My youngest son had his sixth birthday this week, and I had a lot of fun making his cake! I found the idea at the Family Fun website and did my own version. My son’s face just lit up when he saw it!
This was such an easy cake to make, and you get a lot of bang for your buck. The kids couldn’t wait to take the snake and bugs off the cake to play with them.
First, I made 2 chocolate cakes.
The directions said to use a dome bowl for the hill part but I didn’t have one, so I made a bundt cake and improvised, which worked fine.
I cut a couple of sections off of the bundt cake for the hill part, and then covered everything with almost 3 16oz. cans of ready made chocolate frosting.
I used the frosting to shape the little mountain.
For the dirt, I used a 17 oz. package of chocolate creme filled sandwich cookies. I crumbled them with my hands in a ziploc bag, but a blender or food processor would work also. You could also use chocolate animal crackers or chocolate graham crackers.
I poured and used my hands to attach the “dirt” to the frosted cake. Then I just placed the little party favor lizards, frogs and spiders on the cake.
My little guy’s big excited inhale when he saw the cake was awesome!
If you have a critter lover in your house, this is a fun cake to make!
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This is soo adorable. I know he LOVED it!!
What a cute cake! I almost always try to make my kids cakes. They always seem to mean a little more to them than just a store bought cake and the looks on their faces are priceless! You did a great job! :0)
That looks great… good job!!
Looks yummy! I made a dirt cake for my 6yrs old’s birthday last year(just layers of pudding and cookies). Your’s looks awesome!
Yum! What a fun idea!
Very imaginative!
Oh Margo, it’s awesome! How fun!
My 3 year old would totally dig this!! Thanks for linking up with DIY under $5!
Great idea!
this looks really really yummy. I’m sure it was a big hit!
megan
craftycpa.blogspot.com
This might be a cake that I could actually pull off! It seems pretty easy, and looks fantastic. Thanks for the great idea, I love it!
Brie from darlingdoodles.blogspot.com
Good Morning Margo,
What an adorable cake! It looks to good to cut, but it would be delicious. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great week!
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Miz Helen
Yummy! My boys would love this.
Thanks for linking up and I am sharing over on Facebook.
that’s a really cute idea! stopping over from Mingle Monday
So cute, I bet he did love!! I will have to try this for my guys, but maybe I will make it a hill for the tractors, ideas ideas.
omygosh I would have died to have this as a kid! Soo cute!
what a fun cake! I love it! Thanks so much for linking up to Tuesday Talent Show! I would love to have you stop by and link up again tomorrow with more great projects!
-Nikki
http://chef-n-training.blogspot.com/
Thank you so very much for joining the T’ Time Link Party last week! I really love to see all the wonderful ideas. Link parties are also a great way to get your blog out there for others to see. Hope to see you today! Maria Raising4Princesses
Adorable! Perfect for a little boy. So glad you shared at one artsy mama!