Celebrate your little farmer’s birthday with a homemade farm-themed cake!

Party guests will love digging into this sweet, hay-bale-topped “barn”, and YOU’LL love how easy it is to make. 😉🎉

I used ready-made ingredients to keep things SUPER easy to replicate, including crushed graham crackers for “dirt”, a graham cracker “barn door”, and a small pound cake as the foundation for the “hay bale”.

Little People farm figurines double as cute cake toppers + gifts for the birthday boy or girl!

Farm Birthday Party Cake

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You’ll Need:

• 8” round cake that’s at least 6 inches tall & frosted red*
• 1 store-bought pound cake (from the frozen section)
• yellow frosting
• white frosting
• graham crackers – 2 whole sheets
• graham crackers, 8 sheets finely crushed
• zip-top sandwich bag

*I recommend buying pre-colored red frosting if you’re making your own cake! It’s extremely hard to turn white frosting a bright red, even with icing gel.

Instructions:

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For the Hay Bale:

1. Open the pound cake and trim it slightly to about 6” wide.
2. Using yellow frosting and a zip-top bag with the corner snipped off, pipe streaks of yellow “hay” onto the pound cake.
3. Refrigerate for 30 mins.

For the Barn Doors:

1. Scoop some white frosting into a zip-top sandwich bag, and use it to pipe “barn door” patterns onto two graham cracker sheets.
2. Refrigerate for 15 mins.

Cake Assembly:

1. Set the frosted “hay bale” on top of the main red cake.
2. Use a little bit of extra frosting to adhere the graham cracker “barn doors” to the front and back of the main cake.
3. Sprinkle crushed graham crackers all around the hay bale and also around the base of the main cake.
4. For the finishing touch, insert a wooden “1” into the top of the cake and accent it with a few cute farm animals. I used figurines from the Little People Caring for Animals Farm toy set here.

Check out more cute farm party ideas in the blog archives! 🐷🐮🐥