Our little mermaid birthday cake was a variation of the mermaid cake as featured on familyfun.com. Basically I wanted a simple cake with a wow factor for my five year old daughter. I had made her a mermaid costume earlier and wanted her cake to look like her with minimal fuss and complication. I didnt … Read more
My daughter loves Barbies and mermaids so I decided to make her a Barbie mermaid cake for her birthday. I started by making the cakes the day before the party. There are two layers to this cake. The bottom layer was made in a 12″ round pan and the dome shaped layer was made in … Read more
The shell of this Little Mermaid cake was molded from a shell dish using Wilton gum paste. The water and glittery decorations are pulled sugar. The rest is buttercream piped onto the cake. I used a doll for the torso and head. The tail is made from fondant with a cake center.
I made this Little Mermaid Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She LOVES The Little Mermaid and had to have a mermaid party. I looked at the Wilton cake pan and didn’t like it. I came and looked on this web site and got TONS of ideas. I made a buttercream transfer. This is … Read more
This Ariel Cake was fun to make, but the details were a bit time consuming. I made the cake in a standard 2.5 L Pyrex glass mixing bowl. I then used 3 9″ round cakes on the bottom so the doll would fit inside. I used yellow cake for the top portion and chocolate cake … Read more
I looked everywhere for an easy mermaid cake to make and finally found one but it wasn’t very easy to come by! This Homemade Little Mermaid Birthday Cake took about 5 hours in total to make, from baking to icing. Using a plain sponge mixture I cooked 12 cupcakes, 2 round sandwich tin cakes and … Read more
My daughter wanted a Little Mermaid cake for her 5th birthday. I am not very creative so I “borrowed” ideas from this site and came up with a combo of many different cakes that I saw. I found molds at the craft store and made seashells, starfish, and the shark from almond bark. I had … Read more
I made this Little Mermaid cake for my niece Madison. It was made in a 1/2 sheet pan and split down the middle to make a 1/4 sheet cake. It was made of buttercream and a white cake. The Mermaid I found at the local paper store. I wanted to replicate the under the sea … Read more
This Mermaid Birthday Cake Design was of course inspired as much by Debbie Brown as it was by my niece’s love of mermaids! I chopped into 3 round sponge cakes, descending gradually in size and covered each with a slightly different green/blue RTR. I followed one of DB’s amazing cake books for ideas of how … Read more
My daughter Taylor who turned six wanted “The Little Mermaid Cake – Ariel”. So a friend (Barbara) and I set out searching for pictures and ideas. We came across this site and decided to attempt a cake of our own (note: none of us are bakers). We used three round sponge cakes as the base … Read more
I first saw this cute little mermaid cake recipe on a Family Fun web sight. I knew my little girl who was turning 5 would love it. It was perfect for her whole Little Mermaid “under the sea” theme. I first baked the chocolate cakes and cupcakes the night before then cut out the cake … Read more
In keeping with my daughters Ariel themed birthday I made Little Mermaid birthday cakes in the form of cupcakes for her to take to school. The Wiltons yearbook has a great idea for cupcakes but since I was transporting them to school I decided to keep the icing decorations small so they would not break. … Read more