Elephant Clothesline Cake- Video Tutorial

I just love sweet baby shower cakes, and today’s Elephant Clothesline Cake design is a new favorite of ours!

In this video tutorial, we will show you to create adorable elephants, a clothesline filled with baby clothes, and a sweet cake topper. You can use these techniques for other themes and occasions as well! We hope that you enjoy it!

Materials:

(For this cake, we used two stacked 8″ and 6″ tiers, frosted with our fluffy vanilla buttercream recipe. Each tier is on it’s own cardboard cake circle cut down to size, and the top tier is resting on 4 bubble tea straws, cut down to the height of the cake as usual. For more info, check out our tier stacking video.)

Buttercream of choice (We used our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream from our Recipes section)

Templates (for Elephants and Cake Topper)

Piping Gels: Americolor Deep Pink, Mint Green + Avocado Green combination for grass, Super Black, Electric Green

Piping Tips: Tip 3 & 6 (for polka dots), Tip 3 for piping, 233 grass tip

We used a Makin’s Ultimate Clay Extruder (affiliate) for extruding the “Baby” lettering.

Black Food Coloring Pen for eyes

Pink Petal Dust (optional) for rosy cheeks

Gum paste for elephants and cake topper- You could also use fondant with tylose powder kneaded into it.

Fondant for clothes (I like to knead a little tylose into it.)

Miscellaneous: Sharp knife or xacto, parchment paper, small paint brushes, piping gel

Lollipop Stick

Comments

MsGF October 6, 2017 at 3:15 pm

Well that is so cute! I love it! :-)

Melissa Diamond October 6, 2017 at 7:27 pm

Thanks MsGF!! xo

Urooj Hassan October 7, 2017 at 2:16 am

Hi Melissa,

This is the most adorable cake that I’ve seen in a long time. Melissa I have one question, these cakes are 3 layers, right?

BeBe October 7, 2017 at 10:32 pm

Hi Urooj, Yes, both cake tiers have 3 layers.

Peggy Lee October 7, 2017 at 11:09 pm

So cute!!! I love it!! Unrelated: I just renewed my membership today!

Melissa Diamond October 8, 2017 at 12:14 am

Thanks so much Peggy, and yay!! Happy to have you! xoxo

Maria Flores October 26, 2017 at 10:01 am

Es un lindo trabajo, desde que compre este curso no dejó de instruirme, muchas gracias y muy buenas técnicas.
Mary,..

irene rodriguez September 2, 2019 at 11:50 pm

Oh my.

Thank-you as you made this look so SIMPLE DIMPLE, can wait to give it a whirl.

Irene

BeBe September 3, 2019 at 7:45 am

Hi Irene, Thank you so much for your nice comment!