Help With Camouflage Birthday Cake For 8 Year Old Boy
Decorating By billie1978 Updated 15 Jun 2006 , 3:00pm by cakesbyallison
My son is turning 8 in July and wants a camo party. I want to make him a camo cake, but have NO idea where to start, or how I want it to look. If anyone has any ideas to get me started, I would greatly appreciate it.
TIA!
there are a lot of wonderful ideas in the gallery................
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=camoflauge
maybe this will get ya started!! Don't be afraid to pm the person who made the cake if you find one for inspiration everyone is always glad to help Welcome toCake Central
We got one from Vons for my brother's last birthday, and let me tell you, it wasn't impressive.
I figured that a BETTER way to achieve the look of camo, would be to use an airbrush (if you don't have that, try Wilton's colored sprays), and use a thin coat of green, and other areas with a thicker coat of green, and maybe some light and dark browns, and maybe just a hint of yellow.
Also, what if you did just the border of the cake in camo? You could look at a pic for reference and do a piping gel transfer of the individual shapes, OR lay it under wax paper and pipe it in with buttercream for a frozen buttercream transfer.
I did a camo cake and it didn't turn out like I wanted, I instant messaged someone that had a great cake and they gave me the directions. The only problem was that I used all butter buttercream and you couldn't do the smoothing thing that you need to do. So my advice would be to use all shortening buttercream. Even though it didn't look as great as I wanted it to, my son LOVED it. (If you want me to tell give you the instructions that the person sent me, just PM me)
I have several camo cakes on my website. The cake with the dogtag is the one i use most often. Obviously you would not need the preggo lady or the baby on that page, but this is a link to the search results on my website:
http://www.sugarfrosted.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=camo*
Good Luck! 
Thank you for your kind words. A friend in the UK created my website, and he maintains and hosts it for me. I agree, he did a great job! 
My website is a photo album, nothing more, for my own personal use and so my friends can see what I have done. As far as anyone is concerned, those photos are just there to look at, no prices, no contact except by email, and I never never never take orders by email.
It's all good!
I made a camo cake for a cousin that was tuning six. I airbrushed the camo pattern and put those real army men on there like they were fighting a battle. He loved it and got to play with the little toys.
Good luck!
I've done a couple... http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-photos-by-cakesbyallison.html "pm" me and I can help you out if you still need it. Allison
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