Animal Birthday Cakes

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Animal birthday cakes will always be favorites, because kids of ALL ages love animals, so whether its the ever-popular butterfly cake, a cute puppy, crab or caterpillar cake for a toddler or a sophisticated horse cake for an older child we’ve got a growing list of unique birthday cakes.

Whether you’re after cake decorating tips, cake pictures or just some plain old cake inspiration, then you’ll find it here.

Don’t be worried if your cake baking and decorating aren’t completely
professional, your kids will love the fact that you have taken the time
to make them their very own animal cake. (Yes – that is one of my cakes above – not too fancy but a hit with the kids!)


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3D Monkey Cake 
My daughter LOVES Monkeys so for her 2nd birthday I wanted to make a monkey cake. I had read all over the web that you could make a monkey from the 3D …

Dog Cake- ” Big Brute “ 
Well Let me start by saying that this is not the most beautiful cake ever baked but it was baked and designed with all the love our family ( especially …

Koala Cake 
This cake was made for a 10 year old who was obsessed with Koalas.

It’s was baked in 2 Wilton pans – a big bear and a small bear. The cakes were chocolate …

Penguin Cake 
I made this cake for a boy who loves penguins. It was my first scuplted cake.

I started with a few round layers stacked together, and carved away slowly …

Crab Birthday Cake 
The crab birthday cake was designed to resemble my son’s favorite toy, a crab rattle.

The body of the crab was made using 2 yellow cake mixes (together) …

Butterfly and Spring Flower Cake 
Flower and Butterfly Cake

I made the larger cake with a yellow butter recipe cake mix and a buttercream icing. Using a Wilton large square pan, I carved …

Puppy Chaos Cake 
For the Puppy Birthday Cake you’ll need
2 box cakes mixes or enough scratch cake to fill 2
X 8″ cake pans and 2 X 6″ cake pans
Your favorite icing …

Rocking Horse Cake 
The cake itself is a butter cake. I thought this the best cake to make as it is for a 1 year old’s birthday.

I actually hired a rocking horse tin, so …

Beautiful Butterfly Cake 
This was a 9″ round, 2 layer strawberry cake. I baked the cakes, added the filling, and stacked them. I then cut it exactly down the middle. Moving the …

Adventure into the Jungle- Monkey Cake 
My cake was a monkey, so first I made the batter and poured it into 2, 13 by 9 inch round pans, and the rest I poured into two cup cake pans, after that …

Easy Butterfly Birthday Cake 
The best ting about the butterfly cake is that it only requires you to bake one round butter cake, and the rest is easy.

For the butter cake simply …

1st Birthday Bear Cake 
I made this cake for my daughter’s first birthday party. It was quite simple to do. First I bought the cake pan and on the actual pan it tells you what …

Happy Puppy Cake 
This cake was made for my son’s 2nd birthday party. He loves puppies, and although we think he is way to young to get a dog yet, I decided to make him …

Polar Bear Pride 
This was the fifth birthday for our daughter. We had done the stereotypical already Elmo, Barbie and a store bought cake for her birthday.

When we …

Casper the Caterpillar Cake 
This cake is simple to bake and the sky is the limit for variations!
I baked a regular yellow cake from a mix in a tube pan. (You could also use a bundt …

Moms 1st Birthday Bear Cake  
For the Bear Birthday Cake you’ll need:

– A bear shaped pan
– grease it with shortening,
– put in cake mix, I used carrot cake for a first birthday …

Animal Cupcakes 
My Daughter’s first grade class had a field trip to the teachers ranch. It was a potluck event so I made these treats for the kids. It took me two days …

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Ladybug Cake

The base of the cake is a 9″ round, which i covered in green icing and spiked the icing a little to give it that grassy look. then I added …

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