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We went with an Army theme for my son’s 3rd birthday this year. My husband was a helicopter pilot in the Army so my son is fascinated with that. I got the idea for the cake as I was searching for cake decorating and designs for Army-themed parties. There was a picture of a similar … Read more
My son wanted an army themed 8th birthday cake. For the base of the cake I used a 13×11 pan. I baked 2 of those and layered them for height, using vanilla. For the tank and hill I used Devil’s food cake, a baseball cake pan, an 8 inch square pan and a 9 inch … Read more
My husband enjoys playing on his X-Box One, so I decided that that would be his cake theme for his 40th birthday. I baked 3 round chocolate cakes, leveled the tops when cooled, then stacked them with a chocolate ganache and berry jam in between the layers. Next I crumb coated the stack, then piped on … Read more
My cousin was leaving for the Army so I made him an army helmet cake. This is a full sheet cake iced and sprayed to look like camouflage. The army hat is rice krispy treats formed into a hat and covered in army green fondant. I made the straps out of fondant and placed them on … Read more
So when you have twins, how do you make sure they both get their own cake?? They decided they wanted army men. So while looking for ideas at toy stores we found a box of tan and green army men with extras like plants and tanks. So I started by making two 11×17 cakes. I cut the … Read more
For my son’s sixth birthday he wanted an army party. He also wanted to help make his cake so we did and it was a lot of fun. We started out with a regular chocolate cake mix and a 9×13 cake pan. We put most of the batter in the pan but then I had … Read more
I am not a baker at all, in fact my cakes usually fall apart. However, I decided to try my hand at decorator cakes for the first time this fall for my oldest and youngest sons’ birthdays, (each of their cakes are on this website) so my middle son was of course expecting the same … Read more
My little brother wanted an army theme for his birthday, but rather than recreate the Korean War (which he actually asked me to do), I figured a Army Battlefield Cake would suffice. I used two sheet cakes stacked on top of one another with a layer of frosting in between. I also used a small … Read more
My son wanted an Army Scene Birthday Cake for his fourth birthday. I made two 11×15 cakes, filled and frosted. With that done I took some of his army guys and toy figures and created a fighting scene on the top of the cake. I also added a helicopter pad and a watch station on … Read more
My wife made a Battlefield Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 7th birthday. Photo enclosed. I was “helping” with the decorating, giving technical advice, etc, and struck upon this idea for one of the cupcakes. It’s a little gross, but then again war is not for the weak of heart! The larger cake was made … Read more
I wanted to try to make a camouflage cake for my son’s 8th birthday party and it was actually some of the cakes from THIS SITE that convinced me I might be able to pull it off, even though I’ve never considered myself to be much of a cake decorator! Although some of the batter … Read more
I had never done camouflage fondant before, so I researched methods of creating it and decided upon rolling out a base color(military green)then adding small amounts of flesh color, brown and black fondant pieces and rolling them out on top of the base green fondant. I used two 8 inch cake pans and a Pyrex … Read more