My daughter Havana is a keen Dora fan and thus a Dora cake for her 2nd birthday was requested. I purchased a plain sponge and cut out the Dora shape from an image I found on the web. I used butter icing for the entire cake and licorice for the lines. It was a fairly … Read more
I used the Wilton pan to bake the Dora The Explorer Cake and decorated with butter cream icing along with the star tip. The peach coloring for the skin tone was very tricky just remember that the icing gets darker as it dries out. Outline first, then star in the icing, then go back and … Read more
This Dora Birthday Cake Design was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used the Frozen Butter Cream Transfer Technique. I taped the picture to a piece of clear Plexiglas and then placed a piece of wax paper over that. Plexiglas makes it easy to see places that you have missed. I traced out the picture … Read more
The Dora Doll Birthday Cake Design was made from pure love for my 3 year old daughter (who by the way is crazy about Dora the Explorer!) I started my research here at Coolest Cakes and found an amazing Dora Doll submission and I just knew I had to try and make one as well. … Read more
I made this Dora birthday cake for a friends daughter. She loves Dora (and boots). I was inspired by the decorations (see plate next to cake) that were chosen so we decided to have Dora Boots and some stars. I used a half-round (cupcake size) pan to make Dora’s head so it would be raised. … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake from the Wilton cake pan from Hobby Lobby that was $11.99 then outlined it with chocolate icing. I used the star tip #16 to fill in the body. This cake only took about 4 hours to completely finish but that includes waiting for it to bake and cool. … Read more
This Dora the explorer birthday cake was made using two Cadbury chocolate cake packets in a rectangle cake pan. I simply cut the corners of the cake off to give the oval shape. I cut the cake horizontally and used chocolate frosting in the middle of the cake. My daughter has a plush Dora doll … Read more
This Dora the Explorer cake is made entirely from cake and buttercream with a little structural support from wooden picks. I sculpted a refrigerated butter cake and then piped on the buttercream to make the features. The sandcastle is made from cake crumbs.
I made a 2 tier fondant covered Dora Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I made 3 8″ cakes (one vanilla, one chocolate, one strawberry). I leveled them and split them into two layers each. Then I trimmed one layer from each flavor to a 6″ round. I stacked them on a cardboard circle … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake for my granddaughter using a preformed baking tin with a Madeira sponge recipe quantity for an 8″ round cake. To ensure the cake came out of the tin cleanly I used an easy release. Although the instructions are to use piped buttercream icing I chose to use … Read more
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday, we did this Dora birthday cake since it was her favorite character at the time. I found the 18 doll at Kmart and we baked the cake in a bowl and then cut out a section of the side of the cake, bent the doll in half, placed her inside … Read more
I was inspired by another cake on this website. I used buttercream icing to cover the Dora birthday cake and for the borders and writing. I used Color Flow icing for Dora. To make Dora and the stars I used a picture from a coloring book. I covered it with wax paper and used full … Read more