My daughter wanted a Barbie cake. But then she wanted something more whimsical and so we came up with the little mermaid cake idea. This is really easy! The pan is just 2 glass Pyrex bowls (I believe they are two and a 1/2 qt and one qt in size). Use one cake mix for … Read more
This Princess Ariel Doll birthday cake was for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. The doll is a full Ariel doll bought from Target. I removed her dress and shoes, and wrapped her body in cling wrap, and held her head and hair up while icing inside a small Ziploc bag. I used 4 round chocolate cakes … Read more
I did this Little Mermaid cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. It was a pool party birthday. I found this cake on funfamily.com, but it was so big I knew it wasn’t going to fit in my fridge. So I decided to make a smaller version of it. I used about 4 cake boxes of … Read more
This Ariel the Mermaid Birthday Cake was all my two year old wanted for her birthday! She loves the Little Mermaids movie. I purchased the Ariel doll from a department store, and took her tail and bikini top off. I then fashioned her new bikini (clam) top and mermaid tail to look more like the … Read more
This Ariel Birthday Cake was the first cake that I had ever attempted to make. It was a lot of fun. I used a bowl to bake the cake for the sand hill and cupcakes for the smaller hills. After icing the whole cake, I covered all with crumbled wafer cookies to give it the … Read more
I found a picture on the internet that I thought looked great and modified it slightly for this Little Mermaid Birthday Cake. I used store bought fondant and dyed it with the different colors on the cake using food coloring. First, I used the turquoise fondant to cover the cake so it looked like the … Read more
I made this Little Mermaid Cake for my niece last year for her 8th birthday. The Barbie is the 1/2 doll from the cake supply store. The fish tail I made out of fondant. It took about 2 weeks for it to fully dry. I simply shaped the fondant until I got what looked to … Read more
This Mermaid Birthday Cake 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 colored … Read more
I love this website and come here for inspiration every time I make one of my kids cakes. This one was for my daughter’s 5th Birthday. She said that she wanted an Ariel cake. I looked on the site for ideas and then headed out to get the supplies. We didn’t have an Ariel doll … Read more
My original inspiration for a little mermaid cake came from this site. After about an hour of looking at other cakes I really wanted to try a mermaid cake. I used the Pampered Chef bowl and a single layer 9inch round cake for the base and stuck the Barbie in the top. I cream colored … Read more
I made this mermaid cake for a young friend who turned 21. She wanted an under the water theme but also wanted a chocolate mud cake, so I combined both by using mud cake as the base with a mermaid on top. She just loved it and so did everyone else. I made a 12″x10″ … Read more
