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These Travel Theme Cake Tutorials teach you how to make travel inspired cakes for people who love travelling or for a person who travels a lot

This travel inspired cake is the perfect birthday cake for a Pilot, Airhostess or any travel enthusiast. From making a airplane to a suit case, we doing it all using cake

Here are a few tutorials from artist around the world on travel inspired theme cakes. Learn how to make mini fondant toppers or sculpt a cake from the below tutorials.

Suitcase Cake | Travel Themed First Birthday Cake by Areesa

travel love cake by Rasnabakes Elearning

travel themed birthday party by Rasnabakes Elearning

World Map Cake | Globe Cake by I Love Cakes

Luggage Cake Tutorial by Caking And Baking

How to make a fondant Suitcase or Briefcase Topper tutorial by Nim’s Choco Fantasy

Travel the World Cake by Happy Baker Delights

Aeroplane Cake Topper by Cooking channels

Aviation Cake & Cupcakes by I Love Cakes

HOW TO MAKE AN EASY FONDANT AEROPLANE TOPPER by Cake me away (learn how to carve a plane from cake from scratch with this helpful tutorial)

Images For Inspiration

These Travel inspired cakes are perfect for people who want to travel the world or enjoy doing so. These cakes are made by incredible artists from around the world with different themes like a suitcake, globe, airplane, etc

So seek ideas from their creativity and get inspired for your next cake project on travel inspired theme cakes

Cakes by – celejor , dulcepastel , Urvi Zaveri , Shilpa Kerkar , cake loves me , Dulcepastel.com , Sabrina Di Clemente , tasty layers , Marie , Cakey Cake , Kevin Martin

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Travel Themed Cakes

36 Beautiful Travel Themed Wedding Cakes

If you’re a couple who loves to travel, maybe you should make it your wedding theme? There’re lots of interesting ways of playing this theme off from travel-inspired wedding favors to cakes. In today’s post we’ve gathered the most beautiful, chic and clever ideas for delicious travel themed cakes . The truth is you don’t have to go overboard with the theme: a fun cake topper or original map design is enough to highlight the idea yet keep being stylish. If you have travel themed ideas popping up on your big day, make sure to check out the gallery below for delicious cake inspiration.

Bold Designs

a white wedding cake featuring vintage suitcase tiers and bright fresh blooms for a bold look

a unique wedding cake showing off two vintage suitcases and a tier with a world map plsu a tag

a gorgeous travel-themed wedding cake with a vintage suitcase and a world map tier plus sugar blooms

a creative wedding cake featuring your couple's favorite cities and some bright drip, too

a chic wedding cake with a gold glitter tier, two white ones and a gold world map tier plus a calligraphy topper

a chic travel-themed wedding cake with a neutral and a blue tier plus a central map tier and yellow ribbon

a bright wedding cake with a white calligrpahy and a map tier plus a compass topper

a beautiful travel-themed wedding cake with map and ombre layers, fresh blooms and a compass for decor

a whimsical wedding cak featuring map and suitcase tiers plus little cameras on top for a touch of fun

a bold world map wedding cake topped with monograms, sugar blooms and a book is a whimsy idea

a gorgeous wedding cake featuring suitcase and map tiers and a glam embellished monogram topper

a chic white wedding cake topped with an Empire State Building and fresh blooms

a neutral wedding cake made of vintage suitcases as tiers and topped with sugar blooms

a white wedding cake with gold stripes and a gold world map plus an oversized sugar bloom

a stylish white and black wedding cake with London views and famous sights and fresh white blooms on top

a taupe and blue wedding cake imitating postcards and letters and some twine and bows

a white wedding cake with various places named, suitcases and sugar passports on top screams trips

a white wedding cake with sugar detailign that shows off your favorite city - New York

a white wedding cake with a striped and a map tier plus a bright red flower and a fun topper

a wedding cake imitating a pack on a tree stump and lots of postcards and letters sent to you

a bright square world map wedding cake with bold tropical blooms is a fun idea for travelling

a bold wedding cake with a mint ombre touch, some gold and colorful world map tier plus a fresh bloom

a unique wedding cake featuring layers looking like vintage suitcases or boxes and sugar blooms screams travelling

an elegant neutral and black wedding cake with a tier featuring the views of London

a chic wedding cake with an ombre effect, an aqua and a gold touch and a tier featurign colorful world maps

a neutral wedding cake decorated with airplanes and topped with one for travel-lovers

a white wedding cake with green decor and names of your couple's favorite cities is a cool and simple idea

a white wedding cake with a plane and a wish plus some bright yellow blooms

a ruffled wedding cake decorated with fresh pink blooms and topped with map parts

a pastel abstract wedding cake with sugar blooms and a cool airplane topper

a white wedding cake decorated with black airplanes and fresh white blooms on top for a chic look

a white wedding cake with world maps and heart toppers made of a world map

a textural white wedding cake decorated with edible stamps hints on travelling

a white wedding cake with hearts cut out of a world map and some scrabble letters for decor

a white wedding cake with a green ribbon and a globe topper plus some blooms for a bright touch

a chic white wedding cake with sugar blooms and a black calligraphy topper telling of adventures and travelling

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41 Portable Desserts, Because You Need Sugar With You Always

By Elyssa Goldberg

You could make a cake—but it's also probable that by the time you get to your picnic, beach, or barbecue, it'll be damaged. You deserve better, and so do your desserts. Roll with one of these 41 portable desserts, from cookies to hand pies, because they travel as well as you do.

Double and By Double I Mean Triple Chocolate Cookies

One of those dreamy cookies that elicits a silent reverence in every chocolate lover who tastes it.

Aniseed-Almond Meringues

Love to eat Good & Plentys? These licoricey meringues from Måurice are for you.

Dale Talde's Mickey D's–Style Fried Apple Pies

With some store-bought roti paratha and a pot of hot oil, Talde re-creates McDonald's classic deep-fried apple pie.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies for a Crowd

You can use any flavor jam or jelly you like—you're in it for that whole salty-sweet thing.

Oat and Pistachio Sandies

For a delicate—not brittle—crunch, don’t overbake. These are a sleeper hit in the cookie world.

Whiskey and Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies

We go where the whiskey goes.

Chocolate Chunk–Pumpkin Seed Cookies

Ideal chewy brownie-ish texture. Yep.

Ice Cream Sandwiches

This recipe calls for baking one giant cookie, a way to ensure even, consistent ice cream sandwiches.

Chocolate Palmiers

Your friends will think you fancy, and only you'll know how truly simple it was to pull off.

Six-Layer Chocolate-Coconut-Cashew-Graham Bars

Six layers are better than one, wouldn't you agree?

Pistachio-Cream Cookies

These cookies would make for an awesome ice cream sandwich.

Matcha–White Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Powdered green tea gives these tender cookies an elf-worthy hue that will stand out, with no icing or decorating needed.

Blueberry-Lemon Hand Pies

It may not seem like very much filling, but these handheld pastries deliver the perfect filling-to-crust ratio.

Popcorn Toffee Crack Bars

The toffee mixture will harden as these cool, transforming into a snappy, crunchy layer that holds everything together.

Daniel Boulud’s Madeleines

As if you need another reason to make these mini cakes for dessert: The batter can be prepped the day before.

Hazelnut Butter and Coffee Meringues

For a high-contrast swirl, go easy when folding in the nut butter. A stroke or two with the spatula is enough.

Tahini Cookies

The creamy sesame seed paste isn’t just for hummus: It’s the secret ingredient in these effortless confections.

Gluten-Free Fudge Brownies

Just what we want a brownie to be: rich and super fudgy.

Pecan Buttermilk Fudge

A confection similar in flavor to caramelized white chocolate. Tangy buttermilk tempers the sweetness.

Danish Salted-Butter Cookies

At least a zillion times better than the ones in the blue tin you ate growing up.

Honey-Hazelnut Financiers

So rich, so beautiful and dainty—this is what we're carrying as a host gift to every daytime party from here on out.

Apple Raspberry Crumb Bars

Two different types of apples give you a mix of textures and an ideal sweet-tart filling.

Cherry-Lime Hand Pies

You've got the whole world in your hands.

Black-Bottom Brownies

Not your average brownies.

Lemon Bars for a Crowd

It's impossible to have just one.

Blueberry Hand Pies

Kids love to get a pint-size sweet.

Bien Cuit's Salted Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies

The decidedly grown-up flavor of buckwheat—tannic, earthy, nutty—pairs nicely with chocolate and is tempered by sugar.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yes, they're gluten-free but they're just as good (maybe even better) than the real thing.

Ultimate Sugar Cookies

These sugar cookies are crisp yet tender, keep their shape when baked, and yes, taste great, too.

These lemon bars are crowd pleasers and they know it.

Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Finishing your cookies with a delicate, flaky salt like Maldon brings out the chocolate flavor and tempers the sweetness, creating the ultimate sweet and salty snack.

Caramel-Dipped Popovers with Chocolate Mousse

These savory popovers are made with cheddar cheese, which keeps the dessert from veering into overly sweet territory.

Chaussons aux Pommes (French Apple Turnovers)

All-butter puff pastry, all awesome.

Ombré Rainbow Cookies

These cookies are the belle of the ball every time dessert rolls around. Best part? They taste as great as they look.

BA's Best Peanut Butter Cookies

What makes these cookies The Best? Well, there’s a few reasons actually. We call for natural peanut butter so that you can dial the sugar and salt amounts exactly. Instead of just adding roasted peanuts from the can, we roast them a second time for even more peanutty flavor. And the pan of water in the oven creates a burst of steam that gives the finished cookies the perfect crunchy-chewy texture.

Black and White Sesame Seed Cookies

The dramatic two-tone look takes a little frosting finesse but isn’t hard to achieve.

Giant Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

The batter for this large-format dreamboat of a cookie (crunchy on the edges, chewy in the middle) is made in one bowl with no special equipment, and can be baked in either a cast-iron or large skillet.

Semolina–Lemon Syrup Cakes

Beating the butter and sugar properly (read thoroughly) gives these mini cakes lift, but they will still be moist and marzipan-y in the center.

Cocoa Brownies

The best—and easiest—brownies you'll ever make. =

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30+ Unique Travel Themed Wedding Cakes For Traveler Couples

You are the one who now wears the ring. You're already wearing the dress. Let's talk wedding cake ideas with a travel theme. Why not make a shared interest in travel the theme of your wedding if you and your future spouse are both enthusiastic travelers? Every aspect of the wedding, from the favors to the cake, may share this whimsical design. Stylish, unique, and delicious travel-themed cakes are the focus of today's post. Something as simple as a beautiful cake topper or a unique map design might call attention to the theme without going overboard.

Celebrating your wedding with a cake that features your shared love of travel or the places you've visited as a couple is a unique and memorable way to show your guests how far you've come as a couple. If your wedding's theme is wanderlust, you might be interested in the following 30+ travel-themed cake designs .

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Travel Themed Wedding Cake Ideas For Couples

A stunning wedding cake idea using antique suitcases and perhaps some world map layers covered with fresh or sugar blooms would be an excellent choice for a couple who loves to travel. A colorful world map or individual continents on a cake are both delicious and trendy options for a wedding cake that features a map theme. If you want your cake to stand out, pair map tiers with more neutral and plain tiers, or use bright and contrasting colors. You have the option of topping the top of your travel cake with the names and/or symbols of the locations that hold the most significance for you.

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Travel Themed Wedding Cake Toppers

Alternatively, you might choose a simpler wedding cake that still includes subtle nods to the travel theme in the form of toppers and other decorations. All sorts of travel-related items, such as cameras, globes, and compasses, are perfectly fine for the toppers . You may finish off the cake by decorating it with stars or anything else that resembles the shapes of the towns and countries you love. Enjoy yourself, and remember to save your favorite images to Pinterest boards.

How To Travel With a Wedding Cake?

The cake should be refrigerated for at least a few hours before the trip , and you should also turn on the air conditioning for ten to fifteen minutes before you leave so that the car is chilly enough for the cake. To avoid melting, keep it out of direct sunlight and under a sun shield if possible.

A cake box is a must if you're going to travel with a cake . Sizes, strengths, and prices all vary, but they're really reasonable overall. They're strong enough to hold a wedding cake and cost less than two dollars. Just tape the box together, then use a knife to create a flap in one end to slide the cake in, and finally tape up the other end.

Consider utilizing insulated transportation/cool boxes and placing frozen packs around the sides of your cake box if you need to carry your cake on a very hot summer day or across a long distance.

How to Travel With a 3-tier Cake?

You can travel with a cake that has 3 tiers. It is possible to transport the separate tiers in boxes on a flat surface (like the new flooring) without the risk of breaking anything . You also have the option of transporting the two lower tiers already stacked, but the remaining tiers will need to be disassembled and stacked at the destination.

Cake stands should not be used to transport a cake. If the cake is larger than the usual cake boxes, you may need to construct your own box. You may also utilize the larger boxes sold at stores like Lowe's and Walmart. Easily slip your cake inside the box by cutting a line down the longest, highest side and taping up the ends.

Can You Bring Cakes on a Plane Trip?

The short answer is “ yes ,” and that applies both to local and international flights within the United States. On international flights coming into and leaving the USA, you can also fly with them.

There is no need to worry about bringing a cake through airport security because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) permits cake to be brought through both carry-on and checked baggage. A cake from the market or one baked at home is both acceptable. If the cake is not already packaged, you should either wrap it in plastic or place it in a container with a tight-fitting lid.

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A jungle theme is a common kiddie party theme because there’s just something about animals in the wild that children find cool, mysterious, and amazing. Don’t get me wrong, the theme works for grownups, too. Contrary to popular belief, there are several ways to go about a jungle cake. This list of unique safari and jungle cake ideas will show you.

Having planned several jungle-themed parties for my nephews and friends in the past, I would admit that it can be a real struggle to find a cake that’s unique and different. That’s because when we talk about a jungle cake, we always picture the same elements: animals, trees, leaves, and a color palette that’s mainly brown and green. It’s almost always the same animals, too: lion, giraffe, elephant, and probably a monkey.

The good thing is that you can go for a jungle theme and veer away from the jungle cake cliché because there are some unique jungle cake ideas you can get inspiration from.

My Bottom Line Up Front

A jungle-themed cake is not just for little kids. Grownups, who love nature and animals, would appreciate a jungle cake, too. I would prefer something out of the usual fondant jungle cake with gum paste animals. I’d go for a number cake with buttercream topped with a mix of jungle animal decorations and the usual meringues, chocolates, fruits, and macarons.

Narrowing Down Jungle Cake Ideas

Getting unique jungle cake ideas may be difficult because you would have to sift through so many of the more common ones. So to help you save time, I have done it for you. In selecting these cakes, I made sure they fit the jungle or safari theme or that they have elements representing some of our favorite jungle animals.

I also look for the uniqueness factor. This is the tricky bit because “unique” is relative and could mean different things to different people. For me, however, jungle cakes are unique if they fit any of these criteria:

• They apply any modern cake decorating trend.
• They stay away from the traditional fondant animal models.
• They stay away from using plastic trees and animal toys as toppers or decorations.
• They are more experimental and adventurous with the use of colors.
• They don’t stick to the usual color palette of greens and browns.
• They are more creative in the representation of animals or jungle life.

Jungle Cake Ideas

1. baby jungle cake.

Jungle cakes with fondant animals are quite common and ordinary. So, some cakemakers give it a new — and cuter — twist by modeling the jungle animals as baby animals. The foliage will be done in fondant, too.

This uber-cute first birthday cake has buttercream frosting with a baby lion, baby giraffe, baby monkey, and baby elephant that are finely modeled in fondant. The leaves provide the foliage for this cake.

Here’s another take on baby jungle animals. This fondant cake also has a baby for a safari tour on a jeep. The name on the base is painted in gold, which is pretty trendy these days.

This jungle cake has baby animals in fondant, but it doesn’t have the usual green foliage. Instead, the leaves are pink and brushed with gold on the sides.

2. Cake with Gold-painted Toys

I know that little toy animals are overused as jungle cake toppers. But if you want a unique and modern twist to this otherwise very common jungle cake decoration, paint it gold. Gold, after all, is a very stylish color these days.

This three-tier buttercream birthday cake takes the jungle theme to a higher level by spray-painting the toy animals’ gold. This makes the toys look less plastic and cheap and classy. To make things more interesting, the cakemaker also wrapped the middle tier with a leopard print wafer paper, then topped the cake with dried pampas grass — both of which are modern cake decorating tools.

3. Prehistoric Jungle

Well, if you’ve decided on a jungle theme for your birthday, it doesn’t have to be the jungle as we know it now. You can go back to prehistoric times!z

This vanilla and Nutella jungle cake shows us exactly what we mean when we say prehistoric, with a T-rex and some plastic foliage right on top of it. The T-rex even has a little party hat and bowtie on and is holding a balloon! The cakemaker also showcases their piping skills on this one. That acrylic name in front of the cake adds a touch of elegance and sophistication.

Here’s another take on the prehistoric jungle cake. This time, T-rex is accompanied by a stegosaurus on top. The green pipings are still there to add texture and more greens to an otherwise overly basic cake.

The cakemaker decided to paint the dinosaurs gold for this buttercream cake. There are synthetic leaves for foliage and pallet knife elements on the sides.

4. Quilt-style Jungle Cake

This cute safari or jungle cake has an expertly executed quilted effect, with the fondant animals and other decorative elements sporting “stitches,” thus making them look like they were sewn.

5. Colorful Jungle Cake

A jungle theme doesn’t have to be dominantly green and brown. Experiment with color combinations. Or you can apply the celebrant’s favorite colors.

This fondant jungle cake, for example, is dominantly pink. Some of the leavers, the balls, the elephant’s ears, and the monkey’s party hat are pink.

More colors aren’t a bad idea. That’s what this fondant cake proves. The flowers give this cake a much-needed touch of pinks and purples, plus there’s a little bit of blue added to an otherwise green palette.

Of course, you can do a jungle theme sparingly, and for a lilac or lavender cake at that. There’s not even a tinge of green in sight. This fondant cake also proves that even if you only have an elephant and a monkey, that’s already enough.

6. Number Jungle Cake

Number cakes are very popular and in vogue right now. These are cakes that are shaped in a number from the top view, which number represents the birthday celebrant’s age. So why not incorporate the two concepts and make a number cake with a jungle theme?

This number cake for a baby girl’s first birthday showcases lots of bright colors. It has colorful cream pipings in various shapes and sizes, fondant animal faces, and fondant leaves. Here’s another safari number cake , for a baby boy turning a year old. This cake has a more subdued color palette. The theme is carried out through cookies with iced animal illustrations, leopard print, and leaves.

Take a look at this safari number cake with yellow and green piping. The animals are made of macarons.

7. King of the Jungle Cake with Synthetic Foliage

If you want a jungle-themed cake but want to keep things simple and avoid overcrowding your cake with too many animals, then just pick one. There’s no better choice than the king of the jungle himself: the lion.

A toy lion was painted gold for this cake. And just so nobody makes any mistake about him being the king of the jungle, a gold crown is there on top of the cake with him. Add some plastic foliage for more depth and more greens, sprinkle gold, silver, and white balls, then paint the sides with green buttercream using a pallet knife.

Another cake with just the lion roaring away. This cake has the trendy palm leaf in gold foil, chocolate balls, dried grass and leaves, and palette knife painting.

8. Paper-crafted Animal Toppers

You may want to consider making paper-crafted jungle animals as cake toppers. All you need are color boards or specialized paper products, a pair of scissors, glue, and sticks. If you have a Cricut machine, that would be swell, too!

This cake has animal toppers made out of a textured board.

You can also go for printed paper animal cutouts, like the ones on this cake . It’s also nice that this cake has palette knife painting on the side using soft pastel colors.

Paper animal toppers like these also look very cute on a cake.

You can create paper animals and punch leaves for your foliage .

9. Fondant Foliage

While fondant animal figures aren’t exactly a new and different thing, you can still make your cake look modern and stylish by using trendy foliage. Monstera leaves, for example, are quite trendy these days.

10. Palm Leaf + Stencil

This cake uses a combination of modern decorating techniques to turn an otherwise common theme and make it more contemporary-looking. As you can see, the cakemaker used the usual toy animals, but to give it a unique twist, they added a gold palm leaf and a buttercream stencil design on the side.

How about a light blue, white, and gold buttercream cake with gold palm leaf and subtle stencil at the front ? The animals are your usual toys from the dollar store, but they’ve been painted gold.

11. Piped Animal Frosting

Who says your jungle cake has to be three-dimensional? It could still look totally cute with a 2D decoration. By 2D I mean piping the design in colored buttercream icing on top of the cake so that it could be seen from the top view.

12. Edible Jungle Images

Edible images are pictures that are printed on edible icing paper using edible ink. So you can print jungle animals and use them as toppers. You can find suppliers or sellers online who could print the images you’d like.

Take this three-tier jungle Christening cake for example. All the animals are edible images, while the leaves are modeled from fondant.

13. Animal Cookie Toppers

You can pipe your design on a sugar or butter cookie using royal icing, then use the cookie as a topper. This cake, for instance, has lion and zebra cookies on top of the Swiss vanilla meringue buttercream.

These tiger and cheetah cookies are so meticulously done. They are painted using edible colors.

If you’re going for a prehistoric jungle, you can go for dinosaur cookies. These cookies have a dinosaur skeleton design and are dusted gold. The leaves are made of fondant.

14. Minimalist Jungle Cake

This cake is a great example of a minimalist cake. Its design details are very simple, with very basic shapes. Even the lion topper doesn’t require mad gum paste modeling skills.

15. Animal Fur Wrap Cakes

Edible image cake wraps are yet another cake decorating technique. These are designs or patterns printed on sugar sheets or wafer paper that you can wrap around the sides of your buttercream cake. You can get cake wraps with animal or fur prints for your jungle-themed cake.

This jungle cake has a different fur pattern for each layer. The first layer is wrapped in leopard print, the second layer in zebra print, and the third layer in giraffe print. Fondant animal figures are lounging on top of every tier.

16. The Lion is Not the Star

We can talk about jungles and leave the lions out of it. They’re not always the star of the show. With that being said, you can go ahead and let the giraffe or the zebra take the spotlight.

This pink jungle cake, for instance, only features a fondant giraffe and no other. Top it with dried bunny tails, pink blooms, pink monstera leaves, and pink macarons and you have one very feminine cake.

Here’s not just one, not just two, but three giraffes frolicking in the savanna. This cake is mostly beige and brown, with dried grass and brown buttercream smeared on the sides.

Here’s another gorgeous cake with a zebra at the center of it all. The zebra’s black and white stripes, as well as the black and white cake wrapper, provide a dramatic contrast against the pink surface of the cake.

And why not a giraffe and a zebra together ?

This cake only has a giraffe and an elephant. But what I probably find more unique is that the first tier is in a shade of green I don’t usually see in a jungle cake.

17. No Animals, No Problem

This jungle cake shows you that you can stay true to the theme even without animals involved. You only need leaves, something that says “wild,” and you’re ready.

18. Animal Silhouette Cake

You can cut out animal silhouettes from glittery paper and put them on your buttercream cake. Add a glittery acrylic topper, like this “Wild One” topper, and some foliage to complete the look.

19. Wooden Animal Cutouts

You can use wooden animal cutouts for your toppers or ornaments and add a combination of synthetic and real dried leaves.

20. Two-Tone Jungle Cake

Again, there are ways to make your jungle cake unique and elegant even if you decided to use toys from the dollar store. How? Use modern decorating styles and two-tone frosting.

This cake, for example, has buttercream frosting in white and a very soft pistachio green. Spice it up with gold palm leaf, gold names, dried pampas grass, and colored chocolate balls.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answer: Technically, jungle and safari are two different things. A jungle is a forest with densely overgrown trees and tangled vegetation, while a safari refers to a trip or excursion. In other words, a jungle is a place while a safari is more of an activity. But when it comes to party themes, you can apply either “jungle” or “safari” to refer to anything about animals in the wild like giraffes, lions, rhinos, elephants, tigers, monkeys, and more.

  Answer: Jungle cake pricing depends on a lot of things. It would depend on the kind of cake you want, the flavor and the ingredients needed to make it, the frosting, the design, the size, and the decorative techniques and elements used. Cake prices also vary from baker to baker because of varying skill levels. If you want to have an idea of how much you need to set aside or allot for your cake budget, the best option is to call bakeshops and inquire. You can give them a picture or a description of the cake you want to order, they will suggest flavors based on their specialty, and they can give you an estimated price.

Answer: Jungle cakes are usually great for birthdays and even baby showers. Sometimes, the jungle theme is used for other celebrations, too, like Christening and even graduations. The theme is mostly used for kids since they’re usually the ones who are most fascinated with animals. Of course, I don’t mean to say that the theme doesn’t suit adults, because as long as you love animals and the wild, a jungle cake would still be a great idea.

Jungle-themed cakes have been around for as long as I can remember. So it’s safe to say that the jungle or safari theme never goes out of style. I think part of what makes the theme attractive is the fact that it’s more generic and you have more freedom to give it your own spin and your own interpretation. You don’t need to refer to a particular character or a specific color palette.

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Travelling is such great fun and we love creating travel theme cakes that reflect people’s joy in this exciting hobby.

It can be visiting your favourite destination over and over again or exploring the world and lots of different places. The suitcase cake features lots of different stamps and badges and we’ve even made the whole globe with a fondant aeroplane on top.

Here are some travel theme cakes to get you thinking. But if you have any other ideas, just contact us to create your perfect celebration cake.

What’s your favourite destination? New York? Las Vegas? Egypt? Australia? Greece? Italy? Let us know and we can create a cake for you.

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30 Fun, Sports-Themed Recipes Everyone Will Be Rooting For

They’re perfect for a tailgate, watch party or sports team fundraiser.

Winning Recipes for Sports Fans Everywhere

For sports fans who like to cook, the food at a tailgate can be even more important than the game itself. Preparing some treats and appetizers is one thing, but finding a way to show some team spirit in your game day spread is a whole different achievement. That’s why we love these sports-themed recipes that are perfect for a tailgate, game day watch party or even a kids’ team fundraiser.

Snack boards are great for a party, because they’re a hands-off way to serve a variety of snacks with minimal dishes and cleanup. If you’re planning a basketball watch-party , try replicating this super simple board. Made of both homemade and store-bought treats, the centerpiece is a crispy rice treat “ball” that’s piped with a bit of black-tinted vanilla frosting.

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Football Stadium Pull Apart Cupcake Cake

If you’re planning a game day viewing party, it doesn’t get more festive than this pull-apart field. Made of appropriately decorated cupcakes that match up to create a perfect puzzle-piece cake, this is a fun and sweet treat that kids and adults will love.

Baseball Cake Pops

Turn baseball season into cake ball season with this adorable and easy cake pops recipe, perfect for the baseball fans in your life! These super cute balls are easy to form and shape with the help of candy melts and red gel food coloring.

Sherbet Basketball Nets

If you’re looking for a fun way to serve a cup of ice cream or sherbet, these little basketball net cups are an easy idea. Perfect for a kids birthday party, these cute cups are easy to replicate with some vanilla frosting and orange food coloring. A scoop of orange or mango sherbet makes the perfect “ball” to place inside the net.

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New Restaurants Coming to Walt Disney World in 2024

Disney World is about to welcome exciting new restaurants in 2024, and we’ve got all the details you need to know.

One of our favorite things to do at Walt Disney World is enjoy all of the delicious food around the theme parks, resorts, and Disney Springs . From quick-service options to table-service options and even snacks, there’s so much good food to enjoy. And in 2024, Disney World is getting even more new restaurants! 

We’ve got the details on all of the new restaurants coming to Disney World in 2024, plus the latest on the return of a beloved Disney staple: the Disney Dining Plan . Find out which new dining destinations you’ll want to add to your must-visit list below.

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Attraction special – haunted mansion, attraction special – jungle cruise, attraction special – pirates of the caribbean, the disney dining plan returns in 2024.

One of the most exciting dining updates for 2024 at Walt Disney World is the return of the Disney Dining Plan. This beloved fan-favorite program is coming back after years of being unavailable – and it’s quite a similar plan to the previous one. Guests are able to purchase a plan in advance of their vacation, which gives them access to credits to pay for meals at different restaurants around the theme parks, water parks, resorts and Disney Springs. 

This add-on option makes sense in certain situations where families might be saving money per day when visiting the theme parks. We recommend pricing out where your family would like to eat and then seeing if the plan makes sense for your budget. It can provide a lot of value, offer numerous dining options, and more, but it depends on your Disney plans and where you’d like to eat. Remember, not all restaurants accept the Disney Dining Plan, and some of the newcomers for 2024 may not be included!  

New Restaurants at Disney World in 2024

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The Cake Bake Shop Restaurant by Gwendolyn Rogers

One of the most anticipated restaurants coming to Walt Disney World in 2024 is The Cake Bake Shop Restaurant by Gwendolyn Rogers. Occupying the former ESPN Club Restaurant building at Disney’s Boardwalk, this all-new table-service restaurant will feature a special curated menu and all-new cocktails. 

This restaurant will be open for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, desserts and cocktails and allow guests to take in the views of the Boardwalk, Yacht Club, and Beach Club as well as the surrounding areas of Crescent Lake. One detail that makes the Cake Bake Shop Restaurant particularly special is it will be offer afternoon tea service in this new whimsical location. 

The Cake Bake Shop Bakery

Located right next door to The Cake Bake Shop Restaurant at Disney’s Boardwalk, the Cake Bake Shop Bakery will offer an array of sweet treats and desserts, in an atmosphere similar to its adjoining restaurant. 

Blue Ribbon Corn Dogs

A fan-favorite at Disneyland on the West Coast , Blue Ribbon Corn Dogs are coming to Disney’s Boardwalk in 2024. While we don’t have an official menu for the new location yet, items at the Disneyland location include Mexican Street Corn Dogs, Christmas Corn Dogs, and a Gold Dragon Corn Dog. 

Newly Opened Restaurants to Try in 2024

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A few restaurants opened their doors at Walt Disney World at the very end of 2023. While they technically aren’t brand-new in 2024, we think these newcomers still deserve a mention since they’ll only be open a few weeks before 2024 officially begins!

Summer House on the Lake 

Here’s a restaurant everyone anticipated would open in 2024, but actually opened in December 2023: Summer House on the Lake in Disney Springs. Described as a restaurant with beach house vibes with fresh foods, Summer House on the Lake already has guests at Disney Springs raving. 

eet by Maneet Chauhan 

Another restaurant that opened in Disney Springs in December of 2023 is eet by Maneet Chauhan . If you love Indian food, this is the place for you. Offering both approachable and affordable options for guests, this is sure to become a fan-favorite. 

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A Hollywood Remake of Your Fast Food Memories

In Los Angeles, the restaurant Chain taps into a feverish nostalgia for burgers and pizza from the 20th century.

Chain is a regular pop-up in Los Angeles that finds inspiration in the archive of American fast food, recreating nostalgic dishes and designs. Credit... Chain Brands Inc.

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By Tejal Rao

Tejal Rao, Food’s critic at large, recently revisited Pizza Hut and its personal pan pizzas only to find that they’d changed, or she had.

• April 12, 2024

The air smelled of yeast and cheese and weed, and though what I had in front of me looked like a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut, it was in fact a more expensive dupe.

Some of the original pizza’s flaws had been airbrushed and overwritten, as in a favorite childhood memory. No veins of raw dough, no discouraging sweat of vegetable oil.

The best qualities of the original were exaggerated in a buttery, gold-washed bottom and a fine, crackly edge, draped with a light brown confetti of cheese. The puff and fluff of the dough were doubled, bubbly and weightless.

What’s hard to explain is why this pizza — this impostor pizza — felt more like a Pizza Hut pizza than the source material.

The chef Tim Hollingsworth made it for what he called “Pizza Haute,” one of the meticulous themed dinners he cooks at Chain in Los Angeles, a regular pop-up that considers American fast food with an almost scholarly attention, exalting the genre with rigorous cooking and presentation.

Chain doesn’t specialize in the forensic trompe l’oeils of fine dining — those baroque lemon-flavored desserts made to look like real lemons until you cut into them, revealing layers of cream and cake. No, this is pizza disguised as, well, also pizza.

It’s a different kind of illusion: a restaurant that isn’t really a restaurant, selling fast food that isn’t really fast food? And it sent me — a person who isn’t really a person? — into a spiral. Was Chain celebratory and nostalgic or cynical and manipulative? Was it a marketing stunt, a performance piece or a loving rewrite of our culinary vernacular? Was it an indulgent dip into the past or a glimpse into the future?

Chain’s menus change, sometimes mashing together brands into a super-lineup. This particular set meal was $75 a person, which got you cocktails in red Solo cups, plenty and possibly even unlimited wine, a relic of a salad bar and an ice cream station stocked with actual blocks of Hunka Chunka PB Fudge and Butter Crunch from Friendly’s , flown in from the East Coast.

The actor B.J. Novak dreamed up Chain as a cheffy homage to chain foods. It first popped up in parking lots and alleys in 2020, and was later run out of a house in West Hollywood. In its earliest days, Chain might have seemed like a direct response to the darkness of the pandemic, anticipating the regression of taste that tends to follow very bad news — that reliable surge in orders for buttered noodles, chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese, ice cream sundaes.

Another way to look at it was Hollywood solving for the risk of the restaurant business, getting a talented chef to adapt existing culinary I.P. — the McRib , the Crunchwrap Supreme , the Bacon King — in the way a director might work a film around Barbie .

In January, Chain and its magnificent collection of vintage fast-food tchotchkes moved to a larger space in Virgil Village , where it remains one of the city’s hardest tables to land. (Chain has hosted about 100 sold-out events since it started, and the waiting list, which you join by request via text message, is 25,000 names long.)

“We don’t like to think of ourselves as a restaurant,” said Nicholas Kraft, one of Chain’s founders. It’s true that it’s both more ethereal than a restaurant and more established than a pop-up. And though it’s not an Instagram museum , it has the qualities of a fictional corporation’s immersive experience.

Ruth De Jong, a production designer who recently worked on “Nope” and “Oppenheimer,” helped devise the look, jumbling together a vintage Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders vibe with ’90s arcade and video games and slick original design: curvy green lettering and red banquettes, elaborate plastic menus and self-referential poster ads. The effect is both jarring and sumptuous — a fast-food multiverse that seems to have always existed.

Before going, I worried that Chain would feel like a pantomime, mocking the restaurants it referenced and the people who loved them. But there was a warmth to the place, a clear affection for the subject and its hard-wired pleasures. As I waited for the buzzer I’d been handed to flash, telling me the pizzas were ready to pick up, I gripped it too tightly. The anxiety of missing the notification — the thrill when it buzzed! — was all very, very real.

Mr. Hollingsworth used a childhood memory as a reference point for the pizza dinner: the night he was stuck in a Pizza Hut in Houston during a flash flood. But like everyone there, I brought my own set of references. By the end of the night, it felt as if I’d gone to an eccentric billionaire’s party for which he’d painstakingly recreated his last birthday from the summer before his parents’ divorce. The thoroughness. The precision. The sublimation of heartbreak and longing.

Mr. Hollingsworth has a serious fine-dining background — he was chef de cuisine at the French Laundry for years and now runs Otium in Los Angeles. But he resists all fussiness — no miniaturization, no textural transmutation, no construction that would make the dish unrecognizable. This is why it works. The food is chef-driven, technically, but the chef knows how to disappear.

Fancy remakes of fast food aren’t new, but they’re rarely collaborations assisting the company’s own branding efforts. In a mind-bending ouroboros of marketing, Pizza Hut sponsored the pizza dinner at Chain, which doubled as promotion for the company’s steak-topped pizza. The food was an ad — for the food, which was also an ad.

But not all the dishes are sponsored, and so far Chain hasn’t provoked any corporate lawyers. For fun, Mr. Hollingsworth recently served a menu he called “The Comeback Combo,” inspired by beloved, discontinued stuff. It included beef-tallow fries, reminiscent of the ones McDonald’s made until 1990, when the company switched to vegetable oil. He also made a look-alike of the Bell Beefer, a loose-meat sandwich from Taco Bell’s early menus.

A recent Instagram post on Chain’s account asked followers to chime in with the foods they missed — retired, hard to find, coming and going with the shifts in our industrially regulated seasons.

People longed for the 7-Layer Burritos at Taco Bell and the actually fried apple pies from McDonald’s. They missed Popeyes’s Cajun rice, KFC’s popcorn chicken, Wendy’s stuffed pitas and the Olive Garden’s chicken Alfredo pizza.

It was an exercise in audience engagement that surfaced artifacts worth chasing, a look into the past and future. Here was the bottomless breadbasket of ideas, the inexhaustible canon of American chain food, I.P. surviving in a blur of memory and marketing, that could be excavated and remade forever. The nostalgia — the menus it would write, if you let it — was boundless.

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Tejal Rao is a critic at large. She writes about food and culture for The Times and contributes regularly to The New York Times Magazine. More about Tejal Rao

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