Birthday Cake Ideas for your Pony Party

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How to set up the cake table for your pony party

Your cake can double as decor if your party is indoors and the temperature is right. You
worked hard to pick the right cake, so set up a table much the way a wedding cake is
on display. For a Wild West themed cowboy party, drape Hessian cloth (burlap sack
material) and make a display of Horse figurines tied with licorice ropes. Use jute string
to tie the corners for an outdoor affair or just staple to the picnic tables to keep the
wind from picking up. Include sheriff badges affixed to the cloth, use tin plates or wrap
plates in tin foil, stack gold nuggets with small cowboy figures standing guard.

Horse theme-cake recipe links:

Cowboy up and have a kicking good time making a cowboy boot cake. Here's the
easy Cowboy Boot Cake Recipe. This cake has a printable template to cut a boot
shape, so you don't need a special cake pan.

Modify this pretty pink cowgirl cake recipe for any other Western birthday party
theme. Here are directions for a cowboy hat cake recipe.

For the traditional Horse themed party, the little cowpokes are going to love the
Family Fun Horse head party cake recipe you create. Check out the pink pony
party cake recipe also by Family Fun. This cake works great for a pink cowgirl
party or My Little Pony party.

A triple crown party deserves a colorful triple layer c ake. You can modify this one
intended for a baby shower. Horse and jockey cake toppers are hard to find, try
fancyflours.com for the horse and rider, left.

For a Derby style party: Who says you have to have cake for a Kentucky Derby
Party? Try Kentucky Derby Pie in lieu of a birthday cake.

Pony Party Menu: birthday party cakes
Horse-theme birthday cake and ice cream ideas.

A recipe for fun at your pony party starts when you plan the birthday cake to match
your theme. Check out our horsey cupcake ideas, too. Horses love carrots, but not
everyone loves carrot cakes. Whatever your flavor, here are some ideas to make your
horse-theme party go off without a hitch:

Start with the proper cake tools. The Wilton 50-piece Tool and Caddy decorating set,
available on Amazon, is for a mom who loves to bake cakes and cookies, but who
doesn't plan on becoming a Wedding Cake professional. The roomy caddy keeps
organized, and has everything you need to start decorating cakes. The kit saves you
money.

Save time serving ice cream. While a dollop of ice cream is the perfect
accompaniment to your cake, you may miss smiles and excitement in the scramble to
scoop for your impatient little party goers. Minimize the chore and gain precious
moments by scooping ice cream into short plastic cups ahead of time and keeping
them in the freezer.

Iced cookies make festive cake decorations, as do chocolates and other molded
candies. Cake designs and cookies with Dragees (shiny, metallic-colored balls) add an
elegant touch.

Put that Horse out to pasture! An easy pony birthday party cake idea is to put some
Horse figurines on a meadow of grass. Breyer Mini Whinnies make a good choice.
Search "Safari Horses and Ponies Mega Toob" on Amazon. For a Cowboy birthday
cake, choose "Wild West Toob" to decorate a whole cake.Coconut grass is a fun way
to display a Horse figurine on a cupcake or cake accented with a few candy flowers.

How to make coconut grass: Place sweetened coconut shreds into a bowl,
add a hint of food green color and mix by hand until you reach the desired color.
The expert trick is to use food color paste, which is thicker than the liquid form.
We also suggest you use disposable plastics glove to protect hands, or contain
the mess in a plastic bag to mix, shake and knead.

How to make green butter cream: Butter cream for your cake or cupcakes is
easy. Just mix the following in a blender at starting at a slow speed and
increasing the speed until light and fluffy.

* 1 cup softened butter

* 4-1/2 cups powdered sugar

* 2 teaspoons hot water

* few drops green food dye

* few drops flavor with vanilla, or other drops such as lemon

How to make candy flowers: Take gumdrop style sugar coated candy (e.g,
Brachs), and flatten the pretty pink, purple or yellow or orange ones with a
rolling pin, then roll them into rose buds. Accent with leaves cut from flattened
green candies. Place gum candied flowers on the bed of coconut grass and
place some Horse figurines.

The horseshoe cake pan from Wilton helps you make a super easy cake. The
great thing about the pan is that after you've baked the cakes you can use it as
a tray for a snack mix.

For a barnyard or cowboy party, see what's online at CowDepo.com They have
a tin of adorable cow sprinkles for the ice cream or cake that would make any
cowboy or cowgirl happy. Here are more ideas: