When you peel the wax paper off, you will have a nice camouflage design! Just remove that piece of wax paper and throw it away….leave the cake for a bit longer, then try again.) (If you do this and your frosting is sticking to the wax paper, you didn’t let the frosting crust enough. Then you just rub the covered cake gently (your hand will warm the frosting slowly as you go, so if it’s not budging at first, just give it a minute to warm)….and let those colorful blobs smooth down into the camo pattern. Once it’s not sticky anymore, grab a piece of wax paper and put it over the cake.
Ok, so once all the colorful blobbing is done ?, you’ll let this sit for a couple hours until the frosting “crusts” – check it now and then to see if you can touch it or if it’s still sticky.
(I’ll show you how to smooth this out to finish it.) Look how easy that is – you’re literally “blobbing” it on there. I like to do all of one color before moving to another color, but you might prefer to work left to right with all the colors at once! Do whatever seems easier to you. Here’s how to decorate this cake to make it a Camo CakeĬreating a camo design is done totally at random, but if you’re not comfortable with that, just follow the basic design that I have here – I took pictures along the way so you can copy the idea. Just fill the bags and seal them, then clip one bottom corner of each bag. I used quart bags for each of these colors. Sometimes I use the special Wilton cake decorating bags, but when I’m in a rush and just want to throw the bags away when I’m done, I just use Ziploc bags. So after your cake is baked and cooled, and your frosting is made and colored, it’s time to get your frosting ready to pipe onto the cake. Time to turn this cake into a Camo Birthday Cake! If you find yourself unsure about the color, it’s always good to walk away for a minute, then come back with fresh eyes – you may think your color is wayyy off, but when you come back after resting your eyes from it for a minute, you realize it looks great. I used about twice the amount of green that I did for the light green, PLUS, I used an equal amount of black with that green.
The dark green took a lot more food coloring. ⬇️įor the light green I used a small amount of Leaf Green with this as my goal color. Here are the Wilton icing colors that I used on my cake >įor the tan, I used just a tiny bit of brown with this light tan as my goal color. I chose a tan, light green, dark green combo. As we know, all “camo” patterns aren’t specific shades of greens and tans. You can get creative with the other colors. Any excuse to mix some of this up, I’m all in. I also mixed up 1/4 batch of my Dark Chocolate Frosting to use for the brown – way better than trying to color white frosting THAT dark brown, and the rich, fudgy, chocolate taste is absolutely heavenly. You don’t want to use canned frosting for this because you need this frosting to “crust” before you smooth it out, and canned frosting doesn’t do that. ✅įor the frosting, I mixed up this Buttercream Frosting that Lisa has on Simple Joy, but really, any buttercream will do. I also saved myself the pain of leveling the cake out and frosting the sides by leaving it right in the pan.
I just baked a Duncan Hines chocolate cake from a mix. So let’s get down to business so you can see how insanely simple this Camo Birthday Cake really is.įirst things first! Bake your cake and mix up your frosting! I can do it…I do it every birthday…but I’d never take a paid job doing a cake for someone. You literally just plop the frosting on the cake in little piles and then smooth it out later. I’m here to help boy-moms out with this Easy Camo Birthday Cake. So this cake-making business needs to be simple and semi-quick so we don’t get stressed out. However…it’s already taking a lot of time to get a birthday party together, isn’t it? I tend to rush around getting all the things done when one of my kids’ birthdays rolls around, and making a cake can end up being added pressure. Homemade birthday cakes are, of course, much more budget-friendly….plus it’s more special when mom is taking time to make the birthday boy a cake that will make him smile! We always had homemade birthday cakes growing up….never store-bought…and I instinctively do the same for my kids now. Easy Camo Birthday Cake Įasy Camo Birthday Cake that takes NO special tools or skills.