I decided 2 make my daughter’s cake for her 3rd birthday. My cake was a homemade recipe I have played with for a while baked in a 9-inch square tin making 2 of these then cut the cakes to make them even, then filled with chocolate buttercream. I used ready to use royal icing to … Read more
I made this Dancing Mexican Dora Cake from the idea in the Wilton cake book, loved the look of fondant but hate the taste to this was so easy to take off the skirt but yet it looked fabulous. I made the Dora from the regular pan and just changed it slightly (no backpack, change … Read more
This is my first attempt at making and decorating a cake. I made this Dora cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday party.It took about 4 hours to decorate it. I used green frosting in place of the blue frosting since the party colors were purple and green. I used a basic buttercream recipe and just … Read more
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
