Animal Birthday Cakes
These animal birthday cakes are sure to make anyone smile. If you see an animal that you like just click on it and you will find a larger picture along with a description of how the cake was made.
This dog cake is a 4 tier cake which I carved legs into and covered with fondant. Then for the head, I made rice crispy and carved the head and covered it also in fondant...
I made this bunny cake because, my youngest son latched onto a stuffed bunny when he was six months old. From that moment on, everything had to be about bunnies...
This monkey cake is a Red velvet injected with a french vanilla mousse. The Lady who ordered this cake did not like cream cheese, so the icing was a whipped vanilla icing...
For this 3D tiger cake, I used the 3-D stand up lion pan I bought on Ebay. It took one cake mix. Grease and flour both halves of the pan. Add prepared cake mix to front side of pan...
To make these tiger cakes, I used the 3-D stand up Wilton lion cake pan. I put a small piece of aluminum foil over the hole on the back section of the cake pan...
These cup cakes are made of butter vanilla cupcake recipe, brushed with apricot jam, and covered with fondant. The figures also are made of fondant (they are my personal creation)...
It is an ice cream cake decorated with buttercream icing. I drew the logo on the cake myself...
Bake a round cake the size that you need. Ice the cake in white icing making sure the surface is nice and smooth. Once the surface is smooth...
I made this bunny cake for a girl with 2kg cake mix by using a picture of a bunny. Then for highlighting by using more cake, for mouth & legs...
This bichon frise cake is vanilla sponge with raspberry jam shaped into a dog shape then iced...
I made this zebra cake for my son's 2nd birthday - he is animal obsessed and a real Madagascar fan. He wanted a Marty the Zebra cake!!...
I made this cake for my friends 5 year old. He requested the cat to be lying down. The rest was up to me to figure out. This is what I came up with...
I made this cat cake out of two 9x13 homemade cakes. One chocolate and one white. I frosted it completely with butter cream only, two toothpicks (to support the ears)...
I made this cheetah cake for our daughter's first birthday. I call her my little Cheetah :) I used round cake pans for the head and body, Twinkies for the arms and legs (cutting them in half)...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and the round tip, size #5, draw the cat design on the cake surface. You will use the star tip, size #18 to do all of the fill in work and the round tip, size #5 to do all of the outline work...
To make this Bichon Frise cake, I used a 3D bear mold pan. In it is a rich chocolate cake and dark chocolate ganache...
I used 1 cake mix. And 2 oval cake pans. I made buttercream... actually I was using left over icing! lol I found this hollow chocolate duck and couldn't resist. So I put him in 'water' and 'grass' around the water...
This monkey cake was very easy to do, just the normal chocolate cake recipe, in two round cake pan's. Then you cut the one cake to make the legs and arms...
This bunny cake was for my son's fourth birthday. My youngest son latched onto a stuffed bunny when he was just 6 months old and soon everything HAD TO BE about a bunny...
This cow cake is one of my favorite cakes to make. I had so much fun. I have posted one similar to it on here before, but I changed a few things about it like his eye and the board...
To make this cow cake I used my own mud cake recipe and tripled it. I make my own vanilla fondant and bought black fondant. It is easier than trying to make it your self...
This dachshund birthday cake is a 2 layer round Buttermilk Chocolate cake. It is frosted in Buttercream with a buttercream transfer dachshund dog...
Bake a round cake the size that you need (either an eight inch, ten inch or twelve inch.) This cake can also be made in a size in round cake pan for the baby’s first birthday dig in cake...
I did this flamingo cake for my 5th grade teacher's little grand daughter! I used the goose shaped pan. I used buttercream in white, pink, darker pink, black and violet...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icng filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw The Dog on the cake top. Cut the cake from around the dog drawing adding cake pieces to the ends of the ears if you need to...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you will need. Draw the dog shape on the cake according to the picture using round tip, size #3 or #5...
I made this doggy cake in a pan with a cupcake mixture batter, slice it in half length ways and filled it with chocolate buttercream. I then decorated it in buttercream of different colors and piping tips...
I made this squirrel cake for my husband. He LOVES squirrel hunting. I used the small bear pan and made the tail out of gumpaste. The stump is just a small round pan...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the elephant on the cake surface. Cut the cake away from the elephant shape...
I made this Christening cake for my cousins they both had babies 12 days apart and decided to have a joint christening...
I made a chocolate chip cookie instead of a cake. I used buttercream icing and used a star tip. I colored the icing pink. I covered the top and sides of the cookie with stars and rosettes and sprinkled some confetti crystals on top...
This horse cake was made for a boys birthday. It was definitely a challenge, but was worth it in the end...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Ice the cake in white buttercream icing making sure the surface is nice and smooth...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the horse head on the sheet cake. Cut out the shape. Use the picture below for reference...
This cake is a ten inch red velvet cake with whipped cream cheese filling, and a vanilla buttercream outer layer. The cake was covered in a layer of fondant;...
This Jack Russell puppy cake is made out of a vanilla madeira type cake and carved into the shape of the dog, lying down, gluing the pieces together with vanilla buttercream...
For this cat face cake, I used 1/2 of a round cake. I just placed the triangle pieces together and iced in orange buttercream with a star tip...
This horse was for my daughters' best friend. She hasn't seen it yet! She and my daughter both love horses and go to the ranch on weekends...
I made Julius monkeys (Paul Frank) out of Wilton candy melts (light cocoa, dark cocoa, and red)...
This flamingo cake was for my sister. I used the Wilton goose pan and one strawberry cake mix and baked according to directions. I let cake cool completely...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Ice the cake with white icing using a cake spatula to make sure the surface is smooth...
This Kitty cake was my very first fondant experiment. It was a strawberry cake baked in the Wilton Ball pan...
To make this duck cake, I used 2 cake mixes and a 10" round pan. Bake according to directions. Let cool completely...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the lion on the cake top. Cut away the cake from the lion shape...
For this turtle cake, I made a 12" square cake. I used the sports ball pan set and made on half of the ball and the rest of the mix I used and made cupcakes...
For this cat cake, I borrowed my sister's cat shaped cake pan and used 1 cake mix and baked according to directions...
Bake a square cake the size that you need. Ice the cake in white icing using a cake spatula and making sure the surface is smooth...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you want. Using an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw a monkey and leaves on the cake using the above picture as a guide...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Ice the cake in white icing, making sure it's nice and smooth. Let it set at least a half hour...
The cake is chocolate fudge cake with chocolate butter cream filling and the icing is the same as the filling....
To make this panda cake, I made a chocolate cake using a mix and made according to directions. I used the flower...
I saw the panda cake that Kelly had made and it was so cute, I just had to try one. I have had these pans for over thirty years...
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the bear on the cake top. Cut the cake away from the outline...
This pink elephant cake was made in a shaped pan with one cake mix. I used chocolate flavored cake mix for this one...
To make this pink flamingo cake, I made a wooden stand out of dowel rods and board and screws. The cake was 2 9x13 pans; cut and shaped for the body...
This cake was made for my father-in-law's birthday. It is a 4 layer cake with chocolate and yellow cake; torted with vanilla pudding...
This puppy in a bag cake is a fondant cake. I decorated the puppy in the bag in all icing. The cake has a quilted pattern on the out side...
Ingredients: For the Cake:2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda ...
To make this sculptured dog cake, I started with round cakes stacked and filled. Then I froze it. When it became firm enough to cut...
I made this horse cake for my daughter's 12th birthday which was on Thanksgiving day! So in the mix of cooking Thanksgiving dinner...
My 3 year old daughter loves squirrels, especially the one from the Curious George TV show. So it was a given that I would make a squirrel for her 3rd birthday...
This dog cake was some work 5 days in the making and he turned out great. I cooked two 12 inch rounds and a Pyrex bowl cake as well...
This zoo animal baby shower cake is a fantastic chocolate super simple cake recipe. 1 triple chocolate cake mix. Mix as directed except substitute half the water with buttermilk...
To make this zoo animals cake, bake a sheet cake the size that you need...