To make this birthday cake decorating idea I used two 8″ round pans and cut the shape for the snake from those. I pieced them together using frosting to hold everything in place. It was then frosted using a star tip, mini chocolate chips and M&M’s make up the snakes spots. I also used a … Read more
I came up with this cake decoration idea for my son Lukes 6th birthday because he LOVES Steve Erwin, the crocodile hunter.So, for his birthday I shaped this creature out of two sheet cakes. Then, added food coloring to my home-made butter cream frosting and simply used two different sized star tips to decorate. The … Read more
The crocodile cake idea came after being on holiday in Australia and seeing a croc for real in a wildlife park. Our son was crocodile mad for quite some time. I used a plain sponge cake and found pictures on the net of crocodiles. I then cut out a page template of the shape I … 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
I made this Crocodile Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday, as we had ‘Crocodile Encounters’ to entertain the children. I made a sponge cake, cut out a hole for the pond, and filled it with two shades of blue fondant icing rolled together to get a marble effect, I then covered the cake in … Read more
This Alligator cupcake cake was so much fun! Giving credit where credit is due, this idea came from a book titled “Hello, Cupcake” (I got mine at a local craft store). Using one cake mix, bake 24 regular cupcakes. Ice them with “gator-green” buttercream by piping on overlapping rows of “scales”. Arrange them in the … Read more
My son wanted a snake about to eat a mouse for his birthday cake. The neck and head of the snake are rice cereal treats which were molded around a stiff wire base. Everything else is cake covered in modeling chocolate. This snake cake was really fun to make but none of the kids wanted … Read more
This Python Snake Cake just wow-ed the party! The body is just like any other snake cake – bunt cakes work the best, but if you get fancy and use sheet cakes, you can add gummy worms in the layers as guts. The poof was the zillion milk chocolate, white chocolate & butterscotch chips the … Read more
When I asked my son what cake he would like for his birthday, he replied a cake that looks like fluffy, our pet snake. Well, after searching the net for a Snake Birthday Cake, I found black plastic icing, rolled it out into the shape of a snake, then coiled it up to look as … Read more
This National Animal Tiger Cake is my son’s idea for his 8th birthday party because he loves animals. We live in India and on his 8th birthday, he wanted our national animal tiger on cake. I baked one 9in and one 6 in circle cakes. After cakes cooled, I made two layers of each cake. … Read more
Mom and I made this hippo cake for my daughter Margaret’s 3rd birthday. She is a hippo fanatic. We combined ideas from other pictures and worked out a design as we went along. We used the marshmallows as teeth to prop the mouth open and added fondant eyelashes and lips! We also put on a … Read more