This Camping Cake is a double layer carrot cake (from scratch) iced and filled with vanilla butter cream. The trees, fish and bear are fake, obviously, from Michael’s. The marshmallow sticks are toothpicks. Everything else is edible. The bugs and rocks are jelly beans, cut in half. The fire logs are pretzels, the fire is … Read more
I’m not a professional baker, just a hobbyist. I made this Boy Scout Birthday Cake Design for a friend’s family who are really into scouting. It’s just a 10″ square vanilla cake baked from scratch and frosted with buttercream smoothed using the “Viva Method”. I searched the Internet for images of badges, then chose the … Read more
This Waterfall Birthday Cake was for my daughter’s first birthday. It was made of 2 layers and had a waterfall made of piping gel and Wilton colorings in teal and sky blue. Everything on the cake is edible except for the small doll and leaves on the palms (which were purchased at a local party … Read more
My daughter requested a hunting/wilderness related cake for her 12th birthday and this Wilderness Theme Birthday Cake is what I came up with. I started with a basic 13×9 cake mix cake. I dyed buttercream frosting light green to go on the entire cake. I then created evergreen trees using decorator icing dyed dark green … Read more
Bake a 9×13 chocolate (dirt) cake for this Camping Tent Birthday Cake. Frost it green, very smooth. Build tent using chocolate pop tarts, pretzel sticks and brown frosting. Make a circle of brown frosting and add campfire, using chocolate rocks, pretzel sticks and orange/red frosting. Fill one sugar cones with frosting, pipe out “needles” using … Read more
My son had to make a cake and decorate for a Scout competition. I decided a Homemade Camping Theme Cake would be most appropriate. I searched this site to see what others had done. Using some of the tips and coming up with my own, I have my rendition to share. Use a decorating icing … Read more
I made this Teddy Bear’s Picnic Cake for a three year old boy, but I suppose it would suit many ages and gender. The cake itself was a square vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream and seedless raspberry jam centre, then I applied a butter cream crumb guard and placed it in the fridge to … Read more
This homemade birthday river tubing cake is my first fondant birthday cake, made for a friend of a friend’s 50th birthday. I made the fondant (marshmallow recipe) which was pretty easy to make. My grandson age 9 was visiting so I tinted some brown and yellow fondant and asked if he thought he could make … Read more
My son finally received his Eagle Scout rank (yay!) and as part of his Court of Honor, I wanted to celebrate with an Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cake. This cake is a 2 layer, coconut rum cake covered in marshmallow fondant. The bottom layer is decorated with the gold scout fleur de lis which … Read more
My daughter wanted a Waterfall Birthday Cake with a surfer girl on top for her sixth birthday. On the bottom, I did 2 nine inch round cakes with pudding for the filling. On the top, I did one 6 inch round. Had some fun with the frosting, and that was it! I’ve done lots of … Read more
I called my dad to ask him what flavor cake he wanted for his birthday, so we started talking. He wanted a yellow cake with cream cheese icing, a regular sheet cake. I asked him what his favorite color was, and he said, “Hmm, well I guess blue or green. That’s really what I love … Read more
I got most of my ideas for this camp birthday cake from this website so I thought it would be good to share the results! My son wanted a German chocolate cake so I made the cake. I had intended to weave green food coloring in it before baking to give it a camouflage inside … Read more