Help With A Barn Cake??

Question

Ok, I am making a Barn cake for my toddlers birthday next month, just trying to work out a few details.

You've all seen the big red barns?? That's what I want to make.

I was thinking about making lamingtons and stacking them up for the walls - They'd be like hay bail walls.

Problem is I can't figure out how to keep them all in place. Do you think icing would work, maybe look like cement?

Then the roof, I have no idea how to make a roof.

Any ideas on that would be great!!

http://www.wou.edu/~ameado1/Farm Animals/1369%20Barnyard%20(30pc).jpg

This is what I want to make. So you have an idea what I am talking about.

Thanks so much

Answer 1

Thought about using unrolled Fruit Roll-ups as the roof?  You could also use colored/shredded coconut for the roof-it would make it look kind of mossy!

Answer 2

Okay the only other answerer to read the question has some good tips but the only thing I would say is to find anything except fandant. I don't use it so I don't know if it would set up to stay rigid. You try using grahm crackers, plain (no cinnamon sugar) and either piping directly onto the grahm cracker or frost it then pipe the details.

Make some hay stacks out of cup cakes...reg or mini and use yellow icing. Use one of these tip numbers from wilton and pipe layers with the serrated looking side up. The tip numbers I would suggest using/trying would be 42, 48, 46, 106

You could use toy animals that come in a little plastic container or in a silo and scatter them around the barn yard. If it has a fence included then use that as well. Or use pretzle sticks and royal icing to make a fence.

Here is a website with some pictures as well to get some visuals. http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/ba...

Answer 3

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You could use those shoestring potato chipsfor hay stacks, stick them to lil clumps of icing.

Some of those sugar wafers taken apart for window shutters, cocoa powder & cinnamon sugar mix, sprinkled around for the dirt. licorice whips for cross on the barn door. Pretzel sticks for exposed rafters.

Found some photos for visual ideas:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

http://www.babydarpino.com/wp-content/up...

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http://thepartyworks.com/images/barnhous...

http://www.coolest-baby-showers.com/imag...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2402/2288...

http://www.passion-for-parties.com/image...

Answer 4

how bout making some red shortbread cookies [red food dye in it]

cutting those into roof rails before u bake them

and i reckon the icing sugar should hold it all together

if not pretend a tornado got into the barns farm???lol

should turn out great,, i rarely make bday cakes, i order em from the shop

though i have many cookbooks on kids cakes i never use them, they seem hard to follow and i can never make em look the same

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sorry im not much help, your so creative itll come out great

Answer 5

Make a gingerbread house instead. It's easier. Either that or forget the barn cake and just make a chocolate cake. It's easier and saves you money and 5 points.

Answer 6

APPLE BARN CAKE  

3 c. all purpose flour, spoon into cup

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. salt

1 1/2 c. corn oil

2 c. sugar

3 lg. eggs, room temperature

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/4 c. pecans, medium fine chopped

2 c. pared apples, finely chopped

Brown Sugar Topping

Sift flour, soda, and salt onto a platter or waxed paper. In a large bowl, beat oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla at medium speed of electric mixer for 3-4 minutes until well blended. Gradually add flour mixture; beat until smooth. Fold in pecans and apples. Pour batter into a greased and floured bundt pan. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until cake test done. Cool on wire rack 20 minutes. Serve warm or cold. Store cake in foil or tin can for a day or two. To keep longer, refrigerate and bring to room temperature servings. Fresh apples tend to mold easily.

BROWN SUGAR TOPPING:

1/2 c. butter

1/2 c. light brown sugar, firmly packed

2 tsp. milk

Combine all ingredients and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Spoon hot sugar mixture over warm cake.

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Answer 7

A barn would be easy to make.  Bake three sponge cakes in a 9x13 pan.  Cut off the rounded parts of the tops, and then frost between them and stack them.  Give them a thin coat of buttercream.  Put them in the freezer for a while, then take a serrated knife and cut off the top sides at an angle to look like a slanted roof.  Crumb coat the cut parts, and then give the whole cake a light coat of buttercream.  Measure the sides of the cake and cut rolled fondant to fit (colored to the shade you want your barn to be).  Before you put it on the cake, score lines in it with a butter knife to look like wood.   The fondant sheets will stick on the buttercream.   Cut a rectange to be the doors.  Cut another piece of fondant to fit the roof, and make indentations on it to look like the style of roofing that you want.  Add trim in a contrasting color with more rolled fondant.   Make some farm  animals out of fondant.

Fondant will stay on a cake.   On the cake, it will stay soft enough to cut with a sharp knife.  If you model pieces and let them dry for several days, they will harden.  I use it to model figures, make flowers, bows, soft edible pearls, cover cakes, etc...the best way to describe it to someone who's never used it is that it's like an edible clay.  Imagine modeling your cake decorations out of play-doh...and that's the fondant experience.  In the US it's hard to buy a decent-tasting ready-made brand unless you go to a specialty cake-decorating shop, but I think it's easier other places, although it may be called plastic icing or sugarpaste depending on where you live.  I use marshmallow fondant which is homemade.