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
I used a 9×13 rectangle pan for the graveside, and a 9 inch round for the tombstone. I always freeze my cakes before decorating as it makes it easier to cut them and frost them. I cut a groove into the rectangle cake to make a place for the round one to sit. I cut … Read more
This Homemade Over the Hill Birthday Cake was so easy to make and took very little time. This cake is made with a 16” round cake pan and two boxed cake mixes. Suggest that you make the signs in advance. Cover the cake with a buttercream crumb coating prior to fondant. This cake is covered … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my husband’s 40th birthday that would really “wow” him, represent his interests and make fun of while still celebrating the big 40. This Homemade Over the Hill 40th Birthday Cake is what I came up with. Since I wanted to use the car of his youth I decided … Read more
This Over The Hill Cake Idea was a very large cake. Two sheet cakes length wise for base with two six inch making up the hill with small cupcakes as the boulders. Gumpaste figurines and sugar gel for lake. It was a fun cake to make.
This year for my mom’s sixtieth birthday she wanted my family and my brother’s family to meet at a nice restaurant. My brother said if I take care of the cake then he will upfront the money for the gift. Since I don’t work, it worked out for both of us. I got to searching … Read more
I came up with this idea for this Over the Hill Cake by combing 2 great ideas that I found on your site. One being, driving “Over the Hill” on a road and the other being a “Caution-Old Zone” cake. I used ready to use Wilton frosing for all my decorator frosting. I first frosted … Read more
This Over the Hill cake was for my brother-in-law’s 50th Birthday party as well as my mother’s 71st. It’s an over the hill cake and the idea came after looking at various over the hill cakes online. To make this cake I used 3 different sized round cake pans and pieced the cake together. I … Read more
To celebrate my Mom’s 50th Birthday, I made her a lemon Over the Hill Tombstone Cake. She said she wanted to embrace this mile stone with a tombstone cake, after searching the net. I made this cake for her using my buttercream recipe and made the numbers from sugar cookies, She loved it! Happy 50th … Read more
My friend at work turned 52 and she has a great sense of humor so this Over the Hill cake is what I came up with! She said she wanted something pink and pretty! I found this really cute picture in clip art. I had to enlarge it and then I just traced it onto … Read more
I got the idea from over the hill cakes on this site. my aunt wanted this cake for her friend. She was turning 50. It was made with buttercream and covered with a chocolate ganache.
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