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
We took a birthday cake photo and this is the result!
For this cake decoration idea I found a party hat cake pan and used one cake mix. Using both my mom and her homemade frosting we chose different colored greens for the body, white for eyes and teeth, black for mouth, pupils and warts and blue for the water. For the eyeballs I used two … Read more
I made this alligator cake for my sons 4th birthday. It was really simple to make. I used 2 boxes of cake mix to prepare the cake. Using two 8″ round cake pans and one 4″ round pans.s 4th birthday. It was really simple to make. I used 2 boxes of cake mix to prepare … Read more
This lion cake was a basic sheet cake with a round cake to shape the lions head out of. I used vanilla wafers to ice as ladybugs and the tree frog is shaped from a moon pie! I also used real leaves and melting chocolate wafers to make the leaves on the cake. So much … Read more