Camouflage Cake or Animal Print Cake - Easy and Very Cool

I made this cake as an African Wild Hunting Dog print cake. So I used yellow and brown colors. To get a muddy camouflage cake effect you just add some green food coloring. 

Depending on the colors you choose this cake can be used for:

• Army cake - desert or forest camo colors for a kids army themed party, or a military going away or coming home party for a soldier. 
• Animal print cake for a jungle, safari or nature party. You could try a cheetah or leopard print and using two colors and stripes gives you a zebra or tiger cake. 
• A pink camo party - just use pink food coloring a white cake mix to get three shades of pink. 
• 3 color marble cake using favorite colors, school colors or the colors of a flag. Swirl the mixture a little to create a marble effect. 
• Country or map cake - the splodges look like geographic areas! Just use my how to make a cake from a template page to shape the cake. 

You're going to need two sponge cake mixes to make this camouflage cake: one white and one chocolate. You could use packet mixes. I used this 4 egg sponge cake recipe and for the chocolate version I replaced 2oz of flour with 2oz of cocoa powder. 

We had a lot of guests coming to the party including parents so I made a large cake with two 4 egg cake mixes - half chocolate, half white. 

Your camouflage cake doesn't need much decoration! Kids will love that the camouflage effect goes all the way through the cake - not just on the frosting like other camo cakes I've seen. 

You could add some soldier figures as cake toppers and of course candles. You could write the birthday child's name on the cake in frosting. 

I used the cake to make an Africa shaped cake which was covered and decorated - in this cake the animal print cake inside was a fun surprise. 

You could do the same with a camo cake and use an army cake topper and have the pattern inside the cake as a surpise.