My daughter wanted a zoo theme for her 2nd birthday and loves monkeys, so with the help of this site and my Mom, I created this monkey cake. It started with the Wilton 3D bear mold and a 9×13 cake to use for “parts”. First we shaved the face to make it more monkey-like, then … Read more
My daughter wanted a monkey birthday party for her 5th birthday so I looked around for ideas and found lots of inspiration on here for a Monkey Face Birthday Cake. I used a boxed chocolate cake mix for this cake. What I did is make one round 9 inch cake and 12 cupcakes with one … Read more
This Curious George Birthday Cake is a basic two layer yellow cake made from store bought yellow cake mix and Sam’s Club Amaryllis Yellow Butter cream frosting. We like the frosting because it is dairy free for those with allergies and is reasonably priced at about $2 per pound. The tub that I bought was … Read more
My nine-year-old daughter loves monkeys. For her birthday she had a luau theme. So I made a monkey cake with luau decorations. I drew a monkey face on the cake and trimmed with flowers from a lei.
I used the same general idea from another post on this site. Thanks for the great idea! Instead of nutter butters for the ears I used mini Nilla wafers with a bit cut off. Basically they are yellow cake mix, chocolate frosting recipe from the back of the Hersheys unsweetened cocoa box, eyes are Cheerios, … Read more
I then frosted the whole cake with vanilla whipped frosting from Betty Crocker and let it set for a few minutes. Then with my pampered chef cake decorator, using the star tip put small stars of chocolate Betty Crocker frosting in rows down the sides. I then used the same star tip; put smaller yellow … Read more
My kids, nieces, and nephews look forward to an eccentric cake at our Christmas Party, each one different from the previous year. I’ve made castles, trees, etc., and then my daughter suggested that I make a Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Cake. Using a 13×9″ chocolate cake and an 8″ chocolate cake, I was able to … Read more
First I covered a piece of board with cloud material. Then I made 120 cupcakes (Choc, white, and yellow for a variety of flavors). Then we traced over our sketches onto foam paper. We cut out the foam paper and placed it over the Jungle Cupcake Cake to figure out the shape of each animal. … Read more
I made this Safari Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. The cake was a simple white cake recipe with orange zest+juice added. The icing was lemon flavored. I used thin buttercream to base ice blue. The sun was done free hand using a small star tip to fill in. The animals and tree I … Read more
I made this Jungle Animal Safari cake for my little boy’s 1st birthday party. Actually when I started getting the idea for this cake, that’s when I decided I wanted a Jungle Animal Safari theme. This is a three tier cake, the bottom being a 12×18 half sheet “zebra” cake. I prepared mixtures of both … Read more
The elephant & tiger for this jungle cake is one cake mix split into 2 round pans. The tiger ears are cupcakes. The trunk is the part cut out between the ears. The jungle cake is iced with store icing tinted with gel. The elephant is decorated with rope licorice. The monkey ears are cookie … Read more
I made this safari cake as a practice run for the cake I am going to make for my sons fifth birthday. I used MMF to make the animals and decorations. The cake is white with buttercream frosting between the layers and underneath the MMF. This was actually a very easy cake to make, a … Read more