I made this camping cake for my 40 year old niece. For the toppers: I shaped the caravan out of white modeling paste, then added the windows and the door from gray fondant. Using black modeling paste, I made two tires, attached them to the caravan and then set it aside to dry. Next I … Read more
This boy scout camping cake was for the Boy Scout cake walk for my sons pack. He designed the cake and then I scoured the Internet to figure out how to make it! The cake is a half sheet chocolate with homemade buttercream. For the river I thinned the icing out a little more and … Read more
Hi, my name is Michelle. I have been making novelty cakes for family members for the past couple of years but now that I have recently retired from office work I am enjoying being able to spend more time learning and exploring all the possibilities with my hobby. Recently I was asked by my niece … Read more
For my 10 year old son’s birthday party we decided to have a camping party in our backyard. It was a big hit! We set up tents in the back, built a real campfire, roasted marshmallows, and told ghost stories, in addition to singing happy birthday with our the Hottest Cake Around! I always enjoy … Read more
This boy scout fun birthday cake was made for my nephew’s birthday. It was super fun and he loved it. I used a traditional 9×13 and made a Boy Scouts campsite scene!! It had all the bells and whistles. I used green icing for the grass, crunched up graham crackers as dirt to make the ground … Read more
This scout camp cake was made to raise funds in a raffle to help towards cost of scout camp. It’s a simple sponge cake covered in fondant. All decorations are made of colored fondant except marshmallow on stick which is a mini marshmallow. It raised lots of money towards camp costs and as it was … Read more
The summertime fun camping cake is for a fellow employee’s birthday. The cake is chocolate iced with vanilla butter cream. The dirt is made from crushed up graham crackers and the tents are also graham crackers broken in half covered with rolled butter cream and pretzel sticks for the poles. The pond is blue gel and the grass is … Read more
This waterfall camping cake was conceptualized and created by my 11 year old son,Robert. Every year we would make a cake for his cub scout Blue and Gold banquet for a cake auction. Pack 81 out of Chelmsford Massachusetts would have this auction as a fundraiser for the local food pantry. All proceeds would go directly to the pantry. … Read more
Let me just begin by admitting that if I had to do this for a living, my family would be eating very infrequently. It took me WAY longer to make these cakes than I am even willing to admit. But it was fun! Well, all except the (first time for me) attempting to smooth the … Read more
I made this Camping Cake for my son’s 9th birthday camping party. I made four 9″ round cakes, two on top each other. For the trees, I used sugar cones, two or three stacked on top each other to make different heights. Some were placed behind the cakes, some were placed on the cake to … Read more
I made this camping cake for a cake auction we had for my son’s cub scout troop. I started with using a sheet cake and icing it with ready made chocolate icing. I used fondant to make the rocks, canoe and paddle, and the tree tops. For the tree trunks I used pretzel sticks. I … Read more
This campout cake was made for my niece who was in JROTC in her high school. It was her 16th birthday. The cake was just a box mix. I did one rectangle cake and the hill is the half football cake pan. The icing was Wiltons buttercream. I did the camo design with star tip. … Read more
This is year is the boy scouts 100th blue and gold anniversary. So for my son’s pack I decided to do somewhat of a tribute cake using all their ideas. So I asked every den what they thought of scouting and they overloaded me with ideas. However, I managed to put each of their ideas … Read more
I used 9 inch round pans to make the cake (any smaller, and you wouldn’t have enough room to decorate). Cool cake and cut irregular lake shape out of one layer, can freeze first to make a little easier to cut. Either use buttercream tinted brown or chocolate buttercream to ice the cake. The lake … Read more
I used fondant for the people on this camping cake. I melted chocolate for the tent and for the grass I used #233 icing tip and also #67 icing tip. I got the general ideas form this web site and just used my imagination for the rest.
For my son’s 8th birthday, we decided to have five friends “camp” over in the backyard. The cake had to be one that featured a tent. Using a few ideas from other cakes, this Camping Birthday Cake is my adaptation! The cake started with one 9×12 chocolate cake and two 8×8 lemon cakes. I used … Read more
My partner is a keen camper and we like to camp in quite out the way places. This cake is a Dundee cake (his favourite) and because of the effect I want to create I iced it the risen side up to get a bumpy ‘rough ground effect’. I used some apricot jam and then … Read more
I made this camping cake for my nephew. A simple sheet cake which I iced green. I borrowed the vehicle and the “hunter” from my son. The tent is actually made from paper, I printed the pattern from the internet. The logs on the side of the tent and the ones making up the fire … Read more
My son requested a Camping Scene Birthday Cake for his 4th birthday. I started off by making a simple 9×13 inch cake. I then frosted the top with green on one side to represent grass and blue on the other side to represent water. The decorating was the most fun part! I used pretzel sticks … Read more
This Camp Site Birthday Cake was for our son’s 5th birthday. The base is a 9×13 cake iced in green. I made another cake and poured batter in a small Pyrex bowl and the rest in an 8×8 pan. We cut a circle form the 8×8 as the base of the tent. We iced it … Read more
I had the most fun creating this camping cake. My nephew had a campout for his tenth birthday and I had the pleasure to make this awesome cake. I made a 1 layer 12×19 sheet cake, colored store bought icing, green, using Wilton’s gel food coloring. His birthday was in September and Walmart had already … Read more
I made this Campfire Cake Idea for my outdoorsy boyfriend’s birthday. It is a marble chocolate and yellow cake. I used two 9×9 inch pans and stacked them together filling the cake with a chocolate butter cream frosting. I started by frosting the cake with a butter cream frosting then outlined the lake and path … Read more
I was asked to make a birthday cake for a Boy Scout banquet and the first thing that came to mind was a camp cake. I used homemade fondant to make the tents, boats, sleeping bags, pillows, fire and life preservers and chocolate covered raisins and marshmallows for the rocks. The mountain is covered in … Read more
This Cub Scout Graduation Camping Cake was for our year end scout celebration or cross-over ceremony. The cake is 1/2 a sheet cake, covered in butter cream frosting and spray painted green on top. The trees are fondant cones covered in royal icing, the bridge and tent are fondant also. The path way is made … Read more