Jungle birthday cakes are fun to eat and bake as you have many choices when creating this theme cake. From spotted cheetah cakes to figures on a safari, jungle cakes incorporate personality, humor, and adventure. Traditionally a cake made for a child’s party, modern ideas make this a theme cake everyone can enjoy.
A small, two-layer cake covered in green frosting is a good foundation for a young child’s jungle cake. Color some animal crackers with baking gel or frosting pens and randomly place them around the base of each layer for character and liveliness. Put a few small jungle animal toys on the top layer along with plastic trees or balloons and place your candles around the top layer. If you can make or find a little “happy birthday” banner, place it so that the animals are holding it. For a child older than a toddler, you might want to be a little more creative than animal crackers. A sheet cake covered in fondant with a jungle scenario on it is a viable option as you can create a river, add rocks, dirt, trees, and a variety of animals. Let snakes come alive as they wrap around trees and rocks, while a crocodile in the river tells you danger is lurking nearby. The birthday boy or girl, or rather, a small figure representing them, might be running, swimming, or climbing through these jungle birthday cakes.
Easy Jungle Cake Idea courtesy of rmansoorian
One interesting idea is to make several jungle birthday cakes and place them on individual pedestals of different sizes, so that they go from lowest to highest. On each cake, put plastic jungle trees and connect a thin piece of string through the trees, going from cake to cake. Hang some monkeys on the string to create a real life jungle scene as they dangle over a waterhole, a giraffe’s head, and a patiently waiting lion. Add some more animals to the top of the cakes and stick animal heads made of sugar, available at party and baking supply stores, to the sides of the cakes to complete the jungle look. Cupcakes seem to be the latest in baking accessories so why not incorporate the tasty treats into your festivities. With a jungle theme, it’s easy to make each cupcake different as you can make lions, tigers, bears, and other animal faces. You might stick with one animal and make a family or create animal rivals, like elephants and mice or lions and zebras. The cake itself could focus on one animal while the cupcakes are all different or it could encompass the entire jungle whereas the cupcakes are all the same animal.
Jungle Cupcakes courtesy of knolleary
The urban jungle brings a new meaning to the word “jungle” and with cheetah, leopard, zebra, and snake prints being at the height of the fashion world, jungle birthday cakes are not just for kids anymore. Women have purses, shirts, shoes, dresses, scarves, and even socks adorned with animal prints and you know you can get a cake made to match your favorite accessory or outfit.
A black and white stripped zebra cake with pink edging is almost as popular today as the jungle cakes made for children. A beige butter cream cake with an inch of orange fondant trim on one layer with tiger strips and a golden band with brown spots on another layer is a jungle cake that has “queen of the jungle” written all over it.
Today, anything goes and jungle birthday cakes are no exception. They are fun, popular, in fashion, and in demand. Whether it’s your birthday or someone else’s, think jungle fever.
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