My son loves tractors so we had a tractor birthday party for him for his 2nd birthday. I found inspiration from this site for my Harvest Tractor Cake. Its not the neatest cake, but my son LOVED it, and it was very tasty. He loved watching me make it too. I used 2 loaf pans. … Read more
I made this cake for my brother-in-law. He is a farmer and I wanted to make something appropriate. I was having a hard time coming up with an idea. I had to make it the night before. I was getting a pan out of the cupboard for dinner, and a loaf pan and a 6-inch … Read more
I made this Farming Cake for my son’s 5th birthday. He wanted a combine cake, but I wasn’t sure I was ready to do that so we agreed on a number 5 with corn field on top and a combine picking the corn. I made the 5 by using a bundt pan and 2 loaf … Read more
Making cakes is a blast and this one was no different. The cakes were box cakes I made a few days before and put into the refrigerator. The icing was Wiltons icing (the box mixes) then we colored the icing with Wiltons icing gel. We made the grass with coconut and colored it green and … 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
I baked this John Deere combine birthday cake for my son’s sixth birthday. He adores everything farm related and asked for a John Deere combine cake. I started searching everywhere for instructions or anything available to help me make this cake. I found absolutely nothing for the type of cake I had in mind and … Read more
I made this for my son’s 4th birthday. The detail on the tractor cake was done with colored chocolate (white and milk chocolate). For the hay bales I cut squares of cake, frosted them yellow and rolled them in browned coconut. I think I got that idea from this website :) I wish I had … Read more
I started out just making the tractor from a form cake pan. My son’s first birthday party grew in size so needed something else. I received some inspiration from other cakes on this website. I added the baler; it was a two-layer round cake trimmed. I used a cupcake for the wheel. I also used … Read more
I made this John Deere cake for my nephews second birthday. I cut the cake into a tractor shape, frosted donuts for the wheels and used oreos to simulate dirt. Tip: don’t use plastic wrap. My piping for the face stuck to it when I took it off. The kids still loved it though!