Take a look at these cool homemade Barns and Animals cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This barn cake was made for a friend’s daughter and a black fantasy horse. They have horses and chickens and a pig and this stable is just like theirs. I hand carved everything out of fondant and then hand painted. Everything is cake covered in fondant and then hand painted. More Barn Cake Ideas Cake … Read more
This is a cake I did for my niece’s 2nd birthday. I just made a 1/2 sheet cake and buttercream icing. The idea came from napkins that my sister had bought. I freehanded the barn and figure-piped the animals. More Barns and Animals Birthday Cakes Picture of cake by Susanne H., Cypress, CA BARN: Use … Read more
I made this Barnyard Birthday Cake for a friend of mine at work who wanted her granddaughter to have a “Special Barn Cake”. I could have constructed the animals out of fondant but, the grandmother and I agreed she would enjoy playing with the animals,(made of plastic) more after, instead of eating them all up. … Read more
I had a lot of fun making this girl baby shower cake for my best friend’s baby shower. Girl Baby Shower Cake Directions I formed all the little farm animals and the scarecrow out of the decorator preferred fondant about three days in advance so they would have time to dry a little. For the … Read more
I created my Old McDonald Had a Farm cake for a local county show contest and was delighted to win 1st place. The interior of the cake I made with chocolate biscuit cake which consists of chocolate and lots of it, marshmallows, biscuits and condensed milk. After the cake set in the fridge I smothered … Read more
I made this little animals birthday cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. It is a copy of a cake I saw online. However the cake I saw online had 4 little animals with a special meaning behind each animal, it was very thoughtful. For me, I simply loved the look of the cake as did … Read more
This barnyard cake was made for my son’s second birthday. It was my first homemade cake. I started out well in advanced making the animals and fence out of marshmallow fondant and then stored them in an air tight container until ready to use. I made three 9×13 cakes, two for the bottom and then … Read more
I was struggling with what to do for my son’s first birthday. I looked on several websites, and decided to combine several ideas. This Barnyard Cake with Animal Cupcakes was my practice cake. This is a 9 x 13 inch white cake shaped like a barn. I used a toothpick to lightly etch the shape, … Read more
My Mom and I spent two days on my son’s first birthday cake. I wanted something that would feed 35 to 40 people so I decided on two 9 x 13 cakes side by side. I also wanted to offer a variety so we made one vanilla and one in cherry chocolate. This ended up … Read more
I baked a huge cake, using a Wilton cake pan. It took 4 boxes of French vanilla cake mix. I made homemade butter cream icing. The barn is made out of iced graham crackers. I dyed coconut for the hay and grass. The animals are Fisher Price Little People. The pig is sitting in a … Read more
Lots of prep work for a first timer on barn cakes. The royal icing animals were made well in advance of the party. The base cake is 9×13 – chocolate with buttercream blue and red shell border. I used shaved milk chocolate instead of coconut under the animals. The fence was made with pretzel sticks … Read more
This farmyard cake is a beautifully moist mud cake with a chocolate muddy looking ganache icing. The farm animals were made from a plain modeling fondant coloured to suit each piece. I created the barn house out of red fondant and added some raffia for straw. There is a little grey rat with a pink … Read more