How to Make a Giraffe Cake (April the Giraffe Cake from Animal Adventure Park)

In this cake decorating tutorial video, Jenn Johns shows you how to make an April the Giraffe Cake! If you haven't heard, April is a pregnant giraffe who's keepers have been livestreaming her pregnancy for the last number of weeks. To celebrate the birth of her baby, Jenn decided to create a cake in April's honor! April agreed to have the baby today, April 1, if Jenn would make her a cake.

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Giraffe Cake Recipe

Giraffe Cake Ingredients:
-Fondant (black, brown, tan)

Giraffe Cake Procedure:
1. In the bottom of a greased 6" cake pan, place 1 cup of vanilla cake batter. Cut the chocolate cake into chunks and place into the vanilla cake batter. Cover the chocolate cake pieces with vanilla cake batter. Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 350F for 35-40 minutes. Repeat for 5-6 layers of cake.
2. Once cake layers are are cooled completely, level and then stack the cakes, filling the layers with white buttercream. Cover the cake in shades of brown buttercream, starting with the chocolate at the bottom, tan in the middle, and the lightest at the top.
3. Mix brown fondant with tylose and shape the ossicones ("horns" on top of the head) and insert a dowel into the flat end. On the top end, use a straight blade or fondant tool to score marks. Using black food coloring powder tint the scored end of the ossicones. Insert the ossicones into the top of the cake.
4. Cut the ears out of brown fondant and line the inside of the dark brown, with tan brown. Shape the ears (curve them) and allow them to dry. Place them besides the ossicones.
5. Cut out shapes from brown fondant and attach to the back of the cake, and add the pattern from behind the ossicones, down, and around the side of the cake.
6. Roll black fondant out into 3" long round pieces. Slice the end about a half inch in and curve it slightly upwards. Place onto the cake with a brush of water.
7. Pipe a tail around the giraffe, using the tan buttercream, and place pieces of brown fondant onto the buttercream.
8. Slice and serve cake when desired. Cake is best consumed within 2-3 days and kept in a sealed container in the fridge.

[nicolejupiter]

Fun Giraffe Fact: A female giraffe's ossicones are usually covered in hair and a male giraffe's ossicones are bald on top. That's how you can tell the difference between the ladies and the gents if you ever find yourself on safari 🙌🏻

[aprilbennett]

this is cute love watching you bake these beautiful cakes

[JaimeThomas]

I have been enjoying watching April and Oliver and can't wait to see the new baby ❤❤❤

[kdenny]

This is so cute! Giraffes are my on of my favorite animals!

[Vvlogs]

This is so effect my birthday is on April 18 and I giraffes!!!

[allisonthomas]

For the light brown you could also use peanut butter buttercream. That would go well with the chocolate/vanilla cake. As well as if you put cake boards in your cake, then it would go chocolate vanilla peanut butter.

[alaynachristman]

Jenn you are my favorite YouTuber ever, when I found your channel I was so excited and have been watching your channel for over a year now, you were a big inspiration to me and I really respect that. I am sure you are an inspiration to many many other people. I use your cake recipes and your buttercream recipes, they turn out so awesome. I bet my cakes and cupcakes would be way better if you were with me to help. I LOVE you😁😁😁😁😁😁

[margar]

I LOVE GIRAFFES I LOVE THE CAKE AND ALL YOUR VIDEOS

[jordanstrait]

I have been watching April for weeks now

[Polar-fh]

My particular favorite type of giraffe is the reticulated giraffe! Most giraffes are meant for the zoo and are also meant to nibble, stretch their long necks, be graceful, to appear in children's books as the letter G, and to appear as the mascot in the Toys R Us commercials.

[hayleyjade]

I thought April was going to have her baby on the 1st but she had it on the 15th. Her baby is a boy and he is so so so cute. We were watching her all morning when she had him. It was around 8:40 when it came out and they told us it was a boy around 8:00. I am so happy for April and Oliver.

[befecani]

I loved this cake! the fa t that you made a cake inspired by April. The giraffe is really cool. This is my favorite cake that you made. I lobe you and your videos and keep up the good work and keep doing what you love

[twiztip]

I love your animal theme the tiger cake is still my favourite but i fucking love

[Loridee]

creative.. i like how the buttercream tones got "difuminated" i could use it for a lot of designs

[folasadeobisesan]

I love you so much. All of your cakes are amazing.

[tiffanypekoc]

Hey Jen you should do a fondant 101 video it would be useful.

[justchefana]

wondering, if you want all chocolate buttercream, could you add white gel paste to make it lighter brown.

[_fab]

People compliment eyeshadow blending, but I compliment buttercream blending😂

[happycake]

I enjoy your vdeos ❤️
Your videos are beautiful ❤️
So beautiful video❤️
Awsome decoration ❤️