My niece likes Dora so when she turned 18 I thought she should have a really special Dora the Explorer cake. She loved the idea of a Dora cake. I used a Dora coloring sheet and cut out her head. I frosted the cake lightly with white frosting and traced the edge of her head/hair … Read more
Since my boss knew that I love to make cakes she asked me to make a Dora the Explorer birthday cake for her daughters second birthday party. The pressure was on! I knew her daughter really liked the backpack character as well as Dora so I found a few pictures for reference and came up … Read more
I enlarged a picture of Dora on photocopier to fit inside the size of 2 lamington trays together, then I traced it onto baking paper, making a few changes as I went (I wanted the arms and head to be in a different position). I also drew some balloons onto baking paper to put on … Read more
My daughter loves Dora and wanted to have her on her cake. I could not find a pan so I decided to make my own from a picture in one of my daughter’s Dora books. I made the entire Dora The Explorer Cake from one box of yellow cake mix. One 9 inch round made … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I incorporated some of the cakes I have seen on this website and made it my own. You will need: 4 cake boxes (2 in the mold),9 in round cake pans, Wilton Wondermold, green, orange and purple coloring, 1 ea. purple & … Read more
This Dora Birthday Cake Idea I made for my cousins daughter. This design I got from internet. I traced this design on a sheet cake and marked outline with melted chocolate. All star nozzle designs I did with Wilton colours. For Dora’s hair I used chocolate curls.
I prepared this Dora the explorer cake for one of my husband’s co-workers. His little girl loved Dora the Explorer. I didn’t find and buy a pan, so I decided to hand carve the cake and cover it with modeling chocolate (most children dislike the taste of fondant). I made a chocolate buttercream for her … Read more
I got inspired to make this Dora birthday cake for my daughters first birthday after seeing all of the other Dora cakes on this site. I bought four round sponge cakes from the store and cut the shape of Dora out from them using a picture that I drew from a smaller picture as a … Read more
I used a Wilton cake pan and my mother-in-laws famous chocolate cake recipe to make my sons Dora the explorer birthday cake. One trick I learned was if the cake has a lot of loose crumbs stick it in the freezer for a bit before frosting.s Dora the explorer birthday cake. One trick I learned … Read more
I work a lot with chocolate when decorating cakes. For this Dora the explorer birthday cake I traced a picture from one of the books. I then used melted white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate to trace and colour in Dora on waxed paper (put waxed paper on the sketch). I mixed the white … Read more
My daughter Paige is totally in love with Dora so when it came to choosing a theme for her 2nd birthday, Dora was definetly the go. When I have a party I like the whole lot to be in one theme so I went Dora mad. First we had the Dora cake which I made … Read more
I made this Dora cake for my niece’s 3rd birthday. I thought this was going to be the easiest cake to make, but it turned out taking me about 7hrs total! I first made a homemade white cake in a 9×13 cake pan using 11 cups of batter. I then made homemade buttercream. I had … Read more