I made this chocolate fudge cake for my father in laws 70th birthday. He had just retired from working in hardware so thought this idea was perfect! He has sold toilets and all things plumbing for over 50 years (Plus he has a great sense of humour)! The cake was a huge hit at his surprise … Read more
A friend’s husband complained constantly about getting older. “Crap I am getting old”, he’d say. We grew tired of this continuous whining and made him this toilet cake for his 40th birthday. My friend found this cake idea on an internet site, so we had to try it. We had a lot of fun doing this … Read more
My husband is 18 years my senior and I constantly joke with him that he is “older than dirt” and he always responds with “dirt is probably younger.” It’s our own little private joke so I decided to make him a cake that only we would understand. My 3 children ages 13, 10 and 6 … Read more
I have worked on baking and decorating several cakes but this one really “took the cake” both in terms of effort put in and accolades received. A friend who is an avid hiker was about to turn 40 and I took on the onus of baking the cake. This hiking theme cake was 11 inch … Read more
My uncle turned 50 and he is incredibly accident prone. Due to another accident, he had recently lost vision in his right eye. My aunt wanted a fun cake that wouldn’t hurt his feelings. During a phone conversation with him, he spoke on the need to be bubble wrapped because of his latest injury. It … Read more
For my husband’s 40th birthday party I decided to go with an Over the Hill theme. I searched and searched for ideas for cakes and this is what I came up with. This cake is 2 layers of 9 by 13 cakes. After the second layer was placed, I cut out a small rectangular piece … Read more
This Over the Hill cake was two 11″x15″ chocolate cakes filled with cherry pie filling. It was iced with chocolate butter cream and covered with fondant. The fondant on the sides was tinted with a small amount of brown, and the top was tinted with moss green. The casket was made using 4 cakes made … Read more
I made this Tombstone birthday cake for my dad’s surprise 50th birthday. It was really easy. I just made a boxed cake in a 13×9 pan and cut it out in the shape or a tombstone. It was very easy to decorate as well. Just frosted the cake with colored frosting grey, then piped in the green, … Read more
My husband and I have 4 couples who are our best friends. We go out together very often and meet at our respective homes too. One day the wife of one of them phoned me and asked me if i could make a cake for her husband’s 40th birthday. She was going to organize a surprise party for him … Read more
This is second Over the Hill cake I have submitted and this is based on the idea I had for the other. The base cake is a 30cm chocolate cake with chocolate gnashe filling. For the top I used a pudding bowl which holds a liter. This is also layered and filled with chocolate gnashe … Read more
The first two pictures are of my first over the hill birthday cakes. I made this cake last year for my boss. The cake is 1/2 white and 1/2 chocolate. On the left the over the hill is a hill I made out of snow balls. On the right I hand made the tombstones and … Read more
One of my friend’s at work asked me to make a cake for her husband who was just about to have his 40th birthday. We both agreed an over the hill cake would be good. I started off wanting to make sheep and the rest came from there. Its a fruit cake, and the sheep … Read more
I searched this site for over the hill cakes to make for a friend who was turning 60. It was very easy to make. The cake was yellow at each end and chocolate in the middle. Grave was cut from chocolate cake and cake was crumbled to make the dirt. The grave stones were mold … Read more
For this Over the Hill cake I used two 13×9 cakes and put them together, one chocolate and one yellow. I always make my own frosting for all the cakes that I do. I use white buttercream then dye it the colors that I need. For the design on the cake, I used some of … Read more
It was my dads 60th birthday and we thought that over the hill cakes would be suitable for this occasion. We searched this website and came up with this cake. It was two cakes that I put together with frosting. The base is a half-sheet (I think), which was two 1/2 cake mixes, and the … Read more
This Over the Hill cake is a chocolate cake with a chocolate gnashe filling. Iced with ‘plastic’ chocolate icing. This is made by just combining melted 70% chocolate with liquid glucose. I made a 25cm base cake and another cake in a pudding bowl for the top of the hill. I made the figure out … Read more
This cake was for my father-in-laws birthday party. I got this idea from the Wilton web site for over the hill cakes and improvised a little. The over the hill tombstone is a candle purchased from my local grocery store. The cake is a two layer 10 in cake iced in butter cream. The drop … Read more
I made this Over the Hill cake for my mom’s best friend who turned 50 this year. She is always sending me funny messages with Maxine in them so I thought I would return the favor. I used a 13×9″ pan and baked a Betty Crocker yellow butter cake mix. I used one regular sized … Read more
Over the hill cakes are so much fun to make!For the bottom cake: 1/4 sheet iced tombstone: cut out of a 1/4 sheet and tilted on top of bottom 1/4 sheet by placing a cake ladder behind the tombstone to keep it standing. It’s also supported by wooden pegs. I placed the cake together first … Read more
I recently started making cakes for fun. I was asked to do my uncle’s 40th birthday cake. I got inspiration from some other over the hill cakes on this site and other web sites. The cake is 2 13×9 cakes with a layer of cream cheese frosting in the middle. I have a GT Express … Read more
As you can see, over the hills cakes, is for somebody coming on in age. The cake was made with a 10″ square cake pan. I baked the hill in a Pyrex bowl. I used a grass tip for the borders the edge of the path and the hill. The rocks are chocolate rocks I … Read more
The bottom tier is 12x18x3 yellow pound cake filled with vanilla buttercream. Middle 9x13x2 is chocolate pound cake filled with vanilla buttercream. I used a wonder mold pan for the hill. It is chocolate pound cake with chocolate buttercream ‘mud’. Jim collects punch buggies and his wife brought me one to put on the cake. … Read more
I used a 9×13 sheet cake and just cut off the top corners rounded to resemble a tombstone. The ‘50’ are cookies cut out of slice and bake in the shape of numbers. I used a grass tip for bottom. I got this idea from a Wilton book.
I made this Over the Hill cake for my sister’s 40th birthday, and it was actually quite easy! I made the cake from scratch, but any cake mix should suffice. I added black food coloring to the cake mix-probably about 3 or 4 drops. My cake turned out purplish, but I used white cake, so … Read more