My Sunday school class was having a welcome home party for one of our friends that is in the Marines and was serving in Iraq. I thought it would be nice to have a cake with the Marines logo on it. As you see from the birthday cake picture, I took a small marines flag … Read more
This is made using a 11x15x2-inch cake pan. There was plenty of room on top for those green army men! It was really simple to make and a favorite for the nine year olds who ate it!
My nephew wanted a camouflage cake for his 9th birthday. It was a 10″ chocolate cake. I used two different tints of green (leaf green & moss green) chocolate and black icing.
I made this army tank cake for my grandson’s 11th birthday. I am self-taught and read a lot about the various techniques on-line. I mix a common fondant recipe with a rolled butter cream recipe which gives a better tasting icing. The cake itself was made by mixing chocolate fudge cake mix with brownie mix. … Read more
This Army Tank Cake was made from two 1/4 sheet cakes, filled and stacked, then taking a serrated knife starting at the front, carved down to an angle, then doing the same for the back, but leaving a block in the middle for bumper, then using rice krispies, two layers cut with a knife for … Read more
This Homemade Army Tank Birthday Cake was for my son’s 4th birthday. I looked through the cakes on this site, then created my own from there. I made one 8 1/2 x 11 cake, then cut it in half and stacked them on each other. I also put another cake in a loaf pan as … Read more
For my son’s 6th birthday, he asked for a Tank/Military Birthday Cake. I thought a tank cake would be perfect. I scanned through this website to get ideas as well as searched the web for pics of real military tanks. I tried to keep it simple – and though I originally wanted the entire cake … Read more
To make this tank birthday cake for my 5 year old sons birthday, I first I got two 9×13 pans to make the two layers of the cake. Then I used a 3×9 pan to make the top of the tank. I stacked the two long pieces on top of one another and then set … Read more
I got the idea for a tank cake from this website. I used three boxes of chocolate cake mix. I used two 9X13 pans and a large loaf pan (some mix left over). After they cooled I put the loaf in the freezer. I placed the two 9X13 cakes on top of each other and … Read more
This air force cake I made for a family friend who was soon to be leaving to the air force. His mother wanted something partiotic so I thought the flag was the most patriotic thing I could think of. The cake itself is a vanilla chocolate chip cake with a vanilla buttercream, baked on a … Read more
I made this cake for my sons third birthday. He’s a HUGE Blue Angel fan. I made it from 2 sheet cakes – cutting out the body from one and the wings from the second (diagonally). The cockpit was made from a snack cake (I wouldn’t recommend that cake idea, since it sat a little … Read more
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