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Gorgeous Safari Cakes For A Special Occasion

Hi friends! Safari cakes are among the most popular trends for birthday parties, baby showers, and special occasions! Many beautiful elements go into a safari cake, such as gold animal cake toppers, edible gold splatter, fondant animals, fondant leaves, and many more. The theme is also interchangeable with jungle-themed cake. How can you not like it? I rounded up a group of gorgeous safari cake ideas for your pleasure of viewing!

Safari Cake Ideas

Stunning safari cake.

Such a beautiful cake with rice paper sails and a custom name plaque! I’ve had the pleasure of featuring her on my blog; click here .

Golden Safari Cake

I love the overlap buttercream on the bottom of the cake. Gorgeous cake.

King of The Jungle

All of the details on this cake are incredible!

Jungle Birthday Cake

What a lovely cake. CHocolate spheres are a wonderful addition!

Gorgeous Tiered Cake

I love the palette painting on the top tier because it mimics the grass and fields. Please take a read about her baking journey here .

Colored Stenciled Cake

As you can see, there are endless options to make a safari cake like this with a stencil and multi-colored buttercream.

First Birthday Safari Cake

This is a pretty adorable birthday cake! Using fondant animals as a cake topper is always great.

Tall Jungle Cake

So fun! The animal-printed chocolate balls are a genius idea!

Semi-Naked Safari Cake

Doing a semi-naked theme for a safari party is a fabulous idea! I love semi-naked cakes for their simplicity and refined look. For more semi-naked inspiration, click here .

Adorable Birthday Cake

What a cute cake. It will be a perfect baby shower cake as well! The fondant animals on the bottom tier are so darling.

First Birthday Fondant Cake

Here’s one of the other wonderful safari cake ideas. I still can’t get over the cute fondant animals.

Gold & Green Jungle Cake

One of the cakes using mainly gold and dark green colors. I love this color scheme.

Special thanks to wonderful bakers who gave me permission to use their cakes! Please make sure to check out their beautiful creations on their Instagram. (linked below each picture)

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A jungle theme is a common kiddie party theme because there’s just something about animals in the wild that children find cool, mysterious, and amazing. Don’t get me wrong, the theme works for grownups, too. Contrary to popular belief, there are several ways to go about a jungle cake. This list of unique safari and jungle cake ideas will show you.

Having planned several jungle-themed parties for my nephews and friends in the past, I would admit that it can be a real struggle to find a cake that’s unique and different. That’s because when we talk about a jungle cake, we always picture the same elements: animals, trees, leaves, and a color palette that’s mainly brown and green. It’s almost always the same animals, too: lion, giraffe, elephant, and probably a monkey.

The good thing is that you can go for a jungle theme and veer away from the jungle cake cliché because there are some unique jungle cake ideas you can get inspiration from.

My Bottom Line Up Front

A jungle-themed cake is not just for little kids. Grownups, who love nature and animals, would appreciate a jungle cake, too. I would prefer something out of the usual fondant jungle cake with gum paste animals. I’d go for a number cake with buttercream topped with a mix of jungle animal decorations and the usual meringues, chocolates, fruits, and macarons.

Narrowing Down Jungle Cake Ideas

Getting unique jungle cake ideas may be difficult because you would have to sift through so many of the more common ones. So to help you save time, I have done it for you. In selecting these cakes, I made sure they fit the jungle or safari theme or that they have elements representing some of our favorite jungle animals.

I also look for the uniqueness factor. This is the tricky bit because “unique” is relative and could mean different things to different people. For me, however, jungle cakes are unique if they fit any of these criteria:

They apply any modern cake decorating trend.
They stay away from the traditional fondant animal models.
They stay away from using plastic trees and animal toys as toppers or decorations.
They are more experimental and adventurous with the use of colors.
They don’t stick to the usual color palette of greens and browns.
They are more creative in the representation of animals or jungle life.

Jungle Cake Ideas

1. baby jungle cake.

Jungle cakes with fondant animals are quite common and ordinary. So, some cakemakers give it a new — and cuter — twist by modeling the jungle animals as baby animals. The foliage will be done in fondant, too.

This uber-cute first birthday cake has buttercream frosting with a baby lion, baby giraffe, baby monkey, and baby elephant that are finely modeled in fondant. The leaves provide the foliage for this cake.

Here’s another take on baby jungle animals. This fondant cake also has a baby for a safari tour on a jeep. The name on the base is painted in gold, which is pretty trendy these days.

This jungle cake has baby animals in fondant, but it doesn’t have the usual green foliage. Instead, the leaves are pink and brushed with gold on the sides.

2. Cake with Gold-painted Toys

I know that little toy animals are overused as jungle cake toppers. But if you want a unique and modern twist to this otherwise very common jungle cake decoration, paint it gold. Gold, after all, is a very stylish color these days.

This three-tier buttercream birthday cake takes the jungle theme to a higher level by spray-painting the toy animals’ gold. This makes the toys look less plastic and cheap and classy. To make things more interesting, the cakemaker also wrapped the middle tier with a leopard print wafer paper, then topped the cake with dried pampas grass — both of which are modern cake decorating tools.

3. Prehistoric Jungle

Well, if you’ve decided on a jungle theme for your birthday, it doesn’t have to be the jungle as we know it now. You can go back to prehistoric times!z

This vanilla and Nutella jungle cake shows us exactly what we mean when we say prehistoric, with a T-rex and some plastic foliage right on top of it. The T-rex even has a little party hat and bowtie on and is holding a balloon! The cakemaker also showcases their piping skills on this one. That acrylic name in front of the cake adds a touch of elegance and sophistication.

Here’s another take on the prehistoric jungle cake. This time, T-rex is accompanied by a stegosaurus on top. The green pipings are still there to add texture and more greens to an otherwise overly basic cake.

The cakemaker decided to paint the dinosaurs gold for this buttercream cake. There are synthetic leaves for foliage and pallet knife elements on the sides.

4. Quilt-style Jungle Cake

This cute safari or jungle cake has an expertly executed quilted effect, with the fondant animals and other decorative elements sporting “stitches,” thus making them look like they were sewn.

5. Colorful Jungle Cake

A jungle theme doesn’t have to be dominantly green and brown. Experiment with color combinations. Or you can apply the celebrant’s favorite colors.

This fondant jungle cake, for example, is dominantly pink. Some of the leavers, the balls, the elephant’s ears, and the monkey’s party hat are pink.

More colors aren’t a bad idea. That’s what this fondant cake proves. The flowers give this cake a much-needed touch of pinks and purples, plus there’s a little bit of blue added to an otherwise green palette.

Of course, you can do a jungle theme sparingly, and for a lilac or lavender cake at that. There’s not even a tinge of green in sight. This fondant cake also proves that even if you only have an elephant and a monkey, that’s already enough.

6. Number Jungle Cake

Number cakes are very popular and in vogue right now. These are cakes that are shaped in a number from the top view, which number represents the birthday celebrant’s age. So why not incorporate the two concepts and make a number cake with a jungle theme?

This number cake for a baby girl’s first birthday showcases lots of bright colors. It has colorful cream pipings in various shapes and sizes, fondant animal faces, and fondant leaves. Here’s another safari number cake , for a baby boy turning a year old. This cake has a more subdued color palette. The theme is carried out through cookies with iced animal illustrations, leopard print, and leaves.

Take a look at this safari number cake with yellow and green piping. The animals are made of macarons.

7. King of the Jungle Cake with Synthetic Foliage

If you want a jungle-themed cake but want to keep things simple and avoid overcrowding your cake with too many animals, then just pick one. There’s no better choice than the king of the jungle himself: the lion.

A toy lion was painted gold for this cake. And just so nobody makes any mistake about him being the king of the jungle, a gold crown is there on top of the cake with him. Add some plastic foliage for more depth and more greens, sprinkle gold, silver, and white balls, then paint the sides with green buttercream using a pallet knife.

Another cake with just the lion roaring away. This cake has the trendy palm leaf in gold foil, chocolate balls, dried grass and leaves, and palette knife painting.

8. Paper-crafted Animal Toppers

You may want to consider making paper-crafted jungle animals as cake toppers. All you need are color boards or specialized paper products, a pair of scissors, glue, and sticks. If you have a Cricut machine, that would be swell, too!

This cake has animal toppers made out of a textured board.

You can also go for printed paper animal cutouts, like the ones on this cake . It’s also nice that this cake has palette knife painting on the side using soft pastel colors.

Paper animal toppers like these also look very cute on a cake.

You can create paper animals and punch leaves for your foliage .

9. Fondant Foliage

While fondant animal figures aren’t exactly a new and different thing, you can still make your cake look modern and stylish by using trendy foliage. Monstera leaves, for example, are quite trendy these days.

10. Palm Leaf + Stencil

This cake uses a combination of modern decorating techniques to turn an otherwise common theme and make it more contemporary-looking. As you can see, the cakemaker used the usual toy animals, but to give it a unique twist, they added a gold palm leaf and a buttercream stencil design on the side.

How about a light blue, white, and gold buttercream cake with gold palm leaf and subtle stencil at the front ? The animals are your usual toys from the dollar store, but they’ve been painted gold.

11. Piped Animal Frosting

Who says your jungle cake has to be three-dimensional? It could still look totally cute with a 2D decoration. By 2D I mean piping the design in colored buttercream icing on top of the cake so that it could be seen from the top view.

12. Edible Jungle Images

Edible images are pictures that are printed on edible icing paper using edible ink. So you can print jungle animals and use them as toppers. You can find suppliers or sellers online who could print the images you’d like.

Take this three-tier jungle Christening cake for example. All the animals are edible images, while the leaves are modeled from fondant.

13. Animal Cookie Toppers

You can pipe your design on a sugar or butter cookie using royal icing, then use the cookie as a topper. This cake, for instance, has lion and zebra cookies on top of the Swiss vanilla meringue buttercream.

These tiger and cheetah cookies are so meticulously done. They are painted using edible colors.

If you’re going for a prehistoric jungle, you can go for dinosaur cookies. These cookies have a dinosaur skeleton design and are dusted gold. The leaves are made of fondant.

14. Minimalist Jungle Cake

This cake is a great example of a minimalist cake. Its design details are very simple, with very basic shapes. Even the lion topper doesn’t require mad gum paste modeling skills.

15. Animal Fur Wrap Cakes

Edible image cake wraps are yet another cake decorating technique. These are designs or patterns printed on sugar sheets or wafer paper that you can wrap around the sides of your buttercream cake. You can get cake wraps with animal or fur prints for your jungle-themed cake.

This jungle cake has a different fur pattern for each layer. The first layer is wrapped in leopard print, the second layer in zebra print, and the third layer in giraffe print. Fondant animal figures are lounging on top of every tier.

16. The Lion is Not the Star

We can talk about jungles and leave the lions out of it. They’re not always the star of the show. With that being said, you can go ahead and let the giraffe or the zebra take the spotlight.

This pink jungle cake, for instance, only features a fondant giraffe and no other. Top it with dried bunny tails, pink blooms, pink monstera leaves, and pink macarons and you have one very feminine cake.

Here’s not just one, not just two, but three giraffes frolicking in the savanna. This cake is mostly beige and brown, with dried grass and brown buttercream smeared on the sides.

Here’s another gorgeous cake with a zebra at the center of it all. The zebra’s black and white stripes, as well as the black and white cake wrapper, provide a dramatic contrast against the pink surface of the cake.

And why not a giraffe and a zebra together ?

This cake only has a giraffe and an elephant. But what I probably find more unique is that the first tier is in a shade of green I don’t usually see in a jungle cake.

17. No Animals, No Problem

This jungle cake shows you that you can stay true to the theme even without animals involved. You only need leaves, something that says “wild,” and you’re ready.

18. Animal Silhouette Cake

You can cut out animal silhouettes from glittery paper and put them on your buttercream cake. Add a glittery acrylic topper, like this “Wild One” topper, and some foliage to complete the look.

19. Wooden Animal Cutouts

You can use wooden animal cutouts for your toppers or ornaments and add a combination of synthetic and real dried leaves.

20. Two-Tone Jungle Cake

Again, there are ways to make your jungle cake unique and elegant even if you decided to use toys from the dollar store. How? Use modern decorating styles and two-tone frosting.

This cake, for example, has buttercream frosting in white and a very soft pistachio green. Spice it up with gold palm leaf, gold names, dried pampas grass, and colored chocolate balls.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answer: Technically, jungle and safari are two different things. A jungle is a forest with densely overgrown trees and tangled vegetation, while a safari refers to a trip or excursion. In other words, a jungle is a place while a safari is more of an activity. But when it comes to party themes, you can apply either “jungle” or “safari” to refer to anything about animals in the wild like giraffes, lions, rhinos, elephants, tigers, monkeys, and more.

Answer: Jungle cake pricing depends on a lot of things. It would depend on the kind of cake you want, the flavor and the ingredients needed to make it, the frosting, the design, the size, and the decorative techniques and elements used. Cake prices also vary from baker to baker because of varying skill levels. If you want to have an idea of how much you need to set aside or allot for your cake budget, the best option is to call bakeshops and inquire. You can give them a picture or a description of the cake you want to order, they will suggest flavors based on their specialty, and they can give you an estimated price.

Answer: Jungle cakes are usually great for birthdays and even baby showers. Sometimes, the jungle theme is used for other celebrations, too, like Christening and even graduations. The theme is mostly used for kids since they’re usually the ones who are most fascinated with animals. Of course, I don’t mean to say that the theme doesn’t suit adults, because as long as you love animals and the wild, a jungle cake would still be a great idea.

Jungle-themed cakes have been around for as long as I can remember. So it’s safe to say that the jungle or safari theme never goes out of style. I think part of what makes the theme attractive is the fact that it’s more generic and you have more freedom to give it your own spin and your own interpretation. You don’t need to refer to a particular character or a specific color palette.

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This is a jungle cake I made for my son’s first birthday party. I got the design from the Whimsical Bake house cookbook and also used their recipes. It was all chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling. Read more »

Jungle Safari cake by Andrea B., Alberta, Canada

This safari cake was made using a half slab three layer cake baked from scratch. Once it was iced I used a grass tip to cover most of the cake leaving out the middle. I made the middle into a lagoon by icing it blue and adding some gum paste flowers.

The writing is also done using gum paste and the Wiltons letter cut out set. The palm trees were made using small waffle cones. I cut the ends off so they would be flat on top and I attached three pre formed gum paste leaves to each. The vines are made in much the same way. I rolled the green gum paste into ropes and cut slits into them using small scissors. Tip-make all gum paste accessories a couple of days in advance to ensure they are completely dry when you need them.

Jungle Safari cake by Tami B., Del Rio, TX

This safari cake was prepared in a 12″x18″ pan and covered with buttercream frosting and crumbled sugar cookies that had been dyed reddish-orange. In the corner I placed two smaller cakes to look like a small hill. The water was created by melting sugar in the microwave with a tiny hint of blue color.

The 3-D Nordic Ware cookie cutters were used to create the animals, however, some (i.e. the alligator tiger and leopard) were modified from the original cutters. The cookies were then decorated with a glossy icing recipe made of 1 cup sugar, 2 tsp milk, 2 tsp light corn syrup, 1/4 tsp vanilla then add food coloring. The tree and monkeys were drawn out by hand and cut directly on the cookie pan before baking.

Jungle Safari cake by Jessica S., Schenectady, NY

I made this safari cake for my son’s second birthday. The recipe came from The Whimsical Bake house cookbook. The animals are made out of melted colored chocolate. I made them about one month in advance and refrigerated them. They were quite time consuming. I also added a layer and extra animals. The techniques are all explained very well in the cookbook and there are many different cake and filling recipes that can be used.

This is the first cake I have ever made like this and if I can do it anyone can! This safari cake was a hit!

Jungle Safari cake by Angelique J., Aurora, IL

I made this safari cake for my daughter’s eighth birthday “Safari” party. It’s a 13×9 sheet cake (from a box) and an angel food cake (also from a box). I got the general idea from a cake I saw in a magazine but adapted it to make it my own. The cake is covered in white frosting tinted green or blue where appropriate and rimmed with grated graham cracker “sand”. The yellow rocks are rock-shaped gum pieces (sort of like Gold Rush gum only bigger). The pool is made of blue jello (which the kids actually ate!). I made the Jigglers recipe on the box so it wouldn’t be watery at room temperature after cooling. I frosted the hole in the angel food cake so that there would be a barrier between the liquid jello and the cake itself. The river is also Jigglers jello that I chilled in a cake pan then cut a strip long enough to go from one side of the cake to the other.

Now for the fun part of the safari cake- the decorations! The people are just teddy grahams dressed up with royal icing that was tinted various colors. I have them toasting marshmallows, sleeping, standing around, and climbing the rope, swimming, playing with a beach ball, riding the waterfall, sitting in the canoe and sunbathing. The beach balls are just gum balls. The tents are graham crackers draped with starburst fruit chews. I heated the fruit chews in the microwave to soften them up a bit then rolled them out. The canoe is an Airheads candy pinched into a canoe shape with a pretzel jammed in for a seat. The fire is a pile of pretzels with bits of fruit chews to simulate flames. The logs are tootsie rolls.

The flowers are flower-shaped sprinkles I applied with tweezers. The tall grass along the outside edge consists of fried noodles dipped in green candy melts cooled on waxed paper then stuck into the green frosting. The climbing rope is made from Twizzlers Pull & Peels that I peeled apart and knotted. The beach towels are Airheads Extremes Sour Belts (rainbow). The tiki torches are pretzels with bits of fruit chews stuck to the tops. The “foam” in the water is white decorator’s gel.

On the back of the safari cake is an underwater scene. It shows fish bubbles, seaweed, sand and rocks. The fish are of course Goldfish! The seaweed is fruit-by-the-foot that I cut into tapered strips and stuck into the frosting. The bubbles are little dots of white decorator’s gel and the sand and rocks are of course graham cracker crumbs and rock gum. The palm tree trunks are Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies Cereal Straws. The palm fronds are candy melts that I piped through a zip-top bag onto waxed paper that was draped over some spoons (so they weren’t flat). After they cooled I “glued” them onto the straws with more candy melts then added Cocoa Puffs cereal coconuts and set them upside-down in shallow cups to cool and harden. The cereal straws are rigid so sticking them into the cake was enough to keep them standing. Whatever green candy melts were leftover I made into flat “bushes” and stuck them here and there in the green frosting too.

The Humvee is the only non-edible piece on this cake! I used super-tall super-skinny candles and made sure to put them between the trees and not under them! On a personal note the teddy grahams dude that’s going “kowabunga!” down the waterfall…yeah that was definitely both of my kids’ favorite part of the whole cake! If you make this safari cake consider involving your kids in the process of which teddy grahams are doing what activity. They’ll love it!

Jungle Safari cake by Ericka T., Miami, FL

This safari cake was for my niece’s first birthday. I made a single layer sheet cake (pound cake) with buttercream Icing. I covered it in white fondant. Since this was my first time using fondant I practiced making the animals, trees, rocks etc. earlier in the week. However most of them turned out too big or got very hard and broke (I guess I didn’t store them properly).

I used Wilton’s predyed fondant and dyed some fondant myself (the brown and yellow). I thought of movies like the Lion King and Tarzan for my design layout. I used the buttercream icing like a glue and dowel rods to help things stay in place.

The sand is just brown sugar. I used a lot of Wilton products (fondant, roller cutters, flower makers etc.)

Jungle Safari cake by Kim J., Ankeny

My son turned one in August and I knew I wanted to have a jungle them birthday. I began my search for the perfect safari cake and the more I looked the more I thought “I can make his cake”! The idea for this cake came from a combination of several pictures I found online. I combined ideas and came up with the cake you see here.

The bottom layer was white cake with strawberry cream filling. I used white buttercream icing for the entire cake and then cut triangular shapes for the zebra stripes wrapping them around far enough that the top layer would cover and blend. The top layer was chocolate with a caramel filling. I colored the icing for the second layer with a golden yellow and cut the spots out of brown fondant. The top of the cake is green fondant (I just traced the cake pan onto the fondant for a perfect fit) and I used the grass tip to create the border. I made my fondant animals by following the instructions on the Wilton website. The same was true for the palm trees.

This safari cake was a hit and the best part is it has jump started a side business for me!

Jungle Safari cake by Heart F., Wilmington, NC

After a trip to the zoo with the twins that I have been babysitting for over a year I decided to design and make a safari cake for their birthday. I reviewed many other submissions to gather ideas and decide how to make it work. To give myself more time for the fondant details I used boxed cake mixes and pre-made icing.

After baking I trimmed the top tier to appear as if it was tilting. Next I made two batches of marshmallow fondant and began covering each tier in sand colored fondant. Then I cut blue fondant to look like waves on one side and attached it to the bottom tier with a few drops of water. I made sure to leave extra blue fondant along the bottom of the cake so that I could use it as a platform for the sand and whale. Next I cut out and attached strips of fondant for sea weed and fish.

I sprinkled brown sugar around the base of the cake and got to work on the animals. I rolled out each body part individually for the animals and let them dry before attaching the parts with drops of water from a paintbrush. For heavy body parts like the elephant’s trunk, I inserted toothpicks for stability. I used a food safe marker to draw in the faces lastly.

I made a small banner by printing the message from my computer cutting it into the right shape and attaching it to toothpicks to stick in the cake. The palm tree trunk for the top tier is a pretzel stick and then I cut the leaves out of fondant attaching them to a ball of fondant smashed on top of the pretzel. I used dowel rods and cake plates to secure the tiers and would recommend keeping them separate until right before serving – it won’t travel well totally completed.

Everyone was amazed at how great the safari cake turned out including me. This is my third cake and I never thought it would come out like this.

Jungle Safari cake by Jessica K., Katy, TX

I made this safari cake as a practice run for the cake I am going to make for my son’s fifth birthday. I used MMF to make the animals and decorations. The cake is white with buttercream frosting between the layers and underneath the MMF. This was actually a very easy cake to make, a little time consuming but easy. I used no special tools or pans either so anyone can make this with what ever they have laying around.

The cakes where cut down from 9″ to 8″ and 5″. I only have two 9″cake pans so I had to bake the cake in stages. And the MMF worked perfectly. I recommend it to everybody.

Jungle Safari cake by Tabetha M., Saskatoon, SK, Canada

I got the idea for this safari cake from the Nick Jr. Web site. My daughter is a Diego nut! So a rainforest theme for her second birthday was a hit! The cake is simply two 8″ rounds with icing in-between iced green. I pre made all the edible decorations.

The trees are easy. Buy a small paint brush, microwave green Wilton’s chocolates for 30 seconds and paint in the shape of leaves. Allow the leaves to set (freezer or fridge speeds this up), then use a dab of the chocolate to attach the leaves to the trunks (pretzel sticks). The bananas are Runts banana candies (but could be made of chocolate the same way); they were also attached with a dab of chocolate.

The leaves on the cake are cut out of green fruit roll up. The Bobo brothers are made out of chocolate. Simply print off the outline from the nick jr website and paint with Wilton’s chocolate. We also made more than two so that each child at the party was sure to have one chocolate monkey and one tree to eat! They had ideas for more animals on the cake but we chose to put plastic store bought Diego and baby Jaguar in the middle of the forest because it is my daughters favorite!

Jungle Safari cake by Amanda M., Warrensburg, MO

I saw a similar safari cake in the Dora section and modified it! The top is a mountain (which I should have used the cupcake to make a peak)! I bought the Mountain Rescue Diego set and some 88 cent animals! The cake is four 6in rounds on bottom, 10in round then two 6 inch rounds. The top 6 inch has a triangle cut out of the side! (Don’t forget the cupcake like I did)!

I couldn’t find the pillars for the top tier. So I improvised with a “fish” bowl found in the craft section at Wall-mart! The top is on a fondant covered cake separator that we had to trim a little off the bottom with things to stabilize it…but in retrospect I would have covered them with green fondant.

The blue is another separator covered with fondant and my husband made those fondant goldfish! Then the bowl held a real goldfish!!! The top is dark chocolate. The middle is fudge marble and the bottom is classic white! I used some cocoa baking powder and a touch of brown Wilton’s coloring.

For the green I mixed leaf and Kelly green Wilton colors. The blue was just Wilton’s royal blue! And we put the candle on last minute! The little boy in my daughter’s preschool class wanted Diego and the mother couldn’t find anything at the grocery bakeries. And several kids in the class have special diet needs. So I am now the new cake lady! This is only the fourth cake I have made and I am learning new things each time! Enjoy making this. It feed about 40 people with the mountains and two bottom ones left! Even the adults went for seconds! Happy Baking!

Jungle Safari cake by Brenda M., Phoenix City, AL

This safari cake I made for my grandson. I used butter cream icing. I bought safari animals to sit around on it and palm trees. I put a small pond on the bottom cake which is the largest cake .I used blue piping gel for the lake. I also put sand around the lake as well as sand on the other cakes.

I used brown sugar for the sand. I used 18 floral wires to hang from one tree to another tree on a different cake. I took some green thread and hand sewed two monkeys hanging from the tree vines.

I really enjoyed making this cake. Every one at my grandson’s birthday party loved it.

Jungle Safari cake by Nicole H., Springdale

I used a couple of ideas I had seen online for a safari cake but also added a bit of my own. The flowers and the animals on the top are made from white fondant that I dyed with food coloring gel according to which color I wanted.

The animals on the sides are just miniature frosted sugar cookies. The cake is frosted with dyed butter cream frosting and I used a grass tip for the outline on the layers. Entire cake was edible except for the candles and the balloons!

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Jungle Animals Cake (A Safari Themed Cake)

Published: Oct 3, 2020 · Modified: Mar 13, 2024 by Priya Maha

Learn how to make jungle animals cake with this decorating guide. This 1st birthday cake was made in 3 tiers and decorated with cute handmade fondant animals including a little monkey literally swinging on a lovely 3D fondant tree topper.

Poster for a 3 tier jungle themed cake with fondant animal toppers.

I made this jungle animals cake for a 1-year old boy’s birthday. The party theme was centered around jungle animals and the mother requested me to design a cake to match the theme in green and yellow. So I made sure to have those 2 colors as the main ones on the cake. She also requested that the birthday boy is represented with a monkey topper!

If you like this jungle animals cake, also check out this puppy dog cake , Lion birthday cake , Lion cake with cute lion topper , Lion cupcakes , simple dog cake design , unicorn cake , Lion King cake with Simba cake topper and butterfly birthday cake . They make cute animals themed cakes too.

🧾Supplies Required

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Cake – this was a 3 tier cake measuring 6 inches, 9 inches and 12 inches in diameter. And each tier was 4 inches high. I cannot recall the cake recipes I used for each of the tiers, but they were all from my cake recipes collection here.
Buttercream – Each tier of the cake was filled with buttercream. I also used buttercream to crumb coat each cake tier before covering them with fondant.
Fondant – I used Satin Ice for the entire project. Some were ready to use colors namely pastel yellow, chocolate brown, yellow, orange, green, blue, white, pink, red and black. I also used food colors to tint white into navy blue (using Americolor Navy Blue ), light green (using Americolor Avocado ).
Shortening and fondant glue – I used these interchangeably, shortening for smaller lighter fondant pieces and the glue for heavier ones.
Gold Dust and lemon extract – I mixed these to form edible gold paint for the crown on the monkey.
Green petal dust - I used this to give more depth to the tree trunks on the cake.
Floral wire – These were to make the 3D trees on the cake, the monkey’s hands, legs and tail as well as the string on the balloon held by the elephant. I used 18 gauge for the trunk (about 3 for the trunk and used thinner gauge wires for the branches. I joined these wires to the 18 gauge wires with brown floral tape). As for the monkey and the balloon, I used 24 gauge .
Brown Floral Tape
Styrofoam balls – these measured about 3 cm in diameter and were used as the base for 2of the animals, i.e., the elephant and lion.
Extruder tool – I used this for the cake border as well as the vines, and borders for the plaques on the cake.
Plunger cutters in oval , round , 5 petal flowers , star and hearts – the oval ones were mainly for the leaves on the tree, round for the polka dots on the second tier, 5-petal flowers for the leaves base on the smaller tree, stars for the lion’s party hat and heart for the 2 Red hearts on the plaques.
Gerbera daisy petal cutter – I used this to make the lion’s mane.
Clikstix Groovy Alphabet Cutters
Plaque cutters – I used one for the birthday boy’s name and the other for the words, ‘Our Prince is 1’.
Scalloped round cutter set – I used the smallest cutter for the larger 3D tree on the cake.
Pizza cutter – this was a general cutting tool
Needle Tool – This was mostly to mark the trunk grain pattern on the 3D tree trunks.
Sugar Craft Knife
Fondant shaping tools – these were used to help in shaping the deco that was placed on the cake as well as the animals.

I started by preparing the animals toppers first. All of them were formed by hand. And I used one Styrofoam ball each as the base.

There are 2 reasons for using Styrofoam balls. Firstly, it saves on my fondant. Secondly, the animals set much faster. And are much lighter too. This was particularly important for the monkey topper as its entire weight was supported by its thin tail. Having a lighter weight makes a lot of difference.

I had a total of 4 animal toppers on this jungle animals cake – the monkey, giraffe, elephant, and lion. I did not capture step by step images of making these animals, but I do have the close-up pictures.

A fondant monkey hanging down a fondant tree on a cake.

Step 1: Make the Elephant Cake Topper

Mix the fondant - I started by mixing white and black to create the grey fondant. And then, using one Styrofoam ball as the base, I formed the elephant’s body.

Make the head - Next was the head. To make the head, I formed a large tear drop with the tip not so pointed. And then, I refined the tip to form the elephant trunk and the base of the tear drop as the face. I used the end of my piping tip to imprint the elephant’s mouth and attached 2 small pink balls on each corner.

Make the eyes - For the eyes, I formed 2 white ovals, added 2 smaller dots of black and added thin eyelids made in grey on each eye.

3d fondant elephant with a string around its trunk.

Make the ears - This animal's ears were made in grey and pink. So were the hands and legs. All were formed by hand. I started by pinching out 2 equal-sized pieces of grey fondant, rolled each into equal-sized sausages, and then pressed one of each ends thin. I then used glue to attach the flattened part of the legs to the elephant’s body.

Make and attach the paws - For the animal's paws, I cut out small circles of pink and attached to the paws with shortening. The hands were formed in a similar manner too. And finally, I used my skewer to mark the elephant’s belly button!

Add the balloon - As for the balloon, I made it with fondant but the string holding it was floral wire. I poked one end of the wire into the balloon (I made the balloon in advance and let it set before putting it on wire as I did not want to risk the wire poking through the wet fondant of the balloon) and the formed a loop on the other end. Once the elephant was set and firm, I carefully inserted the loop through the elephant trunk.

Step 2: Make the Lion Cake Topper

Make the body and the face - This guy was pretty easy to make. I used orange and brown mostly, with a little bit of white and black for the eyes. I also used my gerbera daisy mold to make the mane.

Similar to the elephant, I used a small Styrofoam ball as the base. And then I formed the head and attached the lion’s eyes, nose, mouth and eye brows and one ear (the other ear was not necessary as the party hat was supposed to cover it).

Make and attach the legs - Next were the legs. Again, each one of these started off as sausage-shaped pieces. For the top legs, I formed the paws on one end and flattened the other ends thin by pressing them with my fingers.

Attach the paws - For the animal's paws, I used my sugar craft knife and cut 3 shallow lines to mark the lion’s paws. And the I attached the hands to the lion’s body. Next were the legs which were formed almost similar to the hands except that the opposite ends of the paws were not pressed thin. Instead, they were flattened and attached to the body with some glue. And for the paws, I added small round brown pieces.

Make the mane - For the mane, I used my smallest gerbera daisy cutter and made 3 pieces in brown. 1 piece went in between the body and the face while the other 2 pieces went to the back of the lion’s head. I attached all with glue.

Make the party hat - Next was the animal's party hat in blue fondant. I shaped it into a cone and topped it with a tiny yellow ball. And then I added yellow stars all around it. And finally, I rolled a thin strip in green and attached it around the base of the blue cone with glue. I let the lion set firmly before attaching the party hat to it.

Add the tail - And finally, I added the lion’s long tail.

Step 3: Make the Giraffe Cake Topper

3D fondant giraffe with a bow, sitting on a cake.

Prepare the fondant - I used 5 colors for the giraffe namely yellow, light brown, chocolate brown, black and white. The body was made using white fondant tinted with Wilton golden yellow.

The brown dots on the giraffe were chocolate brown fondant that has been lightened with some white fondant. The giraffe’s horns and mane at the back of its neck were made using chocolate brown fondant. The black was for the bow and eyes while the white also went of the eyes.

Form the body and head - To make the giraffe, I started off by rolling my fondant into a short fat sausage. And then I continued rolling one end to make it long and thin. This end was to form the neck and the other end was for the body.

Next was the head. I formed a round ball and then rolled it slightly to elongate it. And then I formed another small yellow ball, pressed it flat with my fingers and attached to the front of the face as the mouth. I used my skewer to mark the nostrils and the back of my piping tip to mark the mouth.

I formed the eyes in white and added black eyeballs to it. For the ears, I used my oval plunger cutter. I used my fingers to make one end of each eye pointy and pinched the other end so that they get folded slightly. I attached these to the head with glue.

Make and attach the horns - Next were the animal's horns. I rolled 2 equal sized thin brown pieces into thin sausages and attached them to the top of the giraffe’s head. To help the horns stay in place while the glue dries, I formed 2 small dents on the head with the end of my brush and attached the horns into these dents. That way, it was so much easier to keep them in place. Once they had become firm, I attached tiny brown ball on each horn, also with glue.

Add the legs and hooves - I left the head to set aside while I worked on the giraffe’s hands and legs. The steps I took to form these were similar to the elephant and lion above.

However, this time, since the legs were hanging from the side of the cake, when making the giraffe, I placed it on a piece of round Styrofoam and let the legs hang on its side while waiting for the giraffe to set and for the rest of the cake decoration to be ready.

Once the hands and legs were in place, I cut out small circles (in 2 different sizes) in brown. I attached them randomly on the body. I also attached the brown circles for the hooves.

Make the mane and bow - And then I added the head followed by the giraffe’s mane which I cut using the scalloped blade of my pizza cutter. I attached the mane using glue.

Next, I added a black bow around the animal's neck. The bow was just a thin strip of black wrapped around the neck and another piece of the same sized black fondant that was formed into a bow.

Step 4: Make the Monkey Cake Topper

This was the trickiest of all the 4 animals on this cake. And that was simply because this little guy was to hang onto a 3D tree branch by his tail.

The body had a Styrofoam ball as the base and the hands and legs were all wired. I formed them in fondant and slowly insert a thin wire through each arm and leg and then attached them to the body.

The tail was also wired. And I shaped it into a hook so that it will be easy to hang him up on his tail on the tree branch as well as easily take him off the tree. This was because I needed to take him off the tree when transporting the cake so that all the shaking during the drive does not detach his tail off the body.

The head was made entirely of fondant. And so was the crown (white painted in gold). The eyes, mouth, nose and ears were all made of fondant too.

Step 5: Make the Fondant Tree

I had 2 of these trees on the cake. The larger one on top of the cake as a topper and a slightly smaller one on the side of the 3 rd cake tier. These trees were made using floral wire. If you see closer, you will notice that all the branches on each tree are wires.

I used thicker wire (18 gauge) for the trunk for more stability. For the branches, I used thinner wires (gauge 24). To join these thinner wire to the trunk, I used brown floral tape. I also used the tape to tape the branches that were coming out of the tree truck together.

Fondant tree on the side of a green cake.

For the wood grain pattern on the trunks, I used my needle tool and drew the pattern by hand. And then I dusted it with dark green petal dust.

As for the leaves, I cut out green pieces of round scalloped pieces (using the smallest cutter in my scalloped cutter set. I used my 5-petal flower plunger cutter for the smaller tree) and glued 2 pieces together randomly on the wire branches (with the wire branches sandwiched in between).

And then I used my oval plunger cutter for the leaves in a few different shades of green. I attached the leaves randomly on the scalloped pieces.

I also attached yellow flowers on the tree. These were made using my small flower plunger cutter.

Step 6: Bake the Cakes

Once all the cakes were baked and have cooled down, I leveled, filled and crumb coated them with buttercream. And then covered I them with fondant.

The first and third tiers were in green (Americolor Avocado food color mixed with white fondant) while the second tier was in pastel yellow. And then, I stacked them all up.

Step 7: Attach the Birthday Boy's Name

Next was the fun part i.e., the decoration. I started by putting up the birthday boy’s name and all other lettering on the cake. For the plaques on the second tier, I used plaque cutters. The wooden planks on the 3 rd tier were strips of chocolate brown. I cut these by hand.

Once the lettering was all done and attached to the cake, I completed the second tier decorations by adding a white fondant ribbon all around the tier.

To frame the white plaques and the fondant ribbon around the cake, I used my extruder tool to pipe thin rolls of brown. I attached this as the border, with shortening. And then I finished off the second tier with green polka dots using my circle plunger cutter and green border (piped using the extruder tool).

"our prince is 1" fondant plaque on a cake

Step 8: Attach the Trees to the Cake

For the third tier, I started by attaching the tree on the side first. I used glue so that the tree would stick securely to the side of the cake as well as the cake board. And then I used my extruder tool to pipe the vines around the top edge of the cake. I piped these in brown and green.

And then I added the leaves in random order in a combination of green tones and yellow. I did the same for the top tier. I also added the leaves on the cake board.

Step 9: Attach the Grass Border

And finally, I added the grass borders for both tiers. I rolled and cut my green fondant into long strips and used the pizza cutter to form the grass.

Fondant grass on the sides of a green cake.

Step 10: Add a Tiny Cake with Candle Topper

Next was the tiny birthday cake on the top tier. I made this by hand with light blue fondant shaped into a tiny cake. And then I added the white icing on top in white, followed by the handmade candle.

After the cake, I attached the larger tree on the first tier. Since the trunk consisted of a number of wires grouped together, it was convenient to use the extra wire at the base to hold the tree in place on the cake. I did not poke the entire group of wires into the cake. I only used 2 and cut off the rest.

And the two that went into the cake were inserted into lollipop sticks first so that there was no direct contact of the wires with the cake.

Step 11: Attach the Fondant Animal Toppers

And finally, I added the animals. I did this at the party venue which means I transported the cake and the animals separately.

All the animals were glued to the cake except for the monkey which was left hanging on the branch by its tail.

And that's my jungle animals birthday cake.

A two layered butterfly pea cake frosted with white cream cheese frosting and decorated with blue fondant flowers and blueberries on a white cake stand, with a section cut out.

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Jungle Safari Cake

October 31, 2022 by Roxy

I made this Jungle Safari Cake a while ago for Daniel’s 1st birthday party. This post ends my series of posts about a Safari / Jungle Themed birthday party. Here are all the other posts in case you missed them:

Part I – Dessert Ideas

Part II – Appetizers, Finger Foods & Snack Ideas

Part III – DIY Decoration Ideas + FREE Printables

Part IV – Cheap Party Supplies & Decorations

How to Make Safari / Jungle Animals Fondant Cupcake Toppers – Tiger, Zebra, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Hippo, Bear, Lion

Teddy Bear Fondant Cake Topper

Ingredients

Walnut Cake:

For a 10.5 inch (26.7 cm) round pan:

45 ml water (8 Tbsp)
150 g flour
240 g sugar
4 Tbsp ground walnuts

Double the ingredients to make two 10-inch cakes.

For a 7 inch (17.7 cm) round pan:

28 ml water (5 Tbsp)
100 g flour
150 g sugar
2.5 Tbsp ground walnuts

Double the ingredients to make two 7-inch cakes.

Sugar Syrup to Moisten the Cake :

400 ml water
10 Tbsp sugar
6 Tbsp rum extract

Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling :

600 g dark chocolate (baking or couverture chocolate)
1.2 l whipping cream
200 g ground walnuts

Covering the Cake:

5 lbs green fondant ( 2.3 kg)
1 lb white fondant + yellow, orange, brown, dark green and black gel food colouring for the fondant decorations; or you can buy fondant already coloured in those colours

Other Tools/Items:

10 inch & 7 inch cake boards
4 Boba plastic straws or cake dowels
Leaf fondant cutter
Flower plunger cutter
Tree bark fondant impression mat
Upper Case Funky Alphabet and Number Tappit Cutters
Lower Case Funky Alphabet Tappit Cutters Set
Set of 3 Sugar Paste Narrow Leaf Cutters
1.5’’ flower cookie cutter
1’’ circle cutter
1 Wilton/Ateco round decorating tip #8
A small paint brush

Making the Cake

Use the ingredients listed above and follow the step-by-step instructions in this other post to make your 4 cakes.

Bake the cakes, let them cool off and cut each of them horizontally in two.

Make your sugar syrup by boiling the water with the sugar and adding the vanilla extract at the end. Let it cool off.

Making the Filling

Make the whipped chocolate ganache following the steps in this recipe. Make this at least a 8 hours before you are ready to assemble the cake as it needs to cool off in the fridge before whipping it.

Set aside 200 g of the whipped ganache to crumb coat the cake before covering it with fondant.

Then, add the ground walnuts to the remaining whipped ganache and fold them in with a spatula.

Assembling and Decorating the Cake

Assembling the cake.

Spread some filling on your 10’’ cake board and place the first cake layer on top. Moisten it with sugar syrup and spread whipped chocolate ganache filling on top (~300 g of ganache per layer). Repeat the steps for the 2nd and 3rd cake layers. Lastly, place the 4th cake layer on top and moisten it with sugar syrup.

Repeat the steps for the 7’’ cake. You should spread ~ 200g whipped ganache per cake layer.

Crumb coat the cakes with a thin layer of the ganache you saved. Refrigerate them for 1-2 hours.

Covering the Cakes with Fondant

Knead and roll 2/3 of your green fondant to cover the 10’’ inch cake.

Before rolling out your fondant, sprinkle some powdered sugar or cornstarch on your work surface and knead it until it has a workable consistency and it doesn’t feel and look dry.

Use a measuring tape or a piece of string to measure the top and sides of the cake. So if you measured 10’’ across the top and your cake is 4’’ tall that is 18’’ of cake in total so you need to roll out the fondant at least 20 inches in diameter but you should leave an inch or two extra. Sprinkle some powdered sugar onto your work surface and roll out the green fondant in the approximate shape of your cake (i.e. circle for a round cake). As you are rolling it make sure you lift the fondant occasionally and rotate it 45 degrees to make sure it doesn’t stick to your work surface. If it sticks lift the fondant and sprinkle more powdered sugar or cornstarch.

Gently lift fondant over rolling pin and place it on the side of the cake. Start unrolling the fondant from the side of the cake and across the top to the other side.

Smooth the fondant with a fondant smoother (or the palm of your hand) starting from the top. Start to gently pull the fondant out and down around the sides of the cake using one hand and spread the excess fondant and smooth it out using a fondant smoother (or your other hand).

Keep turning the cake and repeating these steps until the sides are smooth and without any ruffles formed towards the bottom. It’s better if you use a fondant smoother since the pressure of your hands could leave marks and the warmth from your hands might make the fondant sticky.

Use your fondant smoother to get rid of any wrinkles and air bubbles as well. If you see any air bubbles, insert a pin on an angle, release the air and smooth the area again.

Trim the edges at the bottom using an X-Acto knife , a pizza cutter or any other sharp knife you have.

Repeat the same steps to cover the 7’’ cake and place it on the 7’’ cake board.

Cut 4 boba straws or cake dowels to the height of the 10’’ cake and insert them into the cake.

Spread another bit of frosting on top and place the 7’’ cake on top.

Making the Fondant Decorations

Sprinkle some powdered sugar or cornstarch on your work surface and roll out the brown fondant. Gently press the tree bark fondant impression mat onto the fondant to give it the wood effect.

Cut a 3.5’’ x 4.5’’ square to make the wooden sign post. Then, cut a thin 1’’ x 6’’ strip to make the post. Lastly, cut two thin strips for the top and bottom edges of the sign.

Assemble the sign post by using a bit of water to glue everything together.

Use the tappit cutter to make the number 1 and attach it to your sign.

Make the leaves for the palm trees using the leaf cutters and the dark green fondant. Then, for the tree trunk, roll a log out of brown fondant and make some indentations using the back of a knife blade or the blunt knife fondant tool.

Make the elephant, giraffe and lion as shown in the pictures below.

Attach all the fondant decorations to the cake using some water.

Use the Upper Case Tappit Cutters and Lower Case Funky Alphabet Tappit Cutters to make the letters of your kid’s name out of yellow fondant. Use the flower plunger cutter to make the small flowers out of white fondant.

Paint the bear paws on the cake using brown food colouring mixed with a few drops of vodka or water.

For the Teddy Bear Fondant Cake Topper, follow this link to see the tutorial.

I made a 5’’ Smash Cake following the same recipes and steps above. You just need to reduce the ingredients – e.g. make each cake out of 4 eggs, use about 300 g of whipped ganache filling.

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Safari Jungle Cake Ideas and Tutorials

Welcome to our adventure-filled Safari Jungle Cake Ideas and Tutorials, where your cake decorating journey takes a leap into the wild! Dive into our fondant jungle animal tutorials and discover the joy of creating your own safari adventure. In this blog, we’re gearing up to share a heap of inspiration, practical how-tos, and beginner-friendly fondant tutorials. Whether you’re planning a safari 1st birthday cake or just hunting for some safari cake toppers to spruce up your cake, we’ve got the perfect guide for you.

Safari Cake Theme – With Fondant Jungle Animals

Bringing the wild of the jungle to life through cake is popular for all ages. Who doesn’t love jungle vibes? There’s so much inspiration to draw from. We can take iconic animal prints and work them into our fondant cake designs, by adding fondant stripes or painting tiger spots directly onto the cake. Make large edible tropical leaves, and top everything off with all of the safari jungle animals modelled out of fondant.

This section focuses on simple safari cake ideas that are easy to execute but still make a big impact, perfect for those just diving into the world of cake decorating.

safari jungle tree trunk cake with fondant jungle anaimals and tropical leaves

1st Birthday Safari Jungle Tree Trunk Cake " Wild One"

“The ‘wild one’ safari jungle 1st birthday cake must be one of my favourites. The soft colours look great and creating the edible fondant animal cake toppers with simple faces creates a softer, cuter cake design. Plus, adding a ‘Wild One cake topper’ on the cake is a nice touch. Is it just me, or does every jungle-themed first birthday cake make you sing, “hey I heard you are a wild one oh oh ohooooo”? Sorry I have done it to you now, but honestly what a song!

Safari Jungle Cakes for Boys and Girls

“Safari Jungle cakes for a boy: Jungle colours are perfect for boys or even gender-neutral vibes. Add some blue tones to a fondant-covered cake for a splash of colour. For boys a bit older than one, dial up the fun with brighter colours. Think sunny yellow giraffes, lions with fiery burnt orange manes, and bold zebra prints.

safari jungle themed boys birthday cake with fondant zebra prints and fondant jungle animals

Safari jungle cakes for a girl: Why not add a little pink to the mix? Give the giraffe’s nose or the zebra a blush of pink. Or cover the cake in soft pink. Feeling adventurous? Try a whole spectrum of pink for those tropical leaves. Ana’s cake studio really nail this look, and sparking some pink safari cake inspiration.

girl themed jungle bsafari birthday cake with soft pink colours and fondant jungle animals

Crafty Creature – Jungle Animal Fondant and Cookie Cutter Set!

If you are a beginner or you are looking to create a fondant cake topper that is super easy and fast making an impact to your cake design then this Crafty Creature set is for you. The 5 piece animal cutter not only creates the fondant lion cake topper in the photo but you would be able to make that exact lion into a giant cookie sharer box and the cutters would work as a guided outline for a 3D Lion! And, that’s not even nearly what this animal set can do! You can make multiple animals just from these 5 cutters perfectly designed to mix and match. You’d be able to create jungle-themed cookies and cake toppers, it could make a lion, tiger, panda, monkey, zebra and that’s just the jungle animals! Don’t get me started on the pets and farm and woodland animals!

If you’d like to learn how to make this lion cake topper head over to my YouTube channel here.

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Adult Safari Jungle Cakes

For adults, it’s all about sophistication with a wild twist. Think animal patterns, like zebra stripes or leopard spots, on your cake. Here are some tips and ideas for adding that adult sophistication to your safari cakes:

safari jungle cake ideas and tutorials - Gold safari jungle birthday cake

Gold Safari Theme Birthday Cake

De le crème studio does this perfectly with their gold zebra and giraffe print cake painting in the this picture. They even have a template that you can use to replicate it, for those of you that are nervous to go free hand. I say just go for it! But start painting from the back of the cake and make those first errors there, or draw the lines on first with a pencil.

Tips For Painting on Your Cakes.

Cover your cake with fondant and let it set to avoid dents while painting or adding decorations.
Use dusting colours and lustres with a brush and rejuvenator spirit for a smooth application that leaves no wetness behind. You can also use edible pens if you like, I love working with fractal colours as they don’t dry out fast like other edible pens and I’ve had some of mine for over a year.
When painting leopard spots always start with light colours and layer on the darker shades for a bold effect.

Making Animal Print Fondant

You can add the animal patterns to the cake in fondant which would create more texture depending on the detail of the design this could take a little longer, so go for larger shapes that take up a larger area of the cake. The cake below by cakechefis is a great example of this.

safari jungle cakes and ideas with animal print fondant tips /

Lastly you can an animal print, printed onto edible icing sheet paper and wrap it around the cake. I love the way this has been done by Marias Sweet Cakery on the middle cake and then green and gold! It’s creating a striking boho feel safari cake.

Boho style safari cake with gold animals, green cake and leopard print

Jungle Animals for Adult Birthday Cakes

For a grown-up vibe, try making your fondant jungle animals super realistic. It adds a ‘mature’ feel instantly. Check out this cake below, the elephant cake topper is unreal! In fact, they are all pretty awesome. By Kalitpasta

Safari Jungle cakes and ideas 3 tier safari cake with fondant realistic animals and micky mouse

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Safari Cake Tutorial:

Alright, cake makers, it’s time to roll up our sleeves. Let’s dive into making these adorable jungle animals. I’ve got two fantastic video tutorials lined up for you.

How to Make Easy Jungle Tropical Leaves – Without Cutters: It’s simpler than you think to create lush, tropical foliage. This will give your cakes that authentic jungle vibe. “For those new to cake decorating, this easy fondant safari tutorial will guide you through the steps to create stunning safari-themed decorations.”

Safari-Themed 1st Birthday Cake Topper Tutorial: This step-by-step guide is a fantastic introduction to our fondant jungle animal tutorials for beginners. It’s designed to make crafting your first fondant animals an enjoyable and successful endeavour.

The Must-Have New Cake Tool: “Candle Cut Set”

But before we get into the tutorials, let’s talk about the candle cut sets. These are my secret weapon for adding personalised touches to every cake. They come with large number cutters and wicks, which make candle making a breeze. Plus, they let you add an extra layer of theme-matching customisation to your creations.

How to Make Fondant Tropical Jungle Leaves Step by Step – With No Cutters

Ok, let’s get started! These tropical leaves are super easy to make. You’ll need fondant, green gel/paste colour (I like gooseberry and foliage green Sugarflair), and a craft knife from your basic tool set. You can purchase the set [Link to purchase]. If you don’t have a small circle cutter, a small pea size end piping nozzle will work.

Mix your fondant green tones, roll into a crease-free ball, then shape it into a cone. You can learn these steps and more in my beginner modelling tutorials for free [Link to tutorials]. Flatten the cone with a rolling pin, then use the craft knife to cut in the leaf edges. Use the circle cutter (or piping nozzle) to punch out the holes. Dive into the video; it’s super easy, and you’re going to love it!

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If you’re looking for a unique and exciting cake design, a safari-themed cake is an excellent choice. With endless possibilities for decoration and design, you can easily make a cake that is both elegant and fun. In this article, we will explore a wide range of safari cake ideas to help get you started on your next project.

How to make a simple and elegant safari cake

If you are in search of an easy-to-create safari cake design, a simple and elegant cake is an excellent choice. A natural-colored, buttercream-covered cake topped with fondant safari animals is the perfect choice for a subtle but stunning safari cake.

For a unique twist, consider using a marbled fondant technique to create an animal-print effect in the fondant covering. This technique can be used for any cake size and shape.

When it comes to choosing the safari animals to top your cake, consider using a mix of different animals to create a diverse and interesting display. You can use fondant or gum paste to create the animals, and there are many tutorials available online to help you create them.

Another option to add some extra flair to your safari cake is to incorporate edible flowers or foliage into the design. This can be done by using fresh or dried flowers, or by creating them out of fondant or gum paste. Just be sure to research which flowers are safe to use on cakes before adding them to your design.

Safari cake ideas for kids’ birthdays

When it comes to kids’ birthdays, a safari-themed cake is sure to be a hit. Imagine a chocolate cake with green buttercream grass, fondant jungle animals, and a fondant tree. Kids will love the playful design and bright colors.

If you’re feeling ambitious, try adding a waterfall and a pond using blue gel or fondant to complete the jungle scene. This will bring the cake to life and make it look like it came straight out of the wild.

Another fun idea for a safari cake is to create a tiered cake with each tier representing a different part of the jungle. The bottom tier can be decorated with fondant vines and leaves, while the middle tier can feature fondant animals like lions, tigers, and zebras. The top tier can be decorated with a fondant sun and clouds to represent the sky above the jungle.

If you want to make the cake even more interactive, consider adding edible binoculars made from chocolate and fondant. These can be placed on top of the cake or on the sides for a fun and playful touch that kids will love.

How to create a stunning animal print cake

Animal prints are a staple of safari design and make for an eye-catching cake design. You can go for a zebra pattern in black and white or a leopard print in brown and black.

You can create the print pattern using a variety of techniques, such as painting, airbrushing, or even piping buttercream. A fondant or gum paste animal topper can complete the look, making for a cake that is both stylish and wild.

When creating an animal print cake, it’s important to choose the right colors. For example, a zebra print cake can be made more interesting by using shades of gray instead of just black and white. Similarly, a leopard print cake can be made more vibrant by adding pops of orange or yellow.

If you want to take your animal print cake to the next level, consider adding some texture. You can use edible glitter or sanding sugar to create a shimmering effect, or use a textured rolling pin to imprint a pattern onto the fondant or buttercream.

Tips for decorating a safari-themed cake

Decorating a safari-themed cake is all about being creative and having fun. Here are a few tips to help you get started:

Use natural colors like greens, browns, and shades of yellow to give your cake a wild feel.
Add flowers and foliage made from fondant or gum paste to give your cake a jungle-like appearance
Use edible glitter and sprinkles to add some sparkle and shine to your cake.
Craft toppers featuring your favorite safari animals or trees to add personality to your cake design.

Another great way to add some excitement to your safari-themed cake is to incorporate different textures. You can use textured fondant or create patterns on your cake using a decorating comb or spatula. You can also add some dimension to your cake by using cut-out fondant shapes to create a 3D effect. Don’t be afraid to experiment with different techniques and designs to make your safari-themed cake truly unique!

Creative jungle-inspired cake designs

There is no shortage of inspiration when it comes to jungle-inspired cake designs. From a half-covered cake with fondant vines and leaves to a fully decked-out cake complete with animatronic jungle animals, there are endless possibilities for creating a unique and charming cake.

You can go for a rustic jungle look or opt for a more polished animal print style. Don’t be afraid to mix and match techniques to make a design that is all your own.

When it comes to flavors, there are also many options to choose from. You can go for a classic chocolate or vanilla cake, or try something more exotic like a coconut or mango flavored cake. Consider incorporating tropical fruits like pineapple or passionfruit into the cake or frosting for an added burst of flavor.

Ideas for incorporating edible animals into your safari cake

If the idea of a cake adorned with lifelike jungle animals excites you, there are plenty of options for incorporating edible animals in your cake design. From fondant elephants, tigers, and monkeys to gum paste or marzipan lions and giraffes, the sky is the limit when it comes to creativity.

If you want an eye-catching centerpiece for your cake, consider making a towering giraffe in fondant or gum paste. The effect can be stunning and add some height to your cake.

Another fun idea is to create a scene on your cake with multiple edible animals. You could have a fondant lion lounging under a gum paste tree while a herd of marzipan elephants graze nearby. This can add a playful and whimsical touch to your cake.

If you want to add some texture to your cake, consider using chocolate shavings or crushed cookies to create a dirt or sand effect. This can be the perfect backdrop for your edible animals and really bring your safari theme to life.

DIY safari cake toppers made from fondant or gum paste

If you’re looking to make a safari-themed cake but don’t have access to pre-made toppers, you can easily make your own using fondant or gum paste. You can make fondant animals by molding the fondant into the desired shape and then painting on details like spots or stripes.

Gum paste is an excellent option if you need a topper that is sturdy enough to stand up. It can be molded, shaped, and sculpted into any shape you like. You can even mix gum paste with fondant to create a pliable, easy-to-work-with material.

When making fondant animals, it’s important to work quickly and keep the fondant covered to prevent it from drying out. You can also add texture to your animals by using tools like toothpicks or small brushes to create fur or scales. Additionally, you can use food coloring to create a variety of colors for your animals, making them more realistic and eye-catching.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you can also try making other safari-themed toppers like trees, rocks, or even a safari jeep. These can be made using a combination of fondant and gum paste, and can add a fun and unique touch to your cake. Just remember to allow enough time for your toppers to dry and harden before placing them on your cake.

Top 10 safari cake design trends of the year

Each year, new safari cake design trends emerge. Some cutting-edge trends for 2021 include:

Geode cakes with natural or crystalline gems and stones.
Cake pops with animal print patterns or safari animals on top.
Fondant and gum paste cacti as decorative elements.
Colorful rainbow animal cakes.
Glitter-covered cake designs.
Animal prints with gold leaf accents.
3D fondant animal shapes as cake toppers.
Natural-tone cakes with sugar flower embellishments.
Edible gold foil animal silhouettes.
Snakeskin fondant cake coverings.

Step-by-step instructions for making a 3D safari cake

A 3D safari cake can be a show-stopper at any event. Here are step-by-step instructions for making your own:

Bake your cake in the desired shape, using layered cake or a shaped cake pan
Cover the cake with buttercream or fondant to obtain the desired texture of the animal.
Mold fondant or gum paste into the desired animal shapes, such as a giraffe or an elephant.
Attach the fondant or gum paste sculptures to the cake with edible glue or toothpicks to create a 3D effect.
Add final decorations like fondant flowers or trees.

Vegan and gluten-free options for your safari-themed dessert table

Having a safari-themed dessert table doesn’t mean you have to forget about dietary restrictions. Nowadays, there are tons of vegan and gluten-free options that are both delicious and beautiful.

You can opt for vegan cakes made with almond milk or gluten-free cakes made with rice flour. Vegan fondant made with coconut cream and gluten-free gum paste made with potato starch is also available in many shops.

Perfect color combinations for a vibrant, eye-catching safari cake

Colors are an essential aspect of safari cake design. The right choice of color combinations will give your cake a vibrant, eye-catching appeal that will make it stand out.

Bright oranges, yellows, and greens are typical choices for a safari-themed cake. If you want a more subtle effect, try using natural-toned browns, greens, and off-white. Gold, silver, or copper metallic accents can also elevate the design and add a luxurious touch.

How to use edible gold leaf to add luxury to your safari cake design

If you want to add a touch of luxury to your safari cake, consider using edible gold leaf. Edible gold leaf can be applied to fondant, gum paste, or buttercream to create a radiant, shimmering effect on the cake design.

Gold leaf can be used to create borders, stripes, or even highlights on a cake’s surface. It pairs well with natural colors and animal prints to create a luxurious, high-end look.

Tips for transporting your safari cake without damaging the decorations

Transporting a decorated cake can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to a safari-themed cake. Here are a few tips to help ensure that your cake arrives at its destination looking as pristine as when you created it:

Use a sturdy cake box or container that is large enough to accommodate the cake and any toppers(like the animal figure) securely.
Place non-slip matting underneath the cake to prevent it from sliding around during transportation.
Keep your cake cool, and use cold gel packs if necessary to keep it from melting or becoming too soft.
Drive slowly and carefully, avoiding any sudden movements or sharp turns that could cause the cake to shift or topple over.
Once you arrive at your destination, carefully and slowly remove the cake from the container to prevent any damage to the decorations.

How to make a mini-safari dessert table with matching cupcakes and cookies

If you’re planning a safari-themed event, a mini dessert table is a lovely addition. You can use animal-shaped cookies and cupcakes with animal print liners to create a cohesive look.

A gingham tablecloth and greenery garlands paired with bamboo plates and cups will complete the safari theme. You can mix and match the designs of the cupcakes and cookies to create an even more exciting display. The dessert table can also include a show-stopping safari cake that brings everything together. A small decorated cake is an excellent choice for a mini-dessert table.

With these safari cake ideas, you can create a cake design that turns heads for all the right reasons. Whether you prefer a simple, elegant cake or an elaborate 3D creation, a safari-themed cake is sure to make a statement. Get creative with your design and enjoy the process of bringing your safari cake to life.

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Looking for a showstopping jungle-themed birthday cake for your little one? Explore the most Amazing Jungle Cake Ideas below.

Ready to get wild in the jungle? With these Amazing Jungle Cake Ideas you’re all set to celebrate in jungle style. Jungle-themed birthday parties will always be popular with little kids and there are so many fun cake designs to choose from.

The jungle theme, safari theme and ‘wild one’ theme are closely linked and many cake designs draw on all these themes for inspiration. The jungle cakes are colorful, fun and simply amazing often decorated with beautiful fondant jungle trees, vines, leaves, animal patterns and gumpaste-modelled animals.

The animals that are typically used for decoration are the most popular ones by little kids like tigers, monkeys, elephants, lions, giraffes and zebras. Not all of these are typical jungle animals, nevertheless, kids adore them and they will make your party wild!

Four-Tier Jungle Birthday Cake

This spectacular four-tier jungle birthday cake with the flavors of white almond sour cream, swiss meringue buttercream and homemade raspberry filling is a real showstopper. The cheeky monkeys holding the letters, the giraffe, elephant, lion and leaves are all modelled from fondant.

Jungle Birthday Cake

This delicious Belgian chocolate cake is covered in homemade fondant jungle-themed decorations. Your little party guests will adore this one.

Jungle Waterfall Cake

We love the waterfall design on this cute three-tier jungle waterfall cake. The sweetest animals are all ready to celebrate with you.

Safari Jungle Birthday Cake

This square-shaped three-tier safari jungle birthday cake is covered by striking animal print fondant and gumpaste animal decorations.

Who’s ready to party with this sweet jungle waterfall cake? With bright colorful decorations, this two-tier cake is ready to do its magic.

This sweet jungle birthday cake design with a lion cake topper is perfect for a little boy’s birthday party.

Two-Tier Jungle Birthday Cake

Celebrate your little one with this sweetest two-tier jungle birthday cake in soft pastel colors.

1st Birthday Jungle Cake

This delicious-looking number birthday layer cake is filled with buttercream and decorated with beautifully modelled jungle animals. Bet those little fingers can’t wait to dive into this one.

Jungle Animals Cake

This stylish jungle animal cake with a simple design and an adorable animal topper fits the jungle theme beautifully.

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Get the fun started with this jungle fun birthday cake. This small one-tier cake is perfect for a smaller party.

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This sweet artistic jungle-inspired cake design with a mixture of hand-painted and hand-modelled decorations portrays beautifully the jungle magic.

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Get ready to roar with this lion birthday cake. Perfect for your little king of the jungle.

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And finally, this incredible safari-themed jungle birthday cake is the perfect centerpiece for your party. This cake design has hand-painted animal print elements with the tree, sign and animals all made from modelling chocolate and the bamboo pieces from gum paste.

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A Jungle Safari Cake With A Surprise Inside

“In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight ….. “

You have that song stuck in your head now, don’t you? Now you know how I felt the whole time I was working on my niece’s birthday cake. Every time I opened the door to my cake room it was like lifting the lid to a music box; the song would immediately fill my head. It was the perfect song for the cake though. My niece recently turned six and had a jungle themed birthday party at a local campground. She requested I make her a jungle cake with animal prints and jungle animals all over the cake. I took out my sketch pad and drew up my ideas.

I got her approval and went to work. After many hours of sculpting, baking and decorating (I’m not sure exactly how many since I don’t ever keep track) I finished and ended up with a cake that was almost exactly like my sketch. Most of the time it seems I end up having to change a lot of things in the process of going from sketch to finished product so it was kind of excited to keep so close to the plan.

Here is the final creation.

I loved this cake and had so much fun with it. Everything on the cake is edible. The animals are all sculpted from modeling chocolate and the tree is made from chocolate and rice krispy treats.

Here are some close up pictures of all the details.

My niece’s favorite jungle animal is the tiger so I made sure he sat on the top of the cake along with a tree and a bamboo number 6.

A cute little elephant seated on a leopard print tier.

The giraffe was my favorite. Notice how I made him eating some of the leaves from the upper tier.

The monkey was just hanging out, chillin on top of the zebra print.

A chocolate sign wishes my niece a “Happy Birthday.”

The king of the jungle sits in the very front of the cake behind the bamboo border of the cake base.

Some jungle foliage.

Lucky for you, I took pictures while I made everything so I have several tutorials to come on creating these jungle creatures.

Plus, there was a secret inside the cake. Take a look.

That’s right! Animal prints !

The top tier was tiger print, the middle leopard print and the bottom zebra print. This was my first attempt at getting creative with cake batter. It was so fun to hear the kids squeal in excitement once they saw the animal prints in the cake slices. I photographed how I made all these, as well, so you will also be getting tutorials on how to create your own animal print cakes .

It was such a special day. But as adorable as the cake turned out, it wasn’t anywhere near as adorable as my darling niece.

I hope it will be a day, and a cake, that she will never forget.

Check back soon because my next blog entry will start the series of jungle themed tutorials with instructions on how to bake animal print cakes.

Until next time, God Bless and Sweet Dreams.

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BEAUTIFUL! You do great work! I bet she loved it!

Thank you Debbie!

Oh my gosh Michelle it’s one of the best kids cakes I’ve ever seen! You are so creative and talented 🙂

Thank you so much Tricia! You are so kind.

Your niece is one lucky girl to have an aunt like you! Beautiful job on the cake – the textures, colors and sculpting! Flawless! Would love a tutorial on this.

Thank you Beth. I will start with a post on how to bake the animal print interiors next week then I’ll post tutorials for making all the animals and the animal prints exteriors. Be on the lookout for them. 🙂

What do you line your cake pans with before putting your battery in them?

Hi Tamra, I usually spray them with a product like Baker’s Joy and then also line the bottom with some parchment paper. You can see pictures of how they are prepared in this link: http://www.sweetdreamscakeapp.com/2013/09/26/animal-print-inside-the-cake/ I hope that helps.

Are you able to freeze this cake? I’m thinking of doing this for my daughter’s bday but want to do it in advance and should I frost it first? Not sure I’m doing fondant.

I want to make an Africa theme cake for my Ethiopian daughter and love what you have done with this cake. What I don’t know how to do is to frost it with the zebra/cheetah/tiger/giraffe types of patterns. Yours look so perfect and I know you have great advice to give me. Will you reveal your secrets for the frosting-job you did?

Hi Margie, I have a tutorial on making the zebra and leopard prints that I made on the outside of my cakes. If you go to this link and scroll down about the middle of the page to the heading “Animal Prints” you will see explanation of the zebra stripes and pictures of the leopard spots. Hope this helps. Good luck! http://www.sweetdreamscakeapp.com/2013/10/03/how-to-create-a-safari-cake/

Thanks, Michelle, for your hasty response. I love your explanations about using a pasta roller for the black fondant for the zebra stripes and all the clear instructions about painting on the cheetah/leopard spots. What I am struggling with now is that nice, smooth base coat of frosting you have on all layers. Is that rolled fondant? Or do you have a recipe for a very smooth and shiny frosting? I am vegan which makes things a tad more challenging, although I do have a recipe for a decent vegan fondant. (I made all the tiles for a swimming pool cake with vegan fondant one year for my daughter’s birthday. Over 1000 tiles I cut out and dried!) So, I can go with fondant if I must. I just have never coated a cake with it.

Yes, Margie, all the cakes are covered in rolled fondant. Sorry, I didn’t explain that before. I bet your fondant will work great. There always has to be a first time for everything! If you want some video instruction of how to cover a cake in fondant, I have an app available for both iPhones/Ipads and Androids, called Sweet Dreams Cake App, that has video tutorials on it and I have one on how to cover a cake in fondant. Good luck to you!

Hi there Michelle!

Wow, what an awesome tutorial this is! So inspirational! You’ve sure got my creative inner-self longing to emerge in a flurry of fondant and butter cream! Haha! THANK YOU!!

My daughter is having a Jungle themed baby shower so this is awesome! I’m going to *attempt* to make this cake so wish me luck!

But before I do, I have some questions if you don’t mind. I realize you made this some time ago, but in general, (1) Do you ever provide a list of ALL the required items/ingredients for each of your cakes (everything from the coloring gel to the size of the pans)? I’d like to make a list but I have to go through every step of the tutorial to see what all is needed and it’s still a bit vague. For example, (2) how much fondant would one need to cover a 3-tier (Jungle) cake (with room for error)? (3) Do you recommend a specific pre-made brand or do you make it yourself? Also, (4) how much modeling chocolate (or gum paste) is needed to make each figure (animal) and (5) what kind do you use (home made, store bought)? Sorry for the inquisition but I’m a newbie and want to take on this challenge well prepared! 😉

Thank you again and I’ve definitely bookmarked your page!

Hi Yvette, Thank you for your kind words. I wish you lots of luck on making your daughter’s baby shower cake. I know it will be so special for her just knowing you made it.

To answer your questions, I don’t usually make an entire supply list. Since my tutorials are free I don’t spend the amount of time on them to figure out all supplies and amounts and all that. Cakes are a hobby for me and I only get to do them once in a while so I try to take pictures while I am doing them and then, after they are done, share my pictures and give explanations for what I did. The tutorials are more of explanations of cakes I made than actually me designing a cake just to make a tutorial for it. I’m not sure if that makes sense or not. 🙂 Usually, when I am making a cake, I sort of figure things out as I go so I don’t really know exactly how much fondant or modeling chocolate or things like that that I am going to use. I have large containers of them and pull out more as I need it. The best way to figure out how much fondant you need is to look up a fondant calculator online or use the calculator on Sweet Dreams Cake app if you have it for your phone/tablet. Use the amounts recommended for the cake sizes you are planning to use. For this cake I used 6″, 8″ and 10″ cakes and then the base board was 12″. As for fondant, I like to use Renshaw or Satin Ice. Both are available on Amazon if you can’t find them at a local cake decorating store. I used modeling chocolate for the animals but you could also use gum paste. The brand of gum paste that I always use is Satin Ice. For modeling chocolate, sometimes I make my own and sometimes I buy it. If I buy it, I get Fondarific Sculpting Chocolate. Otherwise I make it with candy melts and corn syrup. You can find Youtube videos on how to make it. I hope that helps you somewhat. I’m sorry I don’t have a detailed list for you. I use so many different things as I go and so many different tools that it is really hard for me to try to remember all of it after I am done and I am usually on a time crunch when I am working on the cakes. A lot of the time I even forget to keep up with my photographs. 🙂 Hope you enjoy making your cake and congrats on your daughter’s upcoming baby. God bless.

Thank you for the information and the quick response, Michelle! I totally understand about not providing lists of ingredients, that would really be way too time consuming for sure! But boy, you have no idea how much I appreciate the fact that you’re posting as much as you do! And your answer was great and very helpful because it gives me an idea of what to use and what to expect. Thank you for taking the time to respond and for such great inspiration! If I can pull this off, I’ll post pics, but it’s not until August, so bear with me! Have a wonderful week and keep up the beautiful work! 🙂

do you take the animals toppers for sale?

No, I’m sorry, I don’t. I’m just a hobby baker with limited time for doing my hobby. 🙂

This is awesome!

I really love the idea of these cake. My son’s has his 1st birthday coming up.can l order from you? I am in London

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I had a client who wanted this cake minus the top tier and tiger and your tutorial helped A LOT. The cake was a hit, wish I could show you pictures

Hi Sandelle, I am so happy to hear that your cake turned out so great! I’m sure your client was thrilled. Thanks for sharing and happy baking!

Amazing cake. Can I ask how you created The bamboo base.

Hi Natasha. Thank you so much! You can go to this blog post and get instructions on how I made the bamboo base. http://sweetdreamsandsugarhighs.com/2013/10/03/how-to-create-a-safari-cake/

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WGS 84 coordinate reference system is the latest revision of the World Geodetic System, which is used in mapping and navigation, including GPS satellite navigation system (the Global Positioning System).

Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) define a position on the Earth’s surface. Coordinates are angular units. The canonical form of latitude and longitude representation uses degrees (°), minutes (′), and seconds (″). GPS systems widely use coordinates in degrees and decimal minutes, or in decimal degrees.

Latitude varies from −90° to 90°. The latitude of the Equator is 0°; the latitude of the South Pole is −90°; the latitude of the North Pole is 90°. Positive latitude values correspond to the geographic locations north of the Equator (abbrev. N). Negative latitude values correspond to the geographic locations south of the Equator (abbrev. S).

Longitude is counted from the prime meridian ( IERS Reference Meridian for WGS 84) and varies from −180° to 180°. Positive longitude values correspond to the geographic locations east of the prime meridian (abbrev. E). Negative longitude values correspond to the geographic locations west of the prime meridian (abbrev. W).

UTM or Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system divides the Earth’s surface into 60 longitudinal zones. The coordinates of a location within each zone are defined as a planar coordinate pair related to the intersection of the equator and the zone’s central meridian, and measured in meters.

Elevation above sea level is a measure of a geographic location’s height. We are using the global digital elevation model GTOPO30 .

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