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!
I made this homemade barnyard cake for my daughter’s second birthday, she loves cows so I thought this would be perfect. The barn is made out of 2 chocolate cakes baked in a round pan. I then trimmed the cake to make a square and used the extra for the roof. I covered the barn … Read more
I made this barn cake for my son’s third birthday. I used 2 cake mixes to make 4 cakes in loaf pans, cutting the top off of two of the loaf pans. Then staked a “domed” loaf on top of a flat loaf and put them side by side. In the “valley” I used 2 … Read more
I used plastic fencing and animals. I made the water with grass around it for the ducks. I made a mud hole for the pigs to play in. The sheep are following the ducks to the water hole. The horses are eating out of a plastic trough filled with graham crackers crumbled to a fine … Read more
I made this Barnyard cake for my sweet nephew’s 3rd birthday party. He loves tractors and loves to sing “Old McDonald had a Farm”. So my sister and I thought a Barnyard Cake would be a fun idea! I looked online and found a really cute idea, to get the crafting sticks and make a … Read more
I made this Barnyard cake for my son’s 1st birthday. This cake was so easy and FUN to make! I made two 8″ round cakes (I used yellow cake) and frosted the bottom then added them together. If you have a cake pan or even a lazy Susan it makes it easier for frosting. I … Read more
The barn is made of two 9×11 cakes stacked on top of each other. The slanted roof was made by baking a cake in a bread loaf pan, then cutting two triangular shaped pieced and one rectangle from the cake. The silo is a stack of store-bought sugar cookies, glued together with frosting. The grass … Read more
After finding farm birthday decorations online, I decided my mother and I (mostly my mother) should take on a barnyard cake complete with a 3-D barn for my son’s 3rd birthday. We could have used a little more practice on the barn itself, but after all our hard work, I think the end result wasn’t … Read more
With limited time the day of the party I opted to purchase two chocolate sheet cakes with chocolate frosting and decorate with my fondant, crispy cereal and graham cracker creations. The barn is made from graham crackers held together with royal icing and covered with fondant and melted chocolate for the roof. I inserted ¼ … Read more
I made this Old McDonald Farm Birthday Cake for my cousin Melissa’s 3 year old nephew. The bottom is made from two 11 X 15 inch layers of marble cake filled with butter cream frosting. The barn is made from one 9 X 13 inch layer of Funfetti cake cut into four sections and then … Read more
I started this Barnyard Birthday Cake with a 9×13 baking pan for the base of the cake. I made homemade buttercream icing to be used for the entire cake. I colored all the icing in each color that I needed. The fence is just crafting fence from the craft store, stained with food coloring. The … Read more
I made this Farm Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday, he loves farm animals and I thought this might be the simplest way of doing it. I made two 11 inch square cakes just using a basic Victoria sponge recipe and sandwiched them together using butter icing. I iced all over the cake with … Read more
