Gitty-Up Cowboy Cake

Gitty-Up Cowboy Cake

I make this Gitty-Up cowboy cake  for my son’s 6th birthday. For weeks my son asked for a Soccer birthday party so I was dead set on making a soccer cake for him, BUT at the last minute he decided he wanted a cowboy birthday party. With only 2 days to change EVERYTHING from soccer to … Read more

Coolest Akubra Hat Cake

Coolest Akubra Hat Cake

This Akubra Hat cake was done for a mate who is a real all round man of the land and former bull rider. Rarely ever seen without his Akubra hat on his head, he was turning 40 and I was asked to whip something up. I decided I would try to replicate his famous hat. My … Read more

Coolest Bucking Bull Cake

Homemade Bucking Bull Cake

My 2 year old wanted a “bucking Bull” cake for his 3rd birthday. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find anything like he wanted. He and I spent hours looking at “cow” cakes on line and nothing was what he wanted. So, his father and I put our heads together. We found a picture of my … Read more

Coolest Cowboy Birthday Cake

Homemade Cowboy Birthday Cake

We made two smaller Gluten Free Pound Cakes and crumb coated them with cream cheese frosting, filling in the gap. Then I applied home made “marshmallow” fondant that was very yummy and also gluten free. Some characters such as the pistols, bandana, rope and stars were simply kneaded with food coloring and molded. This gave … Read more

Coolest Homemade Cowboy Birthday Cakes 4

We started with a 12X2 round cake pan. We sliced the cake in half and filled it. We covered the cake in chocolate buttercream frosting. We did a shell border along bottom of cake. We used Wilton star cutters to make the stars. We colored white fondant pink and yellow. We used various size stars … Read more

Coolest Wild West Birthday Cake

Homemade Wild West Birthday Cake

I made this Wild West Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st birthday party and got the inspiration from some Google images! The cakes themselves are just a boxed mix baked in 9″ rounds. Then the top layers were cut down to about 7″ using a bowl as a template. The bottom is 3 layers- Red … Read more

Coolest Cowboy Roundup Cake

Homemade Cowboy Roundup Cake

I made this double chocolate Cowboy Roundup Cake cake for my nephew Tyler’s 6th birthday tomorrow. I made a 9×13″ for the bottom and a 6″ round for the top. It’s frosted with buttercream icing. I piped the fence around the side first with Wiltons #47 tip then applied the grass with the #233. The … Read more

Coolest Homemade Cowboy Birthday Cakes 5

I just baked a large sheet cake and decorated it. For the hat, I baked it out of a small mixing bowl. I then covered it with icing and put it in the freezer (because it is easier to trim icing when cold). I made small cuts into the cake, trying to make it look … Read more

Wild West Scene Cake

Wild West Scene Cake

My son had a cowboy and Indian party for his 5th birthday. I made the tee pee cake using a Dolly Varden Cake Tin. The cake was a Moist Orange Cake Packet Mix and I iced it with cream coloured buttercream icing, decorating it with lollies and chocolate orange sticks so that it would look … Read more

Coolest Cowboy Cake Using Wilton Clown Pan

Coolest Cowboy Cakes

I used the Wilton Juggling Clown Pan and shaved off the hair and tie seeing as I could not find a pan for cowboy cakes. I used tip #16 to cover most of the cake with stars then trimmed the cake with tip #13, making a rope lasso and tip #18 on top of the … Read more

Coolest Homemade Cowboy Birthday Cakes 6

I created this wild west cowgirl hat cake for my friends little girl. I took her wild west cowgirl hat and made an exact replica of it. I was amazed at how it turned out! The brim of the wild west hat was made with Wilton ‘s rolled fondant. I molded it into the shape … Read more

Cool Homemade Wild West Birthday Cake

Homemade Wild West Birthday Cake

I made this Wild West cake for my sister’s boyfriend after we had decided on this theme for the party. I covered it in rolled fondant, which was supposed to look like the sky. I also made the buildings and outhouse from fondant, rolled thin and allowed to harden. I made the fence posts, cactus … Read more