Animal Cakes – Barnyard Cakes

Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. With an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5, draw the barn on the top of the cake. Cut the cake away from the barn outline shape. Use these pieces that you cut away to form the sheep, the cow’s head and the two pigs by the sides of the barn. Remember to use icing between the pieces to hold them together.

Make a red colored icing and use star tip, size #18 to cover the sides of the barn. Do not cover the side of the barn bottom. Using the same red icing and the basket weave tip, size #48, make lines from the top to the bottom of the barn on the cake top. Fill in the entire barn like this except the top half of the barn door.

Now cover the silo in the same way. When you get to the roof of the silo, you do it the same way except your lines will be going across horizontally.

Use white icing and star tip, size #18 and outline the barn edges and the barn door except across the bottom. Do this again right next to the first outline.

Using the same white icing and tip, put a single row around the windows. Refer to the above animal cakes picture.

Now do the cow in the barn door. You will be using the star tip, size #18 for the whole top of the door. Use white icing and fill in the nose, forehead and hair on the top of the cow’s head. Use pink icing to fill in the cow’s tongue. Now make a medium brown icing and fill in the cow’s head. Make a tan icing and fill in the background around the cow. (Refer to the animal cake picture.)

Make a small amount of yellow icing and pipe straw in on both sides of the cow’s head and do the eyes.

Use the same size star tip, size #18 for the sheep and the pig. Cover the sheep’s face, ears and bottom of feet with a medium gray icing. Cover the rest of the body in white icing. Use black icing and round tip, size #5 to outline the sheep and do his eyes.

Cover the entire pigs in pink icing. Outline the pigs using black icing and round tip, size #5 and also do the eyes.

Make a very light brown icing for the mud. Lace little mud on the bottom of the pigs and on the board under them to make the mud puddle that the pigs are lay in.