For my daughter’s 1st birthday, I had bought a teddy bear pan and a 3D mini-bear pan from eBay and this was my plan. I wanted something original so I looked on this site for some ideas. When I realized that a bear wasn’t my only option with this pan, I was really pleased and … Read more
My nephew specifically wanted a green elephant cake for his 4th birthday party. I didn’t want my sister to have to spend a lot of money for a custom cake so I volunteered my amateur baking services. I used the white chocolate variation from the White Almond Sour Cream Wedding cake (from recipezaar.com) and baked … Read more
This Giraffe Birthday Cake was for a friend’s little girl. It may not look it on the photo, but this was really a tall horse, more than a meter in length. I used sponge cake that I cut up to form the basic design. I cooled the cake to prevent crumbling and gave it a … Read more
I made this Jungle Safari Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday at his request for a jungle themed cake. I’m going to be detailed because I find that helpful when I’m looking at this site and want to recreate a cake I like. This cake was made from 3 cake mixes. The 8″ (used … Read more
This Elephant Birthday Cake was made for my daughter’s first birthday party. I took the idea from this website, and put it together with some cake decorating suggestions found on other sites. The cake started with the Wilton stand-up cuddly bear. Wilton directions said to use a pound cake mix and layer cake mix combined … Read more
For the 2nd birthday of my twins, the theme was zoo/jungle. We had around 30 guests and 12 kids. I baked 2 cakes for this jungle scene cake: – a 2-tier 16×12″ rectangular vanilla cake with filling of vanilla pudding with fresh chopped strawberries and the other was 9″ 3 tier round chocolate cake with … Read more
I made this Homemade Baby Lion Cake for a friend’s baby shower. I used vanilla sponge for the layers alternating with rice krispie treat layers. I used a 1″ PVC pipe as my center support, threaded into a floor flange that is bolted to the base. I used vanilla buttercream as the filling and the … Read more
My niece and little cousin are both animal and reptile lovers. For their 9th birthdays (they are born two weeks apart and are not only cousins but best of friends) they asked me for a snake birthday cake. For this birthday cake decorating idea I used a 9×13 pan and made her favorite chocolate cake. … Read more
Once it was built up I starred over it just like the rest of the cake. I also changed the mouth a little from the mold. I used tootsie rolls for the “horns.” I rolled them with my hands and shaped them to look as they do. I jammed them into the top of the … Read more
When I asked my oldest son (just turned 4) what type of birthday he wanted, he told me an Alligator birthday. I was not at all surprised as he loves animals of any kind. So after many months of trying to convince him to go with something else with out any chance of him changing … Read more
My son is obsessed with alligators so for his 3rd birthday I came to the coolest birthday cakes website and found some really great ideas for an alligator cake (you can even see the printout I was using in picture #1!) I tweaked this one a little and the results were fantastic. I used Swiss … Read more
We used a recipe out of the 2007 Wilton Yearbook for our jungle cake. We made the palm trees out of pretzel rods and construction paper, the “water” out of blue gel icing and brown sugar for the “sand”. It was a big hit at the party everyone loved it!