This cake was for my daughter who absolutely loves Dora the Explorer. She has a Dora backpack that she brings to school each day that I used. I covered the picture on the backpack with waxed paper and traced it. Then I cut it out and placed it on the cake. I traced around it … Read more
This Dora the Explorer cake was made from four recipes of chocolate cake from the Hersheys Chocolate recipe book. My daughter wanted a Dora cake and a Nemo cake and couldn’t decide so I decided to do a Dora holding Nemo in a fishbowl. I took the Dora design from her pail and the Nemo … Read more
My daughter is a Dora freak. Everything is Dora so no need to say I had to come up with a Dora cake for her birthday. The first thing I did was to find a picture of one of the many other Dora cakes which I could blow up to be roughly the size of … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my niece Emily’s 3rd birthday, and she wouldn’t let anyone cut her Dora cake. I made 4 butter cake mixes in a 14inx10in tin. I got a pic of Dora and used this for the template and cut the shape out. Covered it with a crumb coat … Read more
I just completed this Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake for my niece and nephew’s 4th birthday. I used three layers of vanilla cake baked in 20cm tins for the bottom layer and two layers of vanilla cake baked in a 10cm tin for the top. I used Raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream to sandwich the … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for a client. I made 12 cupcakes and a 6″ cake. The cupcakes and cake were a chocolate cake mix. The icing was a C&H Sugar buttercream recipe. I tinted the icing in pink and yellow. I made stars with faces out of MM fondant for the cupcake … Read more
Dora was stuffed into a Barbie pan cake! I dirty iced in butter creme and them covered in fondant. I made the bows using a fondant bow mold and used edible dusting powder for shimmer.
An 8″ cake, just store-bought chocolate covered in store-bought white frosting. I used a plastic Dora plate for the design. I traced the outline of Dora on waxed paper, and then piped buttercream (#2 tip) on the outline on the waxed paper. Then, I transferred the outline onto the cake. When you do this, not … Read more
I made this Dora the explorer cake for a friends little girl’s party. I found a picture on the internet and then printed it out. I blew it up to the size that I wanted and then cut the shape out on the cake. I iced the whole cake in a light colored frosting and … Read more
I browsed the other Dora cakes on this site and decided to try and make one for my daughters second birthday. She adored it and I thought I would share it with you. I used a template made from a black and white line drawing coloring page which I enlarged on the photocopier to the … Read more
My mom made this cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was the assistant. She used the Wilton Dora cake pan which used a box cake mix – easy. She used a homemade butter cream frosting. She followed the instructions for decorating/frosting. The most difficult part of the entire process was following the outlines on … Read more
