How to Make an Animal Cell Cake

Making a cake model of an animal cell is a great hands-on way to learn all of the cell organelles and their functions.

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First, you will want to bake a round cake. I wanted to make a layer cake, so I baked two cakes. No time to bake? It is totally fine to buy a plain cake!

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Now gather all of your supplies. You will need frosting and candy to represent each organelle. A science encylopedia is also handy.

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You are ready to start assembling your animal cell cake! Frost the cake. The frosting represents the cytoplasm.

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Now surround the cake with a candy to represent a cell membrane. We used Twizzlers. As you add organelles, talk about the functions they serve.

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You can add the organelles in any order, but we added the golgi complex next. We used licorice pull 'n peel.

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Next up is the nucleus. We used a peanut butter cup. The chocolate outer layer is the nucleus and the peanut butter filling is the nucleolus.

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Next add a candy to represent the mitochondria. We used a few Mike and Ikes.

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Now it is time to add the vacuoles. We used a few jelly beans.

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The next organelle is the endoplasmic reticulum. We used cherry pull 'n' peel.

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Now it is time to add the ribosomes. This organelle is small so we used little spherical sprinkles.

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Sweet Tarts make excellent lysomes.

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The final animal cell organelle is the centriole. We used pieces of Twizzlers to represent this cell part.

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Now you are ready to eat the cell cake! Enjoy! For more information and complete instructions, visit the website below.

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