I made this Tractor and Field Birthday Cake by using a basic sponge recipe. The field was 5 eggs, 315g self raising flour, caster sugar and margarine and 155g plain flour and using a 12″ by 8″ cake tin. The tractor was 3 eggs, 175g self raising flour, caster sugar and margarine and using a … Read more
I frosted the John Deere Tractor Birthday Cake with Wilton’s whipped icing (my favorite). Then I traced the tractor into the icing with a toothpick. I found this tractor from online coloring pages. Then I piped the outline of the tractor with black icing using a writing tip. Then I filled in the colors. I … Read more
I made this John Deere cake for my nephew. It was so much fun. It’s a regular sheet cake with butter cream icing. I purchased the tractor and barn, and the possibilities were endless. On a yellow base I made a muddy road (brown tinted icing with black dye on a toothpick to make strokes), … Read more
I used the cake mix in the box and followed the directions. I used the John Deer Tractor cake pan and 13X 9 for the crop rows. The icing is the Wilton Butter Cream recipe and I used green, black, and yellow gel to get my colors. The brown is just the chocolate butter cream … Read more
My friend asked if I could come up with a Farm Scene Birthday Cake for her son’s birthday. He was older so I wanted it to be more detailed to what he wanted instead of “little kid” like. I used a 1/2 sheet cake pan and frosted with buttercream. I used Wilton spray color for … Read more
This is my first paid cake. Its my fourth cake ever made (with a theme/character). I have never taken a class in making cakes so I winged it. It is a double layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for the filling. I frosted it with buttercream frosting colored. I then made a third 9×13 cake … 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 baked two loaf cakes, and bought some chocolate covered donuts in two sizes. I sawed off the tops of the loaves (the rounded parts) with a serrated knife, and used one loaf for the base of the tractor cake. I then cut about a third into the next loaf (with a slanted cut) and … Read more
For my son’s 5th birthday he decided he wanted a tractor cake just like papa’s tractor. This was my first attempt at cake decorating, so after much researching, I took photos of the actual tractor from different angles and then enlarged them on the photocopier. Using a combination of tracing the photocopies and sketching freehand, … Read more
