Farm Cakes

Farm cakes make a theme birthday party a lot of fun. Whether you decorate a red barn cake or make farm animals, try some of these cake ideas for your farm party.

Red Barn Cake

One of the easiest farm themed cakes is making a red barn cake. You can use the house cake pan like we did in this tutorial or cut a 13x9 cake into a barn shape. Trace an outline on a piece of paper before cutting your cake out if you prefer.

Bake your barn cake and crumb coat.

baked house cake

House cake pan baked and crumb coated waiting to become a little red barn. farm house decorated step 1

Red barn piped with basketweave tip with white writing tip for the door and windows.
A star tip is used to make hay bales. It is easiest to decorate the front of the barn and then move it to the serving platter. Make sure you secure the cake before putting it down. Then decorate the sides and back.

Now decorate with farm animals or whatever accents you'd like.

farm horses

You don't have to have a stand up barn cake you can cut a cake out of a 13x9 pan and lay on top of a cookie sheet.

Need help making red icing?

Farm Cakes Ideas

In addition to barn-shaped farm cakes, you can create entire farms complete with tootsie roll candy fences with cows, horses or goats.

We have many farm animal cake decorating patterns you can print off and use to decorate your cake.

Farm Cupcakes

Cupcakes iced in green with licorice fence borders may keep a plastic horse, cow, chicken or duck from getting loose. Placing cupcakes together and icing them as you would a sheet cake, creating a cupcake cake, lets each guest pick their own but be sure to use enough plastic animals so that each cupcake has one. Use yellow or green icing for the base with candy stone paths, licorice fences and stack cupcakes for use as silos.

Make farm animal cupcakes to go with the red barn

4-H Cakes

Farm cakes with a 4-H theme can depict the traditional four-leaf clover, as well as the project. A sheet cake may have the four leaf insignia in each corner with an image of the project, like a calf or pig, displayed in the center. Celebrating a successful 4-H project with a home-decorated cake can include the project’s winning ribbon color, while decorating for a 4-H group might include the insignia stenciled on each cupcake or the various projects in which the group participated.

Farm Tractors

Create farm tractors by using cupcakes and sheet cakes cut into pieces to form the tractor. Some folks are very particular when it comes to their choice of tractors, so be sure to use the right color. Create wagons in the same way by cutting cupcakes in half for the wheels and using whip licorice pieces for the spokes. Use strands of licorice in pastel colors to depict hay, straw or wood rails on the tractor wagon.
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Produce Farm Cakes

Using candy, you can create rows of corn, sunflowers and other crops top of a green iced sheet cake, with brown icing serving as the ground between the rows. Flat designs including fruit trees with jellybean fruits, edible pearls and non-pareils provide a wide variety. Orange groves, apple orchards and grape arbors using non-pareils as the frame and fondant leaves allow you to customize your creation.

Singular farm-related objects including fruits, vegetables or animals can be created using cake that is cut to shape. Decorate an apple shaped cake in bright red frosting and include a gummy worm for fun. A cake shaped like an ear of corn may include licorice whips as silk and a tomato-shaped cake with fondant leaves.

Winter Farm

Edible glitter can transform a farm scene into a winter wonderland. Create red barns with a glittery snow-capped roof, snow drifts sparkling with silver glitter dust and bare trees created from licorice lightly dusted with white icing snow. Blue hued glitter enhances frozen ponds, and holiday themes may be incorporated as the farm rests in the winter.

There are as many creative farm cakes as there are animals down on the farm and with all the edible decorations available, you can create a farm cake for every season.

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