How to Make an Army Tank Birthday Cake

You can make an army cake for your tot's birthday party.

If your child enjoys playing with army men and tanks, you can throw him an army-themed birthday party. You can make the birthday party more on-theme by creating a whimsical cake designed to look like an army tank. You can do this by arranging basic food materials in a certain way to make the cake resemble a tank. You can even insert plastic army figurines into the cake as an added decoration.

Things You'll Need

• Cake mix
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup oil
• Electric mixer
• Cooking spray
• 8-inch square cake pan
• 6-inch round cake pan
• Green icing
• Pretzel stick
• Tootsie rolls
• Army figurines

Instructions

1. Combine a boxed cake mix, 2 eggs and 1/3 cup oil into a bowl. Mix well with an electric mixer until combined.

2. Spray a square and round cake pan with cooking spray. Pour in the cake mix evenly between them.

3. Bake the cake pans in a 375-degree-Fahrenheit oven for 20 minutes. Allow the pans to cool.

4. Place the square cake onto a cake tray.

5. Ice the cake with green icing.

6. Place the round cake on top of the square cake, and ice it with the green icing.

7. Place a row of 15 to 20 Tootsie Rolls horizontally along either side of the cake. These will represent the treads on a tank.

8. Insert a large pretzel stick into one end of the cake. This will represent the cannon on a tank.

9. Cover the pretzel with green icing.

10. Insert an army figurine into the round cake to complete the army tank cake.

References

• Sugary Expressions: Tank Cake