My son was having a ‘SPY/SWAT/ARMY’ birthday. He and his mom picked out a tank piñata so I figured a homemade US army tank cake would be perfect. The bottom is made out of two 9x13s with the tops shaved off of each so that they were flat. The turret is a single 8×8 cake … Read more
Want a slice of cake?! This Army Tank Birthday Cake was created by 2- 9″x13″ Pillsbury Yellow sheet cakes and 1- 6″ round cake. It was assembled using good ol’ Crisco and 10x sugar based icing. Wilton’s brown and green gel food coloring was used to create the sand, medium brown, and army green colors. … Read more
First layer was a marble cake with the vanilla colored green so the cake had the camo look when cut. Second layer was a devil food cake, and the cupcake on top was also camo. Icing was a homemade butter cream (with butter base) colored with green, brown and a little yellow for the olive … Read more
I am so excited to find your website! I was inspired by your website for the army cake! One thing that was tricky was finding the right color for the tank. I want to say that it takes a lot of green and brown coloring to get that perfect “army green”. I used a large … Read more
I made this tank cake for my best friends ten year old son. He’s really into the army thing. I used two bread pans to form the cake, one smaller than the other. I combined purple and red to make that dark army green color. I also used regular green and a milk chocolate brown. … Read more
I made this B-2 Stealth Bomber Birthday Cake Idea for my husband’s birthday. I wanted to make some kind of airplane and this one seemed easiest due to the straight lines and minimal sculpting. As long as you can pull up a picture of the real thing as a reference, it’s very simple. Bake your … 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
This Homemade Target Cake was a simple cake to prepare. I made the cake of two boxes of chocolate cake mix and one box of pound cake. I modified the ingredients a bit, I used five eggs between the three boxes and I used ¼ less oil and water than each box of chocolate cake … Read more
I got many of the ideas behind this from this website! But put them together my way. For my son’s Camo Tank Birthday Cake I used a massive 15 x 12 x 3 cake pan and for the top I used an over sized bread pan (3″ deep). I think the key is the size, … Read more
I made this army tank cake for my son’s 8th birthday since he was really into Army men at the time. I used a 13 x 9 pan for the base and a 8 x 8 pan for the top piece. I over filled the 8 x 8 pan with cake mix for the dome … Read more
This cake was inspired by several images from this website. My Grandson wanted an army tank birthday cake for his 5th birthday which had an ‘army camo’ theme. He wanted a chocolate and hazelnut cake (he had picked and shelled all of the hazelnuts required for the flour himself!), which I made the bottom part … Read more
