My son’s 1st birthday. His favourite “teddy” is a tiger which inspired the tiger cake. Drew outline onto tracing paper and cut out and placed over cake slab then cut out shape. Iced orange icing and lollies for decorations. Tip: dip the icing spatula into hot water each time you place icing on the cake … Read more
This homemade tiger cake was for my daughters best friends 10th birthday. She loves tigers so I looked through a book about tigers and found a picture to use as my inspiration. Everyone loved it, some people even thought it was a stuffed animal. I used an oval pan for the body and a round … Read more
My son wanted a cobra snake cake for his 5th birthday, and he wanted it to look like a toy cobra snake he saw at Target that was orange with blue stripes. We made 2 chocolate bundt cakes (using cake mixes), as I saw on this site from other snake cakes. We used the cakes … Read more
This Lion Birthday Cake was made for my youngest grandson for his first birthday. It was a plain sandwich cake baked in a 9″ tin. It is made of 10ozs self raising flour/10ozs caster sugar/10ozs soft margarine/1 teaspoon baking powder and approx 5 eggs or 10ozs of egg all mixed together with an electric mixer … Read more
This was supposed to be for my sons’ 1st birthday party – I had in mind what the cake would look like and thanks guys for your pics too….. they helped me a lot. I started off believing that I was going to complete one cake with all the fondant jungle animals on top but … Read more
First I made some leaves and flowers from fondant. I also purchased a bag of animals. I baked a chocolate sheet cake. Then I covered it with yellow and green buttercream icing. Then I took a rectangular piece a cake and covered it with the same colour, yellow and green. And I placed it on … Read more
I took three cakes (two chocolate, one butter) and made them into a cascading jungle landscape. I connected the top cake, a butter cake-mountain top to the middle cake, a chocolate watering hole, with a fondant waterfall. The bottom cake was a chocolate grazing land with pretzel and fondant palm trees. All the icing is … Read more
My 12 year old daughter loves giraffes. I used two Betty Crocker devils food cake mix as I find they are really light and easy to sculpt. We made this Giraffe cake by baking first a rectangle cake and then a circle cake and cutting the shape, following a picture on a birthday card. The … Read more
I came up with the theme, from the theme in Max’s room, animals. I used a chocolate sheet cake 1/2, and iced it a nice green. I then drew and cut out pictures of the animals in his room and laid them on the cake and traced around them with icing. I then used a … Read more
I wanted to make my third son a lion cake for his first birthday as he is a Leo so thought it would be appropriate. I didn’t have much inspiration myself, so had a look on the internet and came across this great site. I browsed through loads of the categories, and got lots of … Read more
This was such an easy birthday cake decorating idea. I baked 2 bunt cakes. I let them cool and then wrapped them snuggly in plastic wrap. I put them in the freezer over night to firm up taking them out the next day to thaw and then decorate. I made up a batch of White … Read more
