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!
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
Little People barn yard cake for my son’s first birthday. Used Wilton house cake pan and Wilton 11X15 sheet cake pan. Four boxes of Devils food cake mix and lots of frosting. For dirt I used Oreo crumbs. Letters were peel and stick foam letters I found at a dollar store the fence was a … Read more
For this barn cake I made two 91/2 x 11 rectangles. I trimmed each one and “pasted” them side by side with plain buttercream frosting. I then took some of the scraps and inserted them under the back corner at the top edge of the cake to make a little rise (like a gently sloping … Read more
