Best Animal Cake Designs for Birthday Celebrations
Welcome to our fun guide on animal cake designs birthday celebrations! Whether it’s a first birthday or an adult party, our animal cake designs for birthdays will spark your creativity. Dive into our fondant jungle animal tutorials and create your own safari adventure. We’ve got loads of inspiration, easy how-tos, and tutorials perfect for beginners. Planning a wild one birthday cake or looking for animal cake toppers? You’re in the right place!
Safari Cake Theme – With Fondant Jungle Animal Cake Designs Birthday
Themes are perfect for bringing the wild of the jungle to life through cake. Who doesn’t love jungle vibes? There’s so much inspiration to draw from. We can take iconic animal prints and work them into our fondant cake design ideas, by adding fondant stripes or painting tiger spots directly onto the cake. Make large edible tropical leaves, and top everything off with all of the safari jungle animals moulded out of fondant.
This section focuses on simple safari cake ideas that are easy to execute but still make a big impact, perfect for those just diving into the world of cake decorating.
Wild One Birthday Cake and Jungle Tree Trunk Cake
Jungle animal cakes are perfect for a Wild One Birthday Cake Design. This 1st birthday cake is a favourite for me. The soft colours look great and creating the edible fondant animal cake toppers with simple faces creates a softer, cuter cake design. Plus, adding a ‘Wild One cake topper’ on the cake is a nice touch. Is it just me, or does every jungle-themed first birthday cake make you sing, “hey I heard you are a wild one oh oh ohooooo”? Sorry I have done it to you now, but honestly what a song!
Animal cake designs birthdays for boys:
Animal cake designs birthdays for boys: Jungle colours are perfect for boys or even gender-neutral vibes. Add some blue tones to a fondant-covered birthday cake for a splash of colour. For boys a bit older than one, dial up the fun with brighter colours. Think sunny yellow giraffes, lions with fiery burnt orange manes, and bold zebra prints. These birthday cake ideas are sure to make the party a hit.
Animal cake designs for birthday girls
can be enhanced by adding a little pink to the mix. Give the giraffe’s nose or the zebra a blush of pink. Or cover the cake in soft pink. Feeling adventurous? Try a whole spectrum of pink for those tropical leaves. Ana’s cake studio really nail this look, and sparking some pink safari cake inspiration.
Looking to buy cookie cutters that can do it all? If you are a beginner or if you are aiming to create an animal cake topper that is super easy and fast, making a significant impact on your animal cakes, then this Crafty Creature set is for you. Known as one of the best cookie cutters on the market, this 5-piece animal cutter set not only helps you create adorable fondant lion cake toppers but also allows you to turn that design into a giant cookie sharer box. These custom cookie cutters are perfectly designed to mix and match, enabling you to effortlessly craft multiple animals. You’d be able to create jungle animal cakes and toppers—it could make a lion, tiger, panda, monkey, zebra, and that’s just the jungle animals! Ideal for those looking for versatile and best cookie cutter shapes, this set will cover all your needs, from pets and farm animals to woodland creatures.
If you’d like to learn how to make this lion animal cake topper head over to my YouTube channel here.
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Adult Animal Cakes - Birthday Jungle Theme
For adults, it’s all about sophistication with a wild twist. Think animal patterns, like zebra stripes or leopard spots, on your cake. Here are some tips and ideas for adding that adult sophistication to your animal birthday cakes:
Gold Theme Birthday Cake
De le crème studio does this perfectly with their gold zebra and giraffe print cake painting in the this picture. They even have a template that you can use to replicate it, for those of you that are nervous to go free hand. I say just go for it! But start painting from the back of the cake and make those first errors there, or draw the lines on first with a pencil.
Tips For Painting on Your Cakes.
- Cover your cake with fondant and let it set to avoid dents while painting or adding decorations.
- Use dusting colours and lustres with a brush and rejuvenator spirit for a smooth application that leaves no wetness behind. You can also use edible pens if you like, I love working with fractal colours as they don’t dry out fast like other edible pens and I’ve had some of mine for over a year.
- When painting leopard spots always start with light colours and layer on the darker shades for a bold effect.
Making Animal Print Fondant
You can add the animal patterns to the cake in fondant which would create more texture depending on the detail of the design this could take a little longer, so go for larger shapes that take up a larger area of the cake. The cake below by cakechefis is a great example of this.
Lastly you can an animal print, printed onto edible icing sheet paper and wrap it around the cake. I love the way this has been done by Marias Sweet Cakery on the middle cake and then green and gold! It’s creating a striking boho feel safari animal cake design.
Adult Animal Cake Design with a Touch of Disney
For a grown-up vibe, try making your fondant jungle animals super realistic. It adds a ‘mature’ feel instantly. Check out this cake below, the elephant cake topper is unreal! In fact, they are all pretty awesome. By Kalitpasta
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For the Cake Craft Lovers......Let's Get Cake Decorating!
Alright, cake craft lovers! it’s time to roll up our sleeves. Let’s dive into making these awesome animal cake topppers. I’ve got two fantastic video tutorials lined up for you.
How to Make Easy Jungle Tropical Leaves – Without Cutters: It’s simpler than you think to create lush, tropical foliage. This will give your cakes that authentic jungle vibe. “For those new to cake decorating, this easy fondant safari tutorial will guide you through the steps to create stunning safari-themed decorations.”
Wild One Birthday Cake Topper Tutorial: This step-by-step guide is a fantastic for cake decorating beginners to master moulding with fondant and making animal cake toppers.
The Must-Have New Cake Tool: “Candle Cut Set”
But before we get into the tutorials, let’s talk about the candle cut sets. This is my secret weapon cake decorating utensil for adding personalised touches to every cake. They come with large number cookie cutters and wicks, which make creating and adding personalised candles for your animal birthday cakes a breeze. Plus, they let you add an extra layer of theme-matching customisation to your creations.
How to Make Easy Tropical Fondant Leaves Step by Step – With No Cutters
Ok, let’s get started! These tropical leaves are super easy to make. You’ll need fondant, green gel/paste colour (I like gooseberry and foliage green Sugarflair), and a craft knife from your basic tool set. You can purchase the set [Link to purchase]. If you don’t have a small circle cutter, a small pea size end piping nozzle will work.
Mix your fondant green tones, roll into a crease-free ball, then shape it into a cone. You can learn these steps and more in my beginner modelling tutorials for free [Link to tutorials]. Flatten the cone with a rolling pin, then use the craft knife to cut in the leaf edges. Use the circle cutter (or piping nozzle) to punch out the holes. Dive into the video; it’s super easy, and you’re going to love it!
Wild One Birthday Cake Topper Video Tutorial Step by Step:
Want to craft the rest of the cake topper? Let’s start with a green grass plaque. It makes the topper easy to remove and keeps all your decorations together. We’ll create a rock, tree trunk print number one fondant candle. You’ll also see how to make fondant elephant, giraffe, and zebra faces, which we will arrange peering out of the fondant tropical leaves you would have learnt in the previous video.
Safari Jungle Animal Cake Design Ideas and Tutorials: A Summary
After exploring vibrant cakes for boys and girls, and elegant options for adults, let’s take a moment to recap the safari adventure we’ve embarked upon. This section ties together all the threads from our jungle-themed exploration, giving you a consolidated view of the Safari Jungle Cake Ideas and Tutorials. Here, you’ll find quick links to our step-by-step guides, creative tips, and your soon-to-be favorite “Crafty Creature” set for those looking to bring the jungle to their kitchen. So, whether you’re a seasoned decorator or just starting out, these tutorials are your compass to creating wild masterpieces.
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