This mermaid cake was for my friend’s daughter’s birthday. She was having a Little Mermaid birthday party and of course wanted a mermaid cake to go with the theme. I used the Wilton doll pan for the “rock” she’s sitting on. We found a Barbie type doll that had red hair like the Little Mermaid … Read more
My daughter was an Ariel fanatic, so she had to have “The Little Mermaid” as the theme for her 3rd birthday. The Little Mermaid cake is a simple sheet cake – 2-layer chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling. To make the “water” I mixed Wiltons sky blue into my buttercream and then streaked it while I … Read more
I purchased the mermaid at a local store. I used an 18 inch round pan for the base and a six inch round for the island. It has basic butter cream frosting all over then put on the piping. The “water” is a gel icing. I used Swedish fish candies (sea life) to put on … Read more
When my youngest daughter turned 5, her favorite movie was “The Little Mermaid”. I saw a version of this birthday cake recipe on the Internet and had to try it. It looked like so much fun to make – and the results were amazing! All the parents were taking photos of the cake before it … Read more
My daughters are crazy about Barbies, Princesses and Mermaids. So one day, we started looking up pictures of Barbie cakes online. We were so inspired by the beautiful cakes at this website! My oldest daughter decided she wanted a mermaid cake. I let her pick out her own Barbie at the store, and for her … Read more
For my daughter’s sixth birthday she wanted a Little Mermaid Cake. To decorated it, I made some royal icing. Then I traced an Ariel from a coloring book on a some parchment paper. Outlined it with some black icing, then used it like a stamp on the cake. Once it was stamped on the cake, … Read more
This Little Mermaid cake was for my daughter’s 5th birthday. I looked at the Ariel cake pan at Michaels, but I didn’t like it. So I used a coloring page I found online instead. After completing Ariel, I used leftover red and purple frosting to make “seaweed” on the sides of the cake, and piped … Read more
I made this homemade Little Mermaid princess cake with 3 layers of chocolate cake, two layers were 10 inch round and the top layer I used a Pyrex bowl. After the cakes had cooled down I cut a hole in the middle of each layer so the doll could fit. I had to trim the … Read more
I made this 2-Tier Ariel Cake for a friend’s daughter who was turning 7! It’s a chocolate cake with homemade buttercream icing. I got the recipe for the buttercream from Wilton.com. The bottom tier was baked in a 10 inch pan and the top in a 6 inch pan. Each tier is 2 layers. I … Read more
I love this site and got the idea for my daughter Tamar’s Little Mermaid cake from it so I really wanted to show the cake as a way of saying thank you.
My three year old daughter was over the moon with the character Mariana the Mermaid from the DVD “Dora Saves the Mermaids”. I had to get pretty creative to come up with a Mariana themed birthday party, since there was next to nothing on the market. The one asset I had was a Mariana doll … Read more
This is a cake I made for my daughter’s 8th birthday party. I love to make sugar paste models, so I thought I would make some mermaids for this homemade mermaid cake. First of all, I made a 10″ square Madeira cake. I coated it with sugar paste which I had coloured turquoise (I used … Read more