me all day to make but it was sooooo worth it. This cake is made out of 3 homemade marble cakes. For the head I used a bread loaf pan and for the body a round pan. I put … Read more

My son was turning one and he goes crazy for owls. quirky huh. I tend to go over the top for my kids birthdays. But owls aren’t that popular, so we had to make everything from scratch. I made a double recipe chocolate cake. I found two med sized glass bowls in my cupboard. Greased … Read more

Seeing what others here have done inspired this caramel cake for my son’s 8th birthday. You’ll see the similarities, with sliced almond feathers and dried pineapple eyes. The eye centers are licorice ‘bridge mix’ pieces, there are Mike-n-Ike talons hidden at the bottom, and the beak (the brilliant idea of another 8-year-old friend) is an … Read more

I was asked to make an owl for a niece so I set about looking for pictures of owl cakes on the web and found this excellent site that inspired me. I always new I’d use chocolate buttons for the feathers. I started this Chocolate Button Owl Cake by making a round chocolate sponge sandwiched … Read more