My husband is a taxidermist and an avid hunter. He loved the idea of a deer cake. I make all my kids birthday cakes and I love to make cake where I have to cut the cake into the image. I first started with two boxes of cake mix and baked in a 1/2 sheet … Read more
I got the idea for this Jungle Cake from this website, it is a combination of several that I liked. Most were round but I thought it would look nice square. It is done in fondant except for the animals. I started with a white layer and layered the zebra stripes on top of the … Read more
I took several ideas of a Safari Jungle Birthday Cake off of this site and put them all together. This was a very fun cake to make and I had never done a decorative cake like this before but it turned out really well. I just bought store frosting because it was WAY easier than … Read more
This Jungle cake was my first attempt at sculpting anything. I am taking a class and this was my final project. There are two versions so you can see how I finished up. The cake was prepared using a book shaped pan. I just baked a basic yellow cake recipe. And covered it with fondant. … Read more
I saw a similar safari cake in the Dora section and modified it! The top is a mountain (which I should have used the cupcake to make a peak)! I bought the Mountain Rescue Diego set and some 88 cent animals! The cake is four 6in rounds on bottom, 10in round then two 6 inch … Read more
This horse cake was inspired by other horse cakes on your site. I used the 9×13 rectangle and cut out for neck and ear suggested by Family Fun’s website. The frostings are a cocoa based one for the base from Hershey’s, and a chocolate glaze with coconut for texture in the mane. My daughter wanted … Read more
This Homemade Horse Birthday Cake was made using a Wilton ring insert pan. To use, you place the ring in the pan upside down, pour your batter right in. It doesn’t leak at all. The insert part baked the indentation of the horse onto the cake. I made it a little on the thin layer … Read more
I made this Homemade Horsey Cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I got a couple of different ideas from this site, and others. The body is made from 2 casserole dish cakes on top of each other and then shaved to shape, and the scraps from the shaving made the upper thigh. The neck, head, … Read more
I made this Homemade Horse Birthday Cake Design for a little friend who loves horses! It was my first time trying to make my own fondant and I found out how easy it was to make and work with. I covered the entire top layer with fondant and tried to make it look a little … Read more
My daughter is currently obsessed with the 1953 Doris Day musical “Calamity Jane” (go figure!) and she “really” wanted a pony cake for her third birthday party and it had to be pink of course! I got the basic idea for how to make the cake from other horse cakes on your website but made … Read more
My son loves ducks! They are his favorite bath tub toy. I was trying to think of a neat theme for his first birthday and since I had just decorated his bathroom in ducks, I thought WHY NOT? He just loves them! I had tons of different color ducks in his bathroom so to make … Read more
