This Dora and Diego cake was for a brother/sister joint party. We used white marshmallow fondant to cover each round tier (9inches and 8 inches). I think we did chocolate for the bottom tier and white cake for the top. We then dyed extra white fondant into different colors for the stripes and stars. The … Read more
I started this Dora the birthday cake by buying Betty Crocker cake mixes. I used chocolate for my medium size cake and vanilla for the 4 small bottom ones and the top one. I baked 5 small vanilla cakes, sliced them down the middle, and filled with vanilla pudding and fresh strawberries. I used the … Read more
This was a Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake I made for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I used 2 8″ layer cakes for the base and 4″ round cake for the balloon basket. I cut a 2″ round hole in the 4″ layer of the cake to make it look more like a basket although it … Read more
This Dora Birthday Cake is the second time I’ve tried MMF, the first time it stuck to everything and was not a pleasant experience. I searched for suggestions for fondant making and discovered using copha (vegetable shortening) to grease my hands, utensils and work board/station is the solution! My ideas for this cake were inspired … Read more
My little girl just started preschool, they were having a Halloween party and she wanted a Dora the birthday cake for the party. I printed the Dora the Explorer picture and used a needle to poke holes around the outline for the picture, placed the paper on the cake and used coca to transfer the … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake for my daughter Ava’s 2nd birthday. Dora the Explorer is her favorite character and I wanted to do something special for her that she would remember. This was a 2 tier chocolate cake with homemade cannoli filling. I used nine and 6 inch pans. I did the … Read more
I was inspired by a Dora and Boots Birthday Cake I saw on this site. I’ve never done anything like this before but decided to give it a shot. I started by printing coloring book pages that I found on the internet. Dora, Boots and some balloons. I taped the images to a cutting board, … Read more
For this Dora the birthday cake, I made a 1/2 sheet cake, covered it in green buttercream icing, made roll out sugar cookie dough and freehand cut out the mountains and palm tree tops. Baked them and frosted them with royal icing. I then painted three dowel rods (for each palm tree trunk) with a … Read more
My sister-in-law made this cake for my daughter’s third birthday. My daughter is a huge Dora fan and this was her third year using the Dora theme. The first two years we just had store bought cakes but, this year she wanted to make a special Dora the Explorer birthday cake for Samantha. She used … Read more
This idea suddenly came when my friend asked me to make a cake for her daughter’s 4th birthday party. She asked me to make it the simple one. So, I choose to use her invitation card as the idea. The cake’s story is about Dora and Boots wanted to go to Erin b’day party, without … Read more
This is a Dora birthday cake with Boots. My neighbors little girl Grace was turning 3, and she just LOVES Dora! She wanted something 3-dimensional. I could not figure out how to make a 3-D Dora out of cake without her head flopping off, but I got an idea from looking at the party napkins … Read more
My son was really into Dora, so I wanted to make a Dora-themed cake that wasn’t too “girly” for his 3rd birthday. Since he loves the whole Dora Map concept, I decided to try and make a homemade Dora map cake showing Dora and her friends how to get to Logan’s birthday party. I started … Read more