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
A 30th Birthday Over The Hill theme. Basically it is always “Greener on the other side” of 30! The numbers, 20..25..30 are made from candy melts. The actual cake was 1/2 white and 1/2 chocolate as well.
This over the hill cake is a variation of a Wilton design. Instead of having the person climb out of a hole I decided to have her climb a hill. The hill is made of 2 yellow cupcakes cut and stacked. I used spray color for the cake to save time. Then I used edible … Read more
This cake was made for a man who was retiring and wanted to travel.
This Over The Hill Birthday cake was so easy to make and took very little time. It’s made of a sheet chocolate cake, and a semicircular chocolate dome for the hill, which I trimmed slightly to make it more realistic. I then covered the whole lot with a green icing. The path was simply black … Read more
I got this idea out of a magazine. They actually used two 13×9 sheet cakes. I used a boxed cake and I only used one baked in a 13×9 pan. I cut the shapes out accordingly, using the extra for the dirt. I tossed in the extra in the food processor to crumble it up. … Read more
I wanted to create a cake for my Dad for his 60th birthday but didn’t want to do the traditional “over the hill” type cake. So I looked at some ideas with the fondant icing and saw a cute cake with a Grandpa sitting in a chair reading a book to his grandkids and thought … Read more